Important Information for Parents

Located on the University of Kansas campus, the Spencer Museum of Art (the “Museum”) is a vibrant cultural center that sparks curiosity, inspires creativity, and creates connections among people through art. PSST is the Museum’s secret society for kids. By completing a series of missions (online and on-site at the Museum), PSST “agents” unlock the mysteries of art and earn rewards. The Museum offers free exhibitions, programs, resources, and activities, including PSST, for individual and family-based exploration and discovery. PSST is free and open to all elementary age children.

PSST Mission Remote Privacy Policy

Effective April 28, 2020

This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") describes how we use, share, and protect information that we collect from you and your child through this website, applications, or online services that the Museum operates or that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Services"). This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services. 

The Terms of Use and the KU Privacy Policy are available on the Spencer Museum of art website www.spencerart.ku.edu. Please note that a separate privacy policy may apply to third-party services you use to access our content.

We value the trust you have placed in us to provide meaningful educational children's content. To meet that goal, we may collect information about our users and their use of our services. We are committed to creating a safe and secure environment that family members of all ages can enjoy. We do not collect information that, on its own, directly identifies your child.

What information do we collect?

  • Contact information. We offer parents the option to provide their email address so they may access certain Services, learn about what their child has engaged with, and receive information about other free children’s resources, programs, and activities from the Museum

  • Your content. We collect comments that children post through interactive online features. However, all such information is either canned or moderated to avoid collecting personal information and to help maintain a safe environment for users.

  • Correspondence you send to us. We may store correspondence with parents related to our Services.

  • Device information. We may collect information about your device, including hardware model, operating system version, and unique identifiers.

  • Geography. We may collect information about your geographic location

  • Engagement. We may collect your activity (including date and time of visit, IP address, and pages visited)

We do not collect...

  • Student education records (and therefore Spencer Museum of Art is not subject to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ("FERPA"));

  • Biometric or health data;

  • Information that directly identifies a child (such as name, e-mail address, phone number); or

  • Personal information of a child, unless we endeavor to obtain a parent or legal guardian's consent or otherwise comply with law.

We use the information we collect to...

  • Send parents communications about future PSST missions and other free youth and family programming at the Museum;

  • Analyze use of the Services to understand, develop and improve our Services, such as determining which pages are most popular, which browsers are most used, how long users spend on the Services, and from which websites they come;

  • Otherwise support the internal operations of the Services;

  • Provide you with notifications pursuant to our legal obligations, including in the case of a data incident;

  • Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities and enforce the Terms of Use; and

  • For any other purposes disclosed to you or your child at the time we collect the information or pursuant to your consent.

Do we share information we collect with any third parties?

We may share information that is collected from you or your child as follows:

  • Authorized third-party vendors. We may share information with the designers of PSST, a third-party vendor, to help us evaluate, develop and improve the Services, including performing usage analytics and data processing.

  • Legal purposes. We do not rent or sell information to third parties, but we may disclose information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, law enforcement requests, legal claims or government inquiries, and to protect and defend the rights, interests, property, safety, and security of the Museum, the University of Kansas, or the public.

  • With your consent. We otherwise may share your or your child's information with your consent.

How do we collect information?

We may use javascript, cookies, and other similar technologies to collect information about your or your child's use of the Services. We use these technologies for measurement, analytics, and to improve our Services. For example, we may use these technologies to help us recognize your or your child's browser as a previous user and to help measure and research the effectiveness of our Services.

You may be able to refuse or disable cookies by adjusting your web browser settings. Because each web browser is different, please consult the instructions provided by your web browser (typically in the "help" section). If you choose to refuse, disable, or delete these technologies, some of the functionality of our Services may no longer be available to you or your child.

Does Spencer Museum of Art aggregate information? If so, what does Spencer Museum of Art do with aggregated information?

We may aggregate your or your child's information with information about other users in a way that does not directly identify you or your child. We also may share aggregated or de-identified information with third parties, including to help us develop, analyze and improve content and Services. It is possible that the third parties may use this aggregated or de-identified information to develop their own products and service offerings.

Information regarding parental consent, access, and deletion

As the Museum does not collect personal information, we are not able to identify your child and therefore are not able to fulfill modification, access, correction, deletion, or portability requests. If the Museum ever does in the future collect, use or disclose personal information from your child, we will endeavor to obtain a parent or legal guardian's consent before doing so or otherwise comply with law. We will not keep this personal information for longer than necessary. Parents or legal guardians may also contact us to ask if we have collected their child's personal account information, to review that information, if any, and request that the Museum stop collecting this information and have it deleted. Such requests are subject to the Museum verifying to our satisfaction that the requester is in fact the child's parent or legal guardian.

How do we protect information we collect?

We are committed to protecting your and your child's information. We have adopted reasonable technical, administrative, and physical procedures to help protect this information from loss, misuse, and alteration. Please note that no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We want you to feel confident using the Services, but we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit or your child transmits to us.

Notice for international users

The Services are designed for and targeted to United States audiences, and are governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the United States. We make no representation that the Services are operated in accordance with the laws or regulations of any other nations. Information collected through the Services may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which we or our service providers maintain facilities. Our service providers may transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information, across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions, some of which may not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction. By using the Services and providing us with information directly or indirectly, you consent to the transfer of information to the U.S. or to any other country in which our service providers maintain facilities for processing by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Can the Spencer Museum of Art make changes to this Privacy Policy? Will I be notified?

We may revise this Privacy Policy, for example, to reflect changes in the law, our practices, or the features of the Services. We'll notify you before we make any material changes and give you the opportunity to review the revised policy before you choose to continue using our Services. Non-material changes will be effective immediately upon posting, however we will always note the effective date of such changes at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Do you have questions about this Privacy Policy?

Please contact us at:

Spencer Museum of Art
1301 Mississippi Street
Lawrence, Kansas 66044
785-864-4710
psst@ku.edu