Privacy Policy

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.

Introduction

The Art Career Project, LLC (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes our privacy and data practices with respect to the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.theartcareerproject.com (collectively, the “Website”).

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy.

This privacy policy applies to information we collect or receive across the Internet and other digital formats:

It does not apply to information collected by us offline or by any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

This policy may change from time to time (see Changes below). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Accessing Your Information

For information, go directly to our section on Accessing and Correcting Your Information, below.

Choice

For information, go directly to our section on Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information, below.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

We collect this information:

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use or access certain parts of our Website, subscribing to parts of our Website that require subscription, posting material or comments to our Website (as further described below), requesting further services or information, or reporting problems with our Website. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or sweepstakes sponsored by us, including our scholarships.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Your search queries on the Website.

You may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted“) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties, including through our forums and message boards (collectively, “User Contributions“). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:

The technologies we may use for automatic data collection include cookies (or browser cookies) and web beacons.

A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will allow third parties to issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

A web beacon is a small electronic file that is referred to as clear gifs. pixel tags and single-pixel gifs. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain web beacons that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Through third parties such as Facebook, Inc. and Google Inc., we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services to serve you with advertisements based on your interests (interest-based advertising). See Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

Information We Collect From Third Parties:

We may receive from our clients your name and email address that you provided to our clients in response to a request for more information, such as when you request information about a school or educational program. Our clients provide us this information for billing and reporting purposes with respect to our clients and publisher partners. We retain this information as long as necessary to resolve payment and credit disputes with our clients and publisher partners. We may also receive reports containing non-personal information from third parties such as Google and Facebook in connection with services that they provide for our Website, including Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel. See Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

How We Use Your Information

Personal Information

We may use personal information that we collect about you or that you provide to us:

To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests.
To send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the Website and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies, and information regarding our scholarships.
To send you marketing communications from us that we believe may be of interest to you.
For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying our Website, identifying usage trends, and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

Other Information

We may use other information that we collect about you:

To present you with advertisements tailored to your interests on our Website and third party websites and mobile applications.
To operate, improve, analyze and manage the Website.
To ensure the Website functions properly.
To calculate usage levels of the Website, helping diagnose server problems.
To supplement non-personal information with additional information we receive from third parties, such as advertising segments to allow us to target ads to you that may be of interest to you.
For security purposes.
To facilitate navigation, display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience while using the Website.
To estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
To recognize you when you return to our Website.
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

We will not use data we collect for the purpose of determining employment eligibility, credit eligibility, health care eligibility, or insurance eligibility and underwriting and pricing.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

At this time, we do not honor “Do Not Track” headers and similar mechanisms.

Disclosure of Your Information

Personal Information

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and corporate affiliates. The Art Career Project, LLC is the party responsible for the management of the personal information used by it and its corporate affiliates.
To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of The Art Career Project, LLC’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by The Art Career Project, LLC about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
Directly by you, on public pages to which you are able to post information and materials. Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public information, and may be available to users of the Website and to the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal information, or any other information, on the Website.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an e-mail address to be contacted by a school, we will transmit the contents of that e-mail and your e-mail address to the recipients.
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions, including our scholarship terms; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

Other Information

We may disclose other information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual:

To our subsidiaries and corporate affiliates. The Art Career Project, LLC is the party responsible for the management of the personal information used by it and its corporate affiliates.
To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support and enhance our business.
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

In some instances, we may combine other information with personal information (such as combining your date of birth with your name). If we combine any other information with personal information, the combined information will be treated by us as personal information as long as it is combined.

Third Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers, who may use technologies such as cookies. We do not control and we are not responsible for these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content or about the privacy and data practices of these providers, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

We work with vendors and partners in operating and improving the Website. These vendors and other partners include advertisers, re-targeters and web analytics companies, including Google and Facebook. These partners and vendors use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect information about your online activity (e.g., the sites and pages you have visited at the Website and other third party sites) in order to understand user interests and trends and deliver personalized content and advertising to you while you are on the Website or on other sites.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a Google Inc. web analysis service. Google uses cookies, text files that are saved on users’ computers and allow the use of the online service to be analyzed. The information generated on the user’s use of the online service by the cookie is generally transferred to a Google server where it is saved.

Google may use this information on our behalf in order to remarket our users with interest-based advertisements, including our advertisements, assess users’ use of the Website, compile reports on the activities within this online service, and render additional services for us associated with the use of the Website and Internet use. Google may use the data in order to create user profiles.

We do not control and we are not responsible for Google Analytics or any of Google’s tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about the privacy and data practices of Google, you should contact Google directly.

See Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information for information about opting out of these Google data practices.

Facebook Pixel

Within our Website we use the “Facebook Pixel” of the social network Facebook. The Facebook Pixel allows us and Facebook to determine the relevant target audiences to display advertisements (referred to as “Facebook-Ads”) in reference to potential interests of the users. We use the Facebook Pixel to display Facebook-Ads to users who displayed an interest in our Website.

The Facebook Pixel allows us and Facebook to determine, whether our Ads were effective and satisfactory for users by being able to comprehend users’ actions before and after they were on our Website. The Facebook Pixel enables Facebook to receive information and store a cookie, web beacon and other storage technologies on your device. The cookie, web beacon or other storage technology allows Facebook to collect, receive, and store the information from the Website and other websites, apps and elsewhere on the Internet, within your device and retrieve it to remarket you with interest-based advertising and to provide measurement, analytics, and research services. Facebook may connect the data with your user profile within its network.

We do not control and we are not responsible for the Facebook Pixel or any of Facebook’s tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about the privacy and data practices of Facebook, you should contact Facebook directly.

See Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information for information about opting out of these Facebook data practices.

Social Plugins

Our Website may use social plugins (“plugins”) provided by social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter. These plugins are identifiable by their logos on our Website.

When you interact with a social plugin via our Website or you access our Website while logged into a social network, your device establishes a direct connection to the applicable social network’s servers. This enables the plugin to receive information about your access to the respective pages of our Website. We have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin.

We do not control and we are not responsible for the plugins on our Website. If you have any questions about the privacy and data practices of any plugin, you should contact the plugin directly.

Third Parties

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including our vendors or any other third party operating any site or service to which this Website links. The inclusion of a link on the Website does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including any personal information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Website.

You should always read the privacy policy of any website, application or other digital property you access or social network page through which you share information carefully in order to understand their specific privacy and information usage practices.

Choices About How We Use and Disclosure Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Promotional Offers from the Company

If you do not wish to have your e-mail address used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, please email us at [email protected] and request to be removed from future promotional offers or, when you receive a promotional email, send a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.

Targeted Advertising

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. You may opt out of Google’s and Facebook’s use of cookies and other technologies for interest-based advertising by visiting (from each browser and device you use) http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/·. Please note that opting out of interest-based advertising does not opt you out of being served advertising generally.

Tracking Technologies and Advertising

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly. When you disable or delete cookies you are also deleting any opt-out cookies you have set on that browser or device. You will need to re-set opt outs after you have disabled or deleted your cookies on that browser or device.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may send us an e-mail at [email protected] to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to [email protected].

California also gives California minors (under the age of 18) the right to remove online content. To make a request to remove content that a minor posted on the Website, please send an e-mail to [email protected].

Sensitive Information

We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive personal information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Website or otherwise to us.

Security

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the “Contact Information” section below.

Retention

We will retain your information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features or register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected].

Changes

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by e-mail to the primary e-mail address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable e-mail address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: [email protected] or 600 California Street, 11th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108.

Privacy Policy

Introduction

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Accessing Your Information

Choice

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

Information You Provide to Us

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

Information We Collect From Third Parties:

How We Use Your Information

Personal Information

Other Information

Disclosure of Your Information

Personal Information

Other Information

Third Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Google Analytics

Facebook Pixel

Social Plugins

Third Parties

Choices About How We Use and Disclosure Your Information

Promotional Offers from the Company

Targeted Advertising

Tracking Technologies and Advertising

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

Your California Privacy Rights

Sensitive Information

Security

Retention

Children Under the Age of 13

Changes

Contact Information

For Artists

Company