

This website is owned, maintained, and operated by the Mark Prairie Historical Society, a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in the state of Oregon.
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Your name, email address, and the messages you share with us via any of the contact forms on this site will be retained by our team indefinitely. We may use it to reach out to you about opportunities to engage with or support our organization.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Any personal information you share (e.g. name, mailing address, email address) when making a purchase in our online store will be saved in our website. We may also use that information to reach out to you about opportunities to engage with or support the Mark Prairie Historical Society, but we will not share it with anyone outside of our organization. We do not retain or have access to your credit card information.
Users on our site have the option to set up user accounts, primarily to make it faster and easier to purchase event tickets and promotional items in our online store. We store the personal information—name, email address, password—provided when setting up those accounts for an indefinite amount of time.
We will only retain your data as long as we have a use for it.
Visitor communications including comments and contact form responses may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
When using our store to buy merchandise and event tickets, you name and shipping information may be shared with a few companies. Their names and privacy policies may be found below.
If you would like us to clear your data from our website database, please let us know. We will remove it.
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