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Use & Privacy Policy (Last updated: 08/22/2021)
https://theartistsindex.com/privacy-policy/
This website: The Artists Index Website Project operates https://theartistsindex.com, heretofore known as the Site – AKA The Artists Index and/or Southcoast Artists Index. The Site provides a service to you by allowing free or controlled (membership) access to it, IF AND WHEN AVAILABLE, and its contents as part of its practice.
We thank you for entrusting The Artists Index with your projects, and your personal information. Holding on to your private information is a serious responsibility, and we want you to know how we’re handling it. We are located at 302 Bolton Street, Suite 311 in New Bedford, MA 02744. Our mailing address is 651 Orchard, Suite 311 in New Bedford, MA 02744. Our phone number is 508-990-0438. Email us at theartistsindex@gmail.com
As described below: We use your personal and freely contributed information as this Privacy Use & Policy describes. No matter where you are, where you live, or what your citizenship is, we provide a high standard of privacy protection to all our users around the world, regardless of their country of origin or location.
Partners & Collaborators – [as of 07-01-21] We are working in collaboration with the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Common Ground project to transcribe, all of our podcasts episodes from the first to the most current, digitize them, and archive them in the Museum’s database in perpetuity. As such, all the articles of this Use & Privacy Policy also pertain to them as our agent, representative, and assigns in the course and function of our operation for the duration of our (open-ended) collaboration.
Specifically, this collaboration includes all communication and correspondence, both electronic and conventional as follows:
Contact Forms – If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Submission Forms – Any information (text, documents, image, video, and audio files) are considered and accepted as freely provided by any visitor/user/participant of this website via our submission forms
Podcast Guest Registration Form
Historical Artist Information Form
Archive Contribution Form
Site & Use Policies – This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Information Collection and Use – What personal data we collect and why we collect it. While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. What is personally identifiable information? The Artists Index collects information directly from you for your registration, payment, transactions, and user profile. We also automatically collect from you your usage information, cookies, and similar technologies, and device information, subject, where necessary, to your consent.
The Artists Index may also collect User Personal Information (personally identifiable) from third parties. We only collect the minimum amount of personal information necessary from you, unless you choose to provide more. We don’t knowingly collect information from children under 13, and we don’t collect Sensitive Personal Information such as personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation shall be prohibited. It may include but is not limited to your name (“User Personal Information“) such as:
Comments – When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media – If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact Forms – If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Submission Forms – Any information (text, documents, image, video, and audio files) freely provided are considered and accepted by any visitor/user/participant of this website via our submission forms
Podcast Guest Registration Form
Historical Artist Information Form
Archive Contribution Form
Cookies – If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Digital Contributions
Any information (text, documents, image, video, and audio files) freely provided by any visitor/user/participant of this website via our submission forms are considered and accepted
Podcast Guest Registration Form
Historical Artist Information Form
Archive Contribution Form
Or, any other electronic or digital transmissions such as email, social media, or cloud/FTP service remain the property of The Artists Index Website, its assignees, agents, and heirs in perpetuity.
Physical Contributions/Gifts
Any information, whether in digital/electronic form or media (text, documents, image, video, and audio files) or, physical documentation (ephemera, memorabilia, primary source documents, photos, film, audiotape, or any other non-digital media such as records) freely provided by any visitor/user/participant of this website in person, by mail, or by other conveyance is done so without compensation. The donor has the option to request that they are credited/cited (recognized), when/if the material(s) are used. The donation must be accompanied by a letter from the donor/donating party stating that they are freely donating the items as listed in the accompanying signed letter.
It may be possible, in certain circumstances, for the donor to take a tax deduction for the donation of their items or collection to The Artists Index. As such, we suggest they speak with their tax accountant, attorney, and/or certified appraiser first since we are not qualified to appraise the monetary value of any item(s) or collection(s) that the donor is considering donating.
Copyright
Copyright assignment is complex. In some cases, the copyright ownership of donated materials, ephemera, or memorabilia must be clarified. Please note, copyright belongs to the creator of art, writings, and other original material (such as photos and music). It can and may be legally transferred to heirs or others. Additionally, ownership of copyright is separate from ownership of the physical item being donated. In some cases, we may have to ask donors to donate the physical items as well as any related/attached copyright the donor might own in order to allow our principles, employees, interns, sub-contractors, and others, to use portions of the materials in the performance of their work.
The terms of U.S. Copyright Law allow us to provide copies of the donated items in our possession/collections for scholarly research use. Under the “fair use” exemption, the law permits us, our assignees, agents, and heirs in perpetuity, to publish portions of an item under copyright. The permission to publish or quote extensively from the material must still be obtained from the copyright holder. For more information please refer to www.copyright.gov or consult an attorney.
Log Data or Data Logging – Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
In addition, we may use third-party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor, and analyze and use analytics or tracking services in websites or apps, like Google Analytics. We may also use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and, other information that keep you informed of new features, additional attributes or, changes to original policies via email or other methods.
Embedded content from other websites – Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with – If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
How long we retain your data – For users that register on our website (if available), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data – If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, provided any information (text, documents, image, video, and audio files) you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data – Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Additional information
How we protect your data
What data breach procedures do we have in place
What third parties do we receive data from
What automated decision making and/or profiling do we do with user data
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
Cookies – Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
Security – The security of your Personal Information is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Changes To This Privacy Policy – This Privacy Policy is effective as of 08 /22/2021and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us or by placing a prominent notice on our website. Previous Update: 01/01/2020
Contact Us – If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
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TERMS OF SERVICE: User Submissions - In the course of using The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), you and other users/contributors may provide, contribute or post certain or specific content or information which may be used by The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), in connection with the membership registration or by the use of a submission form.
You retain all ownership rights you have of any submission made. The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), does not claim any ownership rights of user submissions. However, in order to allow The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), to provide a service to members, contributors, and users, you hereby grant to us a limited, non-exclusive, sublicensable (as necessary to perform the Service of indexing visual, performing, and literary artists, both past and present on The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), locally and worldwide, royalty-free, and transferable (only to a successor) right and license to (i) use, copy, store, distribute, publicly perform and display, modify, and create derivative works (such as changes we make so that your content works better with our Service) such User Submissions as necessary to provide, improve and make the Service available to you and other users, including through any future media in which the Service may be distributed, (ii) use and disclose metrics and analytics regarding the User Submissions in an aggregate or other non-personally identifiable manner (including, for use in improving our service or in marketing and business development purposes), (iii) use any User Submission (including any Education Record) that has been de-personalized for any development, research or other purpose; and (iv) use for other purposes permitted by the The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), Privacy Policy.
We will only share and use your personally identifiable information in accordance with The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), current Privacy Policy.
The license in (i) above will not terminate if and when you delete any User Submissions with intellectual property rights (like photos or videos) (“IP content”), you or your organization (e.g., school, university, or company) (as defined below) deletes any personal information, or you delete your account, unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it or removed your access to it. For example, you may upload an image, or other media, to The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), in which case that colleague (or any person who created and controls that content, within a post or comment, that you contributed your content to) now controls that media, much like sending a document to someone via email. In that case, deleting your own account would not delete that content from our system.
You are responsible for making sure that you have all rights in the User Submissions, including the rights necessary for you to grant us the foregoing licenses to the User Submissions. All information posted or transmitted through the Service is the responsibility of the person that posted it or submitted it, and we will not be liable for any errors or omissions in any content. The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), cannot guarantee the identity of any other users with whom you may interact in the course of using the Service, or the authenticity of any data which users may provide about themselves. You acknowledge that all content accessed by you using the Service is at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage or loss to any party resulting therefrom. We do not guarantee that we will publish any of your User Submissions, and reserve the right to remove User Submissions from the Service at any time for any reason, such as if we receive a notice reports a User Submission infringes someone’s intellectual property rights or violates community guidelines.
With respect to Comments, when a user leaves a comment anywhere within The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), or any forum or discussion space of any kind, user grants the owner of that same forum or The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), the perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Commentary (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
Contributions to VoiceThread - By submitting anecdotes, ideas, suggestions, documents, images, audio/video files and/or proposals ("Contributions") to The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), through its suggestion or feedback mechanisms, you acknowledge and agree that: (a) your Contributions do not contain confidential or proprietary information; (b) The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), is not under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the Contributions; (c) The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), shall be entitled to use or disclose (or choose not to use or disclose) such Contributions for any purpose, in any way, in any media worldwide; (d) The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), may have something similar to the Contributions already under consideration or in development; (e) your Contributions automatically become the property of The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), without any obligation of The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), to you; and (f) you are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), under any circumstances.
Copyright (what’s yours is yours) NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT -The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), respects the intellectual property of others and we ask our users to do the same. The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may be repeat offenders. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), the following information: (1) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest; (2) a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed; (3) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located in the Service; (4) your address, telephone number, and email address; (5) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (6) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.