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Americans for the Arts maintains appropriate measures to ensure that users' personal details are not misused, accidentally destroyed, lost, or altered within our technical infrastructure. To facilitate AmericansForTheArts.org's offerings and services, on occasion certain selected user information must be made temporarily available to selected data processors such as fulfillment bureaus or database consultants. Such data processors are instructed to act strictly upon instruction from Americans for the Arts.
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