Your privacy is very important to www.paintingdb.com (the "Site", "we") and we want you to be familiar with how personal information is collected, used, and disclosed on the Site. Please note that this Privacy Policy governs only information, whether personal or otherwise, provided to the Site. It does not govern the collection of personal information or other information through any other website, or by any other means, other than through the Site. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the terms of this Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you agree to the terms of this policy and consent to the collection and use of personal information about you in accordance with this Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SITE.
1.The information we collect about you
If you register with the Site, we may collect and process certain personal information about you, such as your name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, picture, gender, and language. We may also combine the information you submit with information from third parties that you use to sign in to the Site. This Privacy Policy applies also to such information obtained from third parties. Should your picture constitute sensitive personal information under applicable laws, by signing in to the Site you consent to our processing of such sensitive personal information about you.
When you access the Site, we collect log information including the IP-address from which you access the Site, the type of computer operating system you use, and the size and resolution of the display that you use to access the Site. We also place what is called a "cookie" on the device you use to access the Site. A cookie is a file stored on the device used to access the Site and maintains certain data related to you. We use session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are used to confirm that you have signed in and will be deleted when you sign out from the Site or close your browser window. Persistent cookies are used to personalize your user experience. Most browsers allow you to remove or block cookies by adjusting the browser settings. Blocking or deleting cookies does not affect your user experience on the Site. Our service providers may use so-called Web beacons alone or in conjunction with cookies to compile information about your website usage. A Web beacon, which is an electronic image, can recognize certain types of information on your computer such as cookies, the time and date of a page viewed, and a description of the page where the Web beacon is placed.
2.The use of information we collect about you
We use the information we collect to:
  • set up and maintain your registration with the Site;
  • provide the features available on the Site;
  • facilitate transactions such as purchases of works of art;
  • communicate with you;
  • audit, research and analyze in order to maintain, protect, and improve our services;
  • ensure the technical functioning and security of the Site;
  • protect our rights or property; and
  • to develop new services.
3.The sharing of information we collect about you
Except as specifically stated otherwise in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose personal information to any persons or companies who could use personal information about you for direct marketing purposes or in any manner unintended by you.
We may share information about you with entities that provide services to us, such as website hosting service providers, entities that provide logistical services, and entities that process payments. We may also share information about you with entities that we partner with from time to time to organize sweepstakes and other events on the Site. These service providers and partner entities will only have access to such information that is strictly necessary for them to provide the service or to facilitate your participation in an event and they are authorized to use this information only in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy and for no other unrelated purpose.
From time to time, we may be required to disclose personal information about you to law enforcement or government officials. Should this be the case, we will only disclose the information necessary to comply with the request. We may also, in our sole discretion, disclose information to prevent a violation of the law and by signing into the Site, you consent to our doing so.
As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets, and, depending upon the transaction, personal information about you may be included in the transferred assets. We may disclose and transfer personal information (i) to a subsequent owner, co-owner or operator of the Site, in whole or in part; or (ii) in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially all of our stock and/or assets or other corporate change, including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process; provided, however, that this Privacy Policy shall continue to govern such personal information.
4.Links to third party websites
From time to time, the Site may make available external links to sites owned and operated by third parties in order to improve your online experience. Please be aware that this Privacy Policy does not apply to personal information collected by such third parties. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy policies of any third party sites before submitting any personal information about you.
5.Forums
On the Site, we may feature discussion forums and comments from users (collectively "forums"). Please be aware that any personal information you disclose in your submissions on these forums may become public and may be collected and processed by third parties. We are not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit on these forums and we discourage you from submitting any personal information on these forums.
6.Accessing your personal information
You can access and review the personal information about you and make any desired changes to this information by signing in to the Site and editing the information on your "My Profile" page. To completely remove your personal information from the Site, please click "Delete Profile" on the "My Profile" page, or send a request to privacy@paintingdb.com. When sending such a request, please use the e-mail account that you have provided us when you first signed in to the Site. You will receive a response to requests sent to privacy@paintingdb.com within three business days of our receiving it. Please be aware that we may retain certain information about you where necessary to prevent fraud or abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personal information, account recovery information, or any information required by law. All retained information will continue to be subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
7.Transfers outside the European Economic Area
Some of our service providers may be located outside the European Economic Area, where the rules applicable to the protection of personal information may be different from your home country. By signing in to the Site, you consent to your personal information being transferred outside the European Economic Area.
8.Security
In order to secure personal information about you, we use data security technologies such as secure socket layer (SSL) encryption and computer firewalls. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers. Once we have received personal information about you, we will undertake commercially reasonable efforts to protect it. Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect personal information about you, we cannot guarantee the security of information about you that is transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk.
9.Communications from us
We will communicate with you via e-mail and notices posted on this site. We may also send you promotional e-mails if you have consented to receive such information. You may request that we stop sending you promotional material at any time by either clicking a link included in the promotional e-mail you have received or e-mailing us at privacy@paintingdb.com.
10.Changes to this Privacy Policy
From time to time we may revise this Privacy Policy. You can tell when this Privacy Policy was last updated by referring to the "Last Updated" - legend on the top of this page. The changes go into effect when they are posted. However, before we post such changes we will notify registered users about fundamental changes to the Privacy Policy. A "fundamental change" means a change in how we use the information we collect about you and/or how we share the information we collect about you. We encourage you to check the Privacy Policy on occasion to familiarize yourself with any changes made in the terms therein.
11.Contacting Us
If you have any questions concerning any aspect of this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices in general, please do not hesitate to contact us via:

Email: privacy@paintingdb.com

Write to:

PaintingDb®
Käsityöläiskatu 4 A
FI-20100 TURKU
FINLAND