Copyright and Privacy Policies
Copyright PolicyThe text and images featured on this site are artistic property and protected by copyright law. Downloading, reproducing, distributing, creating derivative work and/or displaying these images in either print or Web form (on Web sites, instructional materials, or any other use) without written permission from the artist is illegal and violators will be subject to prosecution. Please contact VSA arts of Florida at copyright@vsafl.org regarding permissions.
Privacy Policy
VSA arts, producer of vsarts.org and its related content and service sites, believes that electronic privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial, and entertainment medium.
On occasion, VSA arts will make available to potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners aggregated results from research it has conducted on its readership base. VSA arts will only provide such demographic information on an aggregated basis and does not disclose individual reader information or addresses.
E-mail
Any/all e-mail addresses sent to us as the result of correspondence with the users of vsarts.org will not be used or collected for the purposes of reselling to a third party and will not be added to a bulk e-mailing list unless requested by the user.
Cookies
'Cookies' are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information, but they do enable us to provide added features. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent that through its preferences. VSA arts may use cookies to track users through our site or to provide customized information. This information can only be used by VSA arts for its internal marketing analysis. Users with browser cookies turned off will still be able to use our site, although certain features may need to be accessed differently.
External Links
This site contains links to other sites. VSA arts is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
Traffic Data
VSA arts will not disclose your individual identity or personal data. When VSA arts does present aggregated information to potential advertisers, research firms and business partners, no one will be able to identify you or contact you in any way. VSA arts also counts, tracks, and aggregates the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at vsarts.org sites (e.g., tracking where traffic comes from and how traffic flows within our sites). VSA arts may merge this information into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners.
Each time a visitor comes to a VSA arts site, information is collected to improve the overall quality of our sites. VSA arts collects the visitor's domain name/IP Address (e.g., whether the user is logged on from netscape.com or yale.edu or 255.255.255.0), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to a VSA arts site), and browser/platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform).
In addition to collecting these types of information, VSA arts collects aggregate search terms for internal reporting and targeted marketing. We collect visitor information for purposes of site monitoring, site improvement, and targeted content.
To conclude . . .
By using our sites, you consent to the collection and use of this information by VSA arts. If we change our privacy policy, it will be posted here along with the date that it is effective. Tell Us What You Think! VSA arts welcomes your questions and comments about privacy. Please send e-mail to our webmaster.