International Arts & Artists (IA&A) promotes cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts internationally by:
- touring traveling art exhibitions to museums and similar venues across the US and abroad;
- providing visa guidance and sponsorship for foreign visitors’ training and internships in US cultural institutions;
- through design services offered to support artists and arts and cultural-related endeavors and organizations;
- exhibiting works at our DC-based gallery;
- offering programming in the arts; and
- supporting our members.
This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies as to the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information.
If you choose to use any IA&A service or subscribe to IA&A membership, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing and improving our services, serving our mission, and supporting our members. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
Information Collection and Use
For a better experience while using any IA&A service or for membership program participation, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address.
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We will not sell or rent your Personal Information to anyone.
We will use your Personal Information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g., to ship an order.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
Log Data
We want to inform you that whenever you visit our websites, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used as an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer's hard drive.
Our website uses these “cookies” to collection information and to improve our services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our services.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies (e.g., outside shipping companies; payment processing companies; electronic emailer, invitation, and survey companies; customer relationship management companies) and individuals due to the following reasons:
- To facilitate our services;
- To provide the services on our behalf;
- To perform service-related services; or
- To assist us in analyzing how our services are used.
We want to inform our service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use your Personal information for any other purpose.
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information and we use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Our website is monitored by a security firm and operated through a secure host. Electronic communications and transactions are conducted via third-party secure system. Offline, our network is protected by firewalls and is in a secure environment and only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (e.g. billing or customer service) are granted access to Personal Information.
Links to Other Sites
Our services may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children's Privacy
Our services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number provided on our website:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.