The Nepean Fine Arts League respects your privacy. To show you that we take every measure to insure the privacy of visitors to our website, we would like to explain what we do to make sure that any information gathered about our visitors, either directly or indirectly, is handled properly.

When you visit our website

When you visit the Nepean Fine Arts League website, your computer is connected to ours for the duration of your visit. This creates an entry in our computer logs containing information about your Internet Service Provider or other means that you have used to access our website and its pages as well as information about your browser and the time and date of access and the pages you viewed. We may use this information to try to improve the content of our website. We may also use this information to solve problems related to connections or viewing of our pages. The entries contained in our access logs can never give us information about you as an individual.

E-mail Addresses

An Internet Service Provider or other organization that you use to connect to the Internet normally provides you with an e-mail address. Besides using your address for written communication, it also serves as a means to identify you. The Nepean Fine Arts League receives e-mail addresses from its users and members voluntarily. You may provide your e-mail address in order to receive information from the Nepean Fine Arts League, to make a suggestion or to ask a question. The Nepean Fine Arts League keeps these e-mail addresses on file at our organization. We do not make these e-mail addresses available to third parties.

Members may choose to publish their e-mail address on the Nepean Fine Arts League website. E-mail addresses listed on our website are available to anyone on the internet and may be used to send you unsolicited email. Similarly any other contact information you provide for publication is freely available to anyone. The Nepean Fine Arts League can take no responsibility for the results of making this information available on the website.

You may also provide your e-mail address for our mailing list in order to receive our newsletter and other mailings of interest to the artist community. Please refer to the next section, Mailing Lists for information about the use of your e-mail address for this purpose.

Mailing Lists

The Nepean Fine Arts League maintains a mailing list and occasionally we may provide third parties with your postal and/or e-mail address to distribute information to members. These third parties must agree that they will not provide your address to other individuals or organizations. If you have signed up for a mailing list and you later wish to opt-out, you may do this by following the instructions on the newsletter or other mailing that you receive. This usually entails sending an e-mail to membership @ nepean fine arts league with your membership information in the body of the message and requesting that your name be removed from our mailing list.

When you sign up for our mailing lists, you will be sent our newsletter and other announcements of interest to artist and art enthusiasts about site updates and new events. Please be aware that the Nepean Fine Arts League may include advertisements in these mailings to defray costs.

Volunteer Work

We are proud of the fact that our members go to great lengths to help us provide new and important information about art and the artist community. If you choose to do volunteer work for us, you can be assured that any personal information we ask you to provide is only used to help us coordinate your much appreciated work and will remain strictly confidential.

Links to other websites

Our visitors should know that when they click on a link to other sites, they are making a decision to leave our website and view another. The Nepean Fine Arts League makes every effort to insure that those sites meet accepted standards of ethics and decency. However, the Nepean Fine Arts League accepts no responsibility for the privacy policy of the operators of those sites, nor do we have any control over the information on their websites.

Contests, Showings and Competitions

From time to time, the Nepean Fine Arts League will engage in contests, Showings and Competitions. In order to participate in these activities, particiapnts may be requested to provide personal information, such as, but not limited to, name, address, postal information, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, age, educational level and related information. Participants provide this information voluntarily and if they feel that they do not want to reveal any of this data, they are requested not to do so. If participants choose to provide us with this information, we want to make clear that it will be used by only by the Nepean Fine Arts League. We will in no way use or divulge specific information about individual participants or members.

Cookies

A 'cookie' is small file which is sent to a visitor to our website along with a web page so that websites may receive information about viewers' preferences. The Nepean Fine Arts League cannot obtain personal information about specific visitors by using 'cookies'. Furthermore, browser settings can be changed so that you never receive them or you only receive 'cookies' from those sites that you wish. This may, however, result in a change in the way you interact with our website. If you feel that receiving such files is not in your best interest, we advise you to configure your browser so that you do not receive them. We will adhere to the same standards of privacy as regards to 'cookies' as with any other means of gathering information.

Children

The Nepean Fine Arts Leage website is designed to be viewed by anyone of any age who has an interest in art and artists. Parents should know that when their children use the Internet without parental supervision they could divulge data about themselves unwillingly.

This Privacy Policy

We are grateful to you for visiting this website. We are sure that you know that by visiting our site, you are acknowledging that you accept this privacy policy and recognize the measures we take to insure your privacy. The Internet is an industry that grows and changes everyday. At the Nepean Fine Arts League we may make changes to this policy as we see fit to insure that we adapt to this growing industry. We will make every attempt to post those changes in a timely fashion. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this privacy policy, we invite you to contact our webmaster @ the Nepean Fine Arts League