Effective Date: 2018, August 16
https://www.ARTinfoINDIA.COM is the official website of the Shanker Art Foundation
- We ARTinfoINDIA.COM provide this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information we receive from users of ARTinfoINDIA.COM (the ‘Site’).
- ARTinfoINDIA.COM offers an online service for selling and purchasing original works of art and commercially exploiting digital images of works of art (the ‘Services’) through the Site. This Privacy Policy applies only to information you provide through the Site and Services.
- We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on the Site. You should consult this policy regularly for any changes.
- As used in this policy, the terms “using” and “processing” information include using cookies on a computer, subjecting the information to statistical or other analysis, and using or handling information in any way, including, but not limited to collecting, storing, evaluating, modifying, deleting, using, combining, disclosing and transferring information within our organization or among our affiliates.
- Information Collection and Use: Personally Identifiable Information
- In the course of using the Site and Services, you may provide us with personally identifiable information, which refers to information about you that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Information”). Personal Information includes but is not limited to, your name, phone number, email address, phone number and postal address. We use your Personal Information primarily to provide and improve the Site and Services and to respond to your inquiries.
- We may also request that you provide certain information, such as your personal preferences, which is typically considered “Non-Identifying Information” because it cannot, by itself, be used to contact or identify you.
- We also use your Personal Information to contact you with ARTinfoINDIA.COM newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such communications from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications.
- Log Data – When you visit the Site, whether as a Member or a non-registered user just browsing (any of these, an ” ARTinfoINDIA.COM User”), our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, or the webpage you were visiting before you came to our Site, pages of our Site that you visited, the time spent on those pages, the information you search for on our Site, access times and dates, ads you click on during your use of the Site, your viewing preferences, bookmark habits, and other statistics. We use this information to monitor and analyze the use of the Site and for the Site’s technical administration, to increase our Site’s functionality and user-friendliness, and to better tailor the Site to our visitors’ needs.
- Cookies – Like many websites, we may use “cookies” to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. We do link the information we store in cookies to the Personal Information you submit while on our Site. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of the Site or all functionality of our Services.
- Web Beacons – We also use “web beacons”, “pixel tags, clear GIFs” or similar means (individually or collectively “Web Beacons”) on our Site. A Web Beacon is an electronic image, often a single pixel, embedded on web pages. Web Beacons are ordinarily not visible to users. Web Beacons allow us to count the number of users who have visited certain pages of the Site, to deliver branded services, and to generate statistics about how our Site is used.
- Making Purchases and Listing Works via the Site – If you purchase a work or other item or list a work for sale via the Site, we request certain Personal Information from you. You must provide contact information such as first and last name, address, email, and phone number and financial information such as credit card details and bank account details. We use this information for billing and remittance purposes, to list works for sale on the Site, and to fulfill your orders, as applicable. If we have trouble processing an order or listing a work for sale, we will use this information to contact you. If you list a work for sale via the Site, we require you to provide your PAN number. When you place an order or list a work for sale via the Site, ARTinfoINDIA.COM will also send you informational emails regarding such orders and sales.
- Information Sharing and Disclosure – ARTinfoINDIA.COM Artists & Resellers: When you register for the Site and create an Account as an Artist, your Personal Information (including, but not limited to, your name) will be publicly viewable via the Site. We recommend that you guard your sensitive information and we encourage you to think carefully about what information you post via the Site. If you choose to purchase Original Works of Art via the Site and Services, we will share your name and postal address with the Member who listed the work for sale on the Site to enable that Member to ship the purchased work directly to you.
- Social Media Connect – Our Site allows users to create an account and login to the Site using their ‘Social Media’ account. Creating an account for the first time through Facebook or Twitter will prompt users to merge their ARTinfoINDIA.COM and ‘Social Media’ accounts. By using ‘Social Media’ Connect, you are allowing ARTinfoINDIA.COM s to access your ‘Social Media’ account information and you are agreeing to the ‘Social Media’ Terms of Use in your use of the Site via ‘Social Media’. We allow Members to automatically post recent activity back to ‘Social Media’ and give them the option to disable ‘Social Media’ Connect at any time by accessing your ‘Social Media’ account and disconnecting access to the Site.
- Aggregate Information and Non-Identifying Information – We may share aggregated information that does not include Personal Information and we may otherwise disclose Non-Identifying Information and Log Data with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling, and other purposes. Any aggregated information shared in these contexts will not contain your Personal Information.
- Service Providers – We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Services, to provide our Services on our behalf, to perform Site-related services (e.g., without limitation, payment processing, billing and shipping services, maintenance services, database management, web analytics and improvement of the Sites features) or to assist us in analyzing how our Site and Services are used. These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
- Business Transfers – ARTinfoINDIA.COM may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your Personal Information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy. Changing or Deleting Your Information To completely delete all Personal Information you provide to ARTinfoINDIA.COM, you must contact us at artinfoindia.com@gmail.com. If you completely delete all such information, your account may be deactivated. We may retain an archived copy of your records as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
- Security – The security of your Personal Information is important to ARTinfoINDIA.COM. But remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.
- Links to Other Sites – Our Site contains links to other websites. If you choose to visit an advertiser by ‘clicking on’ a banner ad or other type of advertisement or click on another third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s website. The fact that we link to a website or present a banner ad or other type of advertisement is not an endorsement, authorization, or representation of our affiliation with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.
- Contacting Us – If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please get in touch with us at: chakelaks[at]artinfoindia.com