Objectives of Photo Art New England

• Photo Art New England will focus on providing photographers and artists a vehicle to sell their work, offering the customer a variety of high quality art and photography styles to choose from at a competitive price.

• The guild concept will be utilized to give small local photographers of New England the ability to show and sell their work with other accomplished photographers to an audience that is global in scope.

• Photo Art New England will try to act as a means of communication and provide a source of current and timely information to both artists and customers.

Content

• Website content should remain legal, moral and decent. 

• Photo Art New England will make reasonable attempts to observe copyright, intellectual property (including formats and designs), music and performance rights. 

• A standard copyright notice and disclaimer will be included at the bottom of every page as well as the name of the artist in proximity to each photograph. 

• Photography is considered an art form of self-expression by the artist and Photo Art New England does not hold any opinion, or have or express any political or religious views which may seem to be conveyed through this expression. 


• Although Photo Art New England attempts not to link content to this website that would otherwise circumvent these guidelines, Photo Art New England is not responsible for content on other Web sites. 

Links

• Photo Art New England will maintain current links to all relevant webpages:

• All pages will link to Home.

• The Site Center will be linked to every page. 

• To insure that there will be no dead links, all links will be periodically checked.

Privacy, Personal Security and Data Protection

• Photo Art New England is committed to ensuring the privacy and personal security of both its' artists and customers:

   

  • Photo Art New England will not include anyone's full name, postal addresses, telephone numbers or e-mail addresses without the consent of the individual either in writing or by verifiable e-mail.

   

  • The names and e-mail addresses given to us will not be sold, compiled into a mailing list, or used for any type of mail solicitation. Any information given is used to customize your experience on our website and as a demographic study to enhance service to our customers and artists.

   

  • Photo Art New England is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on linked Web sites.

User Accessibility

• Photo Art New England makes every effort to be universally accessible via whatever devices are best suited to the individual.

• 'Bobby' at www.cast.org/bobby/ is used by the webmasters at Photo Art New England to check our website for ease of disability access and proudly displays its approval logo. 'Bobby' is a specialized website that is recognized by the W3C Web Consortium and will automatically check any other website and return specific advise to help improve disability access.

• Photo Art New England does not use frames as not all browsers or access devices (e.g. WAP phones) support them. 

• Photo Art New England relies heavily on images to display its products, but will always provide ALT tags and give meaningful descriptions of the graphics. Graphics and images are avoided for navigational purposes.

• Photo Art New England avoids using tables or text formatting in ways that would inhibit navigation by those who cannot either see or display full size screens.

• Photo Art New England avoids using the latest plug-ins, HTML or browser-specific features -- as platform specific technology features will only narrow the potential audience and frustrate many others.

• Photo Art New England uses a high contrasting dark color for text on a plain light background for easy readability and printability.