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Metropolitan Fine Arts Center, LLC

This entire web site is the copyrighted material of Metropolitan Fine Arts Center, LLC, a Limited Liability Corporation within the state of Virginia, with offices at 9015 Silverbrook Rd, Fairfax Station, VA and 6450 Landsdowne Centre, Alexandria, VA. Telephone numbers are (703) 495-8777 and (703) 339-0444 respectively ("Metropolitan Fine Arts Center").

"Metropolitan Fine Arts Center", "Metropolitan Fine Arts Center, LLC" "metrofinearts.com,", “metrofinearts.org” and “metrofinearts.net” and the logo design are registered trademarks of Metropolitan Fine Arts Center, LLC.

These trademarks and the copyrighted materials of Metropolitan Fine Arts Center may not be used in advertising or publicity without prior express, written permission of Metropolitan Fine Arts Center. Metropolitan Fine Arts Center reserves the right to bring any civil action in federal or state court in Fairfax, Virginia, arising from the improper or unauthorized use of this web site, including for infringement of its trademarks and/or unauthorized use of copyrighted material. Due to the high nature of competition in the Fine Arts Industry, Metropolitan Fine Arts Center and their lawyers will ensure that this policy is reinforced strictly.

Metropolitan Fine Arts Center considers its compilation of links to Internet resources, the description of those resources and the information contained within Metropolitan Fine Arts Center's web site to be copyrighted material. You are not authorized to copy, reproduce or modify any portion of Metropolitan Fine Arts Center's web site without prior written authorization.

Metropolitan Fine Arts Center makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the use of the links provided; does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, usefulness or adequacy of any resource, information, apparatus, product or process accessed via this web site; and is not responsible for any errors or omissions in the resources or information accessed via this Home Page or for the results obtained from the use of such resources or information.

If you have reason to believe that any person, company or business has infringed Metropolitan Fine Arts Center's trademark rights or improperly used Metropolitan Fine Arts Center's copyrighted materials, please notify the Executive Office of Metropolitan Fine Arts Center's Headquarters in Burke, Virginia.

The following information explains our policy regarding any personal information you may supply to us when visiting our Web site (hereby referred to as "site"). By using this site, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy.

1. CONFIDENTIALITY

Confidentiality is very important to us. However, confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by us. We do take certain measures to ensure your confidentiality, however we shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as a result of a breach of confidentiality in respect to your use of this site.

2. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY

If you use our client/employee intranet, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information and your password. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You understand that you are financially responsible for all uses of this site by you and those using your login information.

3. USE OF IP ADDRESSES

An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the internet. Metropolitan Fine Arts Center collects IP addresses for system administration, to report aggregate information, and to audit the use of our site. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that a user's session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our terms and conditions or to protect our service, site, clients, employees, or others.

4. COOKIES

Metropolitan Fine Arts Center may use "cookies" to make our service more effective. A "cookie" is a small text file placed on your hard drive by our server. It allows our server to recognize whether you have visited our site before thereby saving you the need to provide information that we have already received from you. If you would prefer not receiving cookies, most Web browsers offer menu options allowing you to disable them.

5. SECURITY

The importance of security for all personally identifiable information that you provide us is of great concern to us. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Metropolitan Fine Arts Center cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us; in other words, you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we use our reasonable best efforts to ensure its security on our systems and servers. Most information you provide to our site is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us.

6. MONITORING

Metropolitan Fine Arts Center reserves the right to monitor and review any information transmitted or received through this site and sensor, edit, remove or prohibit the transmission or receipt of any information that Metropolitan Fine Arts Center, in its sole discretion, deems inappropriate or a violation of these terms and conditions. All email transmissions sent via our site to any senior company officials are first sent to an assistant to deem the content appropriate for the senior employee.

7. USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE US

During your use of our site, you may provide us with personal information (such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address) for the purpose of requesting information, contacting us or for other reasons. You also may provide billing information, such as a bank routing number or credit card information. Metropolitan Fine Arts Center does not sell the personal information of our users to third parties. Metropolitan Fine Arts Center only uses the information it gathers for its own internal purposes or in cooperation with the Hogan Fire Sprinkler Supply Company. Metropolitan Fine Arts Center's goal in collecting personal information online is to continually improve the content of our site and to offer consumers products that best meet your preferences and desires. We offer a subscription service to our company emails. As explained below, you may opt out of this service as to Metropolitan Fine Arts Center.

8. OTHER DISCLOSURES

In addition to the circumstances described above, Metropolitan Fine Arts Center may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, court order, or subpoena, as requested by a government agency or by law enforcement authorities, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary to protect the safety of our clients, employees or property.

9. RIGHTS AS TO MATERIALS YOU PROVIDE

By uploading or submitting any suggestions, ideas, comments, questions or other materials to us, you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) us a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive and assignable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute and display such materials or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed throughout the universe. In addition, you warrant that all so-called "moral rights" in those materials have been waived.

10. OPTING-OUT OF CERTAIN SERVICES

You may choose to opt out of receiving notification via e-mail about new courses and locations, or about special offers that may be of interest to you. You will be asked for the e-mail address that you wish to opt out, as well as your first and last name and zip code for verification purposes.

11. MODIFICATION OF TERMS

Metropolitan Fine Arts Center reserves the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time at our discretion. You may check this Privacy Policy periodically for changes. Your continued use of the site subsequent to the revisions of this Privacy Policy means you accept those changes.