Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The Arts Site collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Arts Site’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Arts Site’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Arts Site may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

The Arts Site also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The Arts Site does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to The Arts Site’s websites choose to interact with The Arts Site in ways that require The Arts Site to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Arts Site gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. The Arts Site does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

The Arts Site may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, The Arts Site may monitor profiles to help identify spam. The Arts Site may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Arts Site does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The Arts Site discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Arts Site’s behalf or to provide services available at The Arts Site, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Arts Site, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Arts Site will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Arts Site discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when The Arts Site believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Arts Site, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of The Arts Site and have supplied your email address, The Arts Site may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Arts Site and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Arts Site takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Arts Site uses cookies to help The Arts Site identify and track visitors, their usage of The Arts Site, and their website access preferences. The Arts Site visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Arts Site, with the drawback that certain features of The Arts Site may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads

Ads appearing on The Arts Site may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The Arts Site and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Arts Site may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Arts Site’s sole discretion. The Arts Site encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have an The Arts Site account, you should also check the Community Activity for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.