Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy covers this The Art Career Project website, which is owned and operated by Degree Spots, LLC ("Degree Spots," "We," "Us," or "Our").
Please read this Privacy Policy for an explanation of how We will handle your information before you submit any information to Our Web site. By using any part of Our Web site, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use Our Web site. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, in whole or part, you should not use this Site. By registering and using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this Policy.
Note that this Policy applies to the information collected on the Site and any information collected or obtained through other methods or sources.

Personally Identifiable Information
Collection of PII
The Art Career Project only collects users' personally identifiable information ("PII") that is volunteered by Users' in response to specific information requests explicitly presented to Users' or during the registration process. Examples of PII that may be requested include but are not limited to: first and last name, gender, date of birth, email address, address, telephone number, military status, and education level. From time to time, The Art Career Project may also present opportunities for Users' to voluntarily provide a limited amount of general demographic information about themselves, which may include their education, occupation, household income, and marital status.

Use and Sharing of PII
The Art Career Project reserves the right to use Registrant PII: (1) as disclosed at the time such information is provided; (2) for the specific purpose for which such information was provided; and (3) as disclosed in this Policy. However, Users' should note that The Art Career Project may change this Policy at any time (See "Changes to this Policy," below), and that therefore The Art Career Project may in the future use Registrant PII for additional purposes not currently included in this Policy.
When you register at this site, you are automatically registered to all the other online properties in the The Art Career Project Network (collectively, the "Network Sites") including our email newsletter. Accordingly, The Art Career Project may share Registrant PII with the Network Sites.
Also, The Art Career Project may share User PII (except for credit card information) with its sponsors, partners, service providers, advertisers, and marketers, lookup and reference services and any other entities that The Art Career Project believes are able to provide Users' with special offers and opportunities. Note that although The Art Career Project advises everyone who receives Registrant PII from The Art Career Project to support this Policy, The Art Career Project has no control over such party's information handling practices and is not responsible for any failure of such party to adhere to this Policy.
Additionally, The Art Career Project may share Registrant PII in aggregate, non-personal form, with select companies that wish to reach a particular Registrant target audience (e.g., registered female Users' between the ages of 30-40, who have an average household income of over $60,000.00). This information will allow these entities to provide relevant offers to specific Users'.
Finally, The Art Career Project may disclose Registrant PII in order to:

(1) comply with valid legal process comply with applicable laws;
(2) comply with applicable laws;
(3) respond to governmental inquiries; and
(4) protect the rights or property of The Art Career Project, the Network Sites or other Users' of this Site. By registering and using this Site, Users' acknowledge that the processing of their PII for the purposes described above may involve the transfer of such PII from within the European Economic Area ("EEA") to countries outside the EEA whose data protection regulation may not be as stringent as that within the European Union.
As of February 2, 2011, this Privacy Policy applies to consumers that have signed up on the The Art Career Project website. We may sell the personal information that you supply to us and we may work with other third party businesses to bring selected retail opportunities to our members via email, direct mail, and telemarketing. These businesses may include providers of direct marketing services and applications, including data enhancement, suppression and validation, lookup and reference, and email marketing.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information
The Art Career Project also collects certain non-personally identifiable information as more fully described below. Cookies. The Art Career Project uses "cookies" on the Site. Cookies are small pieces of information that The Art Career Project's server places on an individual's computer hard drive to enable the individual to more easily communicate and interact with the Site. For example, The Art Career Project will place a cookie on a Registrant's computer when he/she initially registers with the Site. The next time that Registrant visits the Site, The Art Career Project's server will recognize the cookie (and the Registrant) without the need to sign in again.

While some Web browsers allow a Registrant to automatically reject all cookies or be notified when a cookie is about to be placed on the Registrant's computer, disabling this feature may compromise the efficiency and added services that cookies provide. It is not The Art Career Project's intention to use cookies to retrieve information that is unrelated to this Site or your interaction with this Site.

Clear GIFs. The Art Career Project uses a common technology known as a "Clear GIF" or "1-by-1 Pixel" on the Site and in e-mail communications with Users'. A Clear GIF, or "graphic interface format" is a small graphic (in fact, truly a 1x1 pixel) that The Art Career Project (or a partner of The Art Career Project) places on a page of the Site. The Art Career Project may also occasionally place GIFs in e-mail messages that it sends to Users'. GIFs, which do not contain any PII, provide The Art Career Project with important information about how Users' use the Site and respond to e-mail messages. With this information, The Art Career Project is better able to track the performance of certain promotions and understand the effectiveness of particular creative e-mail presentations. The Art Career Project may also allow its promotional partners and advertisers the ability to use GIFs on the Site solely to track Users' who link from their respective sites to this Site, but this ability to track such activity does not allow these entities access to Registrant PII.

IP Address. The Art Career Project collects your IP (Internet Protocol) address to help diagnose problems with The Art Career Project's server, and to administer this Site. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your specific computer when you use the Internet. Your IP address is also used to help identify you during a particular session and to gather broad demographic data.

Although the information collected through the foregoing methods does not itself contain any PII, The Art Career Project may analyze and match such information with other information that you provide on this Site (including PII) as well as information that The Art Career Project may obtain elsewhere, and The Art Career Project may share all or some of such information with prospective partners, partners, and other affiliated or unaffiliated third parties. The Art Career Project may also disclose any of the non-personally identifiable information described above in order to (1) comply with applicable laws (including, without limitation, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003), (2) respond to governmental inquiries, (3) comply with valid legal process, or (4) protect the rights or property of The Art Career Project, the Network Sites or Users' of this Site.

Opt-Out of The Art Career Project Email Promotions
When you register at The Art Career Project, you will automatically be registered to receive promotional offers and site updates, via emails, from The Art Career Project. Additionally, when you register at The Art Career Project, you will be provided with the opportunity to receive promotional offers, via emails, from partners of The Art Career Project. While some of these opportunities will only be sent to you if you expressly request them, others may be sent to you unless you elect not to receive them. Accordingly, when you register, please review these offers carefully.
Users' may, at any time, choose not to receive advertisements from The Art Career Project, or partners of The Art Career Project by:

(1) following the "unsubscribe" instructions on the The Art Career Project Site.
(2) following the "unsubscribe" instructions in the The Art Career Project e-mail
(3) emailing: contact@degreespots.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, The Art Career Project may continue to contact Users' for the purpose of communicating information about their Entry with The Art Career Project, changes in features of the Site, or similar information relating to The Art Career Project, the Site or your Entry, as well as to facilitate, complete or confirm any transaction that Users' enter into or in response to or fulfillment of Users' inquiries or requests. Note that unsubscribing from one email list does not automatically unsubscribe you from any other email list that you may be on. Please read the email carefully to find out which list you are unsubscribing from. If you would like to unsubscribe from all email lists, you must terminate by unsubscribing from each entity.

Access to Information
In the course of serving advertisements to this Site, ad servers or third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. The use of cookies by such third party advertisers or ad servers is not subject to this Policy but is subject to its own respective privacy policies.

Third Party Services
Certain activities and services available on the Site are provided by entities not affiliated with The Art Career Project. For example, if you choose to purchase a product or service from a partner of The Art Career Project, the information you provide on the Site in connection with such purchase or may be made available to that other party to satisfy that purpose. Although The Art Career Project advises all of its partners to support this Policy, The Art Career Project has no control over their information handling practices and is not responsible for any failure of such partners to adhere to this Policy.

Links from the Site
This Site provides links to many of The Art Career Project's partner and advertiser Web sites. If you link to any of these third party Web sites, this Policy will not apply to your use of, and activities on, those sites. We encourage you to read the legal notices posted on these sites, including their privacy policies. The Art Career Project shall have no responsibility or liability for your visitation to, and the data collection and use practices of, these sites.

Security
While The Art Career Project takes reasonable precautions to safeguard information transmitted between the Site and Users', The Art Career Project is unable to prevent unauthorized access to such information by third parties. Users' acknowledge this risk when communicating with the Site.

Note Concerning Visitors Under 18 Years of Age
Unless otherwise noted on the Site, the Contest or Sweepstakes available on the Site, are neither intended for, nor directed to, children under the age of 18.

Consent to Processing
By providing PII and other information to this Site, Users' fully understand and unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information in, and the transfer of such information to, the United States and other countries or territories, in accordance with the terms of this Policy.

Transfer in Certain Circumstances
In its sole discretion, The Art Career Project may sell, transfer or assign information collected on and through this Site, including without limitation, PII and other Registrant-provided information, to one or more third parties, as a result of the sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, reorganization, transfer of substantial assets, or liquidation of The Art Career Project.

Change Account Options
If you wish to update your email subscription or change any of your profile details you must navigate to your profile page that you can access through the help section of the site. Users' of the Site who disagree with any provision of this Policy must immediately terminate their account with The Art Career Project. All inquiries concerning the use of Registrant PII by a third party must be communicated to that third party, and not to The Art Career Project.

Changes to this Policy
The Art Career Project may, from time to time, amend this Policy, in whole or part, in its sole discretion. Depending on the nature of the change, The Art Career Project will either announce the change

(1) on the home page of the Site, or
(2) provide such notice via e-mail to Users'. By continuing to use the Site following an announcement of any changes, you will be deemed to have agreed to such changes. If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, as it may be amended from time to time, in whole or part, you must terminate your Entry by contacting customer service and following the appropriate instructions.
"By registering at this Website, you agree that this act constitutes an inquiry and/or application for purposes of telemarketing laws, and notwithstanding that your telephone and/or cell number may be listed with the federal Do-Not-Call Registry you expressly opt-in to: (a) receive future information about products and services from us, our partners, affiliates, educational consultants and other third parties to whom we may provide your information; (b) receive an offer or service from one or more of our partners, affiliates or education consultants; permit us, our partners, affiliates, and other third parties to contact you pursuant to the business relationship we have established using the information you provided to us for any purpose such as contacting you by your e-mail address, phone and/or mobile phone (including use of automated dialing equipment), that, among other things, your wireless device may be capable of receiving (e.g. mms, video etc.)."