Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

The LOCA Arts Education (known as LOCA) is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its online guests, customers, members, donors, and friends. respects your right to privacy and your requirements to control personal information. “Personal information” includes, but is not limited to: name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and credit card information. LOCA does not collect personal information about individuals – such as their names and postal and/or email addresses – except when it is knowingly provided by such individuals.

Collection of Information
No software or hardware techniques are employed to capture a visitor’s e-mail address without their knowledge. Certain applications on our websites may require users to register or to provide personal information in order to make a commerce transaction, to enter a contest, or to subscribe to a newsletter. To better enable us to service our patrons, the websites may be used as a survey tool to request demographic information. Entry of such information is optional and if you choose not to enter such information, you can successfully use these applications. If we request demographic information, we will not share your personal information as an individual with any other entity. If we do share demographic information with third parties, we will give them aggregate information only.

Mailing Lists
If you provide your e-mail address, the LOCA may contact you periodically with special offers, updated information and new services. Any e-mails sent to you by the LOCA offer you the option to be removed from the e-mail mailing list.
Selected applications on our web site allow visitors to subscribe to our email newsletter by providing their name and email address. If you provide the LOCA with your email, mailing address or telephone number, the LOCA may use this information to alert you to updated information and new services. If you wish to be removed from these mailing lists, you may unsubscribe at any time by selecting “unsubscribe” link in the email you received or by contacting the LOCA directly.

Information to Third Parties
The LOCA Arts Education may occasionally present a special contest or promotion on its website that is sponsored by another entity. To qualify for entry, we may ask you to provide personal information. If we plan to share that information with the sponsor(s), we will provide a statement to that effect.

Financial Information
LOCA Art Education does not collect financial information on this site. All financial transactions are managed through the third party site, PayPal, whose privacy policies we do not control. Any communication with PayPal is is governed by the privacy policy of PayPal.

Links
Our sites include links to other websites whose privacy policies we do not control. Once you leave our servers (you can confirm where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you cannot find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site’s homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information. The LOCA is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Cookies
Certain applications on LOCA websites invoke a standard feature found in browser software called a “cookie.”  We and our third-party partners, such as advertising partners, marketing partners, and service providers, use certain technologies such as cookies to track activity on our services. As you probably know, “cookies” are small pieces of information that many websites store on your computer’s hard drive when you visit them. Websites often place cookies on your browser to identify return users. These technologies are used for purposes such as analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site, and gathering demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual basis as well as aggregated.

How to Update Your Personal Information
You can maintain the accuracy of your personal information by notifying us when you change your address, title, phone number, or e-mail address. If at any time you wish to update your information or stop receiving communication from the LOCA, contact us at
LOCA, PO Box 430, Laguna Beach, CA 92652, (949) 363-4700, loca@locaarts.org

Please include your old and new contact information so that we can make the appropriate corrections. The LOCA would like to receive your comments and any questions about this policy. Please address comments or questions regarding the LOCA Art Education privacy practices to the addresses listed above. The LOCA may occasionally update this policy. Notice of revisions will be posted here.

Disclaimer
Under no circumstances shall the LOCA, its employees, or its contractors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential damages that may result in any way from your use or inability to use the information provided on this or any other web site supported or maintained by the LOCA Art Education, or from your reliance on or use of information, services or merchandise provided on or through the web site or that result from mistakes, errors, omissions, interruptions, defects, deletion of files, delays in operation or transmission or any failure of performance. If you are dissatisfied with the information provided on this web site, or with any of the practices of the LOCA Art Education in the operation of this web site, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the web site.

Terms of Use
By using this site and/or providing us with personal information, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the LOCA Arts Education, its officers, trustees, directors, employees, successors, agents, distributors and affiliates for any and all claims, damages, losses, fees and causes of action arising from its use by you or any information or content provided by you.

The information provided on this site is for general use by its audience and all programs and artists are subject to changes without notice. Information contained on this site is presented “as is” and may contain inaccuracies and omissions. Any and all information presented on this website is done so without warranty, either expressed or implied, and any reliance on the information contained herein will be made at your own risk.

Copyright/Ownership
This website is owned, operated and maintained by the LOCA Art Education. Unless otherwise specified, all information and content of this site, including text, logos, graphics, and images are the sole property of the LOCA Art Education and may not be reproduced or used without our permission.