This Online Privacy Statement sets forth guidelines
concerning how ARTINFO.com Inc. gathers and uses information about
your interaction with this website and your use of our paid
subscription services. This Online Privacy Statement concerns only
this website, and does not concern any website to which this site
may link.
Please read this Online Privacy Statement carefully, and
consult our Terms of Use for more information about the general
terms and conditions regarding your use of this website.
Subscribers should also review our Subscription Agreement, which
contains additional terms and conditions relevant to use of our
paid subscription services.
In the event that you have any questions or concerns about the
guidelines set forth in this Online Privacy Statement or how we use
information about your interaction with this website or your use of
our paid subscription services, please contact us at privacy@artinfo.com.
- The Types of Information We Collect About You
When you visit and browse our website, we may collect two
different types of information about you: information you provide
to us, and information we collect through technology.
- Information You Provide to Us
In order to obtain
access to certain products or services provided via this website,
you may be required to provide personally identifiable
information such as your name, postal address, e-mail address,
telephone number. In order to obtain access to our paid
subscription services, you may also be required to provide
certain credit card information. You can choose not to provide
this information, but then you might not be able to gain access
to such products and services.
- Information We Collect Through Technology
We may
collect information about you through technology. For example,
when you visit this site, we may collect your IP address. (An IP
address is often associated with the portal through which you
enter the Internet, like your ISP (Internet service provider),
your company, or your university.) Standing alone, your IP
address is not personally identifiable. At times, we may also use
IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with
which visitors browse various parts of our site. We may combine
this information with personally identifiable information. Our
website may also use cookies. (Cookies are pieces of information
that a website sends to your computer while you are viewing the
website.) We and other companies use cookies for a variety of
purposes. For instance, when you return to one of our sites after
logging in, cookies provide information to the site so that the
site will remember who you are. You can choose to have your
computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can
choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your web
browser settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at
your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your
cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many
features that may make your browsing of our website smoother,
like the features mentioned above, and some of our services may
not function properly. Our website may also use other technical
methods to track visitor usage, including web beacons. ("Web
beacons" are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on
the pages of a website.) We may also use these technical methods
to analyze the traffic patterns on our website, such as the
frequency with which our users visit various parts of our
website. These technical methods may involve the transmission of
information either directly to us or to another party authorized
by us to collect information on our behalf. We may also use these
technical methods in HTML e-mails that we send visitors to our
website to determine whether such visitors have opened those
e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails. We may collect
the information from use of these technical methods in a form
that is personally identifiable. Advertisements appearing on our
website may be managed and placed on our website by third
parties. Third parties who place advertisements on our website
may also use cookies and web beacons to collect non-personally
identifiable information when you click on or move your cursor
over one of their banner advertisements. You may not realize this
information is being collected. In some cases, we may have access
to information from web beacons and cookies used by these third
parties on our sites and this information may permit us to
identify other sites that you have visited that are also
associated with the third party advertiser.
- How Personally Identifiable Information We Collect About
You is Used
We may use personally identifiable
information we collect about you when you visit and browse our
website in many ways. Representative examples of the ways in which
we may use personally identifiable information we collect about
you when you visit and browse our website are set forth below.
- Use in Connection with Completing Transactions
We may use personally identifiable information we collect about
you when you visit and browse our website to complete
transactions requested by you (such as your purchase of a product
or service offered on our websites), or to send you
administrative communications either about your interactions with
us or about features of our website, including any future changes
to this Online Privacy Statement.
- Use in Connection with Promotional Materials
We
may use personally identifiable information we collect about you
when you visit and browse our website to send you promotional
materials about goods and services (including special offers and
promotions) either offered by us or by third parties. (By
"promotional materials," we mean communications that directly
promote the use of our website, or the purchase of products or
services.) We may also share your information with third parties
so that these third parties can send you such promotional
materials directly. These promotional materials may be sent to
you by postal mail, e-mail or other means. We may also share your
personally identifiable information with third parties so that
they can send you promotional materials about goods and services
(including special offers and promotions) offered by them. If we
share your personally identifiable information with a third party
for this purpose, your personal information will become
permanently subject to the information use and sharing practices
of the third party, and the third party will not be restricted by
this Online Privacy Statement with respect to its use and further
sharing of your personal information.
- Use in Connection with Third Party Offers
We may
also share your information with third parties when you engage in
certain activities on our website that are sponsored by third
parties, such as purchasing products or services offered by a
third party, electing to receive information or communications
from a third party, or electing to participate in contests,
sweepstakes, games or other programs sponsored in whole or in
part by a third party. We may also share your personal
information when you respond to promotional materials from us and
authorize a third party to use your personal information for
purposes such as, for example, sending you additional promotional
materials, providing you a product or service, or entering you in
a contest, sweepstakes or game. When you participate in such, you
will either be required or requested to agree that the sponsor or
business associate may use your personal information (including,
in some cases, your e-mail address) in accordance with the
sponsor or business associate's privacy practices. In certain
circumstances, your dealings with a third party may have
authorized that third party to obtain your personal information
from us and to use that information in accordance with the third
party's own privacy practices and policies. For example, in using
an online shopping service (such as the shopping services offered
by Internet portals that refer the portal's users to third-party
merchants), you may have authorized that shopping service to
obtain from the service's participating third-party merchants
(including us) information about your purchases conducted through
the shopping service. We will provide such companies only the
information that you authorized (except as separately permitted
under other provisions of this Online Privacy Statement). In the
example given above, the shopping service would be provided only
information concerning purchases you made from us through that
shopping service, and would not be provided any other information
concerning you, unless any additional sharing of your personal
information were separately permitted under another provision of
this Online Privacy Statement.
- Other Uses
Sometimes we hire companies to help
deliver products or services, like a shipping company that
delivers a package or a company that helps fulfill prizes for a
contest. In those instances, there is a need to share your
information with these companies. Sometimes we also work with
other companies who help either gather your information or
communicate with you. Except as separately permitted by the
guidelines of this Online Privacy Statement, these companies are
allowed to gather, receive, and use your information only for the
purposes described in this paragraph or as required by law.
Finally, we may take any personally identifiable information that
we collect from you when you visit and browse our website and
make it non-personally identifiable, either by combining it with
information about other individuals (aggregating your information
with information about other individuals), or by removing
characteristics (such as your name) that make the information
personally identifiable to you (de-personalizing your
information). Given the nature of this information, there are no
restrictions under the guidelines set forth in this Online
Privacy Statement upon our right to aggregate or de-personalize
your personal information, and we reserve the right to use and/or
share with third parties the resulting non-personally
identifiable information in any way.
- Additional Ways Personally Identifiable Information May be
Disclosed
- In Connection With A Sale of All or Part of Our Business
At any time, we may sell all or part of our businesses and your
personally identifiable information may be transferred as a part
of any such sale. In the event that we do sell all or part of our
business, we will include provisions in the selling contract
requiring the purchaser to treat your personally identifiable
information in the same manner required by this Online Privacy
Statement (including any amendments to this Online Privacy
Statement).
- As Required By Law, to Enforce Our Terms of Use or
Subscriber Agreement, or to Protect Your, Our, or a Third Party's
Safety, or Security. We will disclose personal information when
it believes in good faith that such disclosures (a) are required
by law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or
subpoena, or (b) will help to: enforce our Terms of Use and/or
Subscription Agreement; enforce contest, sweepstakes, promotions,
and/or game rules; protect your safety or security, including the
safety and security of property that belongs to you; and/or,
protect the safety and security of our websites, databases,
and/or third parties, including the safety and security of
tangible and/or intangible property that belongs to us or to
third parties.
- The Security Measures We Take to Safeguard Your Personally
Identifiable Information
The security and confidentiality
of your information is extremely important to us. We have
implemented technical, administrative, and physical security
measures to protect guest information from unauthorized access and
improper use. From time to time, we review our security procedures
in order to consider appropriate new technology and methods.
Please be aware though that, despite our best efforts, no security
measures are perfect or impenetrable.
- Your Choices Concerning the Collection, Use, and Sharing
of Your Personally Identifiable Information
You may
choose to opt-out of receiving promotional materials from third
parties and/or from us. These opt-out choices are the means by
which you give us, or decline to give us, your consent to use your
personal information to send you promotional materials. There are
two methods by which you can exercise your opt-out choices: (a)
during the registration process on our website; (b) by contact us
at privacy@artinfo.com.
Please note that, if you do not exercise your opt-out
choices upon registration or initial log-in at our website, it may
take up to ninety (90) days for your opt-out choices to be fully
effective. Our systems require time to update, and promotional
mailings using personal information shared before your opt-out may
already be in process. Thus, you might continue to receive
promotional materials from us or a third party based upon the
personal information you have provided under this Online Privacy
Notice for up to ninety (90) days. For similar reasons, your
personal information might continue to be shared with third
parties for promotional purposes for up to ninety (90) days.
- Updating Your Contact Information and Opt-Out Choices
You can contact us via e-mail at support@artinfo.com. Please
include information in the e-mail that will help us identify your
account so we can assist you with your request. We may also
provide you an opportunity to update your contact information
and/or modify your opt-out choices by sending you an e-mail or
other communication that invites your response. Finally, you may
unsubscribe from certain e-mail communications by clicking on
unsubscribe links in those e-mails.
- Amendments to this Online Privacy Statement
These
guidelines were adopted with the realization that the Internet is
still evolving. Accordingly, this Online Privacy Statement is
subject to change. In the event that we materially change the
guidelines set forth in this Privacy Statement, we will notify you
by sending you an e-mail at the last e-mail address that you
provided us, and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes
on this website. Any such changes will be effective upon the
earlier of thirty (30) calendar days following our dispatch of an
e-mail notice to you or thirty (30) calendar days following our
posting of notice of the changes on this website. Please note
that, at all times, you are responsible for updating your personal
information to provide us your current e-mail address. In the
event that the last e-mail address that you have provided us is
not valid, or for any other reason is not capable of delivering to
you the notice described above, our dispatch of the e-mail
containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective
notice of the changes described in the notice. In any event,
changes to this Online Privacy Statement may affect our use of
personal information that you provided us prior to our
notification to you of the changes. If you do not wish to permit
changes in our use of your information, you must notify us prior
to the effective date of the changes that you wish to deactivate
your account with us.
- Additional Information for California Residents
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents
to request certain information regarding its disclosure of
personal information to third parties for their direct marketing
purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to privacy@artinfo.com.