Las Vegas Bead Society Privacy Policy

Through the course of interacting with the Las Vegas Bead Society, personal information may be collected and utilized. This page describes the information collected and how it is used.

The Las Vegas Bead Society does collect personally identifiable information. The Las Vegas Bead Society will not share this information with third parties except to complete transactions (such as financial information) or as legally compelled to do so. Under no cirecumstances is data collected by the Las Vegas Bead Society sold or rented to commerical entities.

Personal Information Collected and How it is Used

If subscribed to a Las Vegas Bead Society mailing list, such as hosted by Yahoo! or Google Groups, email addresses and other "publically" viewable information is collected. This information is used by the Las Vegas Bead Society to notify existing and potential web viewers about updates and other promotional events, and to confirm membership in the group when redeeming certain special offers. The Las Vegas Bead Society reserves the right to require "real" contact information to be linked as a requirement of participating in the mailing list.

If accessing the Las Vegas Bead Society's Facebook page, please see Facebook's privacy policy on their utilization of information. Please be aware that any information posted on may be publicly accessible. The Las Vegas Bead Society will use any Facebook message, information posted, or handle to respond to queries, or share posts.

If submitting information to the LVBS for use on web, personal information for beaders, including name, image, website, social media, will be displayed/linked.

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the Las Vegas Bead Society website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit: The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website; the type of browser and operating system used to access our site; the date and time you access our site; and the pages you visit. We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. This information is collected/analyzed via web host HostGator.com and Google Analytics. Please review their respective data use policies.

Cookies may be utilitzed to provide information.

If you choose to provide us with personal information -- as in an e-mail or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it to us through our website -- we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information requested. We do not collect this personal information for any purpose other than to respond to you.

If making a donation, personal information including name, address, phone number, email address, will be collected. Financial institution information, including bank account, and/or credit card, may be collected depending on payment method utilized. This information is utilized to process the donation, acknowledge the donation, and to contact the customer during the course of transacting business. The services utilized include PayPal and Square.