This Policy defines the scope of privacy and degree of confidentiality protecting the information provided by users during registration and normal use of Articoo.art (“Site”), Articoo’ services, programs and facilities.
This Policy applies to Site owned and operated by Articoo Inc., and its affiliates (collectively, “Articoo”). By using the Site, user provides his/her consent that Articoo has the authority to collect, use and disclose the user’s personal information according to the rules of this Policy. together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, including but not limited to Articoo.
This Privacy Policy contains the rules upon which such information is collected and used, and also the reasons for disclosure of such information. These rules apply to any personal information collected by Articoo.
- COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
When you visit the Site, we collect certain information, including
- IP address, time of the visit, and browser type and language version, which may be collected automatically;
- Navigational information, namely the address and path of the user through the Site, and actions performed on the Site;
- Information supplied by the user during registration at the Site, including the login, full name and e-mail. When user registers as a Contributor on the Site, Articoo collects additional information such as postal address and contact phone number;
- Information supplied by the User during purchase, such as a billing address and the credit card number;
- If the user is registered as a Contributor, information provided by him/her for payments, including data about the account in a financial institution used for the payments, and also information supplied by the user for personal identification (copy of the passport, driver’s license or another personal identification document).
Registered users also have an option to provide additional personal information such as address and phone number within their profiles. Each user can control what information is displayed publicly at “Edit profile” page.
Articoo never requires users to provide genetic data, biometric data, information revealing racial or ethnic origin of users, their political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership, and data concerning their health or sex life or sexual orientation.
Each user has the right to refuse the submission of personal information at any time. However, in this case, some functions and services offered at the Site may be degraded and/or made unavailable, in part or in its entirety.
Each user has the right to refuse the submission of personal information at any time. However, in this case, some functions and services offered at the Site may be degraded and/or made unavailable, in part or in its entirety.
- USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Collection and use of the user’s personal information is performed by Articoo for the following purposes:
- Creation, management and maintenance of an account;
- Processing of the User’s inquiries and operations at the Site;
- Customer service;
- Data analysis and statistical research for the purposes of improving offered goods, products or technologies;
- Provision and display of the content specially chosen in accordance with preferences and interests of the User;
- Maintenance of operation of interactive areas;
- Payment of commission to Contributors;
- Identification of the supplied files as belonging to a certain Contributor;
- Realization of communication and contacts on matters concerning transactions made by the User;
- Notification about new goods and services to the Site User;
- Marketing communications for promotion and advertising of Articoo’ products, and third-party products.
Articoo will ask for user’s consent before using his/her personal information for a purpose other than listed in this Policy.
Articoo collects personal information about its users only, and does not require users to provide 2. USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Collection and use of the user’s personal information is performed by Articoo for the following purposes:
- Creation, management and maintenance of an account;
- Processing of the User’s inquiries and operations at the Site;
- Customer service;
- Data analysis and statistical research for the purposes of improving offered goods, products or technologies;
- Provision and display of the content specially chosen in accordance with preferences and interests of the User;
- Maintenance of operation of interactive areas;
- Payment of commission to Contributors;
- Identification of the supplied files as belonging to a certain Contributor;
- Realization of communication and contacts on matters concerning transactions made by the User;
- Notification about new goods and services to the Site User;
- Marketing communications for promotion and advertising of Articoo’ products, and third-party products.
Articoo will ask for user’s consent before using his/her personal information for a purpose other than listed in this Policy.
Articoo collects personal information about its users only, and does not require users to provide Articoo with personal information of any third persons, except for case of sharing the lightbox preview as described below.
Articoo has the ability to send communications concerning transactions performed by the user, payment reminders and questions concerning purchase confirmation.
Users are free to select one-click opt-out possibility to unsubscribe from promotional and advertising communications. Articoo will not further send promotional and advertising messages once objection is received from a user. This one-click subscription is not available for transactional messages that are generally required. To opt-out of communications connected to transactions, users shall deactivate their accounts.
Our promotional and advertising messages will always be clearly identified as promotional and/or advertising, and will always contain both return e-mail address and physical postal address of Articoo.
Personal information collected by Articoo may be processed and stored in other countries. By supplying Articoo with personal information, users permit Articoo to transfer this data to other locations, including to countries that may have laws that do not offer the same protection of personal information as those in the user’s country.
Articoo has the ability to send communications concerning transactions performed by the user, payment reminders and questions concerning purchase confirmation.
- DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except in situations clearly stated within these rules, Articoo does not disclose, sell, lease, lend, rent or make available personal information of the user to any third parties.
Users’ personal information can be disclosed and shared with partner agencies that render services on behalf of Articoo. The services may include money transfer, data storage, reselling licenses, payment processing, etc. These third parties will receive only the information required to provide said specific services; the information will be kept and protected by the same principles and level of protection followed by Articoo, and it cannot be used for any other purposes.
Information about users may also be passed and disclosed as a business asset in the case of acquisition, sale or absorption of the company.
Articoo reserves the right to disclose and pass personal information of the User if it is required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Site.
- ACCESS TO OWN PERSONAL INFORMATION
Information indicated by the User at the Site can be reviewed and edited in the section «Main Menu — Profile». Alternatively, users may contact Articoo at support@Articoo.art and request a copy of information collected by Articoo to be extracted and provided in a readable format. Articoo will respond to such request without unreasonable delay.
We will retain users’ information for as long as their accounts are active or as needed to provide services to users.
Users shall contact us at support@Articoo.art in order to cancel his or her account or request that we delete or no longer use their information to provide services. In this case, we will retain and use user’s information only to the extent, necessary to comply with our legal obligations, prevention of fraud, resolution of disputes and performance of our agreements.
- USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
Articoo and our partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. To manage Flash cookies, please click here .
We partner with a third-party ad network to either display advertising on our Site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other Web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking here . Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.
The User can allow or forbid the use and acceptance of cookies on his/her computer. If cookies are blocked by the User, it may prevent the User from being able to register or perform other interactive functions of the Site, but it will not affect the User’s ability to perform general navigation within the Site.
Email information collected for sending light boxes is not stored or used for any other purpose. That information is not shared with any other parties.
- PROTECTION OF THE USER’S PERSONAL INFORMATION
Articoo actively monitors and enforces the information protection standards during all Articoo ‘ activity, namely:
- Limitation of the rendered access to information only to those employees who need it for providing services to the User;
- Signature of confidentiality treaties by employees;
- Signature by partners and external companies invited for fulfillment of particular functions of confidentiality treaties and agreements concerning non-use of such information for any unauthorized purposes;
- Encryption of payment data such as credit card number using SSL technology through the use of our third-party payment gateway service providers;
- Storing of the personal information obtained from the User in encrypted form, at protected computers secured from unauthorized access.
Since there is no perfect secure method of protecting information during its storage, processing and transfer into electronic form, Articoo does not give the full warranty of its complete safety, despite all efforts made by the company. If information of an account and personal data of the User are protected with a password, safety and nondisclosure of this password are responsibility of the User him/herself.
Users also have a right to lodge a complaint with competent supervisory authorities in countries of their residence or location should users consider that any of their privacy rights may be infringed by Articoo.
- SENDING A LIGHTBOX
If you choose to use our referral service to send a friend a preview of a lightbox, we will ask you for your friend’s email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Site and view the lightbox. Articoo does not store this information, it is for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.
- OPEN ID CONTRIBUTOR
You can log in to our Site using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID contributor. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign- up form. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on the Site to your profile page to share with others within your network.
- MINOR USERS
Site, Site content and services are neither intended to be used by minors and persons under age of 18, nor designed and intended to willfully and knowingly collect, use, or disclose any personal information from minors and persons under age of 18. Articoo will immediately remove personal information from children and/or search to obtain a verifiable parental consent for the collection use, or disclosure of personal information from children, once it will come to Articoo’ attention that any personal information from children was submitted or collected through the Site.
The User confirms and warrants that he/she has reached the age of 18, has all the sufficient for usage of the Site and is bound by legal obligations sufficient for any liability that can appear as a result of usage of the Site files. The User agrees to bear full responsibility for all cases of the Site usage without distinction, as well as for use of his/her login and password by third parties including minors and persons under age of 18 living with him/her.
- LINKS
The Site pages can contain links to sites, services and functions of third parties, subsidiaries and affiliates that may use and conform to different rules and procedures of confidentiality provision from those stated here. Articoo is not responsible for the policy of confidentiality of such resources.
- BLOGS
Our Site offers publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at support@Articoo.art .
Our blog is also managed by a third-party application that may require you to register to post a comment. We do not have access or control of the information posted to the blog. You will need to contact or login into the third-party application if you want the personal information that was posted to the comments section removed. To learn how the third-party application uses your information, please review their privacy policy.
- SOCIAL MEDIA WIDGETS
Our Site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button, and Widgets, such as the Share This button, or interactive mini-programs that run on our Site. These Features may collect your Internet protocol address, which page(s) you are visiting on our Site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy statement of the company providing it.
- CHANGES TO THESE RULES
We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any file (or material) changes we will notify you by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
- CONTACT US
For any questions, concerns or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at customer.support@articoo.art.
Both users and persons who don’t use Articoo services shall be free to contact Articoo with any questions, concerns or suggestions regarding our privacy.
