Privacy Policy
Effective Date October 01,
2008
Artamatik.com values the members of our website.
Your privacy and trust are important to us. We understand that you may be
concerned any personally identifiable information that we collect when you use
our website and the services, provided by our website. The purpose of this
Privacy Policy is to describe the information that we collect from you, how we
collect the information, and what we will use it for after we collect it.
Artamatik.com's goal is to provide protection for your personal information no
matter where that information is collected, transferred, or retained. By using
the Artamatik.com website you are accepting the practices described in this
Privacy Policy.
Collection of Personal
Information
Personal information we collect is primarily for our own internal purposes, such
as providing, maintaining, serving and enhancing the service and the website of
Artamatik.com, fulfilling the request for information, producing the products,
and shipping the products you order, and providing the customer services to you.
For example, if you create a Premium Store Account in our website, we will use
the information you provide us to communicate with you, Paypal account
information for the purpose of delivering your commission payments, and if you
sign up our newsletters, we will use the email address you provide to send you
the newsletters you are interested in. We also collect non-personal information
from you, such as your browser type, urls, your ISP, operating system and your
IP address. This information cannot and will not be used to identify you.
Use of Personal Information
Personal information provided to us may be transferred worldwide; within
Artamatik.com or to third parties providing the services to Artamatik.com
including but not limited to across borders, from our country or collective
areas to other countries or collective areas around the world. Some of the ways
in which we will use the personal information provided by you to us include:
1) to take, process or deliver your order, process or obtain payment or notify
you of the status of your order;
2) to provide it to industry and credit related organizations for security,
credit or fraud prevention purposes;
3) to provide you with effective customer service or technical support;
4) to monitor service or purchasing;
5) to provide you with service updates, announcements, and other product
offerings;
6) to send you, with your consent, newsletters or promotional emails or other
promotional activities;
7) to permit you to participate in online surveys and polls, assuming you
voluntarily agree to provide such information in connection with these surveys
and polls;
8) to improve Artamatik.com's website, customers experience and any related
products or services.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure any person or entity receiving personal
information for the purposes described above, are obligated to protect the
personal information on your behalf. We may contract with various third
parties who help us provide, maintain and improve the services of our website.
We also contract with several online partners to help manage, monitor and
optimize our website and the Artamatik.com services and to help us measure the
effectiveness of our advertising, communications and how visitors use the our
website. We will try our best efforts to prevent such third parties from
disclosing your personal information.
Disclosure of Personal
Information
Artamatik.com will disclose your personal information directly to you upon your
request; provided, however, that we may reject all or part of your request when:
1. the disclosure may harm life, the body, the property and the other rights of
yourself or the third parties,
2. the disclosure may lead the to difficulties to the appropriate operation of
our business or
3. the disclosure may lead to a breach of other laws and regulations.
Generally speaking we do not disclose your information to third parties without
your consent. We do reserve the right to do so if it is necessary to the
operation and continued growth of our company or to protect the rights of
others.
We may disclose your Personal Information to prevent an emergency, to protect or
enforce our rights, to protect or enforce the rights of a third party, or
as required by law (including, without limitation, to comply with a subpoena or
court order). If you are a store seller, we may disclose your information to a
third party that alleges you have infringed on their intellectual property
rights through the products in your Artamatik.com Store. Alternatively, if you
allege that a seller has infringed on your intellectual property rights, we may
disclose your information to that seller.
Artamatik.com also employs other companies to provide services to us in
connection with your transaction. We do use companies to process credit card
payments, deliver packages, provide marketing aid, and analyze data. These
organizations may have access to personal information as required to permit them
to perform their obligations to us. In the event Artamatik.com merges with
another entity, is acquired by another entity, or enters into a business
combination with another entity, Artamatik.com may be required to disclose some
or all of your personally identifiable information to that entity to continue
serving you.
Artamatik.com is not in the business of selling, trading or renting personal
information. We will not use or share your personally identifiable information
with others except those individuals or entities which have a business
relationship with Artamatik.com.
Cookies and
Web Beacons
We may use "Cookies" and "Web Beacons". "Cookies" are small text files that are
transferred to and from your computer's hard disk to our website. Most websites
use cookies, to track your use of the services of Artamatik.com, in order to
provide you better personalized user experience, and to allow you to login and
begin using the Artamatik.com services automatically when you visit and re-visit
our website. "Web Beacons" are used to monitor the behavior of the user visiting
the website or receiving the email.
Cookie and web beacons used by Artamatik.com and our store sellers, they are not
linked to personal information. Some of our store sellers may also use a
"cookie" and "web beacons" in their store of Artamatik.com. We have no access
to; or control over these cookies and web beacons. This privacy policy covers
the use of cookies and web beacons by Artamatik.com only, and does not cover the
use of cookies and web beacons by any other third parties, store sellers, or
advertisers.
Children's Privacy
This site is not aimed to attract children and its objective is to not
collect personal information from children. Anyone under the age of 13 should
not use this website. We will delete any information in our database that we
know/believe originates from a child under the age of 13. For
users of the
age of between 13 and 17, they can only use
our website services under their parents or legal guardian's supervision.
Security
Customers who buy through Artamatik.com's system are shopping on a secure server
which encrypts customer's credit card information and passwords. Artamatik.com
uses a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to encrypt your personal information and
protect it from disclosure, destruction, modification, or use. We will follow
generally accepted industry standards to protect your personal information.
Your Choices
You can decide whether or not to provide your personal information to
Artamatik.com. However, if you do not provide personal information you may not
be able to make purchases, enlist in new services or access certain offers or
options that may be of benefit to you. At the time you provide your information,
we will offer you the choice as to whether or not you wish to receive further
communications about special offers, product information, newsletters or other
messages.
Changes to this Privacy
Policy
Artamatik.com may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. "Effective Date"
at the top of this Privacy Policy.