www.ctfashionweek.com
www.wyattagency.com
Connecticut Fashion Week,Inc. (“CFW,” “us,” “we,” “our”) is committed to respecting the privacy of all users (“users,” “you”) of our website at www.ctfashionweek.com (the “Site”) and or www.connecticutfashionweek.com. We have established and implemented this “Privacy Policy” to inform you of the type of information collected by us and how we use and protect such information.
By providing your personally identifiable information to us, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy and agree that we may collect, use and disclose your personally identifiable information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this statement, please do not provide your personal details to us. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and part of, the Terms and Conditions, which govern your use of the Site in general. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information posted by you on public areas of the Site.
Personally Identifiable Information
This Site collects personally identifiable information that you choose
to submit to Connecticut Fashion Week such as your name, company,
address, and telephone number. Supplying such information is entirely
voluntary. But, if you do not submit certain information, you may not be
able to take advantage of certain areas of the Site. For example, you
may choose to provide us with personally identifiable information when
you: contact us with an inquiry from the Site; complete a survey;
respond to a classified ad; register for a service offered by
Connecticut Fashion Week such as myConnecticutFashionweek Plan; or book
a hotel room.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
In general, you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or
revealing any information about yourself. However, when you do access
the Site, our web servers may collect certain information that does not
identify you personally.
This Site uses cookies to enhance your experience on the Site. A cookie
is a bit of data that is sent to your browser and stored on your
computer’s hard drive. Information collected through the use of cookies
may include the IP address of your computer, the type of computer and
operating system that you are using, the data and time of your visit to
the Site, and the website from which you directly linked to the Site.
Even though most web browsers automatically accept cookies, you can
usually change your browser to prevent the acceptance of cookies. If you
choose to do so, some parts of the Site will not function properly and
you will not be able to access certain services available on the Site.
Additionally, third parties with whom we partner on the Site, such as advertisers, may also utilize cookies. Connecticut Fashion Week has no responsibility for, or control over, these cookies.
In conformance with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 years that is submitted to us via the Internet. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of 13, we will delete the information from our records as soon as it is discovered by us.
We use information that you provide to us in order to provide you with specific services that you request, provide you with additional services that we believe may be of interest to you and to better understand our customers. For instance, we may use your information in the following ways:
We may share your personally identifiable information with affiliates and trusted third parties who assist us by providing services to users of the Site, including, but not limited to, surveys, hotel reservations, e-mail distribution, and website management. We also partner with third parties to provide advertisements to users through the Site. These third parties are only provided the information necessary to perform their services and are only permitted to use such information for the provision of such services unless provided otherwise in this Privacy Policy.
We may also aggregate general statistics that we gather about customers, sales, traffic patterns, and services and provide these statistics to third parties; however, when we do, these statistics will not include any personal information that identifies individuals.
In the unlikely event that all or substantially all of our assets relating to the Site are sold or transferred to another party, your personally identifiable information may be transferred to this acquiring entity. Finally, we may disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties in order to comply with law, law enforcement agencies, to protect our rights in or the safety of our Site, or to protect the safety or rights of other users of our Site.
When we send you a communication, we give you the opportunity to opt out of receiving future communications from us. Additionally, at any time you may opt out of future communications from us by sending an email to info@ctfashionweek.com
Maintaining
information that is current, accurate and complete allows Connecticut
Fashion Week to make the Site more useful and provide users with better
service. To that end, Connecticut Fashion Week requires designers,
sponsors, partners, exhibitors, guests and buyers to provide us with
current information. A user may review, update or request removal of
their information by either calling our Registration Database
Services Department at (203) 481-0001 or by sending an email to
us at info@ctfashionweek.com
California Residents: Users who
reside in California and have provided personally identifiable
information to us may request information about our disclosure of
certain categories of personal information to third parties for their
direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us at the
following address:
Connecticut Fashion Week Attn:
Internet Department
84 East Main Street
Branford, CT 06405-3790
Within thirty days of receiving such a request, we
will provide a list of the categories of personal information disclosed
to third parties for third-party direct marketing purposes during the
immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses
of the third parties that received the personally identifiable
information.
In an attempt to provide increased value to our users, we may choose to provide links to various third party websites. We also participate in co-branding and other relationships to offer services and features to our users. Even if the third party is affiliated with us, we have no control over these linked sites, each of which has separate privacy and data collection practices independent of us. Data collected by our co-brand partners or third party websites (even if offered on or through our Site) is not received by us. As such, we have no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions, and are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any such websites. These linked sites are only for your convenience and you therefore access them at your own risk.
We implement a variety of security measures to ensure the security of your personal information on our systems. User information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of employees who have special access rights to such systems. Any sensitive/credit information you supply us is transmitted and protected via (SSL) and HTTPS protocol to be accessed only as stated above. Notwithstanding our efforts to protect your information, no security system is completely impenetrable, so we cannot guarantee the absolute security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply to us will not be intercepted while in transit to us over the Internet.
By visiting the Site, you consent to the collection
and use of information by us as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If we
decide to make a change to this Privacy Policy, such change will be
reflected herein and the last date on which the Privacy Policy was
updated will be listed below.
If you have any comments or questions about our privacy practices or your experience with the Site, please do not hesitate to contact
our customer service department at 203-481-0001
and/or 1-(800) 529-9288.
Please also see our Terms and Conditions of Use establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of the Site and other services and applications.
www.ctfashionweek.com
www.wyattagency.com
Welcome to www.ctfashionweek.com and www.wyattagency.com (collectively the
“Website”) operated by Wyatt Agency, Inc., a Connecticut corporation located at
84 East Main Street, Branford, CT (“Connecticut Fashion Week & Wyatt Agency”).
This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you about how your personally
identifiable information (“Personal Information”) and other information is
collected and used by us in operating the Website.
By participating in the Selection Process or other Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency Promotions, you consent to the collection and use of your information by Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency as described herein. Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency reserves the right to change how we handle the information we collect related to Connecticut Fashion Week Fashion Show and Promotions at any time. We will update this Privacy Statement to reflect any changes in our privacy collection and handling practices, and such changes will take effect immediately once posted or distributed.
How does the Website Work?
The Website offers anonymous browsers (“Visitors”) the opportunity to learn more about us. Visitors who register with the Website (“Registrants”) have the opportunity to submit an application to us, through the Website, to try to become a model at Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency (“Application”). By using the Website, you acknowledge your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and your consent to the collection, use, disclosure, management and storage of your Personal Information by Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency as described herein. Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency reserves the right to change, at any time, the handling practices for information we collect through the Website.
We will update this Privacy Policy to reflect any changes in our data collection and handling practices, and will indicate that changes to this Privacy Policy have been made by listing a new date under “Last Updated” at the end of this Privacy Policy. Such changes will take effect immediately once posted to the Website.
What type of Personal Identifiable Information (PII) does Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency collect from you and how do we use it?
Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency does not require you to provide us with any PII in order to browse the Website. Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency does not collect Personal Information from individuals except when it is specifically and knowingly provided. For example, in order to submit an Application to Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency, Registrants must provide us with certain Personal Information, including without limitation (i) a Registrant’s name, address, telephone number and email address, (ii) a detailed description of the Registrant’s physical attributes, and (iii) photographs/videos of Registrants (collectively, the “Content”).
Unless you provide your Personal Information to Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency through the Website, we will not collect any Personal Information from you. In the event you submit your Personal Information to us, we will use such Personal Information for internal purposes, for contacting you about events and media related to Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency activities and we may share such Personal Information with third parties who may contact you as well with news and offers. You may opt-out of such communications if they do not interest you. We may also release such Personal Information to third parties if we believe such release is necessary to comply with the law (e.g., a legal process or a statutory authorization), to apply or enforce our customer agreements, to protect our rights or property, if we reasonably believe that the physical safety of a person is threatened, or as part of a corporate reorganization, consolidation, merger, or sale of substantially all of the assets of Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency.
Please keep in mind that portions of the Content contained in your Application may be made publicly viewable on the Website by us. Do not submit any Content to the Website that you are not authorized to distribute to the public or that you don’t want others to see.
What other information does Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency collect?
We also may collect anonymous and aggregate information from you about your preferences in navigating the Website by using cookies, action tags and other methods. Cookies are small text files that identify your computer. We may use cookies to, among other things, monitor Website usage, customize Website features, identify your computer’s operating system and browser, and complete transactions. An action tag is a small, graphic image on a webpage that is designed to allow the website owner or a third party to monitor who is visiting a website by collecting the IP address of the computer to which the tag is sent, the URL of the webpage that the tag comes from and the time that such webpage was viewed. Tags may be associated with cookie information. We may also use such anonymous and aggregate information for promotional purposes.
If you do not want us to track such information about you, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse cookies when your browser alerts you to their presence. You can also adjust the settings in your browser to refuse all cookies.
You can be assured that Personal Information collected through the Website is maintained in a manner consistent with current industry standards. Your Personal information is protected in several ways. Your personal information resides on a secure server that only selected Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency, employees and contractors have access to via password. We encrypt your Personal Information and thereby prevent unauthorized parties from viewing such information when it is transmitted to us. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Personal Information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (b) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged through the Website cannot be guaranteed; and (c) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third party.
While we take reasonable efforts to protect Personal Information that you provide to us, we cannot guarantee that such information will not be lost, disclosed or accessed by accidental circumstances or by the unauthorized acts of others.
Does Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency provide links to other websites?
Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency may provide links to other websites
or resources of possible interest to you. Because we have no control over
unaffiliated websites to which we provide links, the collection and use of your
Personal Information and other information by such websites shall be subject to
the policies and procedures of such websites and not this Privacy Policy.
Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency is NOT responsible for the privacy
practices or the content on any of these other websites, including any sites
that may indicate a special relationship or “partnership” with Connecticut
Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency. Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency does
not disclose unique identifiers to those responsible for the linked sites. The
linked sites, however, may collect personal information from you when you link
to their site. To ensure protection of your privacy, always review the privacy
policies of the sites you visit.
What are our policies regarding children?
Registrants must be eighteen (18) years of age or older in order to
independently submit an Application to us. Registrants may be under eighteen
(18) years of age if their parent/legal guardian registers on their behalf;
however, Registrants may in no case be under thirteen (13) years of age.
Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency does not knowingly collect Personal
Information from anyone under thirteen (13) years of age and no part of our
Website is designed to attract anyone under age 13. Please do not communicate
with or contact us if you are under age 13. Ages under 13 may be considered on
special announced castings or requests.
Do we have a mechanism to address inquiries or complaints about the handling of information that we collect?
If you have questions or concerns about any of our information collection or handling practices, please contact us at info@ctfashionweek.com
You may contact Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency to ask if we are keeping Personal Information about you. If we have collected Personal Information about you, we will provide you with a readable copy of such Personal Information at no charge. Factual errors in your Personal Information, including out-of-date information, may be corrected by sending us a request that credibly shows our error.
You may request a Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure which will identify the third parties with whom Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency has shared the information we have collected from you. You may request the Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure by writing us at info@ctfashionweek.com
You may also send us your Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure request via e-mail at info@ctfashionweek.com or by telephone at 203.481.0001. We will respond to your request for a Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure within thirty (30) days of receipt.
You may always opt-out of receiving communications from us. To remove any personal information from our database or to not receive future e-mail communications from Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency, send an e-mail to info@ctfashionweek.com with the word “REMOVE” in the subject line. Further, if you do not want your Personal Information shared with third parties in the manner discussed above, please notify Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency by e-mail at info@ctfashionweek.com, by telephone at 203.481.0001 or at the following address: Connecticut Fashion Week, Inc. 84 East Main Street Wyatt Agency Dept, Branford, CT 06405
Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency may revise this Privacy Policy over time as new features are added to the Website or as Internet law and standards evolve. We will post those changes prominently but we recommend that you read this Privacy Policy each time you visit the Website. Changes will not apply retroactively to Personal Information that was collected before the changes to the Privacy Policy, except as may be required by law.
Connecticut Fashion Week and Wyatt Agency respects your privacy and exercises reasonable precautions to maintain the confidentiality of information provided by you in connection with your use of the Website.
Last Updated: August, 2009