This privacy policy covers the use of the web site located at http://www.cartizan.com and the services provided by Cartizan, Inc. ("Cartizan"), including how Cartizan treats personal information that Cartizan collects and receives. Pursuant to Cartizan's Terms of Use, you must be 18 years and older to use this site or have permission from a legal guardian. Therefore, this policy makes no provision for individuals under 18 years old. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Cartizan does not own or control, or individuals that Cartizan does not employ or manage.
Effective Date: 11/17/2009
Cartizan will send you a welcome/confirmation email when you sign as a Backstage or Sponsor Artizan. Receipt of this email is required to complete your registration.
Cartizan will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary.
You may not opt-out of service-related communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account by emailing info@cartizan.com from the email address that is on your Cartizan account.
Cartizan may periodically email you with administrative messages. Cartizan will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. Your information may be combined with information Cartizan collects from other companies and used to improve and personalize services, content and advertising. If you don't wish to receive administrative messages or participate in these programs, simply opt-out by emailing info@cartizan.com.
Backstage and Sponsor Artizan will automatically receive email newsletters. You may change your subscription or unsubscribe at anytime by following the instructions contained in the email.
If you no longer wish to receive administrative messages, you may opt-out by emailing info@cartizan.com Please note that if you do not wish to receive administrative messages from us, those notices will still govern your use of the Cartizan website and service, and you are responsible for reviewing such notices for changes.
Cartizan and its partners sponsor contests to give you the opportunity to win great prizes. Your participation in these contests is entirely optional. Information we collect for such contests can include contact information and demographic information. Cartizan also values the opinions and comments from all of our users, so we frequently conduct surveys online, via e-mail. Your participation in these surveys is entirely optional. Information we collect in online surveys will include general information on the use of our website and other demographic information, such as age and income bracket. Survey participants are anonymous unless otherwise stated in the survey.
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use Cartizan products or services that require you to "sign in," and you may not be able to take full advantage of the Cartizan service. Cartizan uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to: Access your information when you "sign in"; keep track of preferences you specify while you are using Cartizan’s services; display the most appropriate advertising banners, based on your interests and activity on Cartizan; estimate and report Cartizan's total audience size and traffic; conduct research to improve Cartizan’s content and services. Cartizan cookies do not collect personal information, and Cartizan does not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your username or email address is.
Web beacons are small strings of code that are placed in a Web page. They are sometimes called "clear GIFs" (Graphics Interchange Format) or "pixel tags." To target our Internet ads on other websites, we may use Web beacons provided by our outside advertising company on pages of this site in conjunction with ad-serving cookies. The information used in targeting our ads is not personally identifiable. We may also use Web beacons on our website for other purposes, for example, to learn how visitors use our site.
When you connect to our website, we record your IP addresses and information on the type of operating system (e.g. Windows98) and browser software(e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer) you are using. This helps us to diagnose problems with our servers and for system administration. Your IP address is also used to help gather aggregated demographic information.
When you post a message, your Cartizan ID or alias is visible to other users. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Cartizan may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate the Cartizan Terms of Use. Cartizan may disclose personally identifiable information to parties in compliance with Cartizan's Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy, as Cartizan in Cartizan's sole discretion believes necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity. In such events, Cartizan may disclose name, street address, city, state, postal code, country, phone number, email address and company name. Cartizan may share aggregate demographic information with business partners.
Cartizan employs other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and needs to share your information with them to provide products and services to you. Examples include but are not limited to fulfilling orders, handling billing disputes and collections, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance and providing customer service.
Cartizan will not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with nonaffiliated parties except as specified in this Privacy Policy to provide products or services you have requested or when Cartizan has your permission. It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Cartizan's Terms of Use, as specified in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise required by law. In some cases, Cartizan may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Cartizan will transfer information about you if Cartizan is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Cartizan will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the Cartizan web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
As part of the buying and selling process, you may obtain another Cartizan user's email address, shipping address and/or other information. Pursuant to Catizan's Terms of Use, you have a limited license to use this information. This information should only be used for Cartizan-related communications or for Cartizan-facilitated transactions. Cartizan has not granted you a license to use the information for unsolicited commercial messages. Without limiting the foregoing, without express consent from the user, you are not licensed to add any Cartizan user to your email or physical mail list.
If you have provided the name and e-mail address of another Manitoba artizan, Cartizan will send such participant an e-mail inviting him or her to visit our website and giving such participant the opportunity to opt-out of receiving future information regarding Cartizan and its partners.
Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy and Cartizan's ability to keep the community free from bad actors, Cartizan will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third parties without a subpoena, court order, legal process, or substantially similar legal procedure, except when Cartizan believes in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to protect Cartizan's rights, prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss, or to report suspected illegal activity.
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information Cartizan collects from you. If you disclose your information to others, whether they are buyers or sellers on Cartizan or throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. Cartizan does not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. Cartizan is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of other websites on the Internet, even those linked to or from the Cartizan site. Cartizan encourages you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.
You can change your Artizan Account Information (except your username), at any time. Cartizan may send you certain communications relating to the Cartizan service, such as service-related announcements and administrative messages that are considered part of your Cartizan account. You can delete your Cartizan account by emailing info@cartizan.com. However, even if you delete or change some personal information in our registration database, it may still be stored on our, or other third party, databases (including those kept for archival purposes).
Cartizan limits access to personal information about you to employees who Etsy believes reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. Your Cartizan Account Information is password-protected.
If your personally identifiable information changes you may correct or update it by emailing info@cartizan.com. You may delete or deactivate your account by emailing Customer Support at info@cartizan.com or by postal mail at the contact information listed below. Cartizan will respond to your request within 10-20 business days.
The security of your personal information is important to us. Your Cartizan account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to work to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by signing off once you have finished using a shared computer. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while Cartizan strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, Cartizan cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If the privacy policy is changed, Cartizan will post changes so that you are aware of those changes. Cartizan reserves the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If Cartizan makes material changes to this policy you will be notified here, by email, or other places Cartizan deems appropriate.
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