The privacy of our customers is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and our use of your personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to all information you may provide to us through the Arts and Bricks website (the “Site”).
In order to browse our Site, you are not required to provide any personally identifiable information. However, if you sign up to receive our e-newsletter, register for a giveaway or order any products from us, you will be required to provide certain limited personal information. The terms of this Privacy Policy summarize how we will handle and use such information
A. The Information We Collect
If you sign-up to receive our e-newsletter or enter one of our giveaways, we will ask you for your email address. If you purchase products from us, we will ask you for other personal information, including your name, shipping and billing address, email and payment information such as valid credit card account. This information is required in order for us to process your order. We may also ask for other [optional] information if you register as a Arts and Bricks member, such as your child’s name. Any information gathered by us is used to process and fulfill your requests and orders and is not shared or sold to any third parties, except as expressly provided for in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.
We may have pages or other presence on various social networking sites or services, such as Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest and the like. Any information you post or provide through such sites and services will be subject to the policies of those sites and services. For example, if you post pictures or comments on our Facebook page, those pictures and comments will be publicly available and the handling and use of such information subject to Facebook’s policies.
We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with the Site and our servers. We may also use your IP address with IP addresses of other users to gather broad demographic information. We or our business partners may use “cookies” in connection with our Site. Cookies are small pieces of computer code that a site places on your computer hard drive for record-keeping purposes or to enhance the user experience. For example, recognizing you on a return visit to the Site. You may change the settings on your computer to disallow the storing of cookies or to be alerted when a cookie is sent. We are not responsible for the use of cookies by other web sites or services that may be used or accessed through our Site.
B. Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access and maintain data accuracy, we use industry standard methods to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Recognize that data transmitted online or stored in a facility to which online access is provided cannot be made to be 100% secure. We believe in protecting your information just as we would want our information protected.
In the event that personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised as may be required by applicable law.
C. Notifications
It is our policy to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to our users via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on the Site, as determined by us in our sole discretion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to our users.
D. Child Protection
We do not offer services to, or target, persons under the age of 13. If we are informed or discover that personal information has been provided from anyone under the age of 13, we will take prompt steps to purge such information from our database.
E. Use of User Information
Any information gathered by us is used to process and fulfill your requests and orders and is not shared or sold to any third parties, except as expressly provided for in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service. You agree that we may use your information to provide you notices and information regarding your orders or requests and support or other notices regarding operation of the Site or the products. We may use or provide to third parties aggregated non-personally identifiable data about our users and customers to learn more about our customer base and improve our Site and products. We may collect IP addresses and use cookies for the primary purpose of assisting with ease of use by you.
However, except as legally required, we will not sell or provide your name, email address, IP address, cookies, address or phone number or other personal information to third parties for advertising or other purposes. However, we may use or disclose your information to companies who work on behalf or with Arts and Bricks to provide products or the Site to you. We require that these third party service providers use such information only as necessary to perform the services on our behalf.
We reserve the right to use or disclose information if we believe in good faith that such use or disclosure is required or appropriate: (i) to comply with state, federal or international laws or to respond to a court order, subpoena, search warrant or other request of any governmental or regulatory authority; (ii) to protect the rights, property or personal safety of Arts and Bricks, our employees, any of our users or customers or others; (iii) to investigate and defend Arts and Bricks against any third party claims or allegations; (iv) to enforce our agreements or take precautions against liability; or (v) to protect the security or integrity of the Site, our products or services or our company.
In the event that Arts and Bricks is acquired by or merged with another entity, you agree that we may transfer and assign your information as a part of such merger, acquisition or other change of control. In the unlikely event that we file or are forced into bankruptcy, you understand that we cannot control how any information we may have will be treated, transferred or used.
F. Third-Party Sites.
The Site may contain links to other Internet sites. We have no responsibility for the privacy practices of other Web sites, including the Web sites of our business partners. You should review the privacy policies of any sites that are linked to our Site for more information on their practices prior to providing personal information to such site.
G. How You Can Opt-out, Access or Correct Your Information
If you have signed-up for our e-newsletter or for a giveaway, you can opt-out of receiving future newsletters or emails, by following the instructions contained within the e-newsletter email. You may also update or correct any information you have provided by contacting us at [email protected].
H. International Users
The Site is hosted in the United States. If you are accessing the Site from outside the United States, please be advised that through your continued use of the Site or placement of orders, which is governed by U.S. law and this Privacy Policy, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer and the maintenance and processing of such information in the United States.
I. How to Contact Us
Our customers trust is very important to us. Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please contact us at [email protected]
J. Behavioral Remarketing
Arts and Bricks uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Site.
Facebook
Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.
You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950
To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217
Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA https://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada https://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.
For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
K. Payments
We may provide paid products and/or services within the Site. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
The payment processors we work with are:
PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Stripe: https://stripe.com/privacy