Privacy Charter
The internet website "Associated Art Collectors" or "Site" is operated by M. Gilles Caron, a resident of Saint-Augustin de Desmaures, Quebec, Canada.
This Charter takes effect from June 15, 2014 and governs the collection and use of personal data carried over the whole of this Site on or after that date.
This Charter describes the different categories of information collected by "Associated Art Collectors" from its users and how to use them.
Before you disclose personal information, please make a careful reading of this Charter.
By using this Site, you agree that "Associated Art Collectors" uses personal information about you in accordance with this Charter.
If you do not agree to the terms of this policy, please do not use this Site. If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us.
The information we collect
1. From unregistered users
We encourage you to register with our company to take advantage of the many customization options available. However, you might decide not to register and enjoy all the features of our site for which no registration is required.
If you do not register, we will then collect only limited information about you. We record your IP address so you can receive aid in the diagnosis of the problems faced by our server, to administer our Site and to track usage statistics. Depending on whether you connect to our Site through a permanent Internet connection (such as cable or DSL modem) or a dial-up connection (AOL or Earthlink type for example), your IP address may be different each time you visit or stay the same.
Anyway, it would be extremely difficult for us to identify you through your IP address, and we do not try to do so. If you come to our site by clicking on a link or advertisement on another site, this information is also stored by us. This helps us make the most of our Internet presence and to understand the interests of our users. All of this information is collected and used only in aggregate form, that is to say, they are stored in our database from which we can use to establish general reports on our visitors, but not individual ones.
We also place a little file known as a "cookie" on the hard drive of your computer file. A cookie may contain information that allows us to track your journey on our site and determine if you have visited us. However, unless you sign up with "Associated Art Collectors", it does not contain personal information that would allow us to identify you. Cookies can’t be used to read data stored on your hard drive and can’t retrieve information from other cookie files created by other websites. We use cookies to help us understand how our visitors use our site and to help us improve it.
You may refuse the installation of a cookie from us by observing the procedures specific to your Web browser. However, if you reject the cookie, you may have your browser not work correctly when you see not only our website but other found websites. Please note that to the extent that cookies do not give us information that allows us to identify you, we suggest you allow us to place one on your computer so that you can fully enjoy the features of our site.
2. From registered users
If you choose to register with "Associated Art Collectors", you'll be able to add items to our Site. For example, you can contact other art collectors or propose adding elements to our Site. In addition, you can enjoy the option that will be available to personalize your experience on the "Associated Art Collectors" website. You will enjoy more benefits related to your entry as we learn to know you and that we will introduce new options. We encourage you to register in order to discover all that the site "Associated Art Collectors" has to offer!
If you register with "Associated Art Collectors" we will collect personal information about you for in addition to the non-personal information described above. This information may include personal information that you enter manually filling our forms, such as your name, email address and postal address, phone number, your preferences for works or artists, your user and password ID or other people contact information that you may enter. We may retain all or part of this information in a "cookie" file on your hard drive for our system to recognize you each time you visit our Site. In this way, we can save your preferences from one visit to another and personalize our site without you having to register on our Site whenever you visit.
In addition, the authorized "Associated Art Collectors" staff can update the registration information about you so that they accurately reflect any new information contained in any communication you send to us.
Note that we don’t keep or retain on our site any payment information or data (see below).
If you access third-party services, such as social media services, via our website or before coming to our website, we may collect information such as your username, password and other information which we can access through those services to improve and personalize your use of our website.
How we use the personal information we collect
We use the personal information that we collect in our mutual interest. As noted above, your registration with "Associated Art Collectors" allows you to customize our website in a way that is as useful as possible for you. It also allows you to automatically connect to our Site whenever you visit without at each connection, manually enter your username or password. We may also use personal information about you to contact you from time to time with news or important information from "Associated Art Collectors", to transfer to you messages from other members of "Associated Art Collectors" and/or to ask your opinion on the Site. In addition to these periodic updates, we can send you additional information by email, but only on specific request from you. This data may include periodic newsletters, alerts and other documents that you might take the initiative to ask for from "Associated Art Collectors".
In addition to the information provided, if you have provided an email address, we may use personal information about you to send you, if you agree (consent may be withdrawn at any time as described in this policy) notification of special offers.
You can ask to be excluded from the distribution list of all or some of the marketing communications of "Associated Art Collectors" at any time by logging onto the "Associated Art Collectors" website, which will also allow you, accessing your "Dashboard", to have access to personal information about you and update it if needed.
We may also use some of the information you provide us to present you with advertisements that you might find interesting. This has advantages for "Associated Art Collectors" as for you. At our level, advertising helps us pay our bills; we can even charge our advertisers better they know that their ads will be seen by people really likely to find useful. You also pull out because you have access to ads that can really interest you rather than annoy you.
We remind you that you can always unsubscribe from "Associated Art Collectors" by accessing your "Dashboard" on the Site.
Disclosure of personal information
"Associated Art Collectors" does not sell, rent or give any personal information to any third party whatsoever as indicated in this Charter.
As you might expect, "Associated Art Collectors" must cooperate with legal authorities and in some cases may be required to disclose personal information for identification in response to requests from agencies policing or in the court proceedings.
We do not share our entire database in response to a specific legal request. We may also disclose information about you if we believe, in our sole discretion, that we must do to prevent an offense. You agree to give your consent to this Charter. You also agree that we may disclose information about you in connection with judicial proceedings if we are legally required or if we reasonably believe that doing so, we can reduce our own responsibility or that it will help us to enforce our rights. We may also share your information as part of a commercial transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation or sale of assets or in the unlikely event of a default.
Options for communication between members
When you register on the "Associated Art Collectors" website, the options for communication between members are automatically activated. These options allow members of "Associated Art Collectors", including yourself, to communicate with them through our website.
We have designed these options to prevent disclosure of personal information about you to other users and to allow you to refuse to participate in activities if you do not want to.
Your email address is never disclosed to other members of "Associated Art Collectors" or vice versa.
How can you review and update the personal information about you?
You may, at any time, review and update the personal information you provided during registration by visiting "My Dashboard" on the "Associated Art Collectors" website. So you can have access to your personal information and, if they prove incorrect, correct them.
The measures we take to protect your personal information
"Associated Art Collectors" has implemented security procedures to help protect personal information stored on our systems. For example, we limit access to personal information to employees who, in our reasonable judgment, need to know. We also employ processes (such as hash passwords, audit connections or closing inactive sessions) to protect personal information concerning you from unauthorized access.
However, although we put in place appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect against unauthorized or unlawful processing of personal data and against any loss, damage or accidental destruction of these, we have no way as any other website to guarantee the absolute security of your personal information.
Payment information
Please note that our website is 100% secure. Information associated with the payment of purchased services is routinely encrypted before being transmitted to a third party. We do not store on the Site any information associated with your bank accounts, credit cards, etc.
Changes to this Privacy Charter
We reserve the right to change this policy if we determine the appropriate action. If we make significant changes that will affect personal information already collected from you, we will endeavor, within reasonable efforts to notify you of these changes and provide you the opportunity to change or cancel your subscription.
Accepted: June 15, 2014
Updated: April 27, 2017.