Legal Disclaimer/Privacy Statement

By accessing any areas of NewAmericanPaintings.net or NewAmericanPaintings.com, you agree to be legally bound and to abide by the rules set forth below. Any violation of these rules may lead to removal from our web site and competition.

1. Copyright

All web site design, text, graphics, content, the selection and arrangement thereof, and all software Copyright © 2009, The Open Studios Press, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Any use of materials on this web site—including reproduction, modification, distribution, or republication—without the prior written permission of New American Paintings or The Open Studios Press is strictly prohibited.

2. Trademarks

New American Paintings and the New American Paintings logo are trademarks and service marks of New American Paintings ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. All other trademarks, service marks, product names and company names or logos appearing on the New American Paintings web site are the property of their respective owners. Any use of such trademarks, service marks, product names and company names or logos, including the reproduction, modification, distribution or republication of same without the prior written permission of the owner of same, is strictly prohibited.

3. Refunds

Entry fees are nonrefundable. If you have questions regarding a subscription that you purchased online, please call 617-778-5265 x0

4. Privacy

As a user of the New American Paintings submission website, you understand that emails may be periodically sent to your account. You may unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time. It is also understood that only emails that you specifically signed up for at the inception of your mailing list account will be sent to your email account. New American Paintings is committed to protecting your privacy. New American Paintings will never sell or furnish your email to any third parties. You may modify what types of email messages you receive, or unsubscribe, at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of emails sent to you from New American Paintings or replying with “unsubscribe” in the subject header.

The information we learn from entrants helps us personalize and continually improve our publication. We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future competitions for you, improving our methods, and communicating with you.

Business Transfers: In the unlikely event that New American Paintings or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.

Protection of New American Paintings and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of New American Paintings, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.

With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

5. Disclaimer

New American Paintings IS PROVIDING THIS SITE AND ITS CONTENTS ON AN "AS IS" BASIS AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO THIS SITE OR ITS CONTENTS. New American Paintings DISCLAIMS ALL SUCH REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN ADDITION, New American Paintings DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE VIA THIS SITE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR CURRENT.

Price and availability information is subject to change without notice.

Except as specifically stated on this site, neither New American Paintings nor any of its directors, shareholders, officers, employees, agents, third-party content providers, sponsors, licensers, or other representatives, shall be liable for damages arising out of or in connection with the use of this site. This is a comprehensive limitation of liability and under no circumstances shall New American Paintings or any party involved in creating, producing or distributing the New American Paintings web site, be liable for any compensatory, direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, that result from the use of or inability to use the New American Paintings site, including, but not limited to, reliance by a user on any information obtained from New American Paintings or that result from loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property, claims of third parties, mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files or e-mail, errors, defects, viruses, delays in operation or transmission or any failure of performance, whether or not resulting from acts of God, communications failure, theft, destruction, or unauthorized access to New American Paintings’s records, programs or services. Each user of the New American Paintings web site hereby acknowledges that this paragraph shall apply to all content, merchandise, and services available through New American Paintings. If and to the extent any state does not permit the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, New American Paintings’s liability, in such state, shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by law.

6. Third Party Content

Any opinions, advice, statements, or other information that constitutes part of the content expressed or made available by third parties, are those of the respective authors or distributors and not of New American Paintings or its affiliates, or any of its shareholders, officers, directors, employees or agents. Neither New American Paintings nor its affiliates, or any of its shareholders, officers, directors, employees, or agents, nor any third party, including third-party content providers, sponsors or licensers, guarantees the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content, nor its merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. In many instances, the content available through New American Paintings represents the opinions and judgments of the respective third-party provider, sponsor or licenser. New American Paintings neither endorses, nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the New American Paintings web site by anyone other than an authorized New American Paintings employee. Under no circumstances shall New American Paintings or its affiliates, or any of its shareholders, officers, directors, employees or agents, be liable for any loss or damage caused by a user’s reliance on information obtained through the New American Paintings web site or any loss or damage caused by a user being exposed to information contained on the New American Paintings web site. It is the responsibility of the user to evaluate the information, opinion, advice, or other content available through the New American Paintings web site.

7. Publisher Copyrights

Images used on the New American Paintings web site are the property of their respective copyright owners, and are used by New American Paintings pursuant to express authorization from the copyright owners or their agents. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Any use of the images, including the reproduction, modification, distribution or replication of same, without the prior written permission of the owner of the Copyright, their agents, or New American Paintings is strictly prohibited.

8. Endorsement.

Descriptions of, or references to, products do not imply endorsement of that product. New American Paintings makes no warranty of any kind with respect to any subject matter included on the site or any products listed or sold on the site.

9. Acknowledgement.

The above stated rules represent the entire understanding between each user of the New American Paintings web site and New American Paintings, regarding each user’s relationship with New American Paintings and supersedes any prior statements or representations. The above stated rules and disclaimers are subject to change, by The Open Studios Press in its sole and absolute discretion.

10. Governing law

This site is created and controlled by New American Paintings in the State of Massachussetts. The laws of the State of Massachussetts will govern all terms, conditions and disclaimers on this site, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws.

BY ENTERING AND USING THE New American Paintings WEBSITE AND COMPETITION PAGES YOU ARE AFFIRMATIVELY STATING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE RULES SET FORTH HEREIN AND ARE AFFIRMATIVELY INDICATING THAT YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY SAME.

Contact
You can contact us with regard to this Privacy Policy as follows:

Open Studios Press
450 Harrison Ave #47
Boston Ma 02118

617-778-5265