PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to Creative Waco and thank you for visiting. Creative Waco (a private non-profit Corporation registered in the State of Texas) is the owner of makeitinwaco.com, and is committed to providing you an enjoyable experience while maintaining your privacy. The information that we collect and store helps to enhance your shopping and browsing experience and allows us to provide information that is specific to your needs and preferences. Please read this entire Privacy Policy, which will inform you about the types of information we collect, as well as how we will store, use and protect such information. By visiting the site, you are agreeing to the terms of our Privacy Policy. This privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") covers the Creative Waco website located at www.creativewaco.org and the Make It In Waco site (the "Site") located at www.makeitinwaco.com , and is part of our Terms of Use Agreement. To read our Terms of Use Agreement, please click here (http://makeitinwaco.org/legal).

You will find the following information in this privacy notice:
Who we are
Information you explicitly provide to us
Information collected automatically
How we use your information
User generated content
Who can see your information
When we share your information
How we look after your information
How long we keep it for
Your rights and choices
Collecting information from children
Consent for processing
Access and security
External links
Modifications to this privacy policy
Contact information

WHO WE ARE:

Creative Waco is a non profit corporation registered in the state of Texas, United States of America, registered address P.O. Box 1104, Waco, Tx, 76703. You can contact us at [email protected] .

INFORMATION YOU EXPLICITLY PROVIDE TO US:

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "personal information" is any information that identifies you personally, would enable someone to contact you directly, or describes your relationship with Creative Waco. We collect and store personal information when you register to use our site, ask questions through our inquiry system, complete a form, tell us your preferences, conduct a transaction, or send us an email. Such personal information may include your name, address, email address, date of birth, credit card information and other preferences you choose to provide us. When you register, you will also consent to receive email correspondence from us. We will use your Personal Information to complete transactions, respond to your requests, deliver the products and services you request, personalize the Site, allow you to view your past purchases and collections and to notify you of promotions, updates, news or special offers (which may be offered by Creative Waco or one of our partners) that we think may be of interest you. If you choose to invite a friend to join Creative Waco, you will need to provide us with his or her name and email address and you represent to us that you have their permission to do so. We will store this information for the sole purpose of sending a one-time email, tracking the success of our referral program and allowing you to track the success of your referral invitations. Your friend may contact us at [email protected] to request that we remove their information from our database.

From time to time we may offer promotions, contests or sweepstakes on our site. If you choose to participate we may collect information including your name, address, age, telephone number, email address or other contact information. We would use this information to notify contest winners, award prizes, monitor site traffic, personalize the site (in the case of anonymous information collected in surveys) and to send participants an email newsletter. We may also request other information some of which may be optional.

During registration and participation in Site promotions, you are required to give truthful contact and demographic information in accordance with our Terms of Use (http://makeitinwaco.com/legal). By providing your personal information to us during your registration and thereafter during use of the Site, you expressly consent to Creative Waco's collection, use and storage of such information as stated in this Privacy Policy. If you wish to discontinue non-transactional email correspondence with us at any time, simply follow the instructions to "Unsubscribe" which appear in every email we send, or contact us at [email protected].

INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY:

(i) Server Statistics.

Like many Web sites, we automatically collect general statistics about our website traffic and store it in log files in order to track usage and user trends on our site. This information includes hits to our server, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), page views, navigational patterns, operating system, date/time stamp, clickstream data and the numbers and frequency of visitors to our site. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the Website, to track users' movements around the Website so that we can communicate with our users in the most effective manner and provide them the most useful and desired features, functionality, products and services. In connection with this analysis, Creative Waco also uses devices called "web beacons" to help us identify when emails sent to you from us have been received and read. We may also collect IP addresses and other information in order to prevent the introduction of viruses and hackers into the Site.

When we collect this usage data, we typically only use this data in aggregate form, and not in a manner that would identify you personally. When IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information it is to offer customers the best user experience possible. We may also provide this data in aggregate form to partners, Artists and Institutions so that they can understand how often users are seeing their pages and buying their products on our Site.

(ii) Cookies.

A cookie is a text file that is assigned by a web server and stored on a user's computer to uniquely identify the browser on a particular computer for record-keeping purposes. Creative Waco uses cookies to collect aggregate information about site usage, help identify users when they return to our site, track navigational patterns of usage and access user preferences. We do so to enhance the quality of your visit to our Site, access your preferences and personalize the Site for you.

Creative Waco uses "session" or temporary cookies to ensure that you are recognized when you move from page to page on the site and that any information you enter on the Site (for example, items in your shopping cart) are not lost as you navigate the site. We also use persistent cookies so we can remember you on subsequent visits to our Site, which enables us to provide a more enhanced, efficient and personal experience when you return to our Site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our Site.

If you do not want to have cookies placed on your computer, you can set your browser to refuse or remove cookies by following the instructions in your browser's "help" file. However, doing so will limit system performance, may not allow you to take advantage of certain features on our Site and even cause certain features of the Site to malfunction.

We may permit limited third parties to place cookies through the Site to provide us with better insights into the use of the Site, user demographics, or to provide relevant advertising to you. These third parties may collect information about a consumer's online activities over time and across different websites when he or she uses our Site.

We do not use technology that recognizes do-not-track signals from your web browser.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION:

As noted above, we use the data we collect in order to provide you with the best web experience possible. We only use the information we collect in the manner described above this Privacy Policy and as follows.

i) We may share your information with selected vendors and business partners with whom we work ("Service Providers"). These Service Providers provide functions on our behalf such as fulfillment, shipping, credit card processing, data and tracking analysis, customer service, market services etc in order to complete the transactions and offer you the best service on our Site.

ii) We may use your personal and transactional information internally for our business purposes, including among other things, to offer our own, our affiliates' or third-party products and services that we think you may find of interest. We may use your email address to contact you to respond to your customer service inquiries. You can elect not to receive emails from by unsubscribing to our emails or by contacting us as indicated below.

iii) As noted above, we may provide aggregate statistics, which do not include Personal Information, about our customers, sales, traffic patterns and related Site information to reputable third party vendors. We sometimes use this aggregated data (such as what areas of our Site are visited most frequently, what services are most used, what products are most popular and how often our emails are opened etc.) for research and commercial purposes. This information helps us develop a better site that is more useful and accessible to you as well as offer better products and services to you but is never associated with any Personally identifiable information.

iv) We only reveal Personal Information to unaffiliated third parties if: (1) you request or authorize it; (2) the information is provided to help complete a transaction for you; (3) the information is provided to comply with the law, applicable regulations, court orders or subpoenas, to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, or to protect our rights, property or safety or the rights, property or safety of our users or others (e.g., to a consumer reporting agency for fraud protection etc.); (4) the disclosure is done as part of a purchase, transfer or sale of services or assets (e.g., in the event that substantially all of our assets are acquired by another party, customer information may be one of the transferred assets); or as stated in this privacy policy.

USER GENERATED CONTENT:

You may choose to participate in areas of our Site dedicated to user-generated content that we provide you to enjoy. By "User Content" we mean any content you post to the site, which may include reviews, comments, image uploading, captions, participating in forums, curating or creating art collections and other such features that allow you to add content to the site. Any User Content you voluntarily disclose for other users to view on the Site is not Personal Information. It becomes publicly available information and can be read, collected, redistributed or used by any person for any purpose. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable or other information you choose to submit as User Content and we reserve the right to remove any User Content generated by any user at our sole discretion.

WHO CAN SEE YOUR INFORMATION:

Our staff or the staff of third party service providers may process your information on our behalf. Processing can mean any activity that involves the use of information about someone that can identify them. All uses of your information - for example, obtaining, recording, storing, disclosing, organizing, retrieving, deleting and destroying - are types of data processing.

We take measures to ensure that third parties who process your information on our behalf are acting lawfully in accordance with our instructions and are subject to appropriate confidentiality requirements. We also have adequate technical and organizational safeguards in our company and with third party processors to protect your information. Third party processors of your information include: • our website hosts and operators, IT support providers, database operators, site analytics providers and software developers; • our marketing or publicity services providers; • our editorial and production service providers;• our financial services and payment service provider; • our warehousing and delivery service providers; • our auditors, technical consultants and legal advisors, • our vendors, and • our fraud detection services.

WHEN WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION:

We share your information internally within Creative Waco and any vendor from whom you purchase on the Site. If we share your information outside those parties, you will be asked to consent to a third party sharing your information, and if you choose to give your permission, any interaction you have with a third party is governed by their privacy terms. The third party becomes a joint data controller of your information with us. This means that the third party can make decisions about how to use your information. Before we share your information, we require third parties to enter into a data sharing agreement, which stipulates that they must maintain appropriate security to protect your information from unauthorized access, processing or use. Wel share information with the following third parties: • selected marketing partners; • any prospective seller or buyer of businesses or assets, only if we decide to acquire, transfer or sell any business or assets; • any other third parties (including legal or other advisors, regulatory authorities, courts and government agencies) where necessary to enable us to enforce our legal rights, or to protect the rights, property or safety of our employees or where such disclosure may be permitted or required by law or where we have a legal obligation to do so.

HOW WE LOOK AFTER YOUR INFORMATION:

We look for opportunities to minimize the amount of personal information we hold about you. Where appropriate we anonymize and pseudonymize your information. We use appropriate technological and operational security measures to protect your information against any unauthorized access or unlawful use, such as: • ensuring the physical security of our offices, warehouses or other sites; • ensuring the physical and digital security of our equipment and devices by using appropriate password protection and encryption; • maintaining a data protection policy for, and delivering data protection training to our employees; and • limiting access to your personal information to those in our company who need to use it in the course of their work.

HOW LONG WE KEEP IT FOR:

We will retain your information for as long as is necessary to provide you with the services that you have requested from us or for as long as we reasonably require to retain the information for our legitimate interests. We operate a data retention policy and look to find ways to reduce the amount of information we hold about you and the length of time that we need to keep it.

YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES:

Your Right to Object - you can object to us using your information for direct marketing and on the basis of our legitimate interests (refer to section ‘How we use your information’ above to see when we are relying on our legitimate interests). If you want to do this, you can contact us at [email protected] .

Your Right to Withdraw Consent – you can withdraw your consent for us using your information in reliance of your consent (refer to section ‘How we use your information’ to see when we are relying on your consent). You can do this by contacting us at [email protected] .

Your Other Rights and Choices – in addition, you can also: • request access to the information that we hold about you to check that we are acting lawfully; • receive a copy of any information we hold about you in a format of your choice; • request that we transfer your information to another service provider in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format; • ask us to correct information we hold about you if it is inaccurate or incomplete; • ask us, in certain circumstances, to delete information we hold about you; • ask us, in certain circumstances, to restrict processing of your information. You may exercise your rights and choices by contacting us using the details above in the ‘Who We Are’ section. You can also prevent processing for marketing activities by checking certain boxes on forms that we use to collect your data to tell us that you don’t want to be involved in marketing.

Your Right to Complain - if you have any questions or are unhappy about the way we have used your information, please contact us at [email protected] . We hope we will be able to resolve any problems or issues you may have. You can also have lodge a complaint about us and our use of your information to the relevant authority in your country of work or residence.

COLLECTING INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN:

This Site is not designed nor intended to be attractive to use by children under the age of 18 ("Minors"). We do not knowingly collect information from Minors. If you are under the age of 18, you are not authorized to use this site so please do not submit any information to us.

CONSENT TO PROCESSING:

Your Personal Information may be processed by us in the country where it was collected as well as other countries, including the United States, where laws regarding data protection may be less stringent than the laws in your country. By using this site and by providing any Personal Information to the Site, all users, including without limitation users in Canada and the European Union, fully understand and unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information in the United States.

ACCESS AND SECURITY:

If you are a registered user of this Site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password. If you use this Site, you are responsible for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. We reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in our sole discretion.

We use reasonable physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to help us protect the security, integrity and confidentiality of data stored on our system. The Site encrypts your credit card number and other Personal Information using secure socket layer (SSL) technology to provide for the secure transmission of the information from your device to our servers. SSL is an industry-standard protocol for encryption over the Internet. While no system is 100% secure, we believe that the measures we have implemented minimize the risk of security breach to an appropriate level given the types of information involved. Please note that any information you provide us by email is unencrypted.

EXTERNAL LINKS:

We may offer links to the websites of other companies but we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties or the content of linked sites, nor are we responsible for how these other companies collect, use, disclose or secure the information you provide them. If you choose to access a third party website linked to or from our Site, you do so at your own risk. We do encourage you to read the applicable privacy policies and terms and conditions of such parties or web sites.

MODIFICATIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY:

Creative Waco may amend or change this Privacy Policy from time to time at our sole discretion. We encourage you to check our Site frequently to see the current Privacy Policy and Terms of Use in effect and any changes that may have been made to them. If we make material changes to this Policy, we will post the revised Policy and the revised effective date here. Your continued use of the Site and provision of any Personal Information after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such Privacy Policy change. This privacy policy was updated on April 5, 2020.

CONTACTING US:

This site is owned and operated by Creative Waco. If you have any questions or suggestions with respect to this policy, or if you wish to ask us to delete, correct, or show you your information as provided above, please email us at [email protected] ,or write to us at our corporate address:

PO Box 1104,
Waco, TX 76703