PRIVACY POLICY

 Last Updated: July 20, 2018

By visiting our Website, you are accepting the practices described in our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website.

This Privacy Policy explains how SGJ Fine Art (SGJFA) collects, uses, shares and otherwise processes your Personal data in accordance with applicable laws. The policies below are applicable to the website located at sgjfineart.com (the “Website”), however the Website is accessed and/or used, whether via personal computers, mobile devices, or otherwise, and other interactive features, applications (including mobile applications), or downloads that are operated by the SGJFA that are made available by us. Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy apply only to information gathered online at our Website. They do not apply to information that you may submit to us offline or to websites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we may link.

1. What Information We Collect

As a general matter, you can browse the Website without submitting your personal information to us. However, there are a number of circumstances in which you may need to provide us with your personal information. The following lists the most common ways in which we collect your personal information.

  • Contact information, such as your name, email address, mailing address, or telephone number;

  • Information about your business, such as company name and business type;

  • Information provided by you when you request information or assistance from us;

  • In conjunction with your employment inquiries or applications;

  • When you participate with our social media accounts;

  • In the course of providing you with our fine art services sought by you;

  • Billing information;

  • In conjunction with any other place on the Website where you knowingly volunteer personal information.

When you interact with any SGJFA page or account on a social media platform, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Tumblr, YouTube, or Pinterest, or when you use your social media account or credentials to log in to the Website, we may also collect the personal information that you make available to us on that page or through that account, including your account ID or “handle.”

In addition, when you interact with the Website, our servers may keep an activity log that does not identify you individually (“Non-Personal Information”). Generally, we may collect the following categories of Non-Personal Information:

  • We may collect and store certain device information about your computer, mobile device, or other device that you use to access the Website. This information may include IP address, geolocation information, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language, and other transactional information;

  • We may log certain usage information about your use of the Website. This information includes a reading history of the pages you view. We use this information to provide you with a more customized experience on the Website; and

  • We may collect and store additional “traffic data” such as time of access, date of access, software crash reports, session identification number, access times, and referring website addresses.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we learn from you only to the extent that applicable law provides a lawful basis to do so and to help us personalize and continually improve your experience on the Website. We use your Personal and Non-Personal Information in the following ways:

  • If you have consented to permit SGJFA to do so;

  • Responding to your inquiries;

  • Communicating with you about changes to our policies;

  • If SGJFA needs your Personal or Non-Personal Information to perform the contract or provide the services that it has agreed to provide you; 

  • Sending you information about programs, initiatives, activities, and events by e-mail or another medium;

  • Detecting, investigating, and preventing activities that may violate our policies or be illegal;

  • Performing statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses of users of the Website and their usage patterns; and

  • If SGJFA has a legitimate interest that is not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms, including the provision of fine art services and internal administrative or operational processes. 

3. How We Share Your Information

We will not share your Personal Information with any third party, except on the legal bases described above (i) as reasonably necessary to fulfill any request from you or to contract with you and (ii) if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or the Website; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the Website, or our users; and (c) act under emergency circumstances to protect the personal safety of us, our affiliates, our agents, or the users of the Website or the public. 

 

4. Personal Information 

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is a European Regulation concerning the use and processing of personal information.  We are committed to processing your information in line with high standards and in compliance with the GDPR. Under the GDPR you have certain rights to request:

(a) Access to your personal information.

(b) Correction of the personal information that we hold. 

(c) Erasure of your personal information. 

(d) A restriction of processing of your personal information.

(e) Transfer of your personal information to another party; or

(f) To object to processing of your personal information based on our legitimate interest (or those of a third party) to use it and there is something about your particular situation causes you to object to such processing.

The Website is published in the United States and is subject to laws of the United States. If you are located in a country outside the United States and voluntarily submit personal information to us, you thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy and to the transfer of that information to, and/or storage of that information in, the United States. SGJFA shall not be liable under any circumstances for damages resulting from use of information collected from visitors to the Website.

We reserve the right to modify or amend the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will mean you accept those changes.

Questions, comments and for the exercise of your rights under the GDPR, please contact simone@sgjfineart.com