Legal Information

  • By using any of IPHF’s websites, its apps, and IPHF-related services, you agree to the terms and conditions contained in IPHF’s Privacy Policy and the Conditions of Use outlined on the present page.

    WHAT ARE TERMS & CONDITIONS?

    Terms and Conditions are a set of rules and guidelines that a user must agree to in order to use IPHF-owned websites and mobile apps. It acts as a legal contract between IPHF who owns the websites or mobile apps listed below, and you the user, who accesses our websites and/or mobile apps.

    WHAT WEBSITES & APPS DO THEY COVER?

    • IPHF websites IPHF.org

    WHAT IF YOU DO NOT AGREE? If you do not agree to the terms and conditions on this page, you should not use the websites, apps and/or any IPHF-related benefits or services.

    THINGS TO NOTE:

    • IPHF’s websites and its apps are not intended for use by or targeted at children under 16, and we do not knowingly or intentionally collect information about children under 16.

    • IPHF is a U.S.-based association and its membership benefits and practices are U.S.-centric and while we do have members in 50+ countries, we do not market outside the United States.

    When you first visit any of the IPHF websites, you will be asked to consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies on the websites in accordance with this policy, and if you accept we will store cookies and similar technologies on your computer.

    1. Definitions

    IPHF.org is the interactive Web site operated on the Internet by Professional Photographers of America (IPHF), consisting of informational services and content provided by IPHF, affiliates of IPHF and other third parties. "Subscriber" means each person who establishes or accesses a connection ("Account") for access to and use of IPHF.org.

    2. General

    (A) This Agreement sets forth the terms and conditions that apply to use of IPHF.org by Subscriber. By using IPHF.org (other than to read this Agreement for the first time), Subscriber agrees to comply with all of the terms and conditions hereof. The right to use IPHF.org is personal to Subscriber and is not transferable to any other person or entity. Subscriber is responsible for all use of Subscriber's Account (under any screen name or password) and for ensuring that all use of Subscriber's Account complies fully with the provisions of this Agreement. Subscriber shall be responsible for protecting the confidentiality of Subscriber's password(s), if any.

    (B) IPHF shall have the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of IPHF.org, including, but not limited to, content, hours of availability, and equipment needed for access or use.

    3. Changed Terms

    IPHF shall have the right at any time to change or modify the terms and conditions applicable to Subscriber's use of IPHF.org, or any part thereof, or to impose new conditions, including, but not limited to, adding fees and charges for use. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by means including, but not limited to, posting on IPHF.org, or by electronic or conventional mail, or by any other means by which Subscriber obtains notice thereof. Any use of IPHF.org by Subscriber after such notice shall be deemed to constitute acceptance by Subscriber of such changes, modifications, or additions.

    4. Disclaimer of Warranty; Limitation of Liability

    (A) Subscriber expressly agrees that use of IPHF.org is at subscriber's sole risk. Neither IPHF, its affiliates, nor any of their respective employees, agents, third party content providers, or licensors warrant that IPHF.org will be uninterrupted or error free; nor do they make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from use of IPHF.org, or as to the accuracy, reliability or content of any information, service, or merchandise provided through IPHF.org

    (B) IPHF.org is provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, other than those warranties which are implied by and incapable of exclusion, restriction, or modification under the laws applicable to this agreement.

    (C) This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortious behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action. Subscriber specifically acknowledges that IPHF is not liable for the defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of other subscribers or third parties and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with subscriber.

    (D) In no event will IPHF, or any person or entity involved in creating, producing, or distributing IPHF.org, be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of the use of or inability to use IPHF.org. Subscriber hereby acknowledges that the provisions of this section shall apply to all content on IPHF.org

    (E) In addition to the terms set forth above neither IPHF, nor its affiliates, information providers, or content partners, shall be liable regardless of the cause or duration, for any errors, inaccuracies, omissions, or other defects in, or untimeliness or unauthenticity of, the information contained within IPHF.org, or for any delay or interruption in the transmission thereof to the user, or for any claims or losses arising therefrom or occasioned thereby. None of the foregoing parties shall be liable for any third-party claims or losses of any nature, including, but not limited to, lost profits, punitive or consequential damages. IPHF, its affiliates, information providers, or content partners shall have no liability for investment decisions based on the information provided. Neither IPHF, nor its affiliates, information providers or content partners, warrant or guarantee the timeliness, sequence, accuracy or completeness of this information. Additionally, there are no warranties as to the results obtained from the use of the information.

    5. Monitoring

    IPHF shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of IPHF.org, including chat rooms and forums, to determine compliance with this Agreement and any operating rules established by IPHF and to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized government request. IPHF shall have the right in its sole discretion to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on IPHF.org. Without limiting the foregoing, IPHF shall have the right to remove any material that IPHF, in its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of the provisions hereof or otherwise objectionable.

    6. Indemnification

    Subscriber agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless IPHF, its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of the use of IPHF.org by Subscriber or Subscriber's Account.

    7. Termination

    Either IPHF or Subscriber may terminate this Agreement at any time. Without limiting the foregoing, IPHF shall have the right to immediately terminate Subscriber's Account in the event of any conduct by Subscriber which IPHF, in its sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable, or in the event of any breach by Subscriber of this Agreement.

    8. Third Party Content

    IPHF.org is a distributor (and not a publisher) of content supplied by third parties and Subscribers. Accordingly, IPHF has no more editorial control over such content than does a public library, bookstore, or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers, Subscribers or any other user of IPHF.org, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of IPHF. Neither IPHF nor any third-party provider of information guarantees the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content, nor its merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. (Refer to Section 4 above for the complete provisions governing limitation of liabilities and disclaimers of warranty.)

    In many instances, the content available through IPHF.org represents the opinions and judgments of the respective information provider, Subscriber, or other user not under contract with IPHF. IPHF neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement made on IPHF.org by anyone other than authorized IPHF employee spokespersons or members of IPHF’s Board of Directors while acting in their official capacities. Under no circumstances will IPHF be liable for any loss or damage caused by a Subscriber's reliance on information obtained through IPHF.org. It is the responsibility of Subscriber to evaluate the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice, or other content available through IPHF.org. Please seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any specific information, opinion, advice, or other content.

    9. Miscellaneous

    This Agreement and any operating rules for IPHF.org established by IPHF constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all previous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to such subject matter. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not be given any legal import.

     

  • This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for IPHF.org. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

    What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.

    The choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.

    The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.

    How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

    Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

    We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g., to process an order.Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

    Mailing List Registration

    In order to register for our mailing list, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide demographic information (such as gender or age) about yourself, but it is not required. You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time by using the mailing list options provided or contacting us.

    Your Access to and Control Over Information

    You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

    See what data we have about you, if any.

    Change/correct any data we have about you.

    Have us delete any data we have about you.

    Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

    Security

    We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page. While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

    Orders

    We request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number and expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we’ll use this information to contact you.

    Sharing

    We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.We use a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond filling your order.

    Links

    This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

    Surveys & Contests

    From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

    Updates

    Our Privacy Policy may change occasionally and all updates will be posted on this page. If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 314-535-1999 or via email at info@iphf.org.

  • By using IPHF websites, you consent to the use of cookies. However, you may choose at any time to disable all or part of these cookies, with the exception of those which are necessary for the operation of our websites.

    IPHF websites (IPHF.org), may use cookies. Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser when you visit a website and placed on your computer or mobile device when viewing content or advertisements in line. This cookie file can only be read by its issuer and does not identify you personally, only the browser on your device.

    Cookies help our websites provide you with a better user experience and more relevant content. In general, cookies are used to store information like your preferences or login and provide tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience a lot better and provide a smoother navigation.

    However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. Consider consulting the Help section of your browser or take a look at this “About Cookies” website for guidance with all current web browsers.

    Please note that blocking cookies may impact your experience on our websites and limit the level of services we are able to offer online.

    IPHF Cookies and How They Benefit You

    IPHF websites use cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.

    We have a set of essential website cookies that cannot be prevented other than by not using our websites. These cookies help us:

    • Save you having to log in every time you visit our websites

    • Remember if we have already asked you certain questions (e.g. you declined to use our app or take our survey)

    • Improve the speed/security of our websites

    • Provide you with relevant content

    • Make our marketing more efficient (helping us offer you the services we do without raising membership dues)

    • Compile visitor statistics such as number of page views, number of visitors, and time spent on each page, etc. This helps us to improve our websites. These analytics also tell us how people reached our websites (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before

    IPHF’s websites, like most websites, include functionality cookies provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. And unlike essential cookies, these third-party cookies can be disabled.

    Third-Party Cookies Are Controllable

    In addition to the essential cookies listed above, IPHF websites may include cookies from the following third parties:

    • Bold Chat

    • Bing

    • Expression Engine

    • Facebook Advertising

    • Facebook Custom Audience

    • Google Analytics

    • Google DoubleClick

    • Google Tag Manager

    • Higher Logic

    • Informz

    • Instagram

    • LinkedIn Advertising

    • SpotXchange

    • Twitter Advertising

    • Unbounce

    • Yahoo

    • YouTube Video player

    These third-party cookies fall into three categories:

    1. Advertising cookies: These cookies track your browsing behavior throughout IPHF websites and what you click through on IPHF emails in order to deliver content and ads more relevant to you and your interests. This targeting is based on what you have viewed on our websites and is known as Online Behavioral Advertising. The information contained in these cookies has NO personal identifier information (no email address, no name, no phone number, etc.) as it is all “anonymized”. Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties and prevent us from collecting quality analytics to understand where our traffic comes from or promote IPHF through these third-party platforms.

    2. Retargeting cookies: You may notice that sometimes after visiting a website you see increased numbers of ads from the company you visited. This is because advertisers, including IPHF, pay for these interest-based ads, which are made possible by retargeting cookies. We use these interest-based ads to encourage U.S. based photographers who haven’t joined IPHF or attended Imaging USA yet, to come back to our websites. And just like for advertising cookies, the information contained in retargeting cookies has NO personal identifier information (no email address, no name, no phone number, etc.) as it is all “anonymized”.

    3. Tracking techniques other than cookies:

    o IPHF may use tracking techniques such as embedding URLs to allow use of the IPHF websites without cookies. Embedded URLs allow limited information to follow you as you navigate the sites, but are not associated with your personal data and are not used beyond each session.

    o IPHF and its service providers may also use embedded pixel tags for the purposes of identifying unique user visits (as opposed to aggregate hits) and for advertising purposes.

    o We may place pixel gifs, also known as beacons, in emails sent to our users. These are tiny graphic files that contain unique identifiers that enable us to recognize when our users have opened an email or clicked certain links. This action records each user’s IP address, email address, date, and time associated with each open/click for a campaign. We use this information to track our email campaigns’ responsiveness but never sell it to third parties.

    o We may use some widgets, which are interactive mini-programs that run on our sites to enable and track the effectiveness of buttons or tools on our websites. The widget, button or tool may collect and automatically send Personal Data, such as your e-mail address, or other Information (such as your browser information, or IP address) and information collected or used by a widget, button or tool, including cookie settings and preferences, is governed by IPHF’s privacy policy.

    It is worth noting that opting out of these third-party cookies or interest-based ads will not mean that you will stop seeing ads. Instead, the ads you will be served will no longer be tailored to you.

    For your own peace of mind, know that you can opt-out of all these cookies at any time (see the next section "Turning Cookies Off", below).

    Turning Cookies Off

    You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies on any website.

    You can usually set or amend your web browser controls to switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. On most web browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive a notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. Please see the links below for guidance on how to modify your web browser’s settings on the most popular browsers:

    • Internet Explorer

    • Mozilla Firefox

    • Google Chrome

    • Apple Safari

    If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our websites; However, know that doing so will likely limit your access to some functionalities and areas of IPHF.org, PPmag.org, ImagingUSA.org, and PhotoVisionVideo.org as cookies are not only a standard part of most modern websites, but they allow safeguarding of content that is reserved for IPHF members.

    Please note that if you reject cookies or disable cookies, your use of certain features or functions on our website or platforms or services may be limited. When you opt-out, the random ID we (or our third-party partners) had previously assigned to you will also be removed. This means that if at a later stage, you decide to opt-in, we will not track you with the same ID as before, and you will for all practical purposes be a new visitor in our system.

    To find out more about cookies and targeted ads, including to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out platform and follow the instructions there.

    By opting out of targeted advertisements you will no longer see ads from advertisers who participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance; however, you may still continue to see other non-targeted ads on our websites from IPHF partners.

    Lastly, should you choose to delete all cookies from our sites registered on your devices, you’re also deleting the log where we know which consent or refusal you have issued. Deleting your cookies is like resetting your consent, which means that you will be asked to log in and re-take several steps of navigation each time you come back to the website or until you accept or refuse the cookies each time. Similarly, if you use another internet browser, you will have to accept or refuse these cookies again because your choices depend on the browser and device that you use to access our site.

    You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. Here's how:

    • Website Cookie Preference Tool: You can exercise preferences about what cookies are served on our Websites by visiting our cookie settings preference center, available here: Privacy Settings. You can also exercise your Website cookie preferences by visiting the TRUSTe preference center by clicking this link: http://preferences-mgr.truste.org/.

    • Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Websites though your access to some functionality and areas of our Websites may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

    • Disabling Most Interest Based Advertising: Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.org.

    • Mobile Advertising: You can opt out of having your mobile advertising identifiers used for certain types of Interest Based Advertising, including those performed by us, by accessing the settings in your Apple or Android mobile device and following the most recent published instructions. If you opt out, we will remove all data about you and no further data collection or tracking will occur. The random ID we (or our third-party partners) had previously assigned to you will also be removed. This means that if at a later stage, you decide to opt-in, we will not be able to continue and track you using the same ID as before, and you will for all practical purposes be a new user to our system.

    • Do Not Track: Some Internet browsers - like Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari - include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” or “DNT” signals. Since uniform standards for “DNT” signals have not been adopted, our Websites do not currently process or respond to “DNT” signals. MailChimp takes privacy and meaningful choice seriously and will make efforts to continue to monitor developments around DNT browser technology and the implementation of a standard. To learn more about “DNT”, please visit All About Do Not Track.

    How often will you update this Cookie Information from IPHF?

    IPHF will periodically update this cookie information page to reflect changes to the cookies we use as well as for operational, legal and regulatory reasons. In order to stay informed about how IPHF uses cookie-related technologies, come back to visit this page.

    How Can You Access Your Information?

    You can request access to the personal information we hold about you at any time by writing to us at the following address. We may ask you to provide proof of identity before we show you this personal information - so we can prevent unauthorized access.

    International Photography Hall of Fame

    1315 Highway Dr.,

    Fenton, MO 63099

    Email: info@IPHF.org

  • IPHF respects the rights of all copyright holders, and in this regard, IPHF has adopted and implemented a policy that provides for the termination--in appropriate circumstances--of subscribers and account holders who infringe the rights of copyright holders. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide IPHF’s Copyright Department the following information required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512:

    1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

    2. Identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;

    3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;

    4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party;

    5. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

    6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

    For copyright inquiries under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act please contact:

    International Photography Hall of Fame

    1315 N. Highway Dr.,

    Fenton, MO 63099

    email: info@iphf.org

    For Web posting, reprint, transcript or licensing requests for IPHF material, please contact info@iphf.org.

    For any questions or requests other than copyright issues or licensing requests, please contact info@iphf.org.

    Trademarks

    International Photography Hall of Fame, International Photography Hall of fame and Museum, IPHF, IPHF.org, and each of their logos are trademarks of the Photographic Art and Science Foundation dba the International Photography Hall of Fame . All rights reserved. All other trademarks appearing on IPHF.org are the property of their respective owners.