Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Oman Botanic Garden website. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; the details below set out how we will treat your personal information.

What information do we collect?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:
a.  information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views).
b. Information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us (including your name and email address).
c. Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address).
c. Any other information that you choose to send to us.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This helps the web server to identify and track the web browser.We use Google Analytic to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytic generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at:
http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.) This will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

Using your data

Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.
We may use your personal information to:
a. Administer the website, to make it easier to use.
b. Enable your use of the services available on the website, like our newsletter.
c. Send you general commercial communications for events, launches and other exciting news about the garden.
d. Send you email notifications which you have specifically requested.
We will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.

Other Disclosures

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:
a. To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
b. In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.
c. In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

International data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.
If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), information which you provide may be transferred to countries (including Oman) which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the EEA.
You expressly agree to such transfers of personal information.

Security of your personal data

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers. Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

Policy amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. We hope you will visit the Oman Botanic Garden website often, please check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information may be subject to the payment of a fee (currently fixed at RO10).
You may instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes by email at any time. (In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes).

Third party websites

The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us:
Oman Botanic Garden
Diwan of Royal Court
P.O. Box 808
Postcode 122
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

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