Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes information that we may collect from you when you visit sometimescoolart.com (the “Site”) or direct an inquiry to Sometimes Cool Art through electronic means. This Privacy Policy explains how our store, uses, discloses, or shares that information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, do not access or use the site. By accessing or using the Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Site after the Privacy Policy has been modified is deemed to be an acceptance of those modifications.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by third parties including websites that may be linked to from this Site.

1.  Scope

A. Use of the Site – This Privacy Policy applies to information collected when you use the Site and in electronic communications transmitted through the Site. It does not apply to information collected offline. In addition, this Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by any third parties regardless of whether or not the Site includes links to the websites of those third parties.

2. Information That We Collect

A. Non-personal Information is any information that does not identify you individually or does not permit a direct association with an individual. Non-personal Information may include information derived from Personal Information that has been de-personalized by removing unique identifiers and/or by combining it with information about other users to form aggregated data.

B. Personal Information is information that is reasonably capable of being associated with or could be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.

C. Examples of information we collect include:

1. registration information you provide when you create an account, enter a promotion, or sign up for communications, including: your name, date of birth, mailing address, phone number, email address, username, and password
2. transaction information you provide when you make a purchase, such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address, telephone number, and payment information
3. information you provide by posting content on the Site, including: blogs, press releases, forum posts, comments, artwork information
4. information we obtain from third parties such as a third party websites, vendors, service providers, or other platform providers
5. location information including data provided by a mobile device or other device as you navigate our Site
6. activity information pertaining to your use of the Site

3. How We Collect Information

The Site collects information from and about you, directly, when you provide such information to the Site and, automatically, when you use the Site.

A. Information You Provide – the Site collects information that you provide when you make inquiries using our “contact us” form, complete a transaction, enter a promotion, sign up to receive communications, or join the Site as a member. The information collected may include anything submitted by you to the Site and may include copies of the correspondence. When you purchase goods through the Site, you voluntarily provide certain Personal Information which is stored by the Site and also processed by a third party company (i.e. our credit card processors). If you voluntarily provide your Personal Information to us, we collect it. You choose whether to disclose Personal Information, but you may not be able to use the Site or conduct certain transactions with doing so.

B. Information Collected Automatically – When you visit or otherwise use the Site, the Site collects details about your access and use of the Site automatically through cookies and other technology, including details about your device, internet connection, operating system, browser type, browsing actions, and the resources that you access and use on the Site, other traffic data, and, location data. The information the Site collects automatically may include personal information or the Site may associate it with personal information it collects in other ways or receives from third parties. If the Site associates such data with personal information, the Site will treat it as personal information, but if such data is not associated with other personal information, the Site will treat it as non-personal information.

4. Cookies and Related Technology

A. Cookies – Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your internet browser on your device. Cookies can be either persistent or temporary. A persistent cookie retains user preferences for a particular website, allows those preferences to be used in future sessions, and remains valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). Temporary cookies expire at the end of a user session when the browser is closed. The Site may set its own cookies or may ask others to set them to help the Site. Most internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, but then you may not be able to access or use portions of this Site.

B. Web Beacons – Web beacons are small bits of code embedded in web pages or emails that assist in delivering cookies. Web beacons help the Site determine whether a webpage on this Site has been viewed and, if so, how many times. the Site may also use web beacons in email messages to determine what the recipient has done with the message. Although you cannot decline to receive web beacons when visiting a web page, you can choose not to receive web beacons by email if you disable HTML images or refuse HTML email messages.

5. How We Use Your Information

The Site uses information that you provide and/or that the Site collects to present the Site to you, improve the Site, deliver a more personalized service to you, provide you with information, products, and/or services that you request from the Site, market goods or services to you, fulfill any other purpose for which you provide such information, provide you with information you requested, and for any other purpose with your consent. The way the Site uses such information is described in more detail in the chart below. The Site may aggregate the information you provide or that the Site collects from you with information collected from other users to allow the Site to evaluate its products and services. the Site may use the information it collects to contact you about the Site’s products and services that may interest you, and if required by law, we will obtain your approval to do so.