Thank you for visiting our web site located at parkerthebear.org, referred to as the "Site." Through the Site, Parker the Bear aims to extend our mission to use educational media to help children reach their highest potential and to enhance their awarness and appreciation for the Blue Ridge Parkway. Parker the Bear is trusted by parents to provide safe, entertaining and educational content. We take this trust seriously and recognize the importance of privacy concerns especially in the Internet environment. With this in mind, we have adopted this Privacy Policy for the Site.  "Parker the Bear" also is referred to as "we," "us" or "our" in this Privacy Policy.

Information Submitted by Users

This site does not collect personally identifiable information.

Information Collected Automatically

We do collect information by various technical means, without your submitting any information, in order to help us understand the usage of the Site (such as the number of visitors to the Site and the most popular pages) and to enhance the user experience (such as whether you have a high or low bandwidth connection to the Internet). The information collected in this way generally is not personally identifiable information.

We also collect data automatically through "cookies," "web beacons," and "web logs" which are commonly used on the Internet. 

A "cookie" is a piece of information that a web site transfers to a user's computer for record-keeping purposes.  As a user moves from page to page at our Site, a cookie is used to tell us that it is the same user.  We also may use a cookie to keep track of your selections.  You may set your Internet browser to accept or not accept cookies and you may delete any cookies that you have received. However, should you decide to disable any cookies we place on your computer, you may not be able to use certain services or features on the Sites. 

A "web beacon" is a one-pixel image (which may be visible or transparent), which may be embedded on a web page or e-mail message, and which may also provide us with information about usage of that page or e-mail message.

We also maintain web logs that record basic information about visitors to our Site such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address for their computers and the type of browser and operating system they use. An IP address is a number designated for your computer by your Internet service provider to provide access to the Internet. We may use your IP address to gather aggregate information on the use of the Site, but we will only be able to identify you individually if we link the IP address to you as a particular user. 

Additional Uses and Disclosures of Information

We may use third parties to help operate our Site and deliver our services (our "Services Providers"), and we may share the information we collect with them, to use on our behalf, in order to help us operate our Site and deliver our services. 

We may disclose and use the information we collect in connection with investigations of illegal or unauthorized activity or in response to requests by law enforcement agencies as well as government and other authorities.

We may disclose information to protect our rights or property or other users of the Site.

In the event that Parker the Bear, or substantially all of its assets, is acquired by one or more third parties as a result of an acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, consolidation or liquidation, information we collect on our Site may be one of the transferred assets. 

We may disclose aggregate statistics regarding user behavior as a measure of interest in, and use of, our Site and e-mails to third parties in the form of aggregate data, such as overall patterns or demographic reports that do not describe or identify any individual user.

Security

We will endeavor to protect the security and integrity of sensitive information collected on the Site. However, due to the inherent nature of the Internet as an open global communications vehicle, we cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our system or otherwise in our care, will be safe from intrusion by others, such as hackers. 

In some areas of the Site, you may establish access through a username and a password. You are solely responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your password. 

In the unlikely event that we believe that the security user name and password in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail. You consent to our use of e-mail as a means of such notification. If you prefer for us to use another method to notify you in this situation, please e-mail us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with the alternative contact information you wish to be used.

Links From the Sites to Third Party Sites

When you are on our Site, you may have the opportunity to visit, or link to, other sites, including other Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation sites or sites operated by subsidiaries or affiliates the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation or by unaffiliated third parties. When you link to such third party sites, you become subject to their terms of use and privacy policies rather than ours. You should review these third party sites' privacy policies regarding any personally identifiable information that they may collect about you at their sites. The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation does not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of third party sites and your use of such sites is at your own risk.

Changes to Privacy Policy

Whenever this Privacy Policy for our Sites changes, we will post the changes to the Site, and such changes will be effective immediately upon posting. If you do not agree to the changes, please do not continue to use the Site.  Under certain circumstances, we may also elect to notify you of changes or updates to our Privacy Policy by additional means, such as posting a notice on the front page of our Site or sending you an e-mail if we have your e-mail address.