Legal

By accessing or using the Site in any manner, including, but not limited to, visiting or browsing the Site or contributing content or other materials to the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. Capitalized terms are defined in this Agreement.

Intellectual Property

The Site and its original content, features and functionality are owned by Open Secret Studios and are protected by international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.

The Site does not hold all copyrights to the photography or artwork displayed and/or used on the Site. Photographs or artwork may not be saved, downloaded, or utilized without the respective Photographer’s or Artist’s express written permission.

Full Disclosure

The Site does accept some forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, sponsored giveaways, paid insertions, or other forms of compensation. The Site adheres to FTC Law Guidelines regarding disclosure of compensation. All sponsored material will have a Disclosure Statement image-graphic indicating they have been sponsored.

Links To Other Sites

Our Site may contain links to third-party sites that are not owned or controlled by Open Secret Studios.

Open Secret Studios has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services. We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of any third-party site that you visit.

Privacy Policy

Open Secret Studios values your privacy and does not share visitor personal information (e.g., email addresses) with third-parties. The Site does collect internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referral and exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, track user movement around the website, and gather demographic information for the sole purpose of creating better future website content. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Some of the advertisements that appear on the Open Secret Studios website are delivered to you by national internet advertising and application companies such as DFP. This company utilizes certain technologies to deliver advertisements and marketing messages and to collect anonymous information about your visit to our site, including information about the banner ads they display, and cookies they place on your computer and your IP address.

Cookies Policy

Open Secret Studios uses cookies on this website. By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies. This policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the website, and your choices regarding cookies.

What are cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the website or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the website more useful to you. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

How Open Secret Studios uses cookies

When you use and access the website, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the website and to provide analytics.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the website for our sponsored partners, deliver advertisements on and through the website, and so on.

What are your choices regarding cookies

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

Changes To This Agreement

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms and Conditions by posting the updated terms on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms and Conditions.

This Agreement was created on April 14, 2016 and last modified on December 23, 2019.

Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this website’s material without express and written permission from this website’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Open Secret Studios with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.