Privacy Policy
The St. Louis Artists’ Guild cares about online privacy, especially the privacy of children. This privacy policy serves to inform you of what information we may collect about you or your children, and how we may use that information. Please read the following description of our privacy practices and, if you have any questions, submit a question via email. You can also send a letter to:
St. Louis Artists’ Guild
12 Jackson Avenue
Clayton, MO 63105
314-727-6266
I. INFORMATION REQUESTED FROM CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE
Parents: We are a general audience Web site. Because we understand that our entire Web site may be appealing to children, we have elected to be fully compliant with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
We encourage children and parents to explore our Web site together. Please remind your children, that they should check with you before providing any personal information.
A. WHAT INFORMATION MAY BE COLLECTED
Personally Identifiable Information
--The St. Louis Artists’ Guild accepts financial donations through its Web site. In order to make a donation, a Web site visitor must provide his or her name, address and credit card information. We do not knowingly accept credit card information from children under the age of 13, or from individuals who are not the proper cardholder.
--The St. Louis Artists’ Guild Web site has links to PayPal and individual artists. When a visitor to the St. Louis Artists’ Guild Web site clicks on any of the PayPal or individual artists links, the visitor is taken to a Web site operated by the third-party vendor. Parents please note that the St. Louis Artists’ Guild does not dictate or supervise the information collection and use policies of these third-party vendors. These third-party vendors may have privacy procedures different from the St. Louis Artists’ Guild. Please review these third-party vendors’ privacy policies for information on how your children’s information may be collected.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data placed on your hard drive when you visit our site. We may use cookies to help us recognize you when you come back to our site. We may also use cookies to help us monitor traffic on our site. This information may be aggregated in an anonymous manner. This will help us better tailor our site and provide you with offers that we think may be of interest to you.
IP Addresses and Environmental Variables
The St. Louis Artists’ Guild may also collect information through IP addresses or environmental variables. An "IP address" is a number used by computers on the network to identify your computer so that data can be transmitted to you. "Environmental variables" include, among other things, the domain from which you access the Internet, the time you accessed our Web site, type of Web browser and operating system or platform used, the Internet address of the Web site you left to visit the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, the names of the pages you visit while at our Web site, and the Internet address of the Web site you then visit. We collect all of this information to allow us to detect broad demographic trends, to provide information tailored to your interests and to enhance your experience on the St. Louis Artists’ Guild Web site. This information may be aggregated in an anonymous manner.
B. HOW INFORMATION MAY BE USED
Non-personally identifying information will be used to help us improve and update our site based on recorded use.
C. PARENTAL CONTROL OVER COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION
Parents: We do not at this time share personally identifiable information collected by St. Louis Artists’ Guild from children under the age of 13 with third parties. However, in the event that our policies change, you will have a choice as to what information about your child, if any, is shared.
Under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, prior to using personally identifiable information collected from a child under the age of 13, the St. Louis Artists’ Guild is required to obtain parental consent. Should the St. Louis Artists’ Guild seek parental consent, parents will receive an email request notifying them in what activity the child has chosen to participate. Requests for parental consent will explain how we collect, use, and disclose children’s personal information. Parents will then be given the opportunity (1) to opt out of their child’s participation in any activity; and (2) to select what information, if any, the St. Louis Artists’ Guild may share about the child. If a parent opts his or her child out, no information about that child will be retained by the St. Louis Artists’ Guild. However, the child may be prevented from participating in certain St. Louis Artists’ Guild activities that require personal information.
II. INFORMATION REQUESTED FROM INDIVIDUALS OVER THE AGE OF 13
The St. Louis Artists’ Guild collects two kinds of information from individuals over the age of 13: Personal information that you choose to supply us, and non-personal information, such as your IP address.
A. WHAT INFORMATION MAY BE COLLECTED
Personally Identifiable Information
Email Lists , Newsletters, Online Postcards, Donations and Other St. Louis Artists’ Guild Information
If you request additional information about the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, submit a donation online, or participate in any of the other services on the St. Louis Artists’ Guild Web site that require personal information, we may request your name, mailing address, telephone number email address, birth year, ask if you are 13 or older, and eligibility to vote, in order to respond to your inquiries. The St. Louis Artists’ Guild may collect and store the information you choose to provide us to send you information about the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and St. Louis Artists’ Guild partners and third parties from time to time. If you make a donation to the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and elect to pay online, the St. Louis Artists’ Guild will collect the necessary financial information. The St. Louis Artists’ Guild collects and stores some information the user chooses to provide, including name, address and email address, to send users information about the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and St. Louis Artists’ Guild partners and third parties from time to time. The St. Louis Artists’ Guild will not disclose financial information except as necessary to fulfill users’ donation requests. The St. Louis Artists’ Guild collects such financial information in a secure manner.
Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions
From time to time, we may request information from you via surveys, sweepstakes or contests. Participation in these survey, sweepstakes or contests is completely voluntary; you have a choice whether or not to disclose information required to enter. Information requested may include personal contact information such as your name, shipping and email addresses. Contact information will be used to notify winners, award prizes and contact users with further information about the St. Louis Artists’ Guild events and services, as well as the events and services of St. Louis Artists’ Guild partners and third parties. Survey information will be used for the purposes of monitoring or improving use and satisfaction of the St. Louis Artists’ Guild Web site.
Non-personally identifiable information
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data placed on your hard drive when you visit our site. We may use cookies to help us recognize you when you come back to our site. We may also use cookies to help us monitor traffic on our site. This information may be aggregated in an anonymous manner.
IP Addresses and Environmental Variables
The St. Louis Artists’ Guild may also collect information through IP addresses or environmental variables. An "IP address" is a number used by computers on the network to identify your computer so that data can be transmitted to you. "Environmental variables" include, among other things, the domain from which you access the Internet, the time you accessed our web site, type of Web browser and operating system or platform used, the Internet address of the Web site you left to visit the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, the names of the pages you visit while at our Web site, and the Internet address of the Web site you then visit. We collect all of this information to allow us to detect broad demographic trends, to provide information tailored to your interests and to enhance your experience on the St. Louis Artists’ Guild’s Web site. This information may be aggregated in an anonymous manner.
B. HOW INFORMATION MAY BE USED
We may share personally and non-personally identifiable information with third parties (volunteers) that help manage our Web site and databases and with our partners, affiliates or other third parties.
C. USER CONTROL OVER COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION
The St. Louis Artists’ Guild provides you with the following choices regarding the use of your information:
You may set your browser to:
- inform you when cookies are being set before a cookie is stored;
- (2) not accept cookies at all; and
- (3) erase all cookies from your hard drive. However, if you choose to reject or erase cookies, your ability to navigate our site may be limited.
You may choose not to provide the St. Louis Artists’ Guild with any contact information. However, if you do so, we will be unable to respond to your request for St. Louis Artists’ Guild information, enter you in any sweepstakes or contests, or send online postcards. Additionally, your ability to navigate our site may be limited.
If you would like to opt-out of receiving further information from the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, send an email to info@stlouisartistsguild.org. If you email us, please include your name and email address in the body of the email and reference "Remove" on the subject line.
If you would like to change or modify information you have previously provided us, please send an email to info@stlouisartistsguild.org.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the practices of our Web site, please contact: