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  PRIVACY POLICY  

 

 

This Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how this site collects, uses and safeguards the personal information you provide to The Flatmates Art Company Ltd and to assist you in making purchases.

What Information Do We Collect and How Do We Use it?

When you visit this site you may provide The Flatmates Art Company Ltd with two types of information; personal information you actively choose to disclose, ("Active Information"), through making a purchase or contacting The Flatmates Art Company Ltd, and anonymous information collected as you and others browse this site ("Passive Information").

Active Information You Disclose For Purchase

If you make purchases from this site, The Flatmates Art Company Ltd collects your name, billing address, billing phone number, email and credit card information. The Flatmates Art Company Ltd uses such information only for processing your order and to contact you via email if you indicated that you wished to receive an email notification of updates or new products.

Passive Information Collected

Our site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" to enable site visitors to make purchases and to collect information about how this site is used. Passive Information gathered may include the date and time of visits, the site pages viewed, time spent at this site, and the sites visited just before this site. Passive Information is collected on an aggregate basis without any association to your personal information so that you remain anonymous.

We use Passive Information to gain an understanding of how this site is being used, and to enhance and design the site to make it easier, faster and friendlier to use. Additionally, cookies help The Flatmates Art Company Ltd know how many people visit this site, when they visit and which pages are most frequently viewed. We do not connect any of this information to your personal information or email address.

What is a Cookie?

Cookies are a feature of web browsers, (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, etc.), that allow web servers to recognize the computer used to access a site. They are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on one site to simplify subsequent interactions with that site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transaction on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from site to site and to complete transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier, more personalized, and allow for faster loading times of this web site's pages on subsequent visits.


Sharing Information with the Government or As Otherwise Required by Law

We may be required by law or Government agency to disclose both Active and Passive Information you have provided to The Flatmates Art Company Ltd and will do so if required by law or subpoena, or for enforcement of claims regarding our purchase agreement license.

How Do We Secure Active Information and Passive Information?

We secure personal information submitted by you by using reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction of Active Information and Passive Information. Security measures include encrypting personal information by means of our secure server, and by other means that we will not disclose here for obvious security reasons. Other communications you may have with The Flatmates Art Company Ltd via email or post may not be secure unless The Flatmates Art Company Ltd advise you that security measures are in place prior to your sending information. Therefore, if you choose to communicate with The Flatmates Art Company Ltd through these means, you are assuming the risk of doing so.

We reserve the right to revise this policy at our discretion. Please check back on this site as this policy may be revised from time to time without notice to you.