The Maine Ocean Festival

Privacy and Accessibility

Website Accessibility

The Oceanarium and Maine Ocean Festival (“O&MOF”) is committed to making this website accessible to everyone. Our efforts to meet or exceed the requirements of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 are ongoing.

The Bureau of Internet Accessibility (BoIA.org) provides specific recommendations that will assist us in ensuring that our website is in compliance with the WCAG 2.1. Please be aware that our efforts are ongoing, and our website provider will be implementing the relevant updates to meet WCAG 2.1 guidelines over time.

If you are unable to access the information you need, or for any other questions or concerns, please contact us by phone at (207) 288-5005 or by email at fun@theoceanarium.org.  

Privacy Policy

The Oceanarium and Maine Ocean Festival respects your privacy and never shares or sells any of the confidential information you entrust with us. O&MOF understands the importance of privacy and is committed to ongoing efforts to make this website secure, including SSL encryption. If you have concerns or questions about the information collected through this website, or to request your information be removed from our systems, please contact us by phone at (207) 288-5005 or by email at fun@theoceanarium.org.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we have about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. However, this does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

General Terms of Use

Information collected through theoceanarium.org or maineoceanfest.com or maineoceanfest.org (“Websites”) includes information collected automatically and information you submit. Information you submit through these Websites via electronic mail (email), as an attachment to an email, or via intake, registration, comment, or other online form is used only by O&MOF and employees, agents, contractors, and others acting on behalf of O&MOF to fulfil delivery of a requested service or information.

We do not automatically collect or store personal information for any purpose. Our Web servers do, however, collect non-personal information automatically to record the IP addresses of visitors, the date and time of access, the pages visited, whether or not the pages were successfully retrieved from our server, and various other status codes and values. This is done, so we can better understand how this online environment is being used and accessed. Also, if enabled, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We do not give, sell, or transfer personal information to third parties other than those directly involved in providing a service or fulfilling a request on behalf of O&MOF, unless we are required to do so by law.

These Websites may contain links to third-party Websites or embedded content from third-party Websites. These links and embedded content are provided solely as a convenience for you. We are not responsible for the content of linked or embedded third-party sites and do not make any representation regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third-party Websites. If you decide to access a linked third-party Website or embedded content, you do so at your own risk.

You may access material provided on or by these Websites at your own risk, and only in conformance with legal protections offered by the US and foreign copyright laws. Such information is provided on an “as-is” basis without any warranties of any kind. This Material changes periodically may change at any time and may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors.

O&MOF makes no representations about the availability, accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the Material, services, software, text, graphics, and links related to these Websites, or about the results to be obtained from using the Material. In no event does any Material provided by or on these Websites constitute legal, financial, career, business, relationship, or medical advice. It is provided for informational purposes only.

O&MOF does not warrant that these Websites will operate error-free, be accessible at all times, or that these Websites and their servers are free of computer viruses and other harmful goods. If your use of these Websites or the Materials results in the need for servicing or replacing equipment or data, lost productivity, or downtime, O&MOF bears no responsibility for costs or damages. O&MOF and its suppliers, to the fullest extent permitted by law, disclaim all warranties, including the warranty of merchantability, non-infringement of third-parties rights, and the warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.

In no event will O&MOF, its related partnerships or corporations, or the partners, agents, or employees thereof be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken in reliance on the information on these Websites or for any consequential, special, or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

To contact O&MOF by means other than email, visit our contact page for more information or call us at (207) 288-5005. These notices and disclaimers may occasionally be updated. Notice of revisions will be posted here.