Privacy Policy
Effective Date January 01, 2008
ArtsNow.com values the members of our website. Your privacy and trust are
important to us. We know that you may be concerned about the personality
identifiable information that we collect when you use our website and the
services provided by our website. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to
describe the information that we collect from you, how we collect the
information, and what we will handle with it after we collect it. ArtsNow.com's
goal is to provide protection for your personal information no matter where that
information is collected, transferred, or retained. By using the ArtsNow.com
website you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you
have any questions or comments with this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
privacy@artsnow.com
Collection of
Personal Information
Personal information we used is primarily for our own internal purposes, such as
providing, maintaining, serving and enhancing the service and website of
ArtsNow.com, fulfilling the request for information, producing the products,
and shipping the products you order, and providing the customer services to you.
For example, if you create a Premium Store Account in our website, we will use
the information you provide us to do better communications with you, Paypal
account information for the purpose of delivering your commission payment. And
if you sign up our newsletters, we will use the email address you provide to
send you the newsletters you are interested. We also collect non-personal
information from you, such as your browser type, urls, your ISP, operating
system and your IP address. This information cannot be easily used to identify
you.
Use of
Personal Information
Personal information provided to us may be transferred worldwide within ArtsNow.com
or to third parties providing services to ArtsNow.com including but not limited to
across borders, from our country or collective area to other countries or
collective areas around the world. Some of the ways in which we will use the
personal information provided us include:
1) to take, process or deliver your order, process or obtain payment or notify
you of the status of your order;
2) to provide it to industry and credit related organizations for security,
credit or fraud prevention purposes;
3) to provide you with effective customer service or technical support;
4) to monitor service or purchasing;
5) to provide you with service updates, announcements, and other product
offerings;
6) to send you, with your consent, newsletters or promotional emails or other
promotional activities;
7) to permit you to participate in online surveys and polls, assuming you
voluntarily agree to provide such information in connection with these surveys
and polls;
8) to improve ArtsNow.com's website, the customers experience and any related
products or services.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure any person or entity receiving personal
information for the purposes described above, are obligated to protect the
personal information on your behalf. We may contract with various third
parties who help us provide, maintain and improve the services of our website.
We also contract with several online partners to help manage, monitor and
optimize our website and the ArtsNow.com services and to help us measure the
effectiveness of our advertising, communications and how visitors use the our
website. We will try our best efforts to prevent such third parties from
disclosing your personal information,
Disclosure of
Personal Information
ArtsNow.com will disclose your personal information directly to you upon your
request; provided, however, that we may reject all or part of your request when:
1. the disclosure may harm life, the body, the property and the other rights of
yourself or the third parties,
2. the disclosure may lead the remarkable difficulties to the appropriate
operation of our business or
3. the disclosure may lead to a breach of other laws and regulations.
Generally speaking we do not disclose your information to third parties without
your consent. We do reserve the right to do so if it is necessary to the
operation and continued growth of our company or to protect the rights of
others.
We may disclose your Personal Information to prevent an emergency, to protect or
enforce our rights, to protect or enforce the rights of a third party, or as
required by law (including, without limitation, to comply with a subpoena or
court order). If you are a store seller, we may disclose your information to a
third party that alleges you have infringed on their intellectual property
rights through the products in your ArtsNow.com Store. Alternatively, if you allege
that a seller has infringed on your intellectual property rights, we may
disclose your information to that seller.
ArtsNow.com also employs other companies to provide services to us in connection
with your transaction. We do use companies to process credit card payments,
deliver packages, provide marketing aid, and analyze data. These organizations
may have access to personal information as required to permit them to perform
their obligations to us. In the event ArtsNow.com merges with another entity, is
acquired by another entity, or enters into a business combination with another
entity, ArtsNow.com may be required to disclose some or all of your personally
identifiable information to that entity to continue serving you.
ArtsNow.com is not in the business of selling, trading or renting personal
information. We will not use or share your personally identifiable information
with others except those individuals or entities which have a business
relationship with ArtsNow.com.
Cookies and
Web Beacons
We may use "Cookies" and "Web Bbeacons". "Cookies" are small text files that are
transferred to and from your computer's hard disk to our website. Most websites
use cookies, to track your use of the services of ArtsNow.com, in order to
provide you better personalized user experience, and to allow you to login and
begin use the ArtsNow.com services automatically when you visit and re-visit
our website. "Web Beacons" are used to monitor the behavior of the user visiting
the website or receiving the email.
Cookie and web beacons used
by ArtsNow.com and our store sellers, they are not linked to personal
information. Some of our store sellers may use "cookie" and "web beacons" in
their store of ArtsNow.com. We have no access to or control over these cookies and
web beacons. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies and web beacons by
ArtsNow.com only, and does not cover the use of cookies and web beacons by any
other third parties, store sellers, or advertisers.
Children's
Privacy
This site is not aimed to attract children and its objective is to not collect
personal information from children. Anyone under the age of 13 should not use
this website. We will delete any information in our database that we know
originates from a child under the age of 13. For age of users between 13
and 17, they can only use our website services under their parents or legal
guardian's supervision. If you get any question about the personal information
collected by us, please contact us at privacy@artsnow.com
Security
Customers who buy through ArtsNow.com's system are shopping on a secure server
which encrypts customer's credit card information and passwords. ArtsNow.com uses a
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to encrypt your personal information and protect it
from disclosure, destruction, modification, or use. We will follow generally
accepted industry standards to protect your personal information. However, there
are no 100% secure over the internet or methods of electronic storage. Therefore
we will try our best efforts to use commercially acceptable methods to protect
your personal information, we can not guarantee its absolute security.
Your Choices
You can decide whether or not to provide your personal information with
ArtsNow.com. However, if you do not provide personal information you may not be
able to make purchases, enlist services or access certain offers or options that
may be of benefit to you. At the time you provide your information, we will
offer you the choice as to whether or not you wish to receive further
communications about special offers, product information, newsletters or other
messages. You can unsubscribe to any of our newsletters or special promotional
mail at anytime by emailing us remove@artsnow.com
Changes to
this Privacy Policy
ArtsNow.com may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of
such amendments or changes by updating the "Effective Date" at the top of
this Privacy Policy.
Contact
Information
If you would like to contact us with questions or comments concerning our
Privacy Policy or if you feel your comment or concern has not been addressed to
your satisfaction, please contact ArtsNow.com via email info@artsnow.com or mail:
Privacy Officer, ArtsNow.com Limited, 10685-B Hazelhurst Dr. #2230, Houston, TX
77043, United States.