Copyright

©2011 Walker Art Center. All content including images, text documents, audio, video, and interactive media published on the Walker website and ArtsConnectEd is for noncommercial, educational and/or personal use only. Any commercial use or republication is strictly prohibited. Copying, redistribution, or exploitation for personal or corporate gain is not permitted.

For information on the use of reproductions for publishing and/or commercial use, please contact Loren Smith, Assistant Registrar, at 612.375.7673 or rights.reproductions@walkerart.org.

Privacy

The Walker Art Center is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. In general, you can visit the Walker’s website without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Please read the following policy to understand how personal information that you provide will be treated as you make use of our online offerings. Note that we review our privacy practices from time to time, and that such practices are subject to change. We ask that our visitors periodically review this page to ensure familiarity with the most current version of our privacy statement. If you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices, you can contact us at webmaster@walkerart.org.

Usage Data

When you visit the Walker Art Center website, our servers automatically collect information about the IP address from which you access the site, the pages you visit, the date and time you access our site, and the type of browser and operating system that you are using. The information we compile is used to enhance the visitor’s experience when using the website to display personalized content.

E-Mail Contents

You may choose to provide us with personal information in an e-mail message to one of the addresses listed throughout our site or by registering for one of our listservs. We use this information only to respond to your message or to register you for the services you have requested.

Discussion Lists & Special Interest Groups

If you sign up for or subscribe to an e-mail newsletter, discussion list, or special-interest alert, you will receive the information that you have requested, and have the option of unsubscribing or removing your name from the list at any time. Any information you choose to provide regarding special interests may be used for marketing and promotional purposes. By providing this information, you may receive occasional e-mail messages from the Walker Art Center or other organizations. See Data Sharing below.

Online Purchases

The information you provide on the online order form (your name, address, telephone numbers, credit card information, and e-mail address) is used for billing purposes, to fill the order, and to reach you if we have trouble processing your order. See Data Sharing below.

Cookies

A cookie is a small digital signature files that are stored by your web browser that allow our servers to track visitors and allow usage of shopping cart in the Walker Shop. Cookies may be used to track return visits to the Walker’s site. If you choose to reject cookies, you will still be able to use the Walker’s site but you will not be able to build a shopping order.

Data Sharing

You should be aware that your name and basic contact information may be exchanged with other arts organizations and arts programmers as well as other select organizations. These organizations may attempt to contact you to promote products or services that they offer. Such contacts will only be made with our consent, and we will only grant our consent when we consider the offer to be of potential interest and benefit to you. We do not sell, exchange, share, or rent any lists to political parties or candidates for political office. Credit card information is not made available to any third party and is considered completely confidential.

Opting-Out

If you do not want your name and/or contact information to be used in the manner stated above, you may indicate this at the time you provide the information. If an “opt-out” option is not offered, or you decide after you have provided this information that you do not want us to share your information with any other organization, you may also notify us at orders@walkerart.org. We cannot, however, remove your name from any third party list; you will have to contact them directly.

The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) offers a Mail Preference Service that is designed to assist consumers in decreasing the amount of nonprofit or commercial mail they receive at home. For more information about this service, visit the DMA website.

Third Party Links

The Walker Art Center’s website contains links to other websites. We encourage all of our partners, contributors, and third parties to implement policies and practices that respect the privacy of our users. However, Walker Art Center is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such websites.

Security

The Walker Shop is secure. We use the industry standard secure socket layer (SSL) to protect the security of your online order information. SSL technology encrypts your order information to prevent it from being decoded by anyone other than the Walker Art Center.