Privacy Policy

This is the web site Arts Enter Cape Charles, a non-profit organization.

Our physical location:
10 Strawberry Street
Cape Charles, Virginia 23310

Our postal address:
P.O. Box 226
Cape Charles, Virginia 23310

We can be reached via e-mail at: info@artsentercapecharles.org

You can reach us by telephone at 757-331-2787

We do not rent, lease, loan, share or sell our visitor information to any third party.

Your privacy is important to us and this policy has been put in place to inform you of our practices and how you can make changes.

This privacy policy follows the guidelines set forth by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), specifically, it includes the FTC's Four Fair Information Practices:

Notice
Data collectors must disclose their informational practices before collecting personal information from consumers.

Choice
Consumers must be given options with respect to whether or how personal information collected from them may be used for puposes beyond those for which the information was provided.

Access
Consumers should be able to view and contest the accuracy and completemess of data collected about them.

Security
Data collectors must take reasonable steps to ensure that information collected from consumers is accurate and secure from unauthorized use.

For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's IP address (where possible), but not the e-mail address. This information is not attached to an email address or other identifying information.

We collect only information that is volunteered by our visitors:

e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail;
information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations;
information volunteered by the consumer when that person has voluntarily subscribed to the online version of our newsletter;
notices of transactions (which may include those handled by PayPal) when visitors make a purchase.

Our web stats program collects aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit. We use that information to make improvements in the website.

The information we collect is used for internal review, to respond to communications to us, to provide requested information or items, and to occasionally notify consumers about service or program offerings, or updates to our Web site.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending an e-mail to info@artsentercapecharles.org with a request to be removed from our email list.

If you have subscribed to our newsletter, you can click the link at the bottom of the email and you will be immediately and automatically removed from that system. It is not done by a human so the removal is immediate and automatic. If you prefer to ask us to remove you from that list, please contact us and allow up to five business days for the removal to take place. You may contact us using the contact information at the top of this policy or you can send an email to info@artsentercapecharles.org

If you supply us with your postal address on-line you may receive occasional mailings from us with expressions of appreciation, information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such postal mailings, please let us know by sending an e-mail to info@artsentercapecharles.org with a request to be removed from our postal mailing list.

You must provide us with your exact name and address so that we may remove it from our postal mailing list.

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line.

With respect to cookies: Our shopping cart system uses cookies to enhance the visitor experience. For example, to allow you to place items you select into a shopping cart, and to handle the registration and check-out process. Cookies cannot be used to cause harm to your computer. They do not run programs or transfer viruses. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer that provides information that allows custom web pages to be served to you (for example, when you login, you may see "welcom yourname"). Cookies on your computer can only be read by the website that served them. You can modify your browser settings to not accept cookies; however, if you do, you may not be able to use all of the features on the website.

With respect to Ad Servers: From time to time, we may have affiliate relationships with companies whose products may be of interest to you. Their ads may appear on our website or in our newsletter. There may also be links to their website on our website. Please check their privacy policy for information about what data they may collect and how it may be used. We also provide links to other websites. Clicking on these links will take you off our website and to the other website, usually in a new window. By providing links to other sites, Arts Enter Cape Charles does not guarantee, approve or endorse the information, services or products available at these sites, nor does a link indicate any association with or endorsement by the linked site to Arts Enter Cape Charles. Our privacy policy does not extend to your visit to another website.

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes. At the time of the change, you may opt out of these new uses by sending us an email to info@artsentercapecharles.org. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by sending us an email.

Upon written request we provide site visitors with access to contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them. Consumers can access this information by sending an e-mail to us with their request .

Upon written request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in their contact information.

You can have this information corrected by sending us an e-mail. To protect your privacy, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before allowing you to change or correct the information we have.

With respect to security, when we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial information, we redirect visitors to a secure server. We take reasonable steps to ensure that information we collect from consumers is accurate and secure from unauthorized use.

If you have questions or concerns about your privacy, or if you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, please contact us in writing at the above addresses, or via email at info@artsentercapecharles.org.