This site is owned and operated by Art-Impact, a division of Peterson Picture Co. Your privacy on the Internet is paramount to us. At Art-Impact, we want to make your online experience satisfying and safe.

Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

Information Art-Impact Gathers and Tracks

We gather two types of information about our users:

1.) Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. Examples of these voluntary submissions are requests made to receivee our e-commerce services, our electronic newsletters, and to participate in our message boards or forums.

2.) Information Art-Impact gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our site. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers’ needs and to better understand the demographics of our audience.

Under no circumstances does Art-Impact divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.

Optional, Voluntary Information

We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:

• Access to Art-Impact’s e-commerce system and search tools.

• Electronic newsletters (dispatches). We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Art-Impact gathers the e-mail addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription-management page. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.

• Message boards and forums. Users of the site’s message boards and forums must register separately for these services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages, although they needn’t register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply an e-mail address.

Art-Impact gathers user information in the following processes:

User Registration

During registration the user is required to supply first and last names and a valid e-mail address.

Usage Tracking

Art-Impact tracks user-traffic patterns throughout our site. We do break down overall usage statistics according to a user’s domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user’s browser). However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users.

Cookies

We may place a file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal information, although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Art-Impact uses cookies to track user-traffic patterns (as described above). Our tracking system delivers a one-time cookie to better track page "hits" and click rates. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you’ve set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in the e-commerce system, message boards, and forums.

Use of Information

Art-Impact uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our site, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the site or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users. As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to provide e-commerce services, send out electronic newsletters, and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing.

Art-Impact never shares newsletter or e-mail lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors, or partners.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our site users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in the Art Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. We don\'t, however, track which terms a particular user enters.

Sharing of the Information

Art-Impact uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and better understand our audience’s demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Security

Only Art-Impact’s authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

Opt-out Policy

Users may opt out of Art-Impact databases and e-mail notices at any time.

Your Consent

By using this site, completing the contact form, or registering with us you consent to the collection and use of this information by Art-Impact. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose information.