Privacy Statement

User Accounts & Personal information

In the course of using our website, you may be asked to provide Art Noirs with personally identifiable information, including contact information, username and password (“Credentials”). Art Noirs treats this information with the utmost care, attention and security. Nevertheless, you, not Art Noirs, are responsible for maintaining and protecting your Credentials in connection with the website. If your contact information or other information related to your username or password changes, you must notify Art Noirs immediately and keep such information updated. You are solely liable for all activities you engage in with your login credentials, whether or not you have authorized such activities. You should notify Art Noirs immediately of any unauthorized use of your login credentials or if your email or password has been hacked or stolen. If you become aware that someone is using your credentials without your permission, you agree to notify Art Noirs immediately.

Information Collection & Cookies

In some cases, Art Noirs and its service providers use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to automatically collect certain types of information when you visit us online, as well as through emails we may exchange. Collecting this information allows us to customize your online experience, improve the performance, usability, and effectiveness of Art Noirs’s online presence, and measure the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.

An IP address is a number assigned to your computer when you access the Internet. It allows computers and servers to recognize and communicate with each other. The IP addresses from which visitors appear to originate may be recorded for IT security and system diagnostic purposes. This information may also be used in aggregate form to perform trend and performance analysis of the website.

On our website, a notice banner appears asking for your consent to collect cookies. If you do not give your consent, your computer or Internet-enabled device will not be tracked for marketing-related activities. The second type of cookie, called “user-input” cookies, may still be required for necessary functionality. Such cookies are not blocked by the use of this notification banner. Your selection is stored in a cookie and is valid for a period of 90 days. If you wish to revoke your selection, you may do so by deleting your browser cookies. You can also delete cookies from your device at any time. Please note, however, that if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of some features of our websites.

Other third-party tools and widgets may be used on our individual websites to provide additional functionality. The use of these tools or widgets may place a cookie on your device to facilitate the use of these services and to ensure that your interaction on our websites is displayed correctly.

Cookies in and of themselves do not tell us your email address or otherwise identify you personally. We may obtain other identifiers, including IP addresses, in our analytics reports. However, this is for the purpose of determining the number of unique visitors to our websites and the geographic origin of visitor trends, and not to identify individual visitors.

BY NAVIGATING ON OUR WEBSITE AND ENTERING YOUR LOGIN DETAILS TO ACCESS AREAS RESERVED FOR REGISTERED USERS, YOU AGREE THAT WE CAN PLACE THESE COOKIES ON YOUR COMPUTER OR INTERNET-ENABLED DEVICE.

If you have provided Art Noir’s personal information, in most circumstances you have the right to reasonable access to that information to correct any inaccuracies. You may also make a request to update or delete your information by contacting [email protected]. We will make all reasonable and practical efforts to comply with your request as long as it is consistent with applicable law and professional standards.

Data Security & Integrity

Art Noirs has reasonable security policies and procedures in place to protect personal information from unauthorized loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. However, despite Art Noirs’ best efforts, security cannot be absolutely guaranteed against all threats. We do our best to limit access to your personal information to those who absolutely need to know it. Those who have access to the data are required to maintain the confidentiality of that information. We also make reasonable efforts to retain personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill an individual’s request or until that individual requests that the information be deleted.

Usage

Restrictions On Use

You agree not to do any of the following while using the Site, Services or Art Noirs Content:

  1. Access, publish, submit or transmit any text, graphics, images, software, music, audio, video, information or other material that: (1) infringes, misappropriates, or violates any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral right, or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy of any third party; (2) violates any applicable law or regulation or encourages conduct that would give rise to civil liability; (3) is fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive; (4) is defamatory, obscene, vulgar or libelous; (5) constitutes child pornography or child erotica; (6) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm to any individual or group; (7) is violent or threatening or promotes violence or acts that are threatening to others; or (8) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances (including, but not limited to, activities that promote or provide instructions for the manufacture or purchase of illegal weapons or illegal substances).
  2. Use, display, mirror, frame, or utilize framing techniques to enclose the Site or the Services, or any elements individual or materials within the Site or the Services, Art Noirs’s name, any Art Noirs trademark, logo, or other proprietary information of Art Noirs, the content of any text or the layout and design of any page or any form contained on a page, without Art Noirs’s express written consent.
  3. Attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of Art Noirs system or network, or violate security or authentication measures.
  4. You will not remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, content mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Site, Paintings, or Art Noirs Content.