Terms of Service

Introduction

Our aim is to create a safe and supportive learning community. One where we feel we can express ourselves and develop our work. One full of inspiration.

1. This community is a private closed community, and people who do not agree to these terms and conditions cannot access the content within.
2. Access to this service and its content is only available to members with an active subscription.
3. Members are required to be polite, encouraging and supportive of other members at all times.
4. We welcome of all genders, sexualities, races, and beliefs. We ask you keep some of your beliefs to yourself.
5. This community is for adults, you need to be 18 years of age to join. This community is not intended for minors nor is it to be used by minors.
6. Hate speech, put downs, and bullying will result in being terminated from the service.
7. Members who do not respect the code of conduct or follow the terms of service will have their membership terminated and will not be accepted back into the community.
8. Terms of Service can be changed at any time

Community Rules

1. Positive and healthy critiques only. Negative comments will be deleted and repeat offenders will have their membership cancelled. The ratio of at least four positives to at one improvement point is to be maintained at all times.
2. Leave our egos, politics, sexuality, religion, race, disabilities and other beliefs out of all of our discussions.
3. Treat everyone respectfully. Do not harass other members.
4. Report people to the moderators whom are upsetting or disrespectful.
5. No put downs or negative comments about other people or their art.
6. Our community forum is hidden from the rest of the world for a reason. The work you post there can only be seen by other members. Do not download to share other peoples writing, videos, nor photographs.

Terms and Conditions

1. The Artists Club and its members will take all care to give sound advice, it is not responsible for advice given that may cause you financial harm or cause harm to your equipment.
2. The Artists Club reserves the right to terminate this service and all active subscriptions at any time.
3. The Artists Club reserves the right to remove members who do not follow the forum rules or are disrespectful of other members.
4. You may not use this website to advertise nor coordinate your own products or services or those of others for your financial reward.
5. The content you post is owned solely by you. Copyright is always retained by the original artist. The Artists Club makes absolutely no claim to your personal work, and will not use it in any other way, other than the way you intend it to be used.
6. The Artists Club is not liable for or the content you post.
7. When posting artworks and you specifically request feedback, you hereby give permission for another member of the community to alter and repost changes and suggestions to your work. This new work may not be used by the person making the modifications at all. Copyright is always maintained by the original producer of the work. You may only do this to artworks that have explicitly sort and requested feedback.
8. You may not redistribute, use or sell any content on this website or in the community.
9. You may post work of other artists only for the purposes of education (review, critique and study), provided you acknowledge the original artist, and reference the source where possible. Whole bodies of artwork can not be posted in full, but less than 10% of the body of work can be for education, study and review as per educational institution copyright laws. For example posting a full movie that is still in copyright would be inappropriate, while posting a short clip to discuss its artistic merit would be appropriate providing it is referenced appropriately.
10. Sharing full copies of literary works, ebooks and pdf’s that are copyrighted is prohibited. Sharing a small proportion for educational, study and review purposes (less than 10%) is permitted under copyright law for an educational institution. It is far better to link to the original source, and only include a small excerpt for the purposes of review, study and education.
11. Plagiarism is unacceptable in this community.
12. You may not share your login and membership with other people. The membership is for one person only. Couples who share a membership will be asked to pay for two people. The fees for membership are extremely reasonable and are solid value for money.
13. The Artist’s Club is not responsible, legally or financially, for any meet ups, excursions, walks, shoots, workshops, that may be organised between members. Members are responsible for organising their own insurance, permissions and safety. If meeting other members, consider organising to meet in a group in a public place. The Artist’s Club does not assess or approve any of these activities, which means you do them entirely at your own risk.
14. The Artists Club reserves the right to increase the general subscription fees from time to time. Subscribers are guaranteed that their subscription will not increase, as long as they remain continuously subscribed from the foundation period. If you are on a reoccurring subscription at that time, the prices rises will not effect you. Members who are on manual renewals will have to pay the increase the next time the subscription is billed. If you stop your subscription and return you will be subject to any price increases.
15. The Artists Club reserves the right to change or modify scheduled content at any time. Where changes to the schedule are necessary The Artist’s Club will give as much notice as possible.
16. The Artists Club reserves the right to add too and modify these terms and conditions as needed to maintain a healthy community.
17. Please remember that we are not responsible for any message or content posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any content, and are not responsible for the contents of any message. The content express the views of the author of the content, not necessarily the views of this community nor its organisers. Any user who feels that any posted content or message is objectionable is required to contact us immediately. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary. We will remove members based on our judgement of the severity of each individual case.
18. The Artists Club is not responsible for inaccurate advice given by the members of the community that may cause damage to you or your equipment. It is your responsibility to make a reasonable judgment on the advice.
19. You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this community to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy, or otherwise volatile of any law. You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by this forum.
20. When posting content that requires model releases and proof of age, you agree to only post that content if you have that documentation. The Artists Club is not responsible for the content you post, though it will work hard to ensure that it is appropriate.
21. The Artists Club users are responsible for maintaining the security and confidentiality of their account credentials and for any activities that occur under their account. Do not share your log in details with anyone. Ensure you use secure passwords and do not record them.
22. The Artists Club specifically bans activities such as spamming, hacking, impersonating others, or engaging in illegal activities. These are that are strictly prohibited within the community.
23. The Artists Club has the right to moderate discussions, remove or edit content, and suspend or ban users who violate the terms or disrupt the community.
24. In the cases of dispute or conflict between members in the first instance the moderators, facilitators and group leaders will try to act as arbitrators and negotiators. If the dispute can not be resolved the management team of the Artists Club will act as arbitrators and negotiators.
25. The Artists Club reserves the right to terminate anyone’s account that doesn’t abide by our code of conduct and the terms of service.
26. Members must be 18 years of age to join, access and use the Artists Club.

Code of Conduct

Please read The Artists Club Code of Conduct. Click here too read.

The Artists Club, The Artists Club logo, and Artists Club content is owned by Len’s School & Len Metcalf (your content always remains yours).

Updated 6th July 2023

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Privacy Policy

Introduction

The Artist’s Club is committed to protecting your privacy and providing you with web products and services that allow for a secure online experience. This privacy statement applies to this website, and by using this website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Laws and data collection

The Artist’s Club comes under data collection laws in various countries and locals. Our privacy policy meets the requirements of the following acts:

• Australia: The Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) regulates the handling of personal information about individuals.
• European Union: The European General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) applies to businesses in Australia or overseas if their business or website collects European consumer data. 
• Canada: The Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Acts (PIPEDA) applies to businesses in Australia or overseas if their business or website collects Canadian consumer data. 
• California: California has two policies; COPPA and CALOPPA, both of these apply to businesses in Australia or overseas if their business collects Californian consumer data.

Data collection

During sign up we collect your name and address, email address, ip address, and browser information. This information is kept by us, only on our server and is only accessed by our approved staff. This information may be provided to government agencies if requested.

All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Our website administrators can also see and edit that information.

When you cancel your membership and delete your account we no longer keep your personal information. Your comments, posts and artworks will be deleted.

Information about your credit cards is kept by Stripe (Stripe privacy policy) or Paypal (PayPal privacy policy) under their terms and conditions, and their privacy policies. When you make the payment you are agreeing to their terms and conditions. The Artist’s Club has no access to these details, as they are handled by these third parties.

We collect your name and email address on sign up with Mailchimp (Intuit) so that we can contact you via email. Mailchimp has a very robust privacy policy. (Mailchimp Privacy Policy). We ask you to join our mailing list for offical communications with our artists club members. We keep the names and email address of all members in mail chimp. You can opt in or out of our offical communications. We only envision that these will be occasional, for example when we update the terms and conditions or add new features.

Our secure server is hosted by Vice Temple and is located in the European Union in Amsterdam (ViceTemple privacy policy).

Data sharing

The Artists Club will share your data it has with relevant legal authorities only when formally requested by law or in corporation with offical legal enquiries.

Communications

The Artists Club will endeavour to communicate with you as little as possible. The amount of emails and notifications from the club can be controlled in your membership. (located at Account / Notification Settings)

The Artists Club will irregularly communicate with you officially from our mail chimp mailing list. This is for offical and important announcements only. You can opt out of this email if you wish.

Comments

When members leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Members of the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

When you engage in the community, leave a comment, post an artwork or a link, we keep that information on the site for others to see indefinitely, or until that you asks us to permently delete your account.

If you register as a member on our website, we store the personal information you provide in your user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Who we are

The Artists Club is owned and operated by Len’s School intern owned by Len Metcalf.

Our website address is: https://theartists.club

The best way to contact us is via email, please do: [email protected] or here’s is the unlinked version so you can copy and paste. [email protected]

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