privacy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At For Arts Sake Media we have a few fundamental principles:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
In our products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:

Note, we’ve decided to make the below Privacy Policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you, and if you want we’d appreciate a link to ArtCatchr.com somewhere on your site. We spent a lot of money and time on the below, and other people shouldn’t need to do the same.)

For Arts Sake Media Inc. (“For Arts Sake Media”) operates several websites including forartssakemedia.com, Artcatchr.com. It is For Arts Sake Media’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, For Arts Sake Media 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. For Arts Sake Media’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how For Arts Sake Media’s visitors use its website. From time to time, For Arts Sake Media may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

For Arts Sake Media also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. For Arts Sake Media 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 For Arts Sake Media’s websites choose to interact with For Arts Sake Media in ways that require For Arts Sake Media to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that For Arts Sake Media gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a account at artcatchr.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with For Arts Sake Media are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, For Arts Sake Media collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with For Arts Sake Media. For Arts Sake Media 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

For Arts Sake Media may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, For Arts Sake Media may monitor the most popular accounts on the Artcatchr.com site. For Arts Sake Media may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, For Arts Sake Media does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

For Arts Sake Media 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 For Arts Sake Media’s behalf or to provide services available at For Arts Sake Media’s websites, 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 For Arts Sake Media’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. For Arts Sake Media 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, For Arts Sake Media discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when For Arts Sake Media believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of For Arts Sake Media, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an For Arts Sake Media website and have supplied your email address, For Arts Sake Media 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 For Arts Sake Media and our products. We primarily use our various products 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. For Arts Sake Media 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. For Arts Sake Media uses cookies to help For Arts Sake Media identify and track visitors, their usage of For Arts Sake Media website, and their website access preferences. For Arts Sake Media visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using For Arts Sake Media’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of For Arts Sake Media’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, For Arts Sake Media may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in For Arts Sake Media’s sole discretion. For Arts Sake Media encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice

f you believe that content available by means of the Website (as defined in For Arts Sake Media’s ArtCatchr.com Terms of Service) infringes one or more of your copyrights, please immediately notify For Arts Sake Media’s Copyright Agent by means of an emailed notice (“Infringement Notice”) providing the information described below to the email address listed below. If For Arts Sake Media takes action in response to an Infringement Notice, it will make a good faith attempt to contact the party that made such content available by means of the most recent email address, if any, provided by such party to For Arts Sake Media. Please be advised that you may be held liable for damages based on certain material misrepresentations contained in an Infringement Notice. Thus, if you are not sure content located on or linked-to by the Website infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney.

All Infringement Notices should include the following:

An electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;
An identification of the copyright claimed to have been infringed;
A description of the nature and location of the content that you claim to infringe your copyright, in sufficient detail to permit For Arts Sake Media to find and positively identify that content;
Your name, address, telephone number and email address; and
A statement by you: (a) that you believe in good faith that the use of the content that you claim to infringe your copyright is not authorized by law, or by the copyright owner or such owner’s agent; and (b) under penalty of perjury, that all of the information contained in your Infringement Notice is accurate, and that you are either the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.

Infringement Notices should be sent to