Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to poiemavisualarts.org and Poiema Visual Arts and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Poiema Visual Arts include poiemavisualarts.org and Poiema Visual Arts. The Poiema Visual Arts website is a Christian visual arts education, discipleship, and networking site. By using the Poiema Visual Arts website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, Poiema Visual Arts may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

  • First and Last Name

  • E-mail Address

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Use of your Personal Information

Poiema Visual Arts collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

Poiema Visual Arts may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Poiema Visual Arts and its affiliates.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Poiema Visual Arts does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Poiema Visual Arts may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Poiema Visual Arts, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. Poiema Visual Arts may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Poiema Visual Arts or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Poiema Visual Arts; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Poiema Visual Arts, or the public.

Tracking User Behavior

Poiema Visual Arts may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Poiema Visual Arts, in order to determine what Poiema Visual Arts services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Poiema Visual Arts to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Poiema Visual Arts. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Poiema Visual Arts website.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security of your Personal Information

Poiema Visual Arts secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Poiema Visual Arts uses the following methods for this purpose:

  • SSL Protocol

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

  • Delete your personal information from our records; and

  • Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

  • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

  • Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;

  • Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

  • Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Thirteen

Poiema Visual Arts does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, Poiema Visual Arts may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Poiema Visual Arts, you may opt out of such communications by by clicking unsubscribe or replying with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.

Changes to this Statement

Poiema Visual Arts reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

Poiema Visual Arts welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Poiema Visual Arts has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Poiema Visual Arts at:

Poiema Visual Arts

PO Box 124

Strasburg PA 17579

Email Address:

hello@poiemavisualarts.org

Telephone number:

(717) 954-4941

Effective as of October 17, 2020