Our Privacy Policy

  1. The Waikato Society of Arts are committed to providing our customers with a secure, private online shopping experience.

  2. The Privacy Act 1993 establishes certain principles with respect to the collection, use and disclosure, by various agencies, of information relating to individuals, and access by individuals to information relating to them held by such agencies.

  3. The Waikato Society of Arts operates in accordance with the Privacy Act 1993 to protect the personal information you provide online.

  4. Waikato Society of Arts will not sell, trade or rent personal information to others.

  5. All personal information will remain private and confidential and will be stored in a secure location accessible only by designated staff, and used only for the purposes for which you provide the information.

  6. Waikato Society of Arts may compile and provide aggregate statistics about our visitors, customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to third parties, however, these statistics will not include any personally identifying information.

  7. By using our Website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by the Waikato Society of Arts.

  8. The Waikato Society of Arts may release account information when we have a good faith belief that such release is reasonably necessary to comply with the law, enforce the terms of any of our user agreements, or protect the rights, property and safety of the Waikato Society of Arts, the users of its site, or others.

  9. This website may place cookies on your computer. These are only accessible by the Waikato Society of Arts and will only be used to track the pages of the website visited by you, in order for us to improve our service and provide a site more tailored to your needs and interests.
  10. We do not use cookies to record personal information nor do we link non-personal information stored in cookies with personal information about specific individuals.

  11. The Waikato Society of Arts website may contain links to other sites that are not under our control. These websites have their own policies regarding privacy. You should review those policies before visiting the websites.
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  13. We have no responsibility for linked websites, and we provide these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors.

  14. For further enquiries relating to access to personal information or online shopping at the Waikato Society of Arts, please contact the Waikato Society of Arts office on 07 8394481 or wsa@wsa.org.nz.

 

Copyright

  1. The Waikato Society of Arts is grateful to all the artists and copyright holders who have given their permission for images to appear on this website. Unless specifically stated otherwise, none of the content on this site may be reproduced, communicated to the public, transmitted or copied without the WSA’s express written permission, except for the purposes of private study, research, criticism, review or education, in accordance with the Copyright Act 1994.

  2. For written permission to reproduce information on this website for any purpose other than personal use, please contact the author, where named, in the first instance or contact the WSA. When information from this website is used in any context, it must reference this website and the day, month and year it was viewed.

  3. Works, including text, sound recordings, images and artworks, are used on this site with the permission of artists, authors, donors and/or lenders of those works.

  4. The WSA is committed to respecting the intellectual property rights of others. Every effort has been made to locate the copyright owners of material used in this website. In cases where this has not been possible copyright owners are invited to contact the WSA.

To the best of the Waikato Society of Art’s knowledge, under New Zealand law:

  1. There are no copyright or other intellectual property rights for works with a Copyright Status of ‘No known copyright restrictions’ or ‘Copyright expired’ in New Zealand, and This material may be copied and otherwise re-used in New Zealand without copyright or other intellectual property right related restriction.

  2. The Waikato Society of Arts will not be liable to you, on any legal basis (including negligence), for any loss or damage you suffer through your use of this material, except in those cases where the law does not allow us to exclude or limit our liability to you.

  3. The Waikato Society of Arts cannot guarantee that sharing these images may not inadvertently infringe upon the rights of copyright holders unknown to us, and the Waikato Society of Arts cannot accept liability if this should happen.

Photography and Filming in The Next Level Gallery

  1. Visitors are permitted to take photographs with hand-held cameras without attachments in THE Next Level Gallery for personal use. These images should not be reproduced or displayed on personal websites and must not be sold commercially or displayed publicly in any way that disrespects the subjects in the artworks or causes offence to any individuals or groups.

  2. The use of tripods, selfie sticks, external stabilising devices, flash or additional lighting is not permitted without the permission of the Gallery. A request must be made and granted before such equipment can be used in the gallery space.

  3. Look out for the ‘no photography’ icon indicating objects or exhibitions that cannot be filmed or photographed. This restriction may be for cultural reasons, due to copyright law or to protect the objects.

Refunds and Returns

Please see our refunds page for more details.

 

Waikato Society of Arts Exhibiting Agreement

This Agreement exists between the ARTIST (ARTIST represents all parties and participants involved in the exhibition) and the Waikato Society of Arts. If any part of this agreement is breached by the ARTIST the ARTIST may become liable for any cost incurred by the Waikato Society of Arts.

The ARTIST agrees to the following:

  1. For the purposes of this agreement, the artist agrees to use the Waikato Society of Arts as an exhibition space for the artwork(s).

  2. The artist agrees that the artwork(s) will remain in exhibition at the Waikato Society of Arts for the duration of the exhibition, and will not be removed or replaced by the artist under any circumstance.

  3. The ARTIST agrees that the artwork(s) may be, but are not required to be sold as a part of the exhibition by the Waikato Society of Arts.

  4. The artist agrees to all policies, terms and conditions as laid out in this agreement.