Privacy Policy

By visiting our website Vishnu Manchu Art Foundation (VMAF), you are accepting the practices described in our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the website.

1. COPYRIGHT PROTECTION

All content on this Website including graphics, text, icons, interfaces, audio clips, videos, logos and images is the property of VMAF and/or its grantees and beneficiaries. Permission is given to use the resources of this Website only for the purposes of making enquiries, making a donation, applying for a grant, becoming a Friend of VMAF or placing an order for the purchase of VMAF publications. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display or performance, of the content on this Website can only be made with the express written permission of VMAF. All other trademarks, brands and copyrights other than those belonging to VMAF belong to their respective owners and are their property. You may not modify any of the materials. Except for personal, informational or non-commercial purposes, you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any information or work contained on the Website. Except as authorized under the copyright laws, you are responsible for obtaining permission before reusing any copyrighted material that is available on the Website.

2. DATA COLLECTION

Vishnu Manchu Art Foundation (VMAF) is committed to the ethical collection, retention and use of information that you provide to us about yourself (“Personal Information”) on this Website https://www.vmaf.in

When you sign up to receive e-mail newsletters from us;
When you register for and participate in our programs, activities, initiatives, and events.
When you request information or assistance.
In conjunction with processing your grant applications
In conjunction with your employment inquiries or applications.
In conjunction with any verification of your account information.
In conjunction with investigations into any activity that may violate the law or the Website’s terms and conditions.
When you communicate with us through the Website’s contact us/ feedback form.
When you provide user generated content on any part of the Website that permits it; and
In conjunction with any other place on the Website where you knowingly volunteer personal information. When you interact with any VMAF page or account on a social media platform, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube or Linkedin, we may also collect the personal information that you make available to us on that page or through that account including your account ID or “handle.”

PURPOSE OF DATA COLLECTION

Your Personal Information may comprise the following:

a) your name
b) your occupation
c) your email and mailing address
d) your telephone number
e) your payment processing details
f) limited personal details
g) any other data as VMAF may require

3. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Website Browsing: You browse the Website anonymously. We do not require you to identify yourself or reveal any Personal Information while browsing through the Website. However, you may not be able to access certain sections of the Website or interact with us without supplying us with Personal Information. For instance, you would not be able to transact at the Website or make any donations at the Website, without providing the Website with Personal Information. If you desire to register yourself at the Website, you would be required to provide your Personal Information.
While you are browsing through the Website, the Website’s operating system may automatically record some general information (“General Information”) about your visit such as:
1. the date and time you visit the Website, along with the address of the previous website your were visiting, if you linked to us from another website
2. the type of browser you are using (such as Internet Explorer version ‘X’)
3. which ‘hit’ it is on the Website.
The General Information is not Personal Information. VMAF’s tracking system does not record personal information about individuals or link this information to any Personal Information collected from you.
The General Information is used by VMAF for statistical analysis, for tracking overall traffic patterns on the Website and to gauge the public interest in VMAF and the Website. Such General Information may be shared by VMAF with any person, at VMAF’s discretion.

4. USAGE OF INFORMATION

Personal information will be used by VMAF for internal purposes including the following:
1. sending you online material such as e-mailers on fundraisers, events, grantee presentations, VMAF Quarterly newsletter, donations, reminders for Friends of VMAF renewal, reminders for ArtConnect renewal, regular updates on the utilization of donations by VMAF and other updates
2. Offline material such as promotional material, brochures, catalogues, VMAF Annual Report, ArtConnect, calendars and others.
Processing your donations to VMAF and purchases of VMAF publications on the Website.
Delivering VMAF publications you have purchased on the Website /sending you receipt for donations made by you to VMAF.
Maintaining an internal confidential database of all the Personal Information collected from visitors to the Website.
Evaluating and administering the Website and VMAF’s activities, responding to any problems that may arise and gauging visitor trends on the Website.

5. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION BY VMAF

Within VMAF, access to Personal Information collected by VMAF will be given only to those persons who are authorized by VMAF and third parties hired by VMAF to perform administrative services. VMAF will provide access to third parties for inter alia— entering and managing Personal Information in VMAF’s Database, processing your orders or donations, preparing address labels, sending emails, which require such third parties to have access to your Personal Information. VMAF cannot guarantee that such parties will keep your Personal Information confidential and VMAF will not be liable in any manner for any loss of confidentiality attributable to such third parties.
VMAF may share Personal Information with any of persons who are associated with VMAF, including companies and non-governmental organizations affiliated with VMAF in any manner. VMAF will retain ownership rights over such information and will share only such portions of the Personal Information as it deems fit.
VMAF is not liable in any manner whatsoever for the loss, damage(whether direct, indirect, consequential or incidental) or harm caused to you by the misuse of your Personal Information by a third party who is not an employee of VMAF.
Notwithstanding anything contained here-in or any other contract between you and VMAF; VMAF reserves the right to disclose any Personal Information about you without notice or consent as needed to satisfy any requirement of law, regulation, legal request or legal investigation, to conduct investigations of breaches of law, to protect the Website, to protect VMAF and its property, to fulfill your requests, to protect our visitors and other persons if required, by the policy of VMAF.

6. SECURITY

VMAF endeavors to use up-to-date security measures to protect your Personal Information.
VMAF however does not make any express or implied warranty with respect to the security measures that it may employ from time to time for the protection of the Personal Information.

7. THIRD-PARTY LINKS

From time to time, this Website may contain links to websites that are not owned, operated or controlled by Vishnu Manchu Art Foundation. All such links are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave this Website. We are not responsible for any content, materials or other information located on or accessible from any other website, nor any products or services that you buy from any other websites or any donations made through any other websites. We do not endorse, guarantee or make any representations or warranties regarding any other websites, or any content, materials or other information located or accessible from any other websites, or the products or services that you may obtain from using any other websites or how any donations you make through such websites will be used, if you decide to access any other website.

8. ACCESS AND INTERFERENCE

You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Website for any purpose without our express written permission. Additionally, you agree that you will not: (a) take any action that, in our sole discretion, imposes, or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (b) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website or any activities conducted on the site; or (c) bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Website.

9. FORCE MAJEURE

Neither Vishnu Manchu Art Foundation nor you shall be responsible for damages or for delays or failures in performance resulting from acts or occurrences beyond their reasonable control, including, without limitation: fire, lightning, explosion, power surge or failure, water, acts of God, war, revolution, civil commotion or acts of civil or military authorities or public enemy’s; any law, order, regulation, ordinance or requirement of any government or legal body or any representative of any such government or legal body; labor unrest, including, without limitation, strikes, slowdowns, picketing or boycotts; or inability to secure raw materials, transportation facilities or fuel, energy shortages, or acts or omissions of other common carriers.

10. VARIATION OF THE PRIVACY POLICY

VMAF shall be absolutely entitled at its sole discretion from time to time add to, alter, delete or modify any of the terms and conditions contained herein. Such changes, additions, alterations, deletions or modifications shall be binding on you once you visit the Website after the Privacy Policy has been so amended.