Privacy Notice

PRIVACY NOTICE

This Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) governs Your ("User" or "You") use of Website (“Website”) provided by Middletown Area Arts Collective (Middletown Area Arts Collective). User access of Website is an acceptance of this Privacy Notice. The Privacy Notice is a legal agreement between User and Middletown Area Arts Collective. User’s Access of Website, Use of Middletown Area Arts Collective’s Services, Products or Information (“Services”) is an acceptance of this Privacy Notice. The Privacy Notice is subject to change by Middletown Area Arts Collective at any time and in its sole discretion. User’s use of Website, Services after such changes are implemented constitutes User’s acceptance of the changes. PLEASE CONSULT THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS REGULARLY. The Privacy Notice was last updated: December 1, 2005. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS PRIVACY NOTICE THEN DO NOT ACCESS Website OR USE THE SERVICES OR PARTICIPATE IN EVENTS OF Middletown Area Arts Collective.

1. Our Commitment to Privacy.

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect User’s privacy Middletown Area Arts Collective provides this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices You can make about the way User’s information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, Middletown Area Arts Collective makes it available on Website and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested throughout Website’s domain. Any information User provides Website is strictly voluntary and shall be kept confidential to commercially reasonable standards. Website attempts to keep all financial information passed through Website confidential.

2. The Information We Collect.

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on Website. User provides most information when You choose to communicate with Website directly through the “Contact Us” feature. For example, You provide information when You communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise, etc. As a result of those actions, You might supply us with such information as User’s name, address, phone numbers, e-mail address and content in e-mails to us.

3. The Way We Use Information.

Middletown Area Arts Collective uses the information You provide about yourself when posting to or using Website to provide You prompt Service, and for statistical purposes and demographics.

Middletown Area Arts Collective uses return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail for Middletown Area Arts Collective. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties, unless You respond to an email from another Registered Advertisers, which shall constitute an acceptance of giving User’s contact information to that specific Registered Advertisers.

Middletown Area Arts Collective uses non-identifying and aggregate information to better design Website and to share with its vendors and advertisers. For example, Middletown Area Arts Collective may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on Website, but Middletown Area Arts Collective would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals. However, Middletown Area Arts Collective may disclose first name and age of Users in Radio promotions to generate interest in Website or Users.
We do not disclose personally identifying information to anyone unless we are authorized to do so. Middletown Area Arts Collective reserves the right to release information on its Users only if compelled to do so by proper governmental or judicial authorities. Disclosure shall be limited to only those entities that Middletown Area Arts Collective is compelled to disclose to.
Finally, Middletown Area Arts Collective will never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing You an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

4. Our Commitment to Data Security.

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, Middletown Area Arts Collective has put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information Middletown Area Arts Collective collects online. However, no matter how diligent Middletown Area Arts Collective is, Middletown Area Arts Collective makes no commitment or warranty that Website is “hack-proof”, including auto-linking, data manipulation and site seizure, or that outside persons could not destroy or change information posted on Website.

Middletown Area Arts Collective works to protect the security of User’s information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) software, which encrypts information User input.

5. Our Commitment to Children's Privacy.

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, Middletown Area Arts Collective never collects or maintains information collected from a User Middletown Area Arts Collective actually knows is under 18. No part of Website is structured to attract anyone under 18. Website is intended to give Users the opportunity to access information about local area businesses and events and provide them with an idea of where to go and what to do.

6. COPPA

Middletown Area Arts Collective complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. If You inform Website that we have collected or received information from someone under 13, Middletown Area Arts Collective will promptly delete such information from its system.

7. How You Can Access or Correct User Information.

If User views any information that is posted on Website that is incorrect, please contact us immediately. Middletown Area Arts Collective shall attempt to address User’s concerns. Middletown Area Arts Collective makes no guarantee that ‘BurgBlurb will change any information because of User’s inquiry.

8. Cookies
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that Middletown Area Arts Collective transfers to User’s computer's hard drive through User’s Web browser to enable our systems to recognize User’s browser and to provide features such as the Web page’s “My Account”, Profile and Services.
The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell You how to prevent the browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify You when You receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow You to take full advantage of some of Website’s most interesting features.
In addition, like most Websites, each time User visits Website, we automatically collect User’s IP address and the web page from which User linked to Website. We may utilize this information to prepare demographic information and to better optimize Website.

9. Miscellaneous.

a. Headings. The headings of Sections of this Privacy Notice are for ease of reference only and shall not be admissible in any action to alter, modify or interpret the contents of any Section hereof.

b. Severability. If any Section or provision of this Privacy Notice is held illegal, unenforceable or in conflict with any law by a court of competent jurisdiction or arbitral tribunal, such Section or provision of this Privacy Notice shall be deemed severed from this Privacy Notice and the validity of the remainder of this Privacy Notice shall not be affected thereby.

c. Governing Law. This Privacy Notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are to be enforced wholly within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

d. Submission to Jurisdiction. The parties to this Privacy Notice each specifically consent to jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in connection with any dispute between the parties arising out of this Privacy Notice or pertaining to the subject matter hereof.

e. Venue. The parties to this Privacy Notice each agree that venue for any dispute between the parties arising out of this Privacy Notice or pertaining to the subject matter hereof shall be held in the Federal District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania or in the state courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania sitting in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

f. Notices. All notices or other written communications required or permitted under this Privacy Notice shall be given in writing by courier or reputable overnight delivery services, or by certified mail, return receipt requested to either party at its address set forth below or to such address as such party may subsequently indicate in writing in the manner specified in this Section:

Middletown Area Arts Collective

With a copy to:
Duane P. Stone, Esq.
Law Offices of Duane P. Stone, P.C.
8 N. Baltimore Street
Dillsburg, Pennsylvania 17019

g. Waivers and Amendments. The waiver by either party of any provision of this Privacy Notice on any occasion and upon any particular circumstances shall not operate as a waiver of such provision of this Privacy Notice on any other occasion or upon any other circumstances. This Privacy Notice may be waived or amended only in writing and signed by both parties.

h. Survival. Sections 4, 5, 6, and 9 of this Privacy Notice, and any other provision that, in accordance with its terms is intended to survive this Privacy Notice, shall survive the expiration or termination of this Privacy Notice for any reason.

i. Assignment. Neither party may assign its rights or delegate its duties under this Privacy Notice except that Middletown Area Arts Collective may assign its rights if it is acquired, merged, or changes it business structure.

j. Complete. Agreement/Incorporation. This Privacy Notice, along with the Terms and Conditions, and Disclaimer contains the complete understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all other agreements, understandings, communications and promises of any kind, whether oral or in writing.