Personally Identifiable Information We Collect

We receive and collect personally identifiable information about individual Users of our site (such as name, contact information, demographic information, academic history, etc.):
From you, on a strictly voluntary basis, by specifically requesting it from you (i) when you register on the site, (ii) when you complete or edit your profile, (iii) when you use or register for certain products and services, (iv) when you respond to surveys or questionnaires, and/or (v) when you enter or sign up for promotions or contests; and
From you, on a strictly voluntary basis, if and when you choose to upload resumes, cover letters, writing samples and other documents to the Site which contain personal information about you.
We may also ask you for other information from time to time, which you may choose to provide or not to provide at your sole discretion, such as information regarding your personal experiences, interests and preferences, your views on competition related topics and other selected issues, your opinion regarding various features of our site, the types of competitons or design solutions you are interested in, etc. In certain instances, personally identifiable information with respect to Users may also be received from one or more of our other business partners.
We do not collect or store social security numbers, bank or other financial account numbers, credit or debit card numbers, or driver's license or state-issued identification card numbers (collectively, "Excluded Personal Information"). Career center staff and administrators that pre-load personal information belonging to students and alumni of their schools are prohibited from supplying Excluded Information. Other than requesting credit card
information if and when you purchase products or services online at the Site, we will never ask you for Excluded Personal Information. If you purchase products or services online at the Site using a credit card, your credit card information is processed through a third party credit card service company, which uses encryption to protect your credit card information. (See "Security" below.)

How We Use Personally Identifiable Information Collected

Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose, display or share your personal information to or with third parties without your permission.

• We use personally identifying information we collect on the Site for the following purposes:
• To enable you to access and utilize the various tools, features and functionality of the Site, such as participating at competition, having competitions postings sent to you, uploading documents, posting and editing competition listings and descriptions, etc.
• For administering sweepstakes, contests, surveys, questionnaires, polling activities and other similar events and activities that you choose to participate in, and for other purposes specifically communicated to you when we collect the information.
• To communicate with you with regard to your use of the Site and its services or to advise you of Site changes or other events or occurrences which may affect your access to or use of the Site.

With your permission, we may:

• Use your e-mail address and other contact information to send you articles, profiles, industry news and other competition related information, as well as to notify you of special promotions or additional products and services offered by us or our business partners and advertisers that may be of interest to you. With your permission, we may also share your personal information with our business partners and other third parties to enable them to contact you regarding special promotions, products and services they offer which may be of interest to you.
• You have the ability to opt-out of these types of communications at any time (see "Opt-in/Opt-out Policy" below). We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email or telephone number) about your visits to this and other web sites in order to
• provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
• We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include hosting our web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These other companies will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide services to Arcbazar.

From time to time, we may also disclose personally identifiable information to fulfill certain legal and regulatory requirements or if we believe, in good faith, that such disclosure is legally required or necessary to protect others' rights or to prevent or mitigate harm. We may also disclose and transfer such information to a third party who acquires all or a substantial portion of Arcbazar's business, whether such acquisition is by merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets. In addition, if Arcbazar becomes the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, Arcbazar or its trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court. All Users should be aware that when they voluntarily display or distribute personal information (such as their e-mail address) to others (whether in chat rooms, message boards or discussion forums, by posting jobs, responding to job postings or applying to job opportunities or otherwise), that information can be collected and used by others. This may result in unsolicited messages from third parties, for which Arcbazar is not responsible.
Finally, if you provide any information to parties who operate web sites that are linked to or from our Site, or if you input your information on a co-branded registration page such as that of an Arcbazar and partner company sponsored contest, different rules may apply to the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information by such other party. We are not responsible for any such party's use of your personal information. We encourage you to
review these sites' privacy policies before revealing any sensitive or personal information.

Aggiorna Informazioni Account

Arcbazar allows you to change or correct your personal information at any time. To do so, simply log in to your Arcbazar account, go to your profile, and you will find options for editing the information you have submitted.

Opt-In/Opt-Out Policy

When you complete your profile or register on the Site, you will be presented with a series of choices regarding whether you want to receive certain types of communications from us and/or our business partners and advertisers. If you do not wish to receive any or all of such communications, you may opt-out by responding "no" or clicking the appropriate opt-out box. By opting in to receive any and or all communications, you are granting permission to allow
Arcbazar, its business partners and advertisers to send the selected communications. We reserve the right to send you communications regarding the Site and our services, or to advise you of Site changes or other events or occurrences which may affect your access to or use of the Site (such as service announcements, administrative notices and the like) without offering you the opportunity to opt out of them.
If after opting-in to the Arcbazar Network or to receive communications from us and/or our business partners, you wish to opt-out of participation in the Arcbazar Network or from receiving future communications, you may do so at any time. To do so, simply log in to your Arcbazar Network account, go to your profile, and you will find options for editing your opt-in preferences.

Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses and Aggregated User Data

We collect IP addresses from all Users of the Site, and collect and monitor other data and information about the activities of our Users on the Site collectively. We only use such data anonymously and in the aggregate. This data is not used to track or monitor personally identifiable information of individual Users. We gather and monitor this data to analyze trends, administer the Site, identify Users when they visit the Site, track Users' movements on the site and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We may share this information with our partners so that they too may understand our User base and Site usage patterns, but only on a collective, aggregated basis and in a manner which does not reveal any personally identifiable information about any individual User.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. We use three kinds:

• Essential cookies keep you logged in, protect your account and remember your language, currency and privacy choices. The Site does not work without them, so they are always on.
• Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the Site, so we can improve it.
• Advertising cookies are set by Google (Google Ads and Google Tag Manager) and Meta (Facebook Pixel) to measure our advertising and show you relevant ads on other sites.

When you get a price estimate, we keep a cookie named arcbz_estimate for 7 days, so you can come back to your estimate and brief. It holds only a reference to your draft project and is deleted when you launch the project.

If you visit from the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or Turkey, we only use analytics and advertising cookies after you accept them in the cookie banner. Everywhere else they are on until you turn them off. You can change your choice at any time under "Your Privacy Choices" at the bottom of every page, and when you turn a category off we also delete the cookies it had set. Your choice is kept for one year in a cookie named arcbz_consent.

Your Privacy Choices

Sharing information with advertising partners such as Google and Meta, so they can measure and personalize ads, may count as "selling" or "sharing" personal information under the privacy laws of California and other US states. You can opt out at any time by turning off Advertising under Your Privacy Choices. We also treat a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser as a request to opt out, and turn advertising off automatically.

Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to see the personal information we hold about you, to correct it, to have it deleted, and to receive a copy. To make such a request, write to us at support@arcbazar.com. We will not treat you differently for using these rights.

AI Assistant, Brief Writing and Voice Input

Some features of the Site use artificial intelligence provided by OpenAI:

• Anna, our chat assistant, answers questions about Arcbazar. What you write to Anna is sent to OpenAI to produce the answers, and we keep the conversation for up to 180 days to improve the service and prevent misuse.
• Write my brief, and the brief we write for you when you get an estimate, turn your description of your project and the answers you gave about it (such as its type, size and timing) into a brief and title. This text is sent to OpenAI to write them. We save only the brief you submit, not the request.

OpenAI processes this information on our behalf and does not use it to train its models. Please do not include sensitive personal information when you use these features.

Speak lets you describe your project by voice. Speech is turned into text by your browser's own speech recognition; in Google Chrome, for example, the audio is processed by Google. We receive only the resulting text, never the audio.

Security

The account containing your registration information, profile and resume is password protected, so only you (or third parties you provide your password to) can access your account. All personally identifiable information we collect about you is stored in limited-access servers. This Site has technical, administrative and physical security measures
and safeguards in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. While we're committed to placing reasonable and appropriate safeguards to protecting your information against foreseeable risks, no computer system or information can ever be fully protected against every possible hazard, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will not be able to circumvent those safeguards or use your personal information for improper purposes.
As noted above, Arcbazar does not collect or store Excluded Personal Information (as defined above). When you purchase products or services online at the Site using a credit card, your credit card information is processed through a third party service company that uses encryption to protect that information. Encryption makes it difficult for unauthorized third parties to intercept or steal your credit card information while it is being transmitted. Arcbazar does not process or store credit card information on the Site.

Privacy Policy Changes

We may deem it necessary or appropriate from time to time to modify this privacy policy to reflect changes in the way we collect or use information or changes in privacy-related laws, regulations or industry standards. Accordingly, we reserve the right to change this privacy statement at any time by posting the revised policy on this Site. Information will be handled according to the privacy statement in effect at the time the information is used. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will mean you accept those changes.

Questions or Concerns

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or privacy issues relating to the Site, you can contact us online at support@arcbazar.com or mail us at:

Arcbazar.com, Inc.
867 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02116