PRIVACY POLICY

 

The Artroom is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This privacy protection section communicates how, when, and why we gather information about our customers and what we do with it.

If you have any questions about the privacy policies please contact us at:

the-artroom@hotmail.com

This Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites to which we link. You agree that your use of the Site signifies your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you are not authorised to use this Site.

 

Information Collected

If you subscribe to The Artroom, we will ask you for your name, e-mail address, phone number and what you may be interested in. The Artroom will never sell, rent or share your personal information, including your e-mail address, with any third parties for marketing purposes without your express permission. 

In addition, we automatically gather certain information about the use of the Site, such as how frequently certain areas of the Site are visited, including through the use of cookies, web beacons and other technologies. Most browsers can be set to prevent cookies or to notify you when one is being placed. However, cookies are necessary to access the Site.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information given to send you regular news about courses at The Artroom and information that is art related that we think you may be interested in. Your phone number will only be used in exceptional circumstances (such as cancellation of a course).

In connection with their performance of services to maintain and operate the Site and certain features on the Site, certain trusted third parties may be permitted to access your information. For example, we may use third parties to host the Site; operate various features available on the Site; send emails; analyse data; provide search results and links.

We reserve the right to disclose information in order to comply with a subpoena, court order, administrative or governmental order, or any other requirement of law, or when we, in our sole discretion, believe it is necessary in order to protect our rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or property, to fight fraud and credit risk reduction.

We use non-personally identifiable information in the aggregate, so that we can improve the Site and for business and administrative purposes. We may also use or share with third parties for any purpose aggregated data that contains no personally identifiable information.

If you submit your email address to be added to a mailing list, we will use the email address for the sole purpose of sending you announcements and special offers from The Artroom along with site updates. Each email we send will contain information on how to unsubscribe from our mailing list. You can also unsubscribe by sending an email to the-artroom@hotmail.com

 

Should you enter any competition directly linked to The Artroom, any personal identifiable information you supply will only be used to determine the winners of the competition, and to contact them. After the winners have been contacted all personal identifiable information will be destroyed. 

Should you contact us (via email or phone) with enquiries we will only ever use this information to reply to your enquiry, you will not be added to our mailing list, to do this a separate form needs to be filled in. We will not share your information with others except with your permission or upon your request.

Comments you voluntarily post on public forums such as our blog or social media platforms will be displayed publicly along with the name you submit and the time at which you submitted the comment.

 

How We Protect Your Information

We are committed to protecting the information we receive from you. We follow reasonable technical and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures we have implemented reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.

We use Stripe and Paypal’s third-party payment system to store and secure your payment information and execute transactions securely. We do not store any of your payment data on our servers. If you have any questions regarding your payment data, please email the-artroom@hotmail.com.

 

 

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
 

 

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. 

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email us at the-artroom@hotmail.com.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

 

 

1/4/24 to be revised 1/4/25