PRIVACY POLICY

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Your privacy is important to us. That is why we want you to be informed about how we protect the privacy of visitors to our site. Please take a moment to read the following policy, which describes our practices for the collection and use of personally identifiable information on this site. Sites that are linked to our site may have different policies; please review the privacy policy notices on those sites for details.

Arts Council of Fairfax County ("we," "us") understands the concerns that our members and other visitors to our web site (the "Site") have about the collection, use, and disclosure of their Personal Information while online. Accordingly, we have established this Privacy Policy to make you aware of the information collection and sharing practices of the Site. This Privacy Policy only applies to transactions made and data gathered on the Site and does not apply to any other web site or offline point of contact between you and us. By visiting the Site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically. We may update it from time to time and we will notify you of any modifications in this section or in links from this section.

Children's Privacy

PARENTS AND CHILDREN: For residents of the United States: THIS SITE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE BY CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13, AND WE DO NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION WHATEVER FROM CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13.  For all other persons: THIS SITE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE BY CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18, AND WE DO NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION WHENEVER FROM CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18.  Accordingly, before we permit anyone to register with our site, to participate in any games, contests or sweepstakes, or to request any information, products or services offered by our site, we request that person's age and residence. This includes registering for our newsletter or mailing list, obtaining information regarding an event we sponsor, purchasing tickets or products. We do not accept any such registration from, or provide any product or service to, any visitor who identifies himself or herself as being under the applicable age limit. If we discover any Personal Information from anyone who is under the applicable age limit, we will promptly delete it.

Your IP Address

Like most e-commerce websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. We use this information to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site. We use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.

Personal Information

In some cases, we will collect information from you that can be used to identify you personally, such as your name, address, phone number, email address, purchase history, and credit card number ("Personal Information"). We collect Personal Information when you sign up to receive newsletters, request information regarding an event we sponsor, enter contests or sweepstakes, purchase tickets or products, join a mailing list, and otherwise as needed to fulfill your requests for information, products, and services. You will know when we collect this information because in each instance you will submit it to us voluntarily in order to receive the information, product, or service you request.

Cookies

Like many websites, the Site uses a software technology called "cookies" to collect non-personally identifiable information. Cookies contain information that we may place on your computer to help personalize your experience at the Site and to keep track of your user name and password so you do not have to re-enter them each time you visit the Site. We also use cookies to collect information about the pages that you visit at our Site in a given session of use, and may also use them to keep track of where you left off in a game. This information is then retained in a database, which we use to better satisfy your needs and those of other visitors. Except with respect to our e-commerce activities (e.g., on-line purchases), we do not link the non-personally identifiable information in cookies with personally identifiable information about you. Third party advertisers on the Site may also place cookies on your browser to gather information; they use your information in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control. If you wish to disable cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on the Site.

How We Use Personal Information

We use your Personal Information for our internal purposes, such as maintaining the Site and fulfilling your requests for products, services, and information. For example, we will contact you when necessary in connection with events for which you purchased tickets on the Site (including event confirmations, changes and cancellations). We also use your Personal Information to send you information, offers and other promotional materials from us and selected third parties. We carefully select the information we send to you and attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. We provide you with the option of declining to receive offers from us by "opting-out" of receipt of this type of communication. Generally, we will not send you communications on behalf of third parties unless we add our Arts Council of Fairfax County brand to those communications.

Product Support for Our Visitors

Please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , should you need help with a technical problem relating to this Site. To respond to your problem, we may ask you to provide your first name and email address. We will use the information for no other purpose and it will be deleted as soon as the problem has been resolved.

Forwarding Web Pages

If we provide you with the opportunity to email a web page to another person, we will need to collect your email address and the email address of those to whom you send the page. We will use the email addresses collected this way for no other purpose except to send the web page, and the addresses will be deleted once the page has been sent.

When We Share Your Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, order fulfillment and game, contest, sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We do not authorize these entities to use your information for any other purpose. If you purchase tickets on the Site, we will share your Personal Information with the venues, promoters, artists and other third parties associated with the concerts and events for which you purchase tickets ("Event Partners"). Due to our contractual obligations with Event Partners, we cannot offer you the opportunity to opt-out of our sharing of your Personal Information with them. We may select certain third parties with whom we will share your Personal Information so that they can communicate directly with you about their products and services. We attempt to carefully select these third parties and the specific offers they intend to communicate to you so that you will receive high quality, valuable and relevant offers. We generally do not authorize third parties (except our Event Partners) to communicate with you without adding our Arts Council of Fairfax County brand to the communication. The Site provides you with the option of declining to have your Personal Information shared with these selected third parties. We will also provide your Personal Information to a third party if you purchase products or services offered by third parties on the Site (such as magazine subscriptions). Your Personal Information may be shared with a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership, assets or a bankruptcy of purelightseed.net. We may also disclose your Personal Information as required or permitted by law, to protect the interests or safety of Arts Council of Fairfax County or a third party, or to prevent an emergency. Any third party with whom we share your Personal Information is authorized to use your Personal Information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your Personal Information by them.

Games, Contests, Sweepstakes and Certain Promotions

Should we or our business partners sponsor online games, contests or sweepstakes, or certain promotions, the specific rules and regulations will vary. Your participation will constitute your agreement to abide by those rules and regulations. We will use the information you provide when we fulfill a prize. If you reside in the United States and are older than 12 but younger than 18 years of age, we will ask you for information to contact your parent or guardian at the time of registration, and if you win, he or she will be sent an e-mail with information about the game, contest, sweepstakes or promotion in question and about your award. Your parent or guardian will then have a chance to "opt out" of collecting your prize on your behalf, in which case the prize will not be awarded. Persons who are not residents of the United States and under the age of 18 are not eligible to make use of our site, and accordingly, they cannot participate in games, contests, sweepstakes, or promotions. (See above.)

How We Use And When We Share Financial Information

(Including Credit Card Transactions)
We use your financial information (including credit card transactions) to check your qualifications and bill you for and otherwise facilitate your purchase of products and services. When you make a purchase on the Site, we will provide your financial information (including credit card transactions) to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine is necessary to process your transactions. These third parties may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process the transaction. Also, depending on the circumstances of our arrangements, we may share your financial information (including credit card transactions) with applicable Event Partners, primarily but not exclusively for facilitating "will call" ticket pick up and dispute resolution and customer service at the event venue on the date of the event. When you purchase products or services of third parties (such as items via Tickets.Com, CafePress or MP3s) offered on the Site, we will provide your financial information (including credit card transactions) to those third parties. Any of these various third parties are authorized to use your financial information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control. How We Use And When We Share Broad Demographic Information We may use, and may transfer to others to use, broad demographic information that may include data from your activity at the Site, but not Personal Information. For example, we use broad demographic information to tailor the Site to the interests of our visitors, and we may share it with advertisers and other third parties so that they can tailor their advertisements and communications to the appropriate audience. We reserve the right to use such broad demographic information, and to allow others to make use of it, without limitation or restriction, and without further notice to you, in our sole and absolute discretion and in the sole and absolute discretion of those with whom we share such information.

Links to Third Parties

When we include links to other Internet sites, on this Site and in our newsletters and other communications, we do so solely as a convenience to our visitors. Operators of such linked sites may acquire Personal Information about you through registration procedures or other means and may use that information in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control. Your access and use of linked sites is solely at your own risk.

Our Security Precautions

Whenever we obtain your Personal Information, we take reasonable precautions to protect it from unauthorized access or disclosure, but we cannot act as insurers of the security of your Personal Information transmitted over the Internet. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any disclosure of data due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third party access or other acts of third parties, or acts or omissions beyond our reasonable control.

Warning About Online Disclosure of Information

If you are a member of Purelightseed.Net, you should note that when you complete your "Member Profile," this information can be viewed by other members. Accordingly, you should not provide any information in your Member Profile that you do not wish to share with third parties and you should have no privacy expectations with respect to the information contained within it. You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose information online in a publicly accessible area, such as in your member profile, a message board or chat room, that information may be collected and used by others. We do not control the actions of our visitors. If you disclose Personal Information in your member profile, message board, or any other publicly accessible place on the Internet, you do so at your own risk and should understand that your submitted information may be collected and used by others to send you unsolicited messages, advertisements, or for other purposes. Please remember that protection of your privacy begins with you. You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any password you use to register, and you should always be careful and responsible whenever disclosing information online.

Opinions, Questions and Comments

If you send us your opinions, questions or comments, they may require personal information for a response. Please do not submit any unsolicited or unique creative ideas, drawings or other materials, which we cannot accept as a matter of policy.

Updating Your Personal Information and Opting Out
Please note that opting-out of receipt of email communications, newsletters or any other services of Arts Council of Fairfax County and third parties (other than Event Partners), may not result in changing or deleting the following information: A) Information already collected as part of a particular ticket purchase in our transactions database which may be shared with our Event Partners regardless of your email preferences; B) Information that we may have already forwarded to Event Partners, credit card companies or any other third parties, all as provided above in this Privacy Policy. C) Personal Information that we collect in connection with or in anticipation of any claim or legal proceeding.

Website terms and conditions:

This privacy policy, as well as the website terms and conditions of which it is part, apply to any dispute that may arise in relation to this privacy policy or our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information.

Privacy policy changes

The Arts Council of Fairfax County, will from time to time review and revise its privacy practices and this privacy policy. By continuing to use this Website subsequent to any changes to this privacy policy, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this web site.