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Privacy
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Practical Art (referred to as "we", "us"
and "our") respects the privacy of every individual who visits our Websites
and online areas, participates in interactive bulletin boards or forums, or
purchases Practical Art products on-line. This statement outlines
the information Practical Art will collect and how we will use
that information. This Security and Privacy Statement will apply to your use
of Practical Art, or any other Website owned or operated by Practical Art(websites). This policy statement will also instruct you
on what to do if you want Practical Art to remove your personal
information collected or stored during previous visits to the Practical Art WEBSITES.
PRIVACY POLICY
Practical Art will not collect or retain any information about you
personally (that is, your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address)
unless you provide it to us voluntarily. We will collect information from the Practical ArtWEBSITES in several ways. If you register for an
online account, we will ask you for personal information including your name,
postal code, e-mail address and phone number. This personal information will be
stored in your personal profile. Once you have submitted this information and
chosen both a valid username and password, you will be able to take full
advantage of using the Practical Art WEBSITES. When you make a
purchase from the Practical Art WEBSITES, we will also ask for
your credit card information, as well as, billing and shipping information.
We will send out confirming e-mails whenever you register or make a purchase,
to inform you that we received your personal information or to confirm your
purchase.
If you do provide us with personal information, we may retain and use that
information for several purposes. First, we may store and process the
information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our
products and services. Second, we may retain information about your previous
purchases of Practical Art products in order to customize our
Website services for your future visits to the site. Third, we may use your e-
mail address to send you updates about new products, specials and other items
of interest. If you have already submitted this information and would like to
remove it, you can delete this information from your personal profile.
However, if you made a purchase, we will need to retain certain information
for billing and shipping purposes.
SHARING OF INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES
When you place an order through an eRepresentative, your order may be
personally processed by the eRepresentative receiving credit for your order,
and not by Practical Art. In these cases, all personal information
required to process your order will be shared with your personal
eRepresentative. Except as stated above or when necessary to share your
information with Practical Art agents or contractors for the
purposes of performing services for Practical Art, your personal
information (name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or other
information) will not be provided to any third party without your prior
consent. We have restricted our agents and contractors from using your
personal information in any way other than to provide the services contracted
for by Practical Art.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
We cannot ensure the protection of any personal information that you provide
to a third-party site that links to or from the Practical Art
WEBSITES, since these third-party sites are owned and operated independently.
These third-party sites may have their separate privacy and data collection
practices that are beyond our control. Any personal information that you
provide to these third-party sites will be regulated by their privacy policy,
if any. Practical Art can assume no responsibility or liability
whatsoever for the practices, actions or policies of these third-party sites,
and cannot be responsible for the content or privacy practices of such sites.
SECURITY PRECAUTIONS
We are aware that you may be concerned about the privacy and confidentiality
of your personal information, including, in the case of a purchase of goods,
credit card and billing address information. Therefore, we have taken
precautions to ensure that this information is safe and secure. If you
registered with us, your online account information is protected by a
password chosen by you. Access to that online account requires your username
and password. We recommend that you do not disclose your username and
password to any other person. Additionally, concerning credit card
information, we protect your transactions using a technology called Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL). If your browser is capable of SSL, and most are, your
sensitive information will automatically be encrypted before being sent over
the Internet. You should also know that we do not store your credit card or
ordering information on our Internet server.
No data transmission over the Internet will be 100% secure. While we take
steps to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security
of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Upon
receiving your transmission, we make commercially reasonable efforts to
ensure its security on our systems. However, you are ultimately responsible
for maintaining the secrecy of your username, passwords and/or any account
information.
ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By using this Website, you agree to this Security and Privacy Statement. If
you do not agree to this policy, please do not use the Practical Art WEBSITES. Practical Art. reserves the right to change this
policy at any time. Your continued use of the Practical Art
WEBSITES following the posting of changes to our Privacy Policy will signify
your acceptance of those changes.
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