Privacy Policy

This Website is owned and operated by Grapevine Horizon Inc. (“we,” “us,” “our”).  This document discloses the privacy policies and procedures of Grapevine Horizon.  Please read this policy to understand how we will treat the personal information that you give to us.  Your use of this website constitutes your agreement to the terms of this privacy policy.

Personally Identifiable Information Collected

You can visit and browse our website without revealing personally identifiable information about yourself.  You may also choose to disclose personally identifiable information about yourself.  Personally identifiable information relates to an individual consumer – including your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address.  We collect personally identifiable information about you from our website as follows:

Registration:  When you register on our website so you can access and modify your works posted on our Website, our registration form requires certain personally identifiable information, which includes, without limitation, your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, and a unique individual user identifier and password.

Newsletters – If you want to receive our newsletter, you will be asked to provide certain information so that we can fulfill your request.  We may ask you for certain personally identifiable information which includes, without limitation, your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, and areas of interest. 

Questionnaires and Surveys – From time to time, we may ask you to complete online surveys and opinion polls about your favorite activities and places, attitudes, habits, and interests.  These surveys help us understand how to better customize our service to meet your needs.  We do not keep any personally identifiable information about you in connection with your participation in a website survey unless you specifically agree to provide this information.  We may, from time to time, pass along non-personally identifiable information collected from these surveys to potential advertisers.

Anonymous Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, like when you visit most other websites, certain anonymous information about your visit is automatically logged, including the server name and IP address through which you access the internet (such as “aol.com” or “earthlink.net”), the date and time you access our site, the pages you access while at our website, and the Internet address of the website, if any, from which you linked directly to our site.  This information is not personally identifiable.

“Cookies”

A cookie is a small piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user.  Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site.  We use session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie terminates when you close your browser.  A persistent cookie is stored for an extended period of time.

Cookies allow us to recognize your computer while you are on our website and help customize your online experience and make it more convenient for you.  Cookies are also useful in tracking transaction histories and preserving information between sessions.  The information collected from cookies may also be used to improve the functionality of our website.

Most web browser applications (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox) have features that can notify you when you receive a cookie or prevent cookies from being sent. If you disable cookies, you may not be able to use certain personalized functions of this website.

Clear GIFs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)

We employ a software technology called clear GIFs  (sometimes called web beacons or web bugs), to learn what content users find effective.  Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of users. Clear GIFs are not tied to users’ personally identifiable information.

Clear GIFs can “work with” existing cookies on a computer if they are both from the same web site.  For example, clear GIFs enable us to match the clear gif identifier with a cookie ID number to show the past online behavior for a particular computer.

In addition, we use clear GIFs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by the recipients.  This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

Information Use

We use the personally identifiable information we collect through our website for such purposes as:

  • helping to establish and verify the identity of users;
  • opening, maintaining, administering and servicing users’ accounts;
  • processing and servicing your works and other activities and sending related communications;
  • providing services and support to users;
  • improving our website, including tailoring it to users’ preferences;
  • contacting users with product or service updates, promotional notices and other information about Grapevine Horizon and its affiliates;
  • responding to your questions, inquiries, comments and instructions; and
  • maintaining the security and integrity of our systems.

 

To find out how to opt-out of receiving promotional email messages from us, please see the “Choice/Opt-out” section of any e-mail message.

Disclosure of Information

  • We do not disclose any personally identifiable information that we collect from our website to third parties for their marketing purposes without your prior consent. 
  • We may disclose personally identifiable information to unaffiliated service companies to help us maintain and operate our website or for other reasons related to the operation of our own business or marketing.  We require these service-related companies to take steps to maintain the confidentiality of any personally identifiable information they may receive from us, and require them to use such information only for legitimate business purposes. 
  • We may conduct joint promotions with other companies or use a sweepstakes administrator.  We may share with such companies (and their service providers) certain personally identifiable information as necessary to conduct the promotion.  We will not share this information with our promotional partners for any other purpose without your prior consent.  We require these companies to take steps to maintain the confidentiality of any personally identifiable information they may receive from us, and require them to use such information only for legitimate business purposes.
  • We may disclose personally identifiable information about you in connection with legal requirements, such as in response to an authorized subpoena, governmental request or investigation, or as otherwise required by law. 
  • As our business develops, we may sell, buy, or transfer corporate assets, and in such transactions customer information may be one of the transferred business assets.  Also, in the event that our website, company, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, personally identifiable information may be one of the assets transferred in such acquisition.

 

External Links

Our website may contain links to other websites, including those of advertisers.  Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites.  Websites that are accessible by hyperlinks from our website may use cookies [link to “Cookies” section]. We encourage you to read the privacy policies provided by other websites before you provide personally identifiable information to them. 

Children’s Privacy

You must be at least 18 years of age to access this website.  We do not solicit or knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.  If we nevertheless receive personally identifiable information from an individual who indicates that he or she is, or whom we otherwise have reason to believe is, under the age of 13, we will delete such information from our systems. 

Security

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to help guard your personal information.  Personally identifiable information is transmitted to and from our website in encrypted form using 256-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections to help protect such information from interception.  We restrict access to personally identifiable information to those persons who need to know that information to provide products or services to you and any persons you have authorized to have access to such information.  While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you use these services at your own risk.  We will keep this information for a period of 18 months , at which point we will delete it from our systems.

Choice/Opt-Out

In order to provide service to you, we will send you communications related to your Submissions and other activities, security or the administration of our website. From time to time, we and our affiliates may also wish to send you other messages or updates about our services, promotions, and other activities. If you do not wish to receive such promotional communications from us and our affiliates please send an email containing your request to info@yellow-paint.com , as listed in newsletter e-mail messages.  Even if you opt-out in this manner, however, you may still receive account-related and non-commercial messages from us. To get placed on our “DO NOT EMAIL” list, send a request to info@yellow-paint.com. If your email address is added to the “DO NOT EMAIL” list, you will not receive any newsletters or other opt-in email messages.

California Privacy Rights


California Civil Code § 1798.83 permits customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not provide your personal information to any third party for their direct marketing purposes without your consent. If you would like to revoke consent already provided, please send a request to info@yellow-paint.com  with “California Opt-Out” in the subject line. This opt-out will not prevent the use of information that has already been disclosed to third parties with your consent.  Please contact such third parties directly to opt-out from such communications. If you would like more information with respect to your privacy rights under California law, please send an email to info@yellow-paint.com with “California Disclosure Information” in the subject line.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right in our sole discretion to change, modify, add or delete portions of this Privacy Policy at any time.  If we decide to change the Privacy Policy materially, we will prominently post those changes on this page.  In addition, any Submission you submit to us or other activity you conduct on this Website after we post such a revised Privacy Policy will be governed by the Privacy Policy posted at that time.


Contacting Us

In the event that you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or if you have reason to believe that Grapevine Horizon may have failed to adhere to this Privacy Policy, you may contact Grapevine Horizon in any of the ways noted below.  You may also contact Grapevine Horizon in any of the following ways to request access to or correction or update of your personal information if you are registered user of this website.


50 Broadway 28th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Or call us at 1-212-701-9415
Or send an e-mail to info@yellow-paint.com
Effective date:  November 1st  2007