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Germany
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Idea and conception
Thomas Schmidt

Editor
Thomas Schmidt (Editor in chief)

Liability and Privacy

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picturetom has created this statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. picturetom does not collect personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. This policy is your guide to how picturetom will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our Web site.

Reading or Downloading: We collect and store only the following information about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account, or harvard.edu if you are connecting from Harvards University’s domain); the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked to our site. We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.

Online Application:  To request an application or image to picturetom, you may fill out our Preliminary Data Page and share your personally identifying information. This information will be used only to determine your interest in picturetom image library and related programs. We may use your contact information to send further information about picturetom or to contact you when necessary. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the “Opt Out” section below.

Sending Us an E-mail: You also may decide to send us personally identifying information, for example, in an electronic mail message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a Web form that provides us this information. We use personally identifying information from e-mail primarily to respond to your requests. We may forward your e-mail to other picturetom employees who are better able to answer you questions. We may also use your e-mail to contact you in the future about picturetom image library that may be of interest. We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. Except as might be required by law, we do not share any information we receive with any outside parties. If you sign up for one of our e-mail lists, we’ll only send you the kinds of information you’ve requested. We won’t share your name or e-mail address with any outside parties.

Kids and Privacy: For children who visit our site, special rules apply. We do not request personal information about children, such as first and last name or street address and city. When kids send e-mail to us, their online contact information (e-mail address) is not used to re-contact them and is not maintained in retrievable form.
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