Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 14, 2023

Application of Policy

This policy describes the manner in which Artemis Ward, LLC (“we” and “us”) collects, maintains, uses and discloses user information provided through this website (the “Site”).

Information We Collect About You

We collect several types of information from and about users of the Site, including information:

  • by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
  • that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your location; and
  • about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Site and usage details.

How We Collect Your Information

We collect your information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the Site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through the Site may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling out the contact form on our Site.
  • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with the Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to the Site, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve the Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences.
  • Recognize you when you return.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to the Site.
  • [Web Beacons. Pages of the Site may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or [opened an email] and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).]

How We Use Your Information

We may use aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including personal information:

  • To provide the Site.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights.
  • To notify you about changes to the Site.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own [and third-parties’] goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form, on which we collect your data or email us at the email provided in the Contact Us section below. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about the Site’s users is among the assets transferred.
  • [To our clients to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.]
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce agreements to which you and we are a party.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our employees, customers, or others.

Specific Third-Party Disclosures

We use the following third-party services for the purposes described. These third parties will receive your information to the extent necessary to provide their services or perform their functions as described. The treatment of your data by these parties is subject to their policies.

  • For hosting, [Host]: [URL for privacy policy]
  • For analytics, [Analytics]: [URL for privacy policy]
  • For submission, [Forms]: [URL for privacy policy]
  • Site CMS, [CMS]: [URL for privacy policy]

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
  • Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address used by the Company to promote our own [or third parties’ ]products or services, you should not opt in by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data. You can also always opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to the email in the Contact Us section below.
  • If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.

Do Not Track

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by sending us an email to the email in the Contact Us section below to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

State Law Privacy Rights

Certain state laws permit users of the Site that are residents of such states to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information. To make such a request, please send an email to the email in the Contact Us section below.

Data Security & Retention

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We take steps designed to ensure that only those employees and other service providers who need access to your personal information to fulfil their employment duties will have access to it. [All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls. Sensitive and private data exchange with our Site and its users happens over an SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures.] Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. We will maintain your personal information for as long as it is needed, or as required by applicable laws, regulations, or government orders.

International Users

If you are accessing the Services from outside the United States, please be advised that through your continued use, which is governed by the law of the United States and this policy, you will be transferring your personal information into the United States and you consent to that transfer. In addition, your information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage third party service providers. By using the Services, you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside your country of residence, which may have different data protection rules than in your country. While such information is outside of your country, it is subject to the laws of the country in which it is held, and may be subject to disclosure to the governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of such other country, pursuant to the laws of such country.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated the Site. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address we have on file for you. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.

Third Party Websites

Users may find content on the Site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Services. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Services, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or our handling of your personal information, please contact us at:

Artemis Ward, LLC
623 H St NW, 2nd Floor
Washington, D.C. 20001

Email: hello@artemisward.com

Telephone: 202-527-9214

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