Privacy Policy

LITERARY ARTS is committed to preserving your privacy and safeguarding your personal information. The following statement describes the general information-gathering and usage practices of our web site.

Your Information

All personal information submitted to LITERARY ARTS using our online input and order forms is kept private. We take every precaution to protect our users’ personal information. When users submit personal information via our website, their information is protected both online and off-line. When our website asks users to enter personal information (such as credit card numbers) this transaction takes place on a secure server and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry – Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

We use the information submitted to LITERARY ARTS using our online input and order forms to contact you about our services that you have already expressed interest in. LITERARY ARTS partners with service providers to host our website and other online publications, which means that these third parties may have access to your personal information. We do not, however, permit third-party service providers to use or share any personally identifiable information that we provide to them.

Sharing

At LITERARY ARTS’ discretion, we make periodic agreements to share our mailing list with other nonprofit organizations. In these agreements we permit the nonprofit organization to make a one-time use of our mailing list when that nonprofit organization offers a service, product, or information that LITERARY ARTS has determined to be useful or of interest to our users. The mailing list that we share with these organizations includes users’ names and e-mail addresses, but does not include users’ financial information, such as credit card numbers or purchasing or donation history. Other than described above, LITERARY ARTS does not disclose our personally identifiable information without your permission, except when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, such a when disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Use or may be causing injury to LITERARY ARTS’ or another party’s rights or properties.

Links

This website contains links to other websites that are owned and maintained by other parties that are not affiliated with LITERARY ARTS. Please be aware that LITERARY ARTS does not claim any responsibility for the privacy practices or content of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware of when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that may collect personally identifiable information from you. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by the LITERARY ARTS website.

Web Log Files and Cookies

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use for reporting and sponsorship purposes. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. LITERARY ARTS may use cookies to store and track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to our browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. If you visit our site and view our content, we collect and store only the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account), the date and time you access our site, and the Internet address o the website from which you linked directly to our site. We may use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.

LITERARY ARTS Newsletters and Email Announcements

If you wish to subscribe to any of our newsletters or e-announcement lists, we require certain contact information (name and e-mail address) so we can make sure you receive the information you requested.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

LITERARY ARTS reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice to you. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy on our website.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions or concerns about your privacy on our website, please contact us at:

LITERARY ARTS
224 NW 13th Avenue, Suite 306
Portland, OR 97209
Email: info@literary-arts.org
Phone: 503.227.2589
Fax: 503.243.1167