Risa Kaparo - Privacy Statement

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Privacy Statement

PortalArts respects your right to privacy and we understand that users of RisaKaparo.com and associated Web sites need to be in control of their personal information. "Personal information" includes, but is not limited to, name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card information. PortalArts does not sell, rent, swap or otherwise disclose any of this information. PortalArts adopted this Privacy Policy to inform users of the PortalArts Internet site how the site does collect, store, and use personal information submitted via the site.

1. Collection of Information

Certain applications on the PortalArts Web sites may require users to register or to provide personal information in order to make a commerce transaction, to enter a contest, or to subscribe to a newsletter. Such personal information is not shared or sold to third parties. To better understand the needs of our Web site users, we may also request demographic information. Entry of such information is optional and if you choose not to enter such information, you can successfully use these applications. If we request demographic information, we will not share information about you as an individual with any other entity. If we do share demographic information with third parties, we will give them aggregate information only.

2. Mailing Lists

If you provide your email address PortalArts may contact you periodically with special offers, updated information, and new services. Any emails sent to you by the PortalArts offer you the option to be removed from the email mailing list at any time.

3. Use of Web site information

Any visitor to these Web pages may download, copy or transmit, any portion of the material in the Web pages of PortalArts for informational and noncommercial personal purposes only. Each copy of these materials must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained therein. All names and logos are registered trademarks. These trademarks may not be modified, and they may not be used, downloaded, copied, or distributed in any way except as an integral part of an authorized download, copy or transmission of material in these Web pages. No other use, copying, or transmission of the trademarks or copyrighted material may be made without the express prior written consent of PortalArts.

4. Financial information

PortalArts will protect any personal financial information that you share with us. If you make a purchase online, we will use your credit card number only to process your payment and will not use it for marketing purposes.

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. We will retain order information for our records, but this information is never shared with third parties.

5. Links

Our site includes links to other Web sites whose privacy policies we don't control. Once you leave our servers (you can check where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting.

That policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of these sites via a link from the site's homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information. PortalArts is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

6. Cookies

We do not use "cookies" to track how our visitors use the site. If in the future we utilize "cookies" we will modify this document and make it clear why and what there will be used for.

7. Legal and Notices

The owner, PortalArts, or our Web host of this public Internet Web site (www.risakaparo.com, www.portalarts.com, www.somaticlearning.com) is not liable for the failure of any single electronic commerce transaction or any series of electronic commerce transaction authorization failures experienced by one or more end-users accessing PortalArts Online Store over any public or private telecommunication system. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall PortalArts and/or our Web host service be liable for any incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the access or inability to access the PortalArts Online Store. Similarly, PortalArts shall not be liable for the failure of delivery of any product or service purchased by one or more end-users accessing this website through any public or private telecommunication system due to errors, omissions, interruptions, delays in operation, system congestion, insufficient bandwidth or any other failure of performance whether or not caused by events beyond PortalArts or our Web host reasonable control. These include but are not limited to, acts of God, theft, destruction, or unauthorized use of the public Internet by any unknown third party directly or indirectly affecting http://www.risakaparo.com/. In any case, PortalArts or our Web host entire liability and CUSTOMER'S exclusive remedy will be defined by the terms of the Merchant Account Agreement under which payment was made for any product or service purchased at the PortalArts Online Store.

PortalArts would like to receive your comments and any questions about this policy. Please address comments or questions regarding PortalArts's privacy practices to us at info@risakaparo.com. PortalArts may occasionally update this policy. Notice of revisions will be posted here.

I lifted it like the Zen gardener

who touches the edge with one finger.

The rock splits open, unveils

a millennium, the history of this

place, story of creation.

from Veils of Sleep

by Risa Kaparo