ARTWATCH INTERNATIONAL, INC. PRIVACY STATEMENT

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for www.artwatchinternational.org

Information Collection and Use

ArtWatch International,Inc. is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. ArtWatch International, Inc. collects information from our users at several different points on our website.

Registration
In order to use this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (name, address and email).This information is used to allow reading of the articles.

Donation
We request information from the user on our donation form. Here a user must provide contact information (name and billing address) and financial information (credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.

Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. The cookie expires a year after being stored on the harddrive.  By setting a cookie on our site, the user will not have to log in a password more than once a year, thereby saving time while on our site. By setting a cookie, the user will also have to fill out less information as the email and address information will be pre-populated in any required form fields. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas and will not be able to read the articles. of our site.

Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Sharing
We will not share any personal information that can identify any individual person.

We use an outside company for credit card processing company to bill users for donations. This company do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address.

Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.

When our donation form asks users to enter sensitive information ( credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our donation form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just ‘surfing’.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.

Personal Information:
If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user’s personal data provided to us. This can be done at the member information page or by emailing us.

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or email us.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.