Privacy Policy

We have created this Privacy Policy to let you know why we collect information from you and what we do with it. The ArtOasis.net website has Privacy Program and this statement discloses the privacy practices for The Art Oasis website (www.ArtOasis.net). Because The Art Oasis wants to demonstrate its commitment to respecting your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices posted on The ArtOasis website, and also agrees to provide information to you about:

1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third-party personal identification is collected from you through The ArtOasis website
2. The organization collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under The Art Oasis control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information

Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact The Art Oasis Member Services by emailing support@artoasis.net and writing "Privacy Policy" in the subject line. You may also write to Art Oasis Member Services at P.O. Box 26916, San Jose, CA, 95159-6916.

How we collect your information
The first thing to remember about privacy is that there is only so much information that any website can collect without your answering of specific questions. The Art Oasis logs IP addresses (in other words, the location of your computer on the Internet) for system administration, troubleshooting, and to examine overall traffic trends. (For example, IP addresses help us determine the percentage of people coming from various online gateways, such as Yahoo! or America Online.) This information, in aggregate form, is recorded for administrative purposes only. IP addresses are not linked to any personal information.

The Art Oasis uses a cookie, a small data file stored on your computer, to customize portions of our site to your preferences. For example, The Art Oasis uses a cookie to identify you as a Art Oasis member and to make sure that only you have access to your account. This way, you answer certain questions only once and not every time you participate in an activity or event. The cookie by itself doesn't tell us, or anyone else, who you are, what your email address is, or anything else personal. You provide that information when you register with The ArtOasis, and only The Art Oasis has access to that information. If you choose to set up your browser to reject all cookies, please understand that you may be limited to some areas or functionality within our site.

You can browse The Art Oasis and read our editorial content without registering or providing any personal information. However, in order to take advantage of our personalized services, you are required to provide us with information such as your name, email address, real-world address, and phone number. We collect similar information from users who choose to participate in our contests and promotional offers. We always let you know before we collect any personal information from you.

What do we do with the information that we collect Information we collect from your membership helps us to improve our content, customize certain pages for you, and update you about The Art Oasis. From time to time, The Art Oasis may share names, postal addresses, and demographic information with other pre-screened organizations that have specific direct mail product and service offers we think may be of interest to you. You may choose at any time to remove your name and address from these mailing lists by editing your privacy preferences or by letting us know via email to support@artoasis.net (please include your name, address, and email address).

Changing your personal information and/or newsletter subscriptions You can access or update your personal information, including subscriptions to our email newsletters, at any time. To unsubscribe, you can follow the instructions on the bottom of each newsletter, edit your privacy preferences in your member profile at http://www.artoasis.net. If you would like to deactivate you membership with The Art Oasis website, you should contact OurPerfectDay Member Services by emailing support@artoasis.net and writing "Deactivate Membership" in the subject line. You may also write to The Art Oasis Member Services at P.O. Box 26916, San Jose, CA, 95159-6916.

Other sites
The Art Oasis website contains links to other websites. We cannot be responsible for their content or for private information that you may choose to share with them. Please note: Information you release directly to parties who provide services to The Art Oasis, such as any vendors in The Art Oasis Shop or other sites you encounter on the Internet (even sites that are co-branded with ArtOasis) may be subject to different rules of use or disclosure. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing personal information to third parties.

Our security procedures
Your privacy is very important to us, but due to the existing legal regulatory and security environment, we cannot fully ensure that your private communications and other personally identifiable information will not be disclosed to third parties. Under certain circumstances, the government or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Additionally, in the unlikely event we need to investigate or resolve possible problems or inquiries, we can disclose any information about you to private entities, law enforcement, or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate.

Finally, we use industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers (SSL) where appropriate. We also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, a Member Services representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage requiring keys, photo ID key cards or biometric scans to access.

We hope this policy clarifies our procedures regarding your personal information. If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email support@artoasis.net.

Notice of Changes
If at some point in the future, there is a change to our information usage practices that affect your personally identifiable information, we will notify you by email of the relevant changes. At the time of this message, you will be able to opt-out of this information usage by sending a message to support@artoasis.net. We will also post the changes in our privacy statement 30 days prior to a change. You should also check this posted privacy statement for changes.

The Art Oasis website encourages you to learn as much as you can about your privacy on the Internet.

Thank you for your time and trust!