These Terms of Service were last updated on 7 April 2026

I. INTRODUCTION

The Pacific Arts Association (PAA), was founded in 1974 and established as an association in 1978. We are an international organisation devoted to the study of all the arts of Oceania.

The Pacific Arts Association is a registered 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organisation in the United States, EIN: 61-2180890. Our Registration number is CC11225.

These terms constitute an agreement between you, the website user, (‘you’, ‘your’) and us. Your use of pacificarts.org is governed by these terms and our Privacy Policy. By accessing and using this website you agree that you have read and understood and agree to be bound by these terms and our Privacy Policy.

II. PRIVACY

Where we collect personal information about you as a result of your accessing or use of pacificarts.org, our Privacy Policy will apply to that information.

III. CHANGES

We may add to, modify, suspend, or remove pacificarts.org or any information, material or feature incorporated in this website at any time and without notice. We may change these terms from time to time by amending the terms and any amendment will be effective from the date the updated terms are posted on pacificarts.org. By continuing to access or use this website following such publication you accept the revised terms.

IV. YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE

When using pacificarts.org, you must not:

• use this website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms;
• engage in any conduct that may impair or cause damage to the operation of this website whether by way of a virus, corrupted file or through any other means, or for any purpose that may affect our charitable status;
• transmit or upload any information to pacificarts.org which is not true and correct or which may be misleading or deceptive, or which is in breach of any intellectual property laws, rights or any other applicable law;
• either knowingly or otherwise, provide a materially false or fraudulent statement, detail or information when registering an account with us or otherwise in connection with your use of the website;
• alter, modify, reproduce, transmit or otherwise deal with the content, software, text, graphics, layout or design of the website otherwise than in accordance with clause 14;
• copy, modify, adapt, enhance, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or transmit pacificarts.org (or any part of them), or attempt to do the same, without our express written consent, except as expressly permitted by the law;
• attempt to defeat, avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or otherwise circumvent any software protection mechanisms in the website including any mechanisms used to restrict or control the functionality of the software;
• resell, resupply, publish or distribute copies of any materials, data, content or other information made available through pacificarts.org, to any third party;
• remove any copyright, trade mark, or proprietary rights notices included in or on the website and any materials or information accessed through the website;
• engage in any conduct that may disrupt or interfere with the operation of the website or interfere with other users’ use and enjoyment of the website; and engage in any other conduct that we in our absolute discretion consider inappropriate.
• We may impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts, or all, of pacificarts.org without notice or liability to you or any third party.

V. THIRD PARTY MATERIALS AND INTERFACES

Certain content and materials available through this website may include materials owned by third parties. You must not use any third party materials in a manner that would infringe or violate the rights of any person. We are not in any way responsible for any such use by you.

VI. YOUR ACCOUNT

At any time you can contact us to:
1] Request copies of your personally identifying information that PAA has recorded.
2] Submit corrections and changes to information that we have about you that is incomplete, incorrect, or out of date.
3] Request that we delete your information from our records. Notify us that you are opting out of further PAA communications.

We will respond to these requests to the best of our ability and in accordance with the law. Please be advised that although we may remove your personally identifiable information from our mailing lists, we may be required to retain some records of membership transactions for tax purposes.

VII. YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD

Our servers and databases are located in Aotearoa New Zealand. We, and our third-party contractors, collect and store the information described above in Aotearoa New Zealand. Laws concerning the storage and use of personally identifiable information in Aotearoa New Zealand may be less protective than the laws in your jurisdiction.

By using pacificarts.org, you expressly consent to the collection, storage, and use of your personally identifiable information in Aotearoa New Zealand. You are responsible for complying with your local laws, rules, and regulations regarding online conduct and access to the website. If you live in a country where accessing websites based in Aotearoa New Zealand is prohibited, you should cease using the PAA website.

VIII. OTHER USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We only collect your personally identifiable information when you knowingly provide it to us. We may receive this information during the following interactions:

• When you become a member of PAA.
• When you renew your membership or rejoin PAA.
• When you register for a PAA Symposium or Event (for example, PAA Currents).
• When you propose an event for PAA sponsorship (for example, the PAA panel at the College Art Association annual conference).
• When you make a donation to PAA.

PAA does not store any login credentials you use to register for a PAA event. All payments are processed through PayPal, and PAA does not have access to your PayPal login credentials or financial information. Whesn making membership or event registration payments, website users provide their names, addresses, and payment information to PayPal.

PAA’s privacy statement only covers the processing of personal data for which PAA is responsible, namely, contact details for the administration of membership and events. For everything else, those concerned should read PayPal’s privacy statement.

IX. ONLINE PAYMENT PROCESS

We employ external technologies and contractors who provide specialized services to PAA, including credit card processing, event registration, and website development for PAA. To process membership payments and ensure our emails reach all PAA members, we may, in select cases, need to provide these outside contractors with some of your personally identifiable information. Our agreements with these contractors (data processors under the GDPR) include protections for your personally identifiable information and the understanding that any information provided can only be used for PAA services.

By making a payment through pacificarts.org you authorise us or our nominated third-party payment service provider, PayPal, to charge your credit card or bank account using the details supplied by you.

If there is a problem with your payment (for example, if your credit card transaction is declined), we may contact you to make alternative payment arrangements.
All transactions should show our name as Pacific Arts Association, and we are a registered 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States, EIN: 61-2180890. Our Registration number is CC11225.

X. DONATIONS

This website may enable you to give money to us as a ‘donation’. All donations made through pacificarts.org, or through any other means, are donated to the us and not to any other person.

No amount given to us shall become a receipted donation (‘Receipted Donation’) except to the extent that we issue a receipt in relation to that amount. We will issue a receipt when we decide, in our absolute discretion.

XI. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

You must not use or reproduce or allow anyone to use or reproduce any Pacific Arts Association graphics, and logos marks for any reason without our prior written permission in each case.

The website, including all materials displayed on, or accessed through pacificarts.org are protected by copyright and other laws in New Zealand, and under similar laws and international conventions abroad. Unless otherwise stated, copyright and other intellectual property rights in the website and all material published belong to us or to our licensors.

The software that operates pacificarts.org may include proprietary software and you may not use such software except as expressly allowed under these terms. Any other use or purported licensing, modification, enhancement or interference of such elements is strictly prohibited.

Except in accordance with clause 11 or with our prior written permission, you may not in any form or by any means:

use, copy, modify, adapt, reproduce, store, embed, distribute, print, display, perform, publish, or transmit in any way our intellectual property, materials or any part of our materials; or commercialise any information, products or services obtained from any part of this website.

XII. DISCLAIMERS

You acknowledge that if you rely on pacificarts.org or any materials available through this website, you do so solely at your own risk.

• Third party works:
  The works of third parties published on this website (including all artists’ works), and any views or opinions expressed by those third parties or within such third parties’ works, are those of the respective third parties and are not necessarily ours. We do not necessarily agree with or endorse the views expressed by any third party or within any third parties’ works published on our website. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we assume no responsibility nor accept any liability for the content of any third party’s work published on, or available through, our website or views or opinions expressed by any third party.
• Third party links:
  This website may provide links to internet sites maintained by third parties. Such linked sites are not under our control, and we are not responsible for their contents (including the accuracy or legality of any linked site or any material contained in a linked site). We are providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by us of the linked site. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any damages or loss arising in any way out of, or in connection with, or incidental to any information or service provided by any third party.

XIII. AVAILABILITY

Due to the nature of the internet and electronic communications, we and our service providers do not warrant that pacificarts.org or any associated services will be error free, without interruption or delay, or free from defects in design. Your use of this website and any associated services may be subject to interruption, unavailability, restriction, or delay. We will not be liable to you should pacificarts.org or the services supplied through this website become, interrupted, unavailable, restricted, or delayed for any reason.

XIV. HYPERLINKS AND THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

If you create a hyperlink or hotlink to pacificarts.org or embed this website in another website, you do so at your own risk.

XV. SECURITY AND MALICIOUS CODE

All information transmitted to you is transmitted at your risk, and you assume all responsibility and risks arising in relation to your use of pacificarts.org and the Internet. We do not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your own computer system which may arise in connection with your accessing of this website or any hyperlink.

Although we endeavour to prevent the introduction of viruses, trojans, worms, or other malicious code (together, ‘malicious code’) to this website, we do not guarantee that this website, or any data available from it, does not contain malicious code. We will not be liable for any damages or harm attributable to malicious code. You are responsible for ensuring that the process that you employ for accessing this website does not expose your computer system to the risk of interference or damage from malicious code.

XVI. INDEMNIFICATION

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you must indemnify us for all losses we incur in respect of any claim or proceedings against us arising out of or in connection with:

• your use of this website;
• another person using your user account and/or your failure to keep your username or password secure and confidential as required by clause VII;
• any hyperlink, hotlink, or embedding by you as set out in clause XIV;
• your breach of these terms; and/or
• your negligence

Except to the extent the losses arise directly due to our breach of these terms or our negligence.

XVII. SEVERABILITY

If any provision of these terms of use becomes or is held invalid, unenforceable or illegal (whether partly or in full) for any reason, that provision (or part of that provision) will be severed from the remaining terms and conditions, which will continue in full force and effect.

XVIII. WAIVER

If at any time we do not enforce any of these terms, we will not be construed as having waived that term or condition, or our rights to later enforce that or any other term or condition. Further, no waiver by us, in exercising any right, power or provision in these terms will operate as a waiver of any other right or of that same right at a future time.

Any delay in the exercise of any power or right by us will not be interpreted as a waiver of such power or right.

XIX. GOVERNING LAW

This website is controlled by us, from offices within New Zealand. Information on pacificarts.org may not be appropriate for use in other jurisdictions. If you choose to access this website from outside New Zealand, you do so on your own initiative and you are responsible for compliance with applicable laws of that jurisdiction.

These terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand and the courts of New Zealand shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine any dispute arising in relation to these terms.

XX. CONTACT

If you have any questions or concerns in relation to pacificarts.org or these terms please contact us.