This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services, and Websites offered by artbond.net (the “Website”), and details important information regarding the use and disclosure of information collected on the Website from customers, visitors, users, and others (“Users”).
- This Privacy Policy applies only to Websites and services that are owned and operated by artbond.net. While other Websites may be displayed as links from within artbond.net, those sites are owned and operated by others, and they may have different privacy policies. When linking from artbond.net to other websites, if you have privacy concerns, we urge you to review the privacy policies of those sites.
- We may use third-party advertising companies to serve or track ads on our website and other websites. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to measure advertising effectiveness and to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
1. INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
General
- artbond.net does not require that you register in order to view its products or User comments. Registration is required to use certain interactive features such as posting comments, following, receiving email notifications, receiving website notifications, participating in the blog forums, and in order to submit ideas and participate in competitions.
- artbond.net collects personal information when you register with artbond.net, when you visit the Website, when you make a purchase, or any time you provide information to artbond.net about yourself. artbond.net may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
- artbond.net automatically receives and records other non-personally-identifying information (“Non-Personal Information”) on our server logs from your browser even if you do not register with artbond.net, for example, your IP address, artbond.net cookie information, and the pages you visit.
- artbond.net uses Non-Personal Information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, improve our services, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Registration
- In order to participate on this Website, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on the registration form and require you to create a user name and password. During registration you are required to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest. When you register with artbond.net and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
Orders
- If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date and the 3-digit security code). We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
- If you register a user account, or make a purchase, we may contact you by email. We may receive a confirmation when you open an email. artbond.net uses this confirmation to help make emails more interesting and helpful and improve our service. If you do not want to receive email or other mail from us, please indicate your preference by using the Contact Us link on the Website.
Choice/Opt-out
- If you no longer wish to receive email notifications or promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by using the Contact Us link on the Website.
2. INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
artbond.net does not rent, trade, or share Personal Information with third parties except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We use other third parties such as a shipping company to fulfill orders, a credit card processing company to bill you for goods sold on our website, and an email service provider to send out emails on our behalf. When you make a purchase on our website or sign up for our email list, we will share the necessary amount of personally identifiable information as necessary for the third party to provide that service, including your name, address, credit card information and email address. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for promotional purposes.
- We use both your Personal Information and certain Non-Personal Information to improve the quality and design of the Website and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.
- We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, or legal process served on our Website.
- We may share Personal Information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
- For the purposes of European law, these third parties are independent controllers of data, which means that they are responsible for providing and complying with their own policies relating to any personal information they obtain.
Keep in mind that any personal information, or comments that you voluntarily disclose on the Website, for example on comment pages, or on the blog forums, becomes publicly available. Your account name is displayed to other Users when you send and/or post messages through the Website. Please note that any comment or other content you post or send to the Website becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy. Your messages and other information you make available in public areas of the artbond.net website will be seen by people and organizations not related to or controlled by artbond.net, and may be used by others to contact you.
3. COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS
- A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site, and we do link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information.
- We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.
- We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
- If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as the shopping cart and design scoring pages, will be limited.
- artbond.net does utilize tracking technology to better understand site traffic patterns and use. However, none of the information collected via tracking technology is personally identifiable information.
- The use of cookies by our partners, affiliates or tracking utility company is not covered by our privacy statement. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company and service providers use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site, in order for you to use the shopping cart, etc.
- If you click on a link to a third-party site, including on an advertisement, you will leave artbond.net and go to the site you selected. Because we cannot control the activities of third parties, we cannot accept responsibility for any use of your personally identifiable information by such third parties, and we cannot guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy practices as artbond.net. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of any other service provider from whom you request services.
4. CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personally identifiable information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Website, you can ask them by using the Contact Us link on the Website. We limit access to Personal Information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with Personal Information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
5. YOUR ABILITY TO EDIT AND DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire to maintain an account on artbond.net, you may correct, update, amend, delete/remove or deactivate it by making the desired changes on account profile page or by using the Contact Us link on the Website. We will respond to your request to access within 30 days.
Depending on your location, you may also have certain additional rights with respect to your information, such as: obtaining a copy of your personal data you’ve provided to artbond.net; updating your personal data; deleting your personal data (except information we are required to retain, by using the Contact Us link on the Website.
6. INTERNATIONAL USERS
If you are a User accessing the Website from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Website, which is governed by U.S. law and this Privacy Policy as incorporated in our Terms of Use, you will be transferring your Personal Information into the United States and you consent to that transfer.
7. CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
artbond.net may update this policy at any time in its sole discretion and without prior notice. We will strive to notify you about significant changes in the way we treat Personal Information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your artbond.net account and/or by placing a notice on the Website.
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
8. EFFECTIVE DATE
This Privacy Policy was last modified August 24, 2020.
9. CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:
artbond
P. O. Box 2041
Dunedin, FL 34697