Copyrights & Privacy Policy

Copyright

Ownership of copyright

The copyright of this website and the material on this website (including without limitation the text, computer code, artwork, photographs, images, music, audio material, video material and audio-visual material on this website) is owned by Mariah Piippo, unless credit to the originating owner below this statement or on the appropriate page.

Copyright license

Mariah Piippo grants to you a worldwide non-exclusive royalty-free revocable license to:

view this website and the material on this website on a computer or mobile device via a web browser;
copy and store this website and the material on this website in your web browser cache memory; and
print pages from this website for your own (personal and non-commercial) use, as a whole.

Mariah Piippo does not grant you any other rights in relation to this website or the material on this website. In other words, all other rights are reserved. This includes:

The downloading of any material on this website that is not part of a designated download link.
To copy artwork from this website and use for personal or commercial gain, unless permission is granted (see below).
To generate derivatives on artworks that are the proper of Mariah Piippo, for personal or commercial gain, unless permission is granted (see below).
To exploit the intellectual property rights of idea, concepts, compositions and aspects of artwork governed by the international intellectual property laws.
For the avoidance of doubt, you must not adapt, edit, change, transform, publish, republish, distribute, redistribute, broadcast, rebroadcast or show or play in public this website or the material on this website (in any form or media) without Mariah Piippo’s prior written permission.

Creative Commons

If any material in this website contains a Creative Commons license or mercer for creative commons allowance, then the specified Creative Commons license must be adhered to.

Data mining

The automated and/or systematic collection of data from this website is prohibited, unless gathered via SEO based website (i.e: google.com).

Permissions

You may request permission to use the copyright materials on this website by writing to Mariah Piippo.

Enforcement of copyright

Mariah Piippo takes the protection of its copyright very seriously.

If Mariah Piippo discovers that you have used its copyright materials in contravention of the license above, Mariah Piippo may bring legal proceedings against you seeking monetary damages and an injunction to stop you using those materials. You could also be ordered to pay legal costs. Mariah Piippo will also apply the most direct take-down of any online material that violates the copyright laws that govern the work on this site.

If you become aware of any use of Mariah Piippo‘s copyright materials that contravenes or may contravene the license above, please report this by email to Mariah Piippo.

Infringing material

If you become aware of any material on the website that you believe infringes your or any other person’s copyright, please report this by email to Mariah Piippo.

Derivative works

The use of works by Mariah Piippo as a basis for inspiration for other works is a violation of the IP laws, under the proviso of being deemed a derivative. Only derivatives with permission from the artist are legal. Any Infringements on the IP rights of Mariah Piippo will be pursued in any legal manner that is deemed necessary. Please report this by email to Mariah Piippo.

Artwork Data Tag Notice

The same rights still apply to artwork containing the data tag notice of copyright. If this artwork has been discovered away from this site or any site with permission to show the artwork, and contains the tag, then the rights of the artist are in violation, as the data tag holds a link to this page to support the copyright notice. If artwork is found without the data tag then this again is in violation of these rights. All occurrences should be notified to Mariah Piippo via this email, Mariah Piippo.

No Speculative Work Notice

Mariah Piippo now supports the need to pay artists for their work and not expect or demand sample work prior to payment. For this reason, Mariah Piippo supports a 30-50% payment deposit before any work begins. Any artwork Mariah Piippo feels able to place under the creative commons standard, then will be available under this marker and visible as such on the website, unless marked with the creative commons sign, all work on this site and the site itself are copyright protected.

Copyright Policy written by Artistic License | Edited & customized by: for Mariah Piippo by Mariah Piippo, Mason City, Iowa, 50401.

Privacy Policy

What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy is for this website [www.piippoworks.com] and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

Mariah Piippo is committed to safeguarding the personal information entrusted to us by our clients. We manage your personal information in accordance with International Personal Information Protection Act and other applicable laws. This policy outlines the principles and practices we follow in protecting your personal information.

This policy applies to Mariah Piippo and to any person providing services on our jbehalf. A copy of this policy is provided to any client on request.

Use of Cookies

This website may use cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for website’s to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a users computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the users computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the users interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through it’s server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and it’s external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor it’s visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information [https://www.google.com/privacy.html ].

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or it’s owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and it’s owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or inquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

Email Newsletter

This website operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you may request a copy of personal information held about you by this website’s email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or it’s owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity [this is by no far a comprehensive list].

This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

In compliance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated unsubscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to unsubscribe will by detailed instead.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links users should always adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Adverts and Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will tracks the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and it’s owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor it’s owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and it’s owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy url’s.

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened url’s published on social media platforms by this website and it’s owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine url’s are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Links to Other Sites

To give you a better service our site can connect you with a number of links to other local and international organizations and agencies. When connecting to such other websites you will no longer be subject to this policy but to the privacy policy of the new site.

Your rights as data subject

As an individual you may exercise your right to access the data held about you by this company by submitting your request in writing to the data controller.

Although all reasonable efforts will be made to keep your information updated, you are kindly requested to inform us of any change referring to the personal data held by the association. In any case if you consider that certain information about you is inaccurate, you may request rectification of such data. You also have the right to request the blocking or erasure of data which has been processed unlawfully.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

If there are any changes to this privacy policy, we will replace this page with an updated version. It is therefore in your own interest to check the “Privacy Policy” page any time you access our web site so as to be aware of any changes which may occur from time to time.

Feedback

Any comments or suggestions that you may have and which may contribute to a better quality of service will be welcome and greatly appreciated.

Resources & Further Information

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