PRIVACY POLICY

This website www.nothingbeforeyouwerehere.com (this “Site”) is operated by UNFAMOUS PAINTERS CLUB. for DAICHI YANAI. (“UPC.”)  This Site is dedicated to the promotion and screening of DAICHI YANAI.’s experimental art short film titled NOTHING BEFORE YOU WERE HERE. (the “Film”).

This Privacy Policy describes how your Personal Information is collected, used, and shared when you view the Film and visit and interact with UPC. on this Site. 

Personal information we collect 

When you visit this Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, geolocation, your language settings, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse this Site, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to this Site, and information about how you interact with this Site. When you view the Film, we collect information about your device to play the film and your viewing preferences. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.

We collect Device Information using the following technologies: 

“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org

“Log files” track actions occurring on this Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps. 

“Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse this Site. 

Your Personal Information is collected online when you voluntarily submit non-public personal information on this Site by requesting information, signing up for newsletter, check our events calendar or receiving electronic notices or other similar communications.  We treat this collected information as Contact Information since it relates to our business relationship. 

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Contact Information. 

Using Personal Information

We use the Contact Information that we collect generally to communicate with you regarding the Film. Additionally, we use this Contact Information to: 

  • Communicate with you.

  • Enhance your experience as a visitor or customer of this Site.

  • Screen the Film on this Site.

  • Screen your access and use of this Site for potential risk.

When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, we may provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services. 

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with this Site, and to assess the success of our promotions, marketing and advertising campaigns). 

Our Site does not offer you the ability to enter cookie settings but you can make cookie settings through your web browser, including to refuse to accept "cookies" offered by websites like ours. You will not be denied access to this Site because you refused to accept a "cookie". However, your ability to use this Site may be delayed due to the time it takes you to re-enter basic information necessary to use a page or feature of this Site.

Sharing your Personal Information 

We share your Personal Information with our third party service providers in order to perform the Services necessary or required for the use or processing of your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Squarespace to create and host our website – you can read more about how Squarespace uses your Personal Information here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy. We also use Square to power this Site - you can read more about how Square uses your Personal Information here:  https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use this Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.  

Finally, we also may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information that we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights. We reserve the right to share, assign or transfer your Personal Information to any of our affiliates or any successor in interest to our business by merger, reorganization, or operation of law without your notice or consent.

We do not guarantee that your communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not described in this privacy policy, or in ways that you would not have chosen to disclose it. This includes, but is not limited to, required disclosures to the government, in response to court orders, by unlawful interception. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability. Therefore, although we will endeavor to protect your privacy as described in this privacy policy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will remain private.

Security

We maintain commercially reasonable safeguards to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of the Personal Information provided by you. Such security safeguards are intended to be appropriate to the sensitivity of the Personal Information collected. Although we make good faith efforts to store the Personal Information we collect in a secure operating environment that is not accessible to unauthorized users, we cannot guarantee complete security. Unfortunately, we cannot, and do not, guarantee that data transmission over the Internet is secure, or that a malicious third party will not be successful at misappropriating your personal information from our servers. As a result, you provide us with your Personal Information at your own risk.

We do not collect (and we do not wish to receive) sensitive personal information like credit cards, personal health information and governmental identity information. We will delete that information if you provide it to us.

Behavioral advertising 

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with event information (if you signed up for our newsletters) and targeted advertisements or marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work. Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/. You also can opt-out of receiving future emails or newsletters at any time by complying with our opt-out procedures outlined in this privacy policy.  

Correcting your Personal Information

We want your Personal Information and preferences to be accurate and complete. To update, change or correct your Personal Information or to find out what Personal Information has been collected from you, you can send your request by email or regular mail to our Site manager. By providing information using this Site, you warrant to us that your Personal Information is reliable for its intended uses, accurate, complete and correct, and that you will promptly notify us if such Personal Information is no longer current or correct. 

Opt-Out

You may withdraw your consent to use your Personal Information at any time by sending us an email to info@unfamouspaintersclub.com and please specify which consent you are withdrawing (Device Information or Contact Information). Please note that the withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing activities based on such consent before its withdrawal. You also may request to opt-out of future mailings by emailing info@unfamouspaintersclub.com.  Please note that it may take five (5) business days to process your requests.

Data retention 

When you place an order through this Site, we will maintain your Contact Information for our records for the period of time required under applicable law or until you ask us to delete this Contact Information. 

We will retain any Personal Information submitted by you for fulfillment of the intended purposes for which such is collected. We will establish minimum and maximum retention periods based upon the type of information collected (i.e., sensitivity), the intended purposes and as otherwise may be legally required. We will retain your Personal Information for as long as you use this Site and until you request to delete your data.

Compliance

Personal Information may be processed by us on this Site in the State of Texas, United States of America and your Personal Information will be treated as being transmitted, stored and processed in the State of Texas, United States of America, and this privacy policy is governed by the applicable privacy laws of the State of Texas. 

Collection of Personal Information from Children

In accordance with the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we do not knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. In the event that we receive actual knowledge that we have collected such Personal Information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as is reasonably practical.

Changes 

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. 

Our privacy policy has been adopted with the recognition that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, and that underlying business models are still not established. Accordingly, these policies are subject to change at any time and we reserve the right at any time and without notice to change this privacy policy simply by posting such changes on this Site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting. Your continued access and use of this Site after the effective date of any modification to the privacy policy will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms. You agree to review the privacy policy each time you use this Site so that you are aware of such modifications.

Contact us 

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail or by mail using the contact information provided below:

UNFAMOUS PAINTERS CLUB.

Attn: DAICHI YANAI.

25 Highland Park Village, Suite 100-818

Dallas, Texas 75205

info@unfamouspaintersclub.com