|
This site is owned and operated by Artisans Market,
Inc. The privacy of our customers and artists is a top priority issue.
We gather certain types of information about our users. The information
listed below will inform you and help you to understand the terms and conditions
that apply to the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement
discloses all information gathered and it use.
Artisans Market, Inc. gathers two types of information about
users:
·
Information that users provide through optional, voluntary
submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic
newsletters, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys.
·
Information Artisans Market, Inc. 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 help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the
demographics of our audience. Because Artisans Market, Inc. derives its revenue
mainly from memberships, sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated
demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no
circumstances does Artisans Market, Inc. 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:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users.
Artisans Market, Inc. gathers the email 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.
2. Special Promotions
Promotion subscribers must register for each
promotional campaign separately. During registration the user is required
to complete all fields required in the registration form should you win a
promotion we can notify you immediately.
3. "E-mail page to a friend" Service
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a
link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "Send to Friend." The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the
recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors
and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The
information is not used for any other purpose.
4. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can
easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience
thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are
aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. Artisans Market, Inc.
may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only
once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information
about individual users.
5. Surveys
Artisans Market, Inc. may occasionally conduct user surveys
to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the
aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors,
advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about
specific individuals with any third party.
Usage Tracking
Artisans Market, Inc. tracks user traffic patterns
throughout our site. However, we do not correlate this information
with data about individual users. Artisans Market, Inc. does 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).
Artisans Market, Inc. sometimes tracks and catalogs the
search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is
never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to
determine which areas of our sites 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.
Cookies
We may place a text 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. Artisans Market, Inc. uses cookies to track user traffic
patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time
cookie to better track ad impressions 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.
Artisans Market, Inc. uses any information voluntarily given
by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to
provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites 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 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 monthly schedule, and occasionally send out special editions when we think
subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing.
Artisans Market, Inc. never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third
parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which
areas of our sites 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 Search function as one of many
measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a
particular user enters.
Artisans Market, Inc. creates aggregate reports on user
demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners.
This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our
users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because
we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or
sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not
disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with
applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of
our users or the public.
Artisans Market, Inc. uses the above-described information
to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers 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.
Artisans Market, Inc. operates secure data networks
protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our
security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as
necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information
provided by our customers.
We give users options wherever necessary and practical.
Such choices include:
·
Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
·
Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which
completely alleviates the need to gather any personal identifiable
information from our users.
By using this site, you consent to the collection and
use of this information by Artisans Market, Inc. 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 it.
Policy |
Disclaimers |
Copyrights |
