Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains our policy regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. As we update and expand our services, this policy may change, so please refer back to it periodically. By accessing our Web site or using our services, you consent to our information practices.

Collection and Use of Information
Personal information means information that can be used to identify and contact you, specifically your name, postal delivery address, e-mail address, payment method (e.g., credit card or debit card) and telephone number, as well as other information when such information is combined with your personal information.

When you register or re-register at our Web site, we ask you to supply us with personal information so that we can provide, enhance and personalize our services and marketing efforts. For similar reasons, we may supplement the personal information you provide with publicly available information about you. We use this personal information to process your registration, your orders and your payments, and to communicate with you on these and other topics. We currently will not use your e-mail address to send you newsletters, as well as messages about Artocrats special offers, promotional announcements and consumer surveys. In the event that we begin to offer such promotional materials and communication, you will be able to change your email subricption preferences from you My Account page. Occasionally, we may send these materials to you via postal mail, using the shipping address provided. Our mailers that contain your prints may also contain promotional items or advertisements.

We keep track of your interactions with us, including but not limited to your site activity, artwork ratings, payment history and correspondence. We use this information for such purposes as providing recommendations on artwork we think will be enjoyable, personalizing the site to better reflect particular interests, helping us quickly and efficiently respond to inquiries and requests and otherwise enhancing our service offering for our customers. We also provide analyses of our users in the aggregate to prospective partners, advertisers and other third parties. We may also disclose and otherwise use, on an anonymous basis, artwork ratings, consumption habits, commentary, reviews and other non-personal information about customers.

While using the Artocrats service and Web site, you will have opportunities to post reviews or other personal information in public forums. Please understand that when you post such information, it is made public and is not subject to this policy.

Links to Other Sites
The Artocrats Web site contains links to sites operated by third parties whose policies regarding the handling of personal information may differ from ours. While we endeavor to associate with reputable sites, Artocrats cannot be responsible for the information handling practices of these other sites.

Children
You must be 18 years of age or older to subscribe to the Artocrats service. While individuals under the age of 18 may utilize the service, they may do so only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian and are subject to our Terms of Use. [LINK] While Artocrats does distribute products that may be viewed by children, we do not intentionally seek to collect information from individuals 13 years of age and younger nor do we knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the service.

Viewing and Updating Your Information on Artocrats
You are responsible for updating and maintaining the truth and accuracy of the personal information you provide to us relating to your account. If you want to update your contact information or change your payment method, you should do so by visiting the My Account section of our Web site. You must be signed in to access your Account. You can also make changes to shipping address, password, e-mail subscription preferences, as well as other information by going to your My Account page.

Cookies and Other Technology
As you browse the Artocrats site, cookies are placed on your computer's hard drive. (Cookies are small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your hard drive for record keeping purposes.) In general, cookies can make the Web more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. If your browser is set to not accept cookies, you will not be able to use import parts of the Artocrats site and service.

In addition to cookies, we use other technologies to gather information on how our users interact with our site and to otherwise help us efficiently operate and monitor our site and service. These technologies, show us, for example, popular pages, conversion rates, click-throughs and other information that can be used to improve, operate and monitor our site and our service. Third parties, including consultants we engage and online advertisers, may also use this technology to perform similar services for us as well as to assess their own advertising or services.

Disclosure of Personal Information
Except as otherwise disclosed to you, we will not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to third parties without notifying you of our intent to share the personal information in advance and giving you an opportunity to prevent your personal information from being shared.

We use other companies, agents or contractors to perform services on our behalf. For example, we have partnered with other companies to personalize and optimize our Web pages, process credit card transactions, collect debts, analyze and enhance data, including customers' interaction with our site, and process consumer surveys. We also provide postal addresses to the U.S. Post Office for delivery purposes. In the course of providing such services, these other companies may have access to your personal information. These companies are not permitted to use your personal information except for the purpose of providing the services we request of them.

Artocrats also reserves the right to disclose personal information when we reasonably believe disclosure is required by law, if we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to establish or exercise legal rights, or in situations involving potential threats to physical safety. In the event that Artocrats is acquired by or merged with a third party, we reserve the right, to sell or otherwise transfer the personal information we have collected as part of that transaction provided that such third party continues to honor our privacy policy.

Security
Artocrats takes information security very seriously and uses reasonable administrative, technical and managerial measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information and for restricting access to your computer or mobile device through which you access your Artocrats account. Users of public or shared computers or unprotected mobile devices should log out at the completion of each visit to the Artocrats Web site.

Unfortunately, no security system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information and cannot assume liability for improper access to it. By using this Web site, or providing personal information to us through any means, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of this site.

Changes to This Policy
As we update and expand our services, we may make changes to this policy. You should check back for updates to this policy from time to time. If the changes result in materially less protection for your personal information than that provided in this policy, we will make reasonable efforts to contact you and obtain your consent to the changes. Like our Terms of Use, [LINK] of which this policy is a part, your use of the Artocrats Web site or continued use of our service after our efforts to contact you means that you agree to be bound by such changes.

Contact
If you have questions concerning your account, please contact Customer Service. If you have questions concerning this privacy policy, please contact privacy@Artocrats.com.

Last updated: July 2009