Privacy and Intellectual Property Statements

Privacy Statement

The information that we obtain through your use of the website, whether through the registration process, grant application system, or otherwise, is subject to this privacy statement. 

1. Information We Collect

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (Center) collects information about you when you interact with our website.  Information that we collect may depend on how you interact with the Center and use the website.  The types of information that we may collect include: name; company or organization name; email address; phone number; age; interests in supporting the Center programs; availability; mailing address; information obtained through our surveys to help inform our programming, including demographic information; information about how you use our website, such as analytic and statistical data; referring/exit pages; clickstream data; marketing campaign data, click-throughs, your preferences and consent to receiving marketing from us and third parties; your communication preferences; and information you submit in a grant application. 

2. How We Collect Information

The Center collects information from you in different ways, including, when you:  complete any form, survey, questionnaire, or other request of information from the Center; sign up to the Center’s community to receive our newsletter; submit an inquiry; or submit a grant application to our grant application system linked to this website. 

As you navigate around the website, certain information can be collected using various technologies to help us personalize your experience.  This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, time zone setting and location, language preferences, device type and ID, and other technical information from the devices you use to access our website. 

We and our service providers also use cookies, pixels, and other tracking technology to recognize your browser or device and to capture and remember certain information about your activities on our website with the purpose of delivering customized and personalized services.  You can view and delete existing cookies through your browser.  If you do not want to store cookies on your computer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. You cannot decline pixel tags; however, if you turn off cookies the pixel tag will simply detect an anonymous visit.  Please note that some parts of the website may not function properly if you choose not to accept cookies.

We may receive information about you from third parties.  We may associate this information with the other information we have collected about you as described in this statement.  The collection, use, and disclosure of information received from third parties may be governed by the third parties’ privacy policies. Please carefully review these third-party privacy policies before submitting your information to a third-party application or otherwise interacting with it to understand how your information may be collected, used, and disclosed by these third parties.  We have no control over, and cannot and do not assume responsibility for, the data collection and privacy practices employed by any of these third parties or their services. 

Some web browsers incorporate a Do Not Track (“DNT”) feature that signals to the websites that you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked.  At this time, our website does not respond to DNT signals. 

3. How We Use Your Information

Our primary purpose for collecting your information is to provide you with the services you request. We may also use your information for the following purposes:

• Provide you with our website.
• Resolve disputes and/or questions about our website.
• Problem troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting data.
• Enforce our Terms for use of our website and the terms of this statement.
• Customize, measure and improve our website and content.
• For our own internal organizational purposes. 
• Communicate with you about updates to our website, recommendations and other information from us that may be of interest to you.
• Protect our interests, including establishing, exercising and defending legal rights and claims.
• As necessary to comply with legal requirements, to prevent fraud, to co-operate with law enforcement and regulatory authorities, and to stop other prohibited, illegal, or harmful activities.
• For purposes disclosed at the time you provide/we request your information or as otherwise set forth in this statement.
• For grant applications, in furtherance of the Center’s work as a multidisciplinary grantmaker.
• For any other purpose the Center discloses to you at the time information is collected, pursuant to your consent. 

4. With Whom We May Share Your Information

Unless otherwise disclosed in this privacy statement, the Center will only share your personally identifiable information (such as name and address) with third parties under the following limited circumstances: 

Third parties providing services on our behalf: The Center may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf.  Examples include, without limitation, hosting and administering this website, hosting or administering the Center’s grant application system, analyzing data using tracking tools including, but not limited to, web beacons, and sending communications on our behalf.  These third parties may have access to this website’s user information, including personally identifiable information, in order to perform these functions on our behalf. 

Legal protection: The Center may transfer and disclose information about our users, including personally identifiable information, and may use IP addresses to identify users in cooperation with internet service providers or law enforcement agencies, to comply with a legal obligation, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing the website and applicable laws, or to protect the legal rights, interests, or safety of the Center, the website, our users or others.

Organizational Transactions: We may share your information with successors, predecessors, assigns, grantors, licensees and others, when necessary, who may use the information for the purposes described in this statement. 

5. Other Privacy Terms

This privacy statement does not apply to any information that you may disclose publicly in user forums. The Center bears no responsibility for any action, inaction, or policies of any third parties who collect information that users may disclose in user forums or other public areas of this website. By using this website, you accept our privacy practices as outlined in this privacy statement.  If you are unwilling to accept the terms and conditions of this privacy statement, we ask that you not use the website.  The Center reserves the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this privacy statement at any time.  If this privacy statement changes, the revised statement will be posted on this website.

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy statement and practices, please email: info@pewcenterarts.org.

Intellectual Property

You acknowledge that this website and all of its current and future content, including, without limitation, content in the form of text, graphics, messages, posts, data, information and other materials (collectively, the “Content”) whether provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (Center) or provided by third-parties, is protected by copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other proprietary rights and laws. You may only use the Content as expressly set forth in this Agreement or as expressly authorized by us in a separate writing.  UNAUTHORIZED USE, COPYING, REPRODUCTION, MODIFICATION, REPUBLISHING, UPLOADING, DOWNLOADING, POSTING, TRANSMITTING, DISTRIBUTING, DUPLICATING, OR ANY OTHER MISUSE OF ANY OF THE CONTENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. 

Subject to your compliance with these terms, the Center hereby grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, revocable, and non-transferable license to access, download, reproduce, reprint and view the Center-owned text-based Content for non-commercial purposes, provided that the following copyright notice appears in all copies: “(c) [insert year of display or printout] The Pew Charitable Trusts.” Permission to reproduce these text materials for any other uses not permitted here must be obtained from the Center in writing prior to reproduction.  All requests should be directed to the website content and publications specialist at info@pewcenterarts.org.  Those text materials contained in this website that are owned by other copyright owners may not be reproduced without the prior written consent of those copyright owners, regardless of the intended use. The text materials contained in this website may not be modified in any way.  You must retain all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices contained in the original Content or any copy you may make of the Content. 

You may not, nor may you allow or aid or abet any third party (whether or not for your benefit) to, copy or adapt any code that comprises the website’s software, HTML, JavaScript, or otherwise reverse engineer, decompile, reverse assemble, modify or attempt to discover any source code used to generate the website or any software or other products or processes accessible through the website, nor insert any code or product to manipulate the Content in any way that affects any user’s experience. 

Copyright in photographs, illustrations, artwork, graphic images and other non-text-based Content contained in this website is owned by the Center or its licensors.  These non-text-based materials may not be reproduced without the prior written consent of the Center and/or the other copyright owners, as applicable, regardless of the intended use.  These non-text-based materials may not be modified in any way.  All requests to the Center to reproduce non-text-based materials should be directed to the website content and publications specialist, at info@pewcenterarts.org. 

Any use of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage name, or the text or non-text-based materials contained in this website to express or imply endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation or association of the user with or by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, its grantors, grantees, and other partners is strictly prohibited.  All trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, symbols and slogans, including without limitation THE PEW CENTER FOR ARTS & HERITAGE, used in this website and the look and feel of this website (“Marks”) are owned or licensed from The Pew Charitable Trusts, except as otherwise indicated.  If necessary to identify The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, or one of its programs, publications or affiliates, as permitted under this Intellectual Property Notice, you may use a Mark in plain text, without any logo or symbol.  Your use must not suggest or imply any sponsorship, affiliation, association, approval or endorsement by the Center or any licensor, grantor, grantee, affiliate, of any person, product, service or activity.  Otherwise, no use of any of these Marks is permitted except with the express prior written approval of the Center.  No use of any logo or symbol, or the look or feel of this website, is permitted except with the express prior written approval.  Please contact info@pewcenterarts.org.

Other Legal Terms

Unless otherwise expressly indicated, the views expressed by author(s), contributor(s), and other individual(s) are their own and should not be attributed to, and do not necessarily reflect the views of, The Pew Charitable Trusts.

THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND AN “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS.  EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED, THE CENTER DOES NOT MAKE, AND HEREBY DISCLAIMS, ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, INCLUDING EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, REGARDING (A) THE WEBSITE; AND (B) ANY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING BY COURSE OF DEALING OR CUSTOM OF TRADE. 

THE CENTER MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY THAT ANY MATERIAL OR CONTENT DISPLAYED ON OR OFFERED THROUGH THE WEBSITE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, APPROPRIATE, RELIABLE, OR TIMELY. THE CENTER ALSO MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES THAT THE WEBSITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, FREE OF VIRUSES, MALICIOUS CODE, OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR OTHERWISE WILL BE SECURE.  SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES.  ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CENTER OR ANY OF ITS TRUSTEES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS, SUCCESSORS, OR ASSIGNEES BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER ARISING IN CONTRACT, EQUITY, INTENDED CONDUCT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE (INCLUDING BREACH OF WARRANTY, NEGLIGENCE, AND STRICT LIABILITY IN TORT), NOR FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM DELAY, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO DATA, INTERRUPTION IN USE OR AVAILABILITY OF DATA, LOSS OF USE OF MONEY OR USE OF PRODUCTS, LOST PROFITS, REVENUE OR SAVINGS (ACTUAL OR ANTICIPATED), OR OTHER ECONOMIC LOSS ENSUING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXISTENCE, ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE OR RELATING TO ANY MATERIALS, INFORMATION, QUALIFICATION, OR RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE WEBSITE, EVEN IF THE CENTER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING THE FAILURE OF THE ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY.

YOU EXPRESSLY WAIVE AND RELEASE ANY AND ALL RIGHTS AND BENEFITS UNDER SECTION 1542 OF THE CIVIL CODE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA (OR ANY ANALOGOUS LAW OF ANY OTHER STATE), WHICH READS AS FOLLOWS: “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS THAT THE CREDITOR OR RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE AND THAT, IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER, WOULD HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR OR RELEASED PARTY.”

If a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction decides to award monetary damages to you for any claim or cause of action despite the foregoing limitation of liability for damages, the amount of monetary damages for such claim or cause of action shall not exceed one hundred U.S.  dollars ($100).

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