Provacy Policy
Jonasmekas.com ("Jonasmekas" "us" or "our" or the "Website")) recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others who use www.Jonasmekas.com ("Users") value their privacy. This Privacy Policy sets forth our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of certain information relating to your use of the Website. Your use of this website signifies your understanding and acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy. Please note that by using or registering with the Website, you agree to abide by the following terms.
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the Jonasmekas User Service Agreement. Your use of the Website and any personal information you provide on the Website remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and the User Service Agreement.
Categories of Information that Jonasmekas Collects:
Information that you provide us: You provide certain identifiable information to Jonasmekas (such as your name, address, phone number, credit card information, etc) when choosing to participate in various activities on the Jonasmekas Website, such as uploading videos, posting messages in our forums or in the video comments section, etc. We collect such information.
Other information that we receive and store: We also receive information from you as a result of your visiting our site, sending us emails including your IP address, your browser type and version, your operating system and platform, your purchase history, products you view, length of visits to pages and other browser interaction information.
In addition, when you visit the Website, we may send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. When you use the Website, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request.
Cookies: We use what are commonly called cookies when you use our Website. We use these cookies to identify you as a valid registered user or subscriber so that we can deliver video content to you, to ensure that no one else can sign on simultaneously with your account from another computer. We may also use cookies to help us facilitate any promotions or surveys that we provide as well as the delivery of advertising to users of the Website. In addition, we may also use cookies in connection with a sign-in feature that allows you to save your email address and password each subsequent time you sign in and to track your use of free trial features.
Advertiser Cookies: We may also use a third party advertising company to deliver ads to you when you visit the Website. In the course of providing this service, our third-party advertising company may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser which collects information about your visits to the Website, such as the number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number or other personal information).
Jonasmekas' Use of Information
We do not share your personal information with other companies. However, please note that any personal information or video content voluntarily disclosed online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. We also do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Jonasmekas Site changes or for customer service purposes).
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Website and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.
When Jonasmekas Discloses Information
We provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our privacy policy, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Website. Legally compelled disclosure: We will also disclose your personal information when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena or other legal obligation, in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing your personal information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (whether intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property.
Your Choices
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Website, in which case Jonasmekas may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page. Please note that media files uploaded by Users to the Website remain subject to our Terms of Use.
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
JonasMekas' Data Security Policy Jonasmekas uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Jonasmekas and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, Jonasmekas makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
If Jonasmekas learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Jonasmekas may post a notice on the Website if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us using this contact form.
Childrens’ Privacy
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Jonasmekas does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the Jonasmekas Website from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the Jonasmekas Website at any time or in any manner. If Jonasmekas learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on the Jonasmekas Website without verified parental consent, then Jonasmekas will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
Changes and Updates to this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.
This Privacy Notice was last modified November 7, 2006.
Contact us: If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the privacy practices of Jonasmekas, you can email us at privacy-policy@jonasmekas.com or by writing to us at Attn: Privacy Officer, Jonasmekas, Inc., c/o Maya Stendhal Gallery, 545 W. 20th Street, New York, NY 10011.
© 2006 www.Jonasmekas.com
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NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2), all notifications of claimed copyright infringement on the Company's systems or the Jonasmekas Web site should be sent to our Designated Agent, who can be contacted at da@jonasmekas.com. We have provided the following information for the exclusive purpose of notifying the service provider listed below that you allege an infringement of your copyright.
If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any User Submission or other content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):
(i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
(iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;
(iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail;
(v) A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
JonasMekas’ designated Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is: Jonasmekas, Inc., c/o Maya Stendhal Gallery, 545 W. 20th Street, New York, NY 10011, email: copyright@jonasmekas.com, telephone: (212) 366-1549. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this Section 5(D), your DMCA notice may not be valid.
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the Jonasmekas User Service Agreement. Your use of the Website and any personal information you provide on the Website remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and the User Service Agreement.
Categories of Information that Jonasmekas Collects:
Information that you provide us: You provide certain identifiable information to Jonasmekas (such as your name, address, phone number, credit card information, etc) when choosing to participate in various activities on the Jonasmekas Website, such as uploading videos, posting messages in our forums or in the video comments section, etc. We collect such information.
Other information that we receive and store: We also receive information from you as a result of your visiting our site, sending us emails including your IP address, your browser type and version, your operating system and platform, your purchase history, products you view, length of visits to pages and other browser interaction information.
In addition, when you visit the Website, we may send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. When you use the Website, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request.
Cookies: We use what are commonly called cookies when you use our Website. We use these cookies to identify you as a valid registered user or subscriber so that we can deliver video content to you, to ensure that no one else can sign on simultaneously with your account from another computer. We may also use cookies to help us facilitate any promotions or surveys that we provide as well as the delivery of advertising to users of the Website. In addition, we may also use cookies in connection with a sign-in feature that allows you to save your email address and password each subsequent time you sign in and to track your use of free trial features.
Advertiser Cookies: We may also use a third party advertising company to deliver ads to you when you visit the Website. In the course of providing this service, our third-party advertising company may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser which collects information about your visits to the Website, such as the number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number or other personal information).
Jonasmekas' Use of Information
We do not share your personal information with other companies. However, please note that any personal information or video content voluntarily disclosed online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. We also do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Jonasmekas Site changes or for customer service purposes).
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Website and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.
When Jonasmekas Discloses Information
We provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our privacy policy, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Website. Legally compelled disclosure: We will also disclose your personal information when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena or other legal obligation, in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing your personal information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (whether intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property.
Your Choices
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Website, in which case Jonasmekas may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page. Please note that media files uploaded by Users to the Website remain subject to our Terms of Use.
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
JonasMekas' Data Security Policy Jonasmekas uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Jonasmekas and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, Jonasmekas makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
If Jonasmekas learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Jonasmekas may post a notice on the Website if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us using this contact form.
Childrens’ Privacy
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Jonasmekas does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the Jonasmekas Website from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the Jonasmekas Website at any time or in any manner. If Jonasmekas learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on the Jonasmekas Website without verified parental consent, then Jonasmekas will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
Changes and Updates to this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.
This Privacy Notice was last modified November 7, 2006.
Contact us: If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the privacy practices of Jonasmekas, you can email us at privacy-policy@jonasmekas.com or by writing to us at Attn: Privacy Officer, Jonasmekas, Inc., c/o Maya Stendhal Gallery, 545 W. 20th Street, New York, NY 10011.
© 2006 www.Jonasmekas.com
_________________________________________________________________
NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2), all notifications of claimed copyright infringement on the Company's systems or the Jonasmekas Web site should be sent to our Designated Agent, who can be contacted at da@jonasmekas.com. We have provided the following information for the exclusive purpose of notifying the service provider listed below that you allege an infringement of your copyright.
If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any User Submission or other content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):
(i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
(iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;
(iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail;
(v) A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
JonasMekas’ designated Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is: Jonasmekas, Inc., c/o Maya Stendhal Gallery, 545 W. 20th Street, New York, NY 10011, email: copyright@jonasmekas.com, telephone: (212) 366-1549. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this Section 5(D), your DMCA notice may not be valid.