Privacy Policy
Artsy Originalknows that your privacy is important to you, and we want you to know that it isimportant to us too. We created this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain the types of information wecollect through our Web sites (on which it is linked to in the footer) and thevarious social networking platforms that we use (each, a “Website”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to informationthat we collect offline, such as in our retail salons. This Privacy Policydescribes how we will use, disclose and protect this information once it iscollected, and how you can opt-out of some of our uses of your information.
Here are a fewgeneral principles to keep in mind as you read through this Privacy Policy:
· The Website isowned and operated by Artsy Original and its corporate affiliates (referred tocollectively in this Privacy Policy as “we”, “us”, “our” and other similar pronouns).
· As our businessevolves, this Privacy Policy may change, so check back to this pageperiodically to make sure you understand how your personal information will betreated.
· This PrivacyPolicy is incorporated into, and part of, our Terms and Conditions, which govern your use of our Websites asa whole.
· If you arelocated outside of the Hong Kong SAR, you shouldknow that the information you provide to us is being transmitted to us andprocessed in the Hong Kong SAR and will be protected subject to thisPrivacy Policy and laws of Hong Kong SAR, which may not be as protective as thelaws in your country. Also, this Website places cookies and local sharedobjects on your computer or device which are further described below.
Opt In and OptOut
Youmay have the right to opt in to or opt out of certain of our uses of yourPersonal Information. For example, when you are asked to provide PersonalInformation on this Website, you may have the opportunity to elect to, or notto, receive messages from us by e-mail, phone or postal mail. You may tell usthat you do not want to receive our promotional messages by visiting themarketing preferences area of or Website or by sending us your written requestalong with your name, address, e-mail and phone number to: clientcare@artsyoriginal.com. You can also opt-out ofour promotional emails by clicking on the opt-out link within the e-mail youreceive. Please understand that it may take us time to process any opt outrequest and that even if you opt out of receiving promotional correspondencefrom us, we may still contact you in connection with your relationship,activities, transactions and communications with us. Also, to stop receivingpromotional messages from third parties who already have your contact information,please contact them directly.
What informationis collected on this Website?
User-ProvidedInformation
“PersonalInformation” is information that can be used to identify you as an individualor allow someone to contact you, as well as information attributed with suchinformation. We collect Personal Information such as your name; employer name;day and month of birth; postal addresses; e-mail addresses; telephone numbers;fax numbers; photograph; gender; Website browsing and transaction history; jobhistory and application information; and interests, hobbies and demographicinformation. For example, we collect Personal Information when you sign up toreceive emails from us; request a catalog; request a sales associate to contactyou; schedule a visit to our salon; create a wish list on our Website; sign upfor our newsletters; enter sweepstakes and contests; complete surveys;contribute to a chat room, bulletin board, blog or other social forum on theWebsite; or submit a comment or question to us using a “contact us” or similarfeature on the Website.
Tool provided on the Website and/or in our e-mails allows you to sendinformation about our products and offerings to another person. You may also beable to purchase gifts for another person on our Website. When you use theseofferings, we ask you for the name and contact information of the other person,and that information will be protected pursuant to this Privacy Policy. We willnot use the other person’s information for additional purposes without theirconsent.
Website UsageInformation
As is the casewith many websites, our servers automatically collect your IP address when youvisit our Website, and we may associate that with your domain name or that ofyour Internet access provider. We may also capture certain “clickstream data”pertaining to your Website usage. Clickstream data includes, for example,information about your computer or device, Web browser and operating system andtheir settings, the referring page that linked you to the Website, the pages,content or ads you see or click on during your visit and when and for how longyou do so, items you download, the next website you visit when you leave theWebsite, and any search terms you have entered on the Website or a referralsite.
In addition, we may deploy various tracking technologies on the Website tocollect additional information about your Website visits. For example:
· Cookies aresmall data files stored on your computer or device at the request of a website.A cookie assigns a unique numerical identifier to your Web browser, and mayenable us to recognize you as the same user who was at our Website in the past,and relate your use of the Website to other information about you, such as yourWebsite usage information and Personal Information. Cookies may also be used toenhance your experience on the Website (for example, by storing your usernameso you can log in easily, keeping you logged into the Website after you haveprovided your password, and storing the contents of your shopping cart as youbrowse) or to collect general usage and aggregated statistical information anddetect and prevent fraud. Most browsers can be set to detect cookies and giveyou an opportunity to reject them, but refusing cookies may, in some cases,inhibit or preclude your use of the Website or its features.
· HTML5 (thelanguage some websites are coded in) may be used to store information on yourcomputer or device about your Website usage activities. This information can beretrieved by us to determine how our Website is being used by our visitors, howit can be improved, and to customize it for our users.
· A pixel tag(also known as a “clear GIF” or “web beacon”) is a tiny image – typically justone-pixel – that can be placed on a Web page or in our electroniccommunications to you in order to help us measure the effectiveness of ourcontent by, for example, counting the number of individuals who visit us onlineor verifying whether you’ve opened one of our emails or seen one of our Webpages.
These trackingtechnologies may be deployed by us and/or by our service providers or partnerson our behalf. These technologies enable us to assign a unique number to you,and relate your Website Usage Information to other information about you,including your Personal Information.
Do Not TrackDisclosures
This Websitedoes not process Do-Not-Track headers transmitted by Web browsers. Our thirdparty web analytics companies collect information about your online activitiesover time. These third parties do not change their tracking practices inresponse to DNT settings in your web browser and we do not obligate theseparties to honor DNT settings.
How is yourinformation used?
We or ourservice providers may use the information we collect from and about you toperform the following business functions:
· processing andfulfilling your transactions
· enabling usersto use our Website and its features
· administeringthe Website and your account with us
· responding toyour requests, questions, and concerns
· notifying thewinners in competitions arranged online
· market research
· developing newfeatures and offerings
· consistent withany communications preferences you have conveyed to us, sending you marketingand other communications, including information about products, services, andevents, of ours and of others, that we think might interest you (you may optout of receiving such notices from us by following the instructions in theRight to Opt In and Opt Out section above)
· protecting ourrights and property
· preventingmisuse or improper use of our services
· recovering debtand preventing fraud
· customizing ourWebsite to your interests and history with us
· test and improveour systems by which the services are provided
· tailoring adsdisplayed to you on our Site and elsewhere to your interests and history withus
· other purposesdisclosed when personal information is submitted to us
To perform theabove functions, we may match information collected from you through differentmeans or at different times, including both Personal Information and WebsiteUsage Information, and use such information along with information obtainedfrom other sources (including third parties) such as demographic informationand updated contact information. We or our service providers may also use yourinformation to assess the level of interest in, and use of, the Website, oure-mails and our other messaging campaigns both on an individual basis and inthe aggregate.
Social Networking
We maintainpresence on several social networking and blogging platforms, and we alsoincorporate some third party social networking features onto our Website.Through these platforms and features, we receive some Personal Information andsome Website Usage Information about you, and this Privacy Policy applies tothat information as well. In addition, third party social networking platformsand blogging platforms have their own privacy policies which explain how thethird parties that provide them will use and protect your information. Inaccordance with those policies (and your privacy settings within your social networkingaccounts) information about your activities on our Website (such as “Mary Jane“likes” our Diamond Tassel necklace”) may be published to your social network.
Do we sharePersonal Information and Website Usage Information with others?
Yes. We mayshare the information we collect on the Website with others for a variety ofreasons. In addition to the kinds of information sharing you might expect, suchas sharing with third parties who need your information in order to provideservices to us (or on our behalf and subject to confidentiality commitments)and sharing what you voluntarily post to public areas on the Website with otherWebsite users, we may share your information:
· with ouraffiliates and retail salons both in the US and abroad
· with unaffiliatedthird parties for their marketing and other purposes, if you have opted-in tothis sharing
· with ourco-sponsor(s) if we obtain your information in connection with a contest,sweepstakes, offering, or other promotional activity that is jointly offered byus and any third parties, unless you instruct us not to by following theinstructions in the Opt-in and Opt-out section above
· when we believein good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property,protect your safety or the safety of others, authenticate transactions and theidentity of individuals making purchases, investigate or prevent fraud orillegal activity, respond to a government, law enforcement, judicial or otherlegal request, or to comply with the law
· with third partiesto perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders,delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitiveinformation from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketingassistance, executing customer satisfaction surveys, providing customizedadvertising, providing search results and links (including paid listings andlinks), processing credit card payments and providing customer service. Theyhave access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but maynot use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the personalinformation in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as permitted byapplicable data protection laws
· with creditbureaus, such as late payments, missed payments, or other defaults on youraccount
· in connectionwith a corporate change or dissolution, including for example a merger,acquisition, reorganization, consolidation, bankruptcy, liquidation, sale ofassets or wind down of business
In addition, wemay share non-personally identifiable Website Usage Information (includingaggregate data) with others, for their own use, in a form that does not includeyour name or contact information.
Your AccessRights
You may review,update or modify certain of the Personal Information that is stored in youruser account on the Website (if you have one) by logging in to the “My Account”or similar area of the Website or by contacting us using the “Contact US”information below. We may ask you to verify your identity and to provide otherdetails before we are able to provide you with any information, correct anyinaccuracies, or delete any information. Your right to delete your informationis subject to our records retention policies.
Interest BasedAdvertising and Website Analytics
We may collectinformation about your online activities on our Website to provide you withadvertising about products and services tailored to your individual interests.We also may obtain information for this purpose from third-party websites onwhich our ads are served. This section of our Privacy Policy provides detailsand explains how to exercise your choices.
You may see certain ads on other websites because we work with advertisingpartners (including advertising networks) to engage in remarketing andretargeting activities. Our advertising partners allow us to target ourmessaging to users through demographic, interest-based and contextual means.These partners track your online activities over time and across websites bycollecting information through automated means, including through the use ofthird-party cookies, web server logs, and web beacons. They use thisinformation to show you advertisements that may be tailored to your individualinterests. The information our advertising partners may collect includes dataabout your visits to websites that participate in the relevant advertisingnetworks, such as the pages or advertisements you view and the actions you takeon the websites. This data collection takes place both on our website and onthird-party websites that participate in the ad networks. This process alsohelps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. For example, weutilize certain of our ad partners’ targeted advertising services to show youour ads on other websites based on your prior visits to our website and otheronline activity. Below is a chart that lists our current advertising partnersthat provide these features together with corresponding links to describe howyou may opt out of them. Opting-out does not mean that you will stop receivingads from us. It means that you still stop receiving ads from us that have beentargeted to you based on your visits and browsing activity across websites overtime.
Security
While weendeavor to protect the security and integrity of sensitive PersonalInformation collected via this Website, due to the inherent nature of theInternet as an open global communications vehicle, we cannot guarantee that anyinformation, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systemor otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others,such as hackers.
If you correspond with us by e-mail or using Web forms like a “contact us”feature on our Website, you should be aware that your transmission might not besecure. A third party could view the information you send in transit by suchmeans. We will have no liability for disclosure of your information due toerrors or unauthorized acts of third parties during or after transmission.
If we believe that the security of your Personal Information in our care mayhave been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If anotification is appropriate, we will endeavor to notify you as promptly aspossible under the circumstances. If we have your e-mail address, we may notifyyou by e-mail. You consent to our use of e-mail as a means of suchnotification.
“Linked-To”Websites
The Website maycontain links, banners, widgets or advertisements that lead to other websites.We are not responsible for these other sites, and so their posted privacypolicies (not this Privacy Policy) will govern the collection and use of yourinformation on them. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of eachWeb site visited after leaving the Website to learn about how your informationis treated by others.
Changes to thisPrivacy Policy
We may changethis Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will let you know byposting the changed Privacy Policy on this page with a new “Last Updated” date.In some cases (for example, if we significantly expand our use or sharing ofyour Personal Information), we may also tell you about changes by additionalmeans, such as by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address we have on file foryou. In some cases, we may request your consent to the changes.
The English version of this document shall control and prevail in case of discrepancies between the English and any translated version. Translations are provided for convenience only.
