The Art Center

Privacy Policy

The Quincy Art Center is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust, and accordingly maintains the following privacy policy to protect personal information you provide online.

Our Commitment to Online Security Physical, electronic and managerial procedures have been employed to safeguard the security and integrity of personal information. Billing information is processed through ProClass and encrypted whenever transmitted or received online. PCI & DSS standards are maintained to make sure that ProClass is always compliant with industry best practices. Personal information is accessible only by staff and volunteers designated to handle online complaints or requests. All QAC employees with access to personal information obtained on QAC’s web site are also bound to adhere to this policy.

Personal Information that QAC May Collect Online QAC collects the following types of personal information: names, postal and e-mail addresses, phone numbers, billing information.  QAC collects and maintains information from those under the age of 18 for only class registration.

How QAC May Use Personal Information Collected Online QAC will not use your personal information other than for the purpose for which it was submitted without your consent. We use personal information to reply to inquiries, handle complaints, and in program recordkeeping. We also process financial contributions to the art center for memberships, gifts, or program fees. At any time you can add or remove your name from our mailing list by contacting Director of Development & Marketing, Lana Reed at lreed@quincyartcenter.org.

How Your Information May Be Shared QAC never sells or rents personal information to any other organization.

Help Us Keep Your Personal Information Accurate If your personal information changes or you would like to review the personal information we may have on file, please email us with the new information or your review request to Assistant Director of Development Lana Reed at lreed@quincyartcenter.org

Computer Tracking and Cookies Our website is not set up to track, collect or distribute personal information not entered by its visitors. Our site logs do generate certain kinds of non-identifying site usage data, such as the number of hits and visits to our site. This information is used for internal purposes by technical support staff to provide better services to the public and may also be provided to others, but again, the statistics contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. QAC uses non-identifying cookies to provide easier site navigation and access to forms. You can still use the QAC website if your browser is set to reject cookies. Our cookies do not generate personal data, do not read personal data from your machine and are never tied to anything that could be used to identify you.

Refunds Fees will be refunded if you withdraw from a program before the first day of class.  If you must withdraw after this time, no refund will be given, except for documented medical reasons. Refunds will be sent to you in check in accordance to the QAC’s bi-weekly accounting cycle.

Problems If you have a complaint about QAC’s compliance with this privacy policy, you may contact the Executive Director Jennifer Teter at jteter@quincyartcenter.org.