Privacy Policy — Spector Craft Prize

Privacy Notice

Last Updated: October 10, 2025

The Spector Family Foundation (“Foundation,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) describes the processing of Personal Information (defined below) that is provided, collected, or disclosed in connection with the Foundation’s prize programs, including the Spector Craft Prize and the Spector Craft Prize for Emerging Artists, including on the website that links to this Notice (collectively, “Site”). Please read this Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your Personal Information and how we will treat it.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect several categories of information that uniquely identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you (“Personal Information”). The categories of Personal Information we collect may include:

• Nominee and Applicant Information – If you are nominated for the Spector Craft Prize or apply for the Spector Craft Prize for Emerging Artists, we collect information including your full name, artistic name, date of birth, mailing address, email address, phone number, social media handles, government ID photo, years of practice, primary craft discipline, educational background, recent exhibitions, and awards/recognition. Selected artists are also required to fill out an IRS Form W-9, which includes your Social Security number or tax ID number.

• Conference Registration Information – If you register to attend our conference, we collect information including full name, e-mail address, phone number, mailing address, and social media handles.

• Usage Information – When you use our Site, we may automatically record information, including your Internet Protocol address (IP Address), geolocation of your device, browser type, referring URLs (e.g., the website you visited before coming to our Site), domain names associated with your internet service provider, and any other information regarding your interaction with our Site.

HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

• Directly From You – We collect Personal Information that you provide to us directly, for example, if you are nominated for the Spector Craft Prize, when you apply for the Spector Craft Prize for Emerging Artists, register to attend our conference, if you choose to contact us, or request information from us.

• Through Online Tracking Technologies – We use cookies and similar technologies to collect Personal Information automatically as you navigate our Site. For additional information regarding our use of these technologies, see the Cookies and Tracking Technologies section below.

HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we use Personal Information:

• To evaluate and consider your application for the Foundation’s prize programs, including registering you for our conference.

• To optimize, improve, and maintain our Site, including troubleshooting problems.

• For communicating with you, such as responding to your application and other questions and comments.

• For legal, security, or safety reasons, such as protecting our and our applicants’ safety, property, or rights; complying with legal requirements; enforcing our terms, conditions, and policies; detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents; and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.

• As part of a corporate transaction, such as in connection with the sale of part or all of our assets or business, the acquisition of part or all of another business or another business’ assets, or another corporate transaction, including bankruptcy.

• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, including purposes described when you provide the information or give your consent.

HOW WE DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose your Personal Information with your consent or in the following circumstances:

• Employees and Other Personnel – We may share Personal Information with our employees and personnel (such as contractors) who have a need to know the information.

• Service Providers – We disclose your Personal Information with our service providers, including but not limited to, website hosting providers and other technology providers.

• Legal Obligation or Safety Reasons – We may disclose Personal Information to a third party when we have a good faith belief that such disclosure of Personal Information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy or comply with any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of any agreement you have with us, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, (d) support auditing and compliance functions, or (e) protect the rights, property, or safety of the Foundation, its employees, or the public against harm.

• Merger or Change of Control – We may disclose Personal Information to third parties as necessary if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or any other transaction involving a change of control in our business, including but not limited to, a bankruptcy or similar proceeding. Where legally required, we will give you notice prior to such disclosure.

• Other – We may disclose Personal Information to third parties when explicitly requested by or consented to by you, or for the purposes for which you disclosed the Personal Information to us as indicated at the time and point of the disclosure (or as was obvious at the time and point of disclosure).

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

We may use cookies and similar technologies to collect usage and browser information about how you use our Site. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies and web beacons that permit us to verify system and server integrity. We process the information collected through such technologies, which may include or be combined with Personal Information, to help operate certain features of our Site.

To manage your preferences with respect to these technologies, you can change your cookie preferences by customizing your browser settings to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable certain cookies, please note that some parts of our Site may not function properly. These settings may be lost and require reconfiguration if you delete your cookies.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We retain your Personal Information as necessary to: (i) consider your eligibility for the Foundation’s prize programs; (ii) fulfill the purposes outlined in this Notice; and (iii) comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce any agreements. Criteria we will use to determine how long to retain your Personal Information include the nature and length of our relationship with you; our legal rights, obligations, and retention requirements; and if we have an ongoing purpose for retaining your Personal Information.

LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites linked to or from our Site, including the information or content contained within them. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing Personal Information to third parties, since any Personal Information disclosed will be handled in accordance with the applicable third party’s privacy policy.

INTERNATIONAL USE

If you are visiting our Site from outside of the United States, please note that our Site is hosted in the United States. Where permitted by applicable law, we may transfer the Personal Information we collect about you to the United States and other jurisdictions that may not be deemed to provide the same level of data protection as your home country, as necessary for the purposes set out in this Notice.

HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

We have implemented commercially reasonable measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Despite these efforts to store Personal Information in a secure environment, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information during its transmission or its storage on our systems.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

We do not knowingly collect or solicit any Personal Information from children, as defined under applicable law, without verified written parental consent. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child, we will promptly take steps to delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child, please contact us at info@spectorcraftprize.org.

CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE

Please note that we may modify or update this Notice from time to time, so please review it periodically. If we make material changes to how we treat Personal Information, we will notify you according to applicable law. Unless otherwise indicated, any changes to this Notice will apply immediately upon posting to our Site. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Site and this Notice to check for any changes.

If you have any questions about our practices or this Notice, please contact us at info@spectorcraftprize.org.