EROTICSIGNATURE.COM (The "Website") holds an online erotic art competition that allows our members to compete for prizes and awards by uploading their artwork to be viewed and voted on by our panel of professional jurors, and other members (the viewer's choice award). All Opt-in members can network with other artists and members, as well as find and communicate with other organizations/companies involved in the world of erotic art. The parent company in charge of the Website is EROTIC SIGNATURE, LLC ("ES"). Erotic Signature, LLC is proud to be creating the world's largest erotic art competition, furthering the cause and exposing the enormous oracle of talent in many cases still uncharted. This is a worldwide competition with strong participation from USA, Asia, Europe and Africa.

Overall privacy statement
ES cares deeply about your online privacy. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we want to help you understand the policies surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. These privacy practices apply to this Website, which is operated directly by us, our partner, or our affiliate.

1. What information does ES collect?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content and services. Several of the services and features that we offer on our sites require you to provide us with information as a condition of usage. These include access to subscription-only areas, the ability to post opinions or other content, participation in our art competition or other contests, subscriptions to print magazines and email newsletters and participation in message boards.

ES collects personally identifiable and user submitted information, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, username, password, and credit card information when you provide it to us. ES also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education, occupation, skills and special talents in order to assist members in finding and communicating with each other. We may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to the information you provided to us.

ES also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the website. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information will not be shared with third-parties for other services and advertisements unless elected by you through our opt-in options. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.

Member's profile information including members' pictures and personal information can be made public by that member only for other members to see in order to facilitate user interaction in the ES networking community. There, members will have the option of revealing whatever personal information they would like to share with other members, including but not limited to their artist names, nicknames, full names, special skills and talents, as well as their emails, websites, etc...

ES may also use a user's email address to send a newsletter. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "notification" setting to "Do not send me notification emails" in the user "Account Settings". This opt-out option is not applicable to updates to the website and news regarding our services.

From time to time, Eroticsignature.com or a partner may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on the website. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

2. What is ES' practice regarding cookies?
Your Internet browser has a feature called cookies, which stores small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any of our sites. You do not need to have cookies turned on to visit most of our sites, although active participation in certain areas of our sites may require cookies. Cookies alone tell us nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information, in which case we use the information to enhance your services in the ways described below. By adjusting your settings on your browser, you may elect not to allow cookies to be collected.

ES also uses technologies that allow us to track general user-traffic patterns. ES also automatically receives and record information from our servers and from your browser, including your IP address, the time of your visit to pages on our site, and information about pages you visited. Unless you have registered for one of our products or services, the information we gather through the use of tracking technologies cannot be matched with any personally identifiable information about you.

ES uses cookies and tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including:

1. Keeping count of return visits to our site or our advertisers' or partners' sites;


2. Accumulating and reporting anonymous, aggregate (data collected in mass), statistical information on Web-site and advertisement usage;


3. Determining which features our overall user population likes best;


4. Saving your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our sites;


5. Displaying the most appropriate advertising or content based on your interests.

1. To customize the content and the advertising you see;


2. To enhance the user experience in our network of sites. We use tracking information to determine how well each page performs overall based on aggregate user demographics and traffic patterns to those pages. This helps us continue to build a better service for you;


3. To fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling you to participate in paid services, polls, contests, and message boards;


4. To send you information you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.

1. You have elected to allow us to share that information at the time that you registered with us or provided us the information, or through a subsequent affirmative election through our website.


2. You volunteer information or create a public profile in the course of your participation in our community features such as forums, user opinions and reviews, chat rooms, photo sharing or other forms of public communication and interaction.


3. You use co-branded services (i.e., sites or services that we offer to you in connection with a partner, who is identified on the site). When you use a co-branded service within our network of sites, you grant us permission to pass your registration information back to that service partner. Their use of your information is subject to their applicable privacy policies.


4. We hire third-party vendors to provide specialized services such as customer support; email message deployment; suppression, merge and de-duplication services; data processing; and special products or services that you have requested. These companies are only allowed to use the information in order to help us fulfill our services to you. We do not provide your information to these companies for their own, permanent use.


5. You unsubscribe for a mailing that we send to you on behalf of a third party. We may share your removal instruction with the third party so that it may be added to that person's list of people to whom they may not send emails.


6. When required by law, such as when we respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process.


7. We believe that your actions violate applicable laws, ES' Terms and Conditions, or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others.

1. Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters or those of third parties when registering. Users who opt in may remove themselves from mailing lists at any time through the subscription-management pages or by following the instructions at the end of the e-mail they received from us;
   
   
2. Opting not to provide certain personal information when registering for our website, provided, however, that you may not be able to use some of our products or services without providing us with certain information.