SAHARA Privacy PolicyThis SAHARA Privacy Policy is intended to inform you of the personal information that may be collected in connection with the compilation and distribution of SAHARA. This Privacy Policy is subject to change, and any changes will be posted on this page. SAHARA is a collection of visual materials along with Metadata related to such materials (collectively “SAHARA Images”) that depict the built environment. "Metadata" means any commentary, cataloging, descriptions, texts, copyright information, attribution information, personal information, and other content or data associated with the SAHARA Images. SAHARA is being developed by the Society of Architectural Historians (“SAH”) for educational and scholarly uses. SAHARA is made available on the software platform ("ARTstor Software Platform") created by ARTstor Inc. (“ARTstor”) using tools developed by ARTstor and in some instances by both ARTstor and SAH. SAH makes SAHARA Images available through SAHARA, and in addition may share SAHARA Images with other resources for educational and scholarly purposes. Further, should a contributor of SAHARA Images so choose, a contributor’s contributed SAHARA Images may be made available for Academic Publications or other purposes, or on other websites, for broader purposes.
The Information Collected
In developing SAHARA as a collection of visual materials, SAH and/or its service providers may collect the following information about you:
- Your name, email address, and other contact information which you provide to us during the SAHARA registration process, and/or in uploading or sharing images through SAHARA, as well as any password and username associated with such contact information;
- Information gathered about your use of SAHARA or the ARTstor Software Platform, as well as non-personally identifiable information collected with technology;
- Additional personal information you may choose to provide in the course of contributing content to SAHARA.
Any personal information you enter in the Metadata records for materials you share through SAHARA may be viewable alongside the SAHARA Images displayed in SAHARA. If your image is selected by SAH for inclusion in third party resources, any personal information you enter in the Metadata records for materials you share through SAHARA may be viewable by users of those third party resources.
Use of Information
SAH will use the personal information collected or provided by users and/or contributors of content to SAHARA to improve the design, functionality, and usability of SAHARA; to gather information and respond to user needs to better improve SAHARA (including through participation in optional surveys, through electronic mail messages, and through correspondence regarding any SAHARA account you maintain; for system and troubleshooting purposes; and to respond to uses that may violate the SAHARA Terms of Use.
Personally Identifiable Information Shared with, or Collected by, Third Parties
Should SAH (consistent with the SAHARA Terms of Use) share with third parties any SAHARA Images that you contributed for inclusion in SAHARA, or should you opt to share SAH Images in Academic Publications (as defined in the SAHARA Terms of Use), SAH may provide your personal information to such third parties. In addition, because SAHARA is made available through the ARTstor Software Platform, ARTstor may collect personal data in connection with use of the ARTstor Software Platform. Use of personal information by SAH is governed by this SAHARA Privacy Policy; use of personal information by ARTstor is governed by ARTstor’s Privacy Policy, which can be viewed at: http://www.artstor.org/our-organization/o-html/privacy-policy.shtml; use of personal information by other third-party websites will be governed by their Privacy Policies which will be posted on this site when those third-party sites are identified.
Information Collected with Technology
Information may be collected about you by SAH and its service providers through the use of technology, so it may not be readily apparent to you that it is being collected. For instance, when you use SAHARA, your IP address is collected so that SAH and its service providers knows where to send the information you are requesting. An IP address is often associated with the place from which you enter the Internet. We may use technology to store user authentication information or user preferences. Other information may also be collected, such as the source of your traffic to the SAHARA site (e.g. whether you visited the SAHARA site directly, via a referring URL or via a search engine), the manner in which you catalog any contributed SAHARA Images, whether you download any optional software programs made available through SAHARA, or your internet connection speed and the domain name of your Internet service provider.
Use of Cookies
SAH and its service providers may employ "cookie" technology in connection with distributing SAHARA. Cookies are small pieces of text that are stored on your computer and act as a tool for controlling certain system variables and storing system configuration information in the WWW environment. Cookies are used to store user preferences, such as for viewing and printing, and to store authentication information. Cookie data is not linked with personally identifiable information. No personal information is extracted in the cookie setting process, and cookies are not used to identify what other sites or pages you have visited. Advertisers, who may place a cookie on your browser, are not used in the operation of SAHARA.
Security
Physical, electronic, and managerial measures are used to prevent unauthorized access to personal information collected about you online through SAHARA. SAH and its service providers are not responsible, however, for information collected by or from websites linking to or from SAHARA.
Sharing Information
SAH may share the information you provide with a third party in the event of a merger, acquisition, sale of assets or other change of control of SAH, or in the event of SAH's collaboration with another entity consistent with this Privacy Policy or other cases as outlined herein. General usage data is shared in aggregated form, so that no personal information is identifiable, to SAH partners, and to the general public. SAH will make available to you all of the personal information that you provided to SAH on request to SAH's Copyright Agent. The contact information for the Copyright Agent can be found in the SAHARA Terms of Use.
Compliance With Legal Proceedings
SAH may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if SAH believes in good faith that such action is necessary to comply with the law or a legal proceeding, to protect against violations of the SAHARA Terms of Use, or to protect and defend the rights and property of SAH or contributors to SAHARA.
Opting Out
SAH will remove you and your personal information from any SAH databases on request, but may not remove your contributed SAHARA Images. Please note that this may cancel your access to SAHARA.
Children
SAH does not knowingly collect or use any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 and does not knowingly provide any personally identifiable information from visitors younger than 13 years old, regardless of its source, to any third party. No information should be submitted to SAH or posted to SAHARA by visitors younger than 13 years old.
Contact Us
If you have any inquiries about our privacy policy or its implementation, you may contact us at sahara@sah.org
Last updated: March 3, 2009
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