The Society maintains the same notice it published in the 1990s. The Society has updated it where the law has caught up.
This notice covers the Lincoln Park Trixie Society website at lptrixie.com, chicagosocialclub.com and any other domains we use now or in the future. The Society maintains a defensive posture with respect to its name and marks.
The Society’s Board takes concerns about the use of copyrights, trademarks and personal likenesses seriously. If you believe material on this website uses your rights or likeness inappropriately and would like it reviewed or removed, please email hello@lptrixie.com. Identify the material, the page or location where it appears, and the nature of your concern so the Board can review the matter and work toward an appropriate resolution.
The information published on the LPTS website is, for the most part, copyrighted and owned by The Society and its members, associates, and others who may or may not be affiliated. Material owned by third parties remains subject to their respective copyrights and other rights. Photographic archives dating from the late 1990s through the present are the property of The Society. Where individual contributors are credited by byline, they retain their respective rights as agreed.
The TrixieStar — the five-pointed mark that appears throughout this site and upon the Society's stationery, seals, signet rings, and good china — is a copyrighted work and registered mark of the Lincoln Park Trixie Society, and may not be reproduced, redrawn, approximated, or worn without the written blessing of the Executive Committee. The Society maintains a defensive posture toward the mark, as noted above, and a devotional one, as set out below.
The mark did not begin as a star. It began as a humble asterisk — the small flower a writer sets beside a word that requires further explanation: the most honest possible emblem for an institution that has never once allowed a statement to stand on its own. For some years the Society signed itself “Trixie*” and thought nothing of it. Then a founding member, researching as one does at the Newberry, discovered that asterisk is merely the Greek for “little star” — asteriskos, a star too small to have grown up yet. The Committee received this not as coincidence but as instruction: the mark had been a star the entire time, and had only been waiting, politely, to be recognized. It was given its fifth point that same afternoon and its first ovation that same evening, and it has not been demoted since.
The Society does not merely use the TrixieStar; it lives beneath it. The mark is touched on the way out the door and again on the way back in. It is the first thing struck onto a new member's welcome folio and the last thing pressed, in wax, onto her acceptance. Its five arms are held to signify, clockwise from the apex: Comportment, by which a Trixie is known before she has said a word; the Village, the blessed quarter of Lincoln Park entrusted to her keeping; Provision, the bottomless brunch and the open bar from which no guest has ever been permitted to leave hungry; Lineage, the unbroken line of mothers, daughters, and the families who built the lakefront; and Vigilance, the soft and constant watch the Society keeps over its streets, its strollers, and its own. A Trixie is taught to carry all five at once and to let none outshine the rest, though most will privately confess a fondness for Provision. To live by the mark is a short list — to be put-together, to be present, to be generous, to remember where one comes from, and to notice. The star asks nothing further. The star considers that quite enough.
The Society collects standard information through the operation of this site. This includes basic web server logs, which may contain the name of the Internet provider or organization your visit originates from. The Society additionally collects information that visitors voluntarily provide — for example, when filling out a Membership Application, signing up for the TrixieUpdate newsletter, or completing a Standards merchandise order.
The Society does not sell visitor information. The Society does not share visitor information with parties not actively involved in operating the site, the merchandise storefront, or the membership review process.
If The Society's collection of information is not understandable, agreeable, or suitable to your preferences, the Society respectfully suggests you consider the alternative.
Any submissions to the Society — whether through forms on this site, electronic mail, postal mail, or other means — become the property of The Society upon receipt. By submitting material, you grant The Society the right to publish, edit, archive, or quietly disregard it as the Editorial Committee sees fit.
The Society may, at its discretion, return correspondence. The Society may also, at its discretion, not.
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The Society may revise this notice from time to time. Material changes will be noted with a revised date below. The Society does not require visitors to re-consent. Visitors who do not agree with revisions are welcome to stop visiting.
For questions about this notice or any related matter, please contact hello@lptrixie.com.
— The Office of the Executive Director. Originally issued 1999. Revised 2004, 2009, 2015, 2019, 2022, and 2026.