FYNEART.COM
– PRIVACY POLICY
Please find below our ‘privacy policy’, we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website
visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.
What Information Do We Collect?
We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal
information:
(a)
information
about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including
your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating
system, referral source, length of visit, page views and time on
site.
(b) information
relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to
this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our
goods or services including those details submitted through our website and
contact though emails
(c)
information
that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with
us
(d) information
that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services,
email notifications and/or newsletters.
(e) any other
information that you choose to send to us.
Cookies
We may use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on the
website. We will use the session
cookies to: keep track of you whilst you navigate the website. We will use the
persistent cookies to: enable our website to recognise you when you visit.
Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close
your browser. Persistent cookies
will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a
specified expiry date.
We
publish Google Adsense interest-based advertisements on our website. These are tailored by Google to reflect
your interests. To determine your
interests, Google will track your behaviour across the web using cookies. You can view, delete or add interest
categories associated with your browser using Google's Advertisement Preference
Manager, which is available at: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/. You can opt-out of
the Adsense partner network cookie at:
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.
However, this opt-out mechanism uses a cookie, and if you clear the
cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an
opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you should use the
Google browser plug-in available at:
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin.
Personal information submitted to us via this
website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in
relevant parts of the website.
We may use your personal information
to:
(a)
administer
the website;
(b)
improve your browsing experience by personalising the
website;
(c)
enable your use of the services available on the
website;
(d) send to you
goods purchased via the website, and supply to you services purchased via the
website;
(e) send
statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from
you;
(f) send
you general (non-marketing) commercial
communications;
(g) send you
email notifications which you have specifically
requested;
(h) send to you
our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business or
our sister companies, which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where
you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can
inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing
communications)
(i)
provide third parties with statistical information about our users – but
this information will not be used to identify any individual
user;
(j)
deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the
website.
Where you submit personal information for
publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information
in accordance with the license you grant to us.
We will not without your express consent provide
your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct
marketing.
All our website financial transactions are
handled through our payment services provider, PayPal. You can review the PayPal privacy policy
at www.paypal.com. We will share
information with PayPal only to the extent necessary for the purposes of
processing payments you make via our website and dealing with complaints and
queries relating to such payments.
Disclosures
We may disclose information about you to our
employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably
necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy
policy.
In addition, we may disclose your personal
information:
(a) to the
extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) in
connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal
proceedings;
(c) in
order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing
information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit
risk);
(d) to the
purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or
are contemplating) selling; and
(e) to any
person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent
authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable
opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure
of that personal information.
Except as provided in this privacy policy, we
will not provide your information to third parties.
International data transfers
Information that we collect may be stored and
processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in
order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy
policy.
Information which you provide may be transferred
to countries (including the United States, Japan, Australia, China and India
which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the
European Economic Area.
In addition, personal information that you submit
for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be
available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of
such information by others.
You expressly agree to such transfers of personal
information.
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions
to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our
secure servers. All electronic transactions you make to or receive from us will
be encrypted using SSL technology
Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently
insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the
internet.
You
are responsible for keeping your password and user details confidential. We will
not ask you for your password (except when you log
in to the website).
We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a
new version on our website. You
should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any
changes.
We may also notify you of changes to our privacy policy by
email.
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information
we hold about you. Provision of
such information will be subject to:
(a) the payment
of a fee (currently fixed at £20.00); and
(b) the supply
of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually
accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an
original copy of a utility bill showing your current
address)
We may withhold such personal information to the extent permitted
by law.
You may instruct us not to process your personal information for
marketing purposes by email at any time.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our
use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you
with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for
marketing purposes.
Third Party Websites
The website contains links to other websites. We are not
responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party
websites.
Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about
you needs to be corrected or updated.
If you have any questions about this privacy
policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to us by
email to info@fyneart.com
or post to FyneArt.com, 54 MacDonald Terrace, Lochgilphead, Argyll,
Scotland