This information remains confidential, and will not be made the object of publication in a printed catalogue or made visible on La-Passerelle.net without your prior and express permission. Your subcription information, for example, is not published automatically or otherwise in the contemporary art links directory. (Please refer to the terms and conditions.)

Once you have submitted your subscription form via the Internet, you will receive an email that you must validate by means of a link provided in the email. By clicking on this link, or copying and pasting it into your Internet browser you will automatically be validated and able to access the menu found on the main page of the section for participating artists on La-Passerelle.net.

Please keep your login et your password confidential and and in a secure place in order to reconnect to La-Passerelle.net the next time that you visit.

A page "Lost Password" will help you to recover your login and password on the condition that you still have access to the mailbox of the email associated with the personal information of your account.

If you have an Internet site dedicated to your artwork or connected in some way with contemporary art, you are welcome to add your link (the url address, a description and classification) to the Art Directory of La-Passerelle.net.

In order to maintain quality links in the art directory, each link is subject to approval by a moderator and will only appear in the directory following approval by the team of La-Passerelle.net.

One art directory link is permitted per subscription. If you wish to list additional links, you may do so on your dedicated links page found in the Gallery of La-Passerelle.net.

A small image snapshot of the site will accompany your link in the directory (this image is provided by La-Passerelle.net). The number of visits to your site is also posted and updated regularly. The validation and update of the directory is executed daily.

If you would like to participate in the Forum, be it an announce or a discussion, or if you wish to respond to previous posts, you must be subscribed and connected via your login to La-Passerelle.net.

As with the Art Directory, posts to the Forum are moderated : your contribution will be made visible to the public following a validation process that will occur within 24 hours following your submission.

Your email will appear with your name alongside your post so that you may directly receive responses. The brackets around the emails (yourname [ @ ] yourdomain.com) help to protect your email against any eventual risk of automatic insertion by « spam* » machines that may encounter the Forum pages referenced by the principal Internet Search Engines.

spam* = The automatic sending of non-sollicitated emails often containing computer virus to millions of people across the Internet.

If you have showings or events that are "non virtual" in nature, that is to say that are taking place in a precise arena, and do not represent a permanent showing, the Agenda is the section where you may present this happening.

• An entire page is dedicated to each one of your showings.
• This page is indexed under the section current showings or in the u archives section if it has already taken place. (It is preferable to keep your past showings on-line in order to reinforce and retrace all of your showings.)

You can post as many announcements as you like. In order to present to the public accurate and pertinent information about your showing and events, each announcement must contain the following:

• A Title for the showing with a short Description.
• Precise Dates for the event.
• The exacte Street Address so that people may attend.
• A Telephone number for questions or more information.
• A Photo of either the place or the artworks involved with this event. (only images in .jpg format are accepted)

If desired, you may add an email contact and a direct link to another Internet site concerning this showing or other artists that may be present at the event.

If you have put up a gallery on La-Passerelle.net, a link to your gallery will automatically be desplayed on the pages dedicated to your showings. Your first name and last name as indicated with your general inscription information will also be automatically included on your announcement page and in the Agenda index.

As with all the sections of La-Passerelle.net, each showing must be validated by a moderator before it will be included and linked into the site. The validation process happens will occur within 24 hours of your posting.

• A Gallery of your artworks
  • A maximum of 12 artworks is accepted per Gallery, (only images in .jpg format are accepted). The images are automatically optimised when you upload them to La-Passerelle.net.
• A section for your Artist's Statement.
  • This is rather an open space where you may present a variety of subjects: your technique, your poetry, your inspirations...
• A section for your Biography
  • This is a more formal space where you may indicate your past history and professional profile including expositions.
• Links : In this section you may list as many links as you wish to other art sites, your own or affiliates.
• Infos : Your Contact page is created automatically from the information in this section. This section invites visitors on La-Passerelle.net to contact you concerning your artworks.
  • There is a check box found where you may accepte that your precise contact information (street address, telephone number, email) be made visible to the public browsing your site. If you choose to deselect this checkbox, the information will not appear a form will be automatically inserted into your contact page so that people may contact you indirectly. You will receive an email, but your public will not have access to your email address.

Once you are logged into the Participants section of La-Passerelle.net and you have clicked on the Gallery section to create your Virtual Art Gallery, on the menu you will find the 5 buttons mentioned above plus 2 others:

• The color Palette where you may choose between 10 different combinations of colors for the navigational frame of your Virtual Art Gallery.
• A Contact button where you can manage a mailling list for your messages concerning your artworks and activities. (A correct level of monitoring is maintained by means of IP numbers in order to protect against abus and spam.)

Once you have created your Virtual Art Gallery, it must be approved by the validation process in the same manner as the other sections of La-Passerelle.net. In order for your Gallery to be approved, it must contain a minimum of 3 artworks plus your Artist's Statement or your Biography.

If you have your own site or space on the Internet where you may add links to other sites, you are invited to create a link to La-Passerelle.net. It s highly recommended to do so, for the cross-linking reinforces your presence as well as that of La-Passerelle.net on the major search engines found on the Internet. It is win-win situation.

An explanation of how to create a link with some examples may be found on this page.

You may at any moment modify your personal information provided when you registered your login on La-Passerelle.net. There is a second form for this found on the main menu of the Participating Artists section.

Please conserve a valid email address with your login information to ensure contact with us and in order to automatically recover your login and password if you loose them for any reason.

If you wish to unsubscribe from La-Passerelle.net, it is possible do to this in the personal information section. This request will be treated within 24 hours and the totality of your data, anouncements, links and artworks will be removed from the site of La-Passerelle.net.