Fronteras Micro-film Festival ("Fronteras") understands how important your privacy is. We are committed to protecting your privacy and any personal information we collect about you. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you about what personal information we collect and how and why we collect it, to outline the steps we take to keep your personal information confidential, and to provide you with contact information for the person to contact at Fronteras should you have questions or concerns about our personal information protection practices.
"Personal information" is personally identifiable information such as your name, residential address and email address and includes information about your product and service subscriptions and usage, credit card information and billing records. It does not include the name, title, business address or telephone number of an employee of an organization.
Fronteras collects various types of personal information. We may collect any of the following:
Your name, billing/shipping address, email address, telephone number, and credit card information, including card number, card type, cardholder name and expiration date, when you purchase products or services from us such as tickets for a Fronteras event or for one of our festival partners' events, or products from the online Fronteras shop. We also obtain this information from you when who become a Fronteras member or patron.
Personal information you provide to us when you participate in any of our events, including when you submit films or other art for inclusion in any of Fronteras's events or programs, seek credentials, special access or privileges regarding a Fronteras event or program. This personal information might include your name, profession, email address, phone number, photograph, answers to specific questions, password and computer information.
Personal information you provide to us when you participate in any of our online or other meeting spaces, blogs or forums. This personal information might include your name, profession, email address, phone number, photograph, answers to specific questions, password and computer information. The personal information you provide to us when participating in our meeting spaces, blogs or forums may be used for marketing purposes.
Personal information you provide to us when you participate in one of our contests, sweepstakes or surveys. This information may include your name, email address and street address, and the answers to survey questions. The personal information you provide to us when participating in these promotions, surveys and contests may be used for marketing purposes.
Personal information you provide to us when subscribing to our newsletters or emails. This personal information might include your name, member/buyer identification, email address, phone number, birth date.
Your personal information from our business partners and other third parties provided they have agreed to obtain your consent before disclosing your personal information to us.
Photographs, motion pictures and videos taken of you in public areas at Fronteras events, including at the Fusion event in Albuquerque or the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe.
Certain technical information from your computer each time you request a page during a visit to our website (fronterasmicrofilm.com). This information is collected from your computer's web browser to enhance your experience on our website and may include your IP address, operating system, web browser software, screen resolution, and referrer website.
Personal information you may provide to us when applying for a job or volunteer position with Fronteras. Once we have identified information that has been submitted to us for such an application, we store it in a secure environment that is not shared or used other than for our staffing and administrative purposes.
We collect personal information that is voluntarily provided to us by our customers, members, sponsors, website users and the public in general when they contact us via telephone, email, web browser, or in person.
As mentioned above, we may also collect personal information from our business partners and other third parties who have agreed to obtain the consent of the person the information pertains to before disclosing the information to us.
Fronteras may also collect personal information through the following means:
Photographs, Motion Pictures and Videos. Photographs, motion pictures and videos taken in public areas at Fronteras events including at the Fusion event in Albuquerque or the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe.
Cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a website user's computer hard drive containing information about the user. Our site may use cookies to filter content based on user preferences, record IP addresses for analytic purposes, and connect with users' social media accounts to share content. This information may be stored in the cookie file as encrypted data, to prevent unauthorized persons from viewing the information it contains. Permanent cookie files remain on the user's computer's hard drive until they manually delete the file. Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to disclose your individual identity. A cookie will identify your browser, but not you, to our computer servers when you visit our website. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can set your browsers to refuse cookies. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may be limited in some areas of our website.
Web beacons. To assess the effectiveness of promotional and marketing emails we send, we may attach a web beacon to the email that provides us with confirmation when the recipient opens the email. This only occurs if the recipient's computer supports such technology.
Fronteras may collect personal information about you and use it for the following reasons:
To provide products and services to you, to inform you of screening changes and other relevant information pertaining to your purchase, to bill you when you make a purchase from us, to acknowledge your support or donation, and to contact you when necessary for these purposes.
To provide you with services or recognition you request.
To administer your submissions and applications for our programs and events.
For marketing purposes. We may use your contact information to send you emails about promotions, surveys, contests and special events or providing other marketing information to you. Promotional emails are intended to inform you of new or unique opportunities, events or special deals that are available from Fronteras. You can opt not to receive these emails from us by either clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email when you receive it or by sending an email that includes your email address and a request that you not receive our promotional emails. In addition, we may send you postal mail notifying you of promotions, surveys, contests or special events or providing other marketing information to you. You can unsubscribe from this postal mail service by sending an email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line to [email protected] that includes your email address and street address. This information will only be used to remove your from our list of recipients of marketing emails and mail.
To improve the quality of your visit to our website. We use electronic information such as "cookies" to improve your use of our website. We collect certain information based on your navigation of our website to better understand and serve our customers, members and website visitors. This data allows us to streamline your ability to navigate our website and develop featured programs and content that will be of interest to our customers and members and website visitors.
To improve our offerings. We monitor and analyze the use of our service offerings in order to determine which services are popular and useful to our customers, members and website visitors so that we can improve them.
To provide a secure and safe environment for our visitors and employees.
To cooperate with law enforcement and to protect against violations of criminal or civil laws.
We may use your personal information to respond when you submit a question or suggestion to us, or when you request assistance with your membership, donations, viewing your purchase(s), logging on to fronterasmicrofilm.com, or accessing your account from our website.
Fronteras does not sell or rent any personal information we collect. Fronteras may disclose some personal information we collect to service providers who help us provide personalised content and advertising to you. When you buy a product or products through our Fronteras shop (fronterasmicrofilm.com/shop), Fronteras discloses your personal information to a third party service provider located in the United States for production, fulfillment and shipping of your order. Fronteras takes steps to ensure that each of our service providers to whom we share personal information are committed to maintaining the privacy of such information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
Fronteras is committed to protecting your privacy. Security measures, such as locked filing cabinets, restricted access and the use of passwords and encryption have been adopted to protect your personal information against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. Our employees have been trained to respect your privacy at all times. Our employees who have access to your personal information are required to use it strictly in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable laws.
All information submitted to our website or email addresses is transferred to the Fronteras computer servers. During an online transaction, this information is submitted using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. SSL-enabled web browsers employ a security protocol between the client and the server computer in order to ensure that information will be transferred to the intended recipient secured servers only.
Fronteras will keep your personal information only as long as it remains necessary or relevant for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or as required by law.
There are several places throughout our website that may link you to other websites that do not operate under Fronteras's Privacy Policy. When you click through to these websites, Fronteras's Privacy Policy no longer applies. We recommend that you examine the privacy statements of any third-party websites you visit to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing your information. Fronteras makes no promises, warranties or representations about these third party websites and bears no liability whatsoever for your use of them.
The internet is, by its nature, inherently open and subject to interception of information. We cannot guarantee that information you provide to us over the internet or otherwise will not be intercepted by third parties while it is being communicated by means that are outside of our control.
By choosing to provide us with your personal information you are consenting to its collection, use and disclosure in accordance with the principles outlined in this Privacy Policy. If you are under the age of 18, you must not provide any personal information to us without the consent of your parent or guardian, or as otherwise provided for by applicable law.
Fronteras encourages you to review our online Privacy Policy on a periodic basis. This Privacy Policy may be updated from time-to-time and your subsequent attendance at a Fronteras event, use of our services, or use our website will be your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your information as set out in this Privacy Policy.
If you don't want Fronteras to collect, use or disclose your personal information as outlined in this Privacy Policy, please tell us at the time the information is requested or collected. You can also contact Fronteras by email with any questions or concerns.
Fronteras tries to ensure that all personal information about you that is in our possession is accurate, complete and up-to-date. To enable us to do so, please inform the person to whom you provided your personal information of any change to that information.
You can inquire about, access and review your personal information held by Fronteras and make corrections to it. Please send an email to our team for assistance with these matters. If there will be any charge for responding to your request, Fronteras will advise you in advance. In some cases Fronteras will be prevented from disclosing the requested information to you. If any request you make for access to personal information is denied, we will provide you with an explanation.
If you have any questions or concerns about Fronteras's personal information collection, use and disclosure practices, please let us know and we will do our best to help you. You can contact Fronteras for these purposes via email.
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