We have created this policy to assist you in understanding what we do with the information we collect when you visit this website, how we use that information, the choices visitors and/or members have concerning the collection and use of that information, and the safeguards we have in place. This Privacy Statement is effective starting April 2, 2009.
 
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ONLINE
USING PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
PAINTINGTEMPLATES.COM E-MAIL
INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH THIRD PARTIES
AFFILIATED SITES, LINKED SITES, ADVERTISEMENTS & COOKIES
PRIVACY OF CHILDREN ON OUR WEBSITE
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES AND SERVICES
UPDATES TO PRIVACY STATEMENT
CONTACTING US
SECURITY STATEMENT
GOVERNING LAW
 
 
 
 
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ONLINE
 
1. General Browsing Information
 
PaintingTemplates.com gathers navigational information during each
visitor's use of our website, and in the process, non-personally identifiable
information (i.e. domain type, browser version, service provider and IP
address) may be collected. The navigational information tells
PaintingTemplates.com about the use of our website by visitors, including
the areas of our site that are most visited or the time of last visit to a page on our site.

It also tells us about the technical efficiencies of our website and services (i.e. the time it takes a visitor to connect to our website or download pages). The navigational information helps us better understand a visitor's experience at PaintingTemplates.com and improve upon that experience by recognizing and delivering more of the features, services and products our visitors prefer.
 
2. Personal Information
 
Personally identifiable information collected by PaintingTemplates.com may also be used for other purposes, including but not limited to site administration, troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce transactions,
administration of sweepstakes, contests, when you establish or update a
PaintingTemplates.com account, participate in a survey, shop online (check
the status of an order, purchase and send an e-gift card and/or create,
including personal information about yourself or someone to whom information is sent), or if you sign up for e-mail to receive information about our products, promotions and events, and other communications with you. We will use your information only as permitted by law.
 
Categories of information collected include name, address, e-mail address,
recipient's name and e-mail address, order information, telephone number,
credit card information and messages or reminders you create. Anyone who
wishes can choose to be removed from our mailing list at any time by
clicking the link at the bottom of any e-mail sent to you from
PaintingTemplates.com.

All online visitor data collected by PaintingTemplates.com is protected
against unauthorized access. We will not sell, trade, or give your personal
information to other companies or organizations. Certain third parties who
provide technical support for the operation of our site (our Web hosting
service for example) may access such information. Those assisting our order processing may have access to information you provide, but only to assist with orders, and not to solicit you. As we continue to develop our
business, we may sell, buy, transfer all or a portion of business assets,
merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions,
consumer information may be among the transferred assets for the transferee to also safeguard.
 

USING PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
 
PaintingTemplates.com uses the personal information we collect from you to deliver products that you have ordered, to fulfill requests that you have
created, to contact you or the product recipient(s) in the event of order or delivery difficulties, for verification purposes, to respond to your
inquiries, and to deliver services and information about our products,
promotions, sweepstakes, surveys, or website, including adding you to the e-mail list when you sign up or make a purchase.
 
If you make a purchase from PaintingTemplates.com, our credit card
processor, PayPal, will secure information within their system you offer
including: name on card, e-mail, location, postal code, county/city, credit
card number and information for ordering purposes. All credit card
transactions occur over a secure connection. If you choose to sign in to PayPal to handle your transactions with PaintingTemplates.com, all details you provide will be secured safely with PayPal, or in your own account with them if you have one.
 
Aggregated Information (information that does not personally identify you)
may be used in many ways. For example, we may combine information about the usage patterns of all users to help enhance our site and services (e.g., to learn which pages are visited most or what features are most attractive). Aggregated Information may occasionally be shared with our advertisers and business partners. This information does not include any Personally Identifiable Information about you or allow anyone to identify you individually.

How we collect and store information depends on the page you are visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate and the services provided. For example, you may be asked to provide information when you register for access to certain portions of our site or request certain features, such as newsletters or when you make a purchase. You may provide information when you participate in sweepstakes and contests, message boards and chat rooms, and other interactive areas of our site. Like most Web sites, PaintingTemplates.com also collects information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to our visitors. For example, we may log the name of your Internet Service Provider or use cookie technology to recognize you and hold information from your visit. Among other things, the cookie may store your user name and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control the number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while visiting our site. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but if you do you may be unable to access certain portions of the site or may be asked to re-enter your user name and password, and we may not be able to customize the site’s features according to your preferences.

 
 
PAINTINGTEMPLATES.COM E-MAIL
 
PaintingTemplates.com email allows you to receive exclusive information
about special offers, media events, new products, and more. If you're not
already registered, simply complete our sign up form to receive these
special messages. If at any time you would like to stop future delivery of
PaintingTemplates.com e-mail, please follow the removal instructions located at the bottom of each email message.

Asking to be removed from PaintingTemplates.com e-mail will not prevent you from receiving e-mail communications relating to any online order you place at PaintingTemplates.com, requests to participate in surveys about our
products or other operational e-mail communications.

Voluntary Customer Surveys: We may periodically conduct both business and individual customer surveys. We encourage our customers to participate in these surveys because they provide us with important information that helps us to improve the types of products and services we offer and how we provide them to you. Your personal information and responses will remain confidential. Participation in our customer surveys is voluntary.

We may take the information we receive from individuals responding to our customer surveys and combine (or aggregate) it with the responses of other customers we may have, to create broader, generic responses to the survey questions (such as gender, age, residence, hobbies, education, employment, industry sector, or other demographic information). We then use the aggregated information to improve the quality of our services to you, and to develop new services and products. This aggregated, non-personally identifying information may be shared with third parties.

 
INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH THIRD PARTIES
 
We use third parties to help us provide services to you that may include
fulfilling orders, processing payments, monitoring site activity, conducting
surveys, maintaining our database, administering and monitoring e-mails, and administering drawings or contests. Third party service providers may also assist us in offering, running and monitoring this web site where you may provide personal information about yourself and possibly about your friends, and may provide aggregate, comparative information on the performance of our site.
 
If, after making a purchase at PaintingTemplates.com, you choose to
participate in a survey conducted at a third party provider's website, any
personal information that you provide during the survey at the third party
provider's website will be subject to that third party provider's
privacy policy.
 
Additionally, PaintingTemplates.com may occasionally provide you with the
opportunity to opt-in to receive e-mail messages from third parties. If you
do opt-in we will share your e-mail address with the specific third party
from whom you have opted-in to receive e-mail messages.
 
You should be aware that we may also disclose your information in response to a court order or if necessary to do so by law or based on good faith that it is necessary to conform or comply with the law or is necessary to protect the users of our web site or the public, or in connection with the
collection of amounts you may owe to us, and/or to law enforcement
authorities whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure in such cases.
 
 
AFFILIATED SITES, LINKED SITES, ADVERTISEMENTS & COOKIES
 

Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements

PaintingTemplates.com expects its partners, advertisers and affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. Be aware, however, that third parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our site you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a PaintingTemplates.com page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also, through PaintingTemplates.com you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, Web sites, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other parties. PaintingTemplates.com is not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.

While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or other third parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve information about you. For example, some of our advertising is served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before. Other features available on our site may offer services operated by third parties and may use cookies or other technology to gather information. PaintingTemplates.com does not control the use of this technology by third parties or the resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.

PaintingTemplates.com has the right to keep all pictures, photos, videos, forms, files, testimonials, or written content submitted, and may display them for public use to encourage creative growth. You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on message boards or in chat areas, that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of PaintingTemplates.com and this policy.
 
 
PRIVACY OF CHILDREN ON OUR WEBSITE
 
PaintingTemplates.com has designed this policy in order to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) for our website; therefore we restrict our website to persons eighteen years or older.

YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEBSITE WITHOUT SUPERVISION OF AN ADULT. WE RECOMMEND THAT AN ADULT ACCOMPANY CHILDREN WHEN USING CONTENT ON OUR WEBSITE.

To ensure compliance with federal law, PaintingTemplates.com does not
knowingly collect or maintain information provided by children under the age of 13, nor knowingly solicit personally identifiable information from or
about children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have
received any information from a child under 13 in violation of this policy, that information will be immediately deleted from our system.

Our site is not directed toward children, yet we do recognize that parents and children may visit this site because of the creative-friendly nature of our products. This provides us with the opportunity to help educate consumers about the Federal Trade Commission’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule. Please visit http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/07/coppacompli.shtm for information from the Federal Trade Commission about protecting children’s privacy online.

Prospective users between the ages of 13 and 17 can only use our website under their parents’ or legal guardian’s supervision. If you are between the ages of 13 and 17, you, your parent, or your legal guardian may request that we delete any of your personal information in our database and/or opt-out from receiving communications from us. If you wish to do so, please contact us at: contact@paintingtemplates.com.
 
 
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES AND SERVICES
 
For your convenience, our website may contain links to other sites. Links
that appear on PaintingTemplates.com or products/services recommended should not necessarily be deemed to imply that we endorse or have any affiliation with the linked websites. We are not responsible if a link is bad or other websites have material on it that offends you. You visit at your own risk, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such linked websites. We encourage you to review the separate privacy policies of each site you visit.

If you happen to visit chat groups, or look at the posting in our discussion groups or on our bulletin boards, we take no responsibility and assume no liability for the content of those locations or for any mistakes, defamation, libel, slander, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography, or profanity you might encounter when you visit such places on our site.

It is also prohibited for you to post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, nasty, mean, or profane material yourself, or any material that law enforcement types may consider a criminal offense, get someone in court on a civil lawsuit, or for that matter violate any law -- anywhere, anytime. While we certainly respect your privacy, we have no choice but to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court which might ask us who might have posted unprofessional things on our site.
 
 
UPDATES TO PRIVACY STATEMENT
 
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, so be sure to check back periodically for changes. Your continued use of our site will mean you accept those changes.
 
 
CONTACTING US
 
We can be reached by contacting PaintingTemplates.com by e-mail:
contact@paintingtemplates.com.
 
 
SECURITY STATEMENT
 
It is our policy not to send or accept your credit card number via e-mail.
In fact, this is a practice we encourage you to adopt in all of your internet activities.

We use PayDotCom in a shopping cart manner, that uses PayPal to process orders securely. PayDotCom uses a variety of seals and certificates to ensure up to date online purchasing security:

• PayPal Verified seal
• VeriSign (Verified SSL certificate)
• TrustGuard, (Must pass daily scans of more than 25,000 known vulnerabilities, to significantly improve the safety and protection of your information.)
• McAfee secure mark (Tested and certified daily to pass the “McAfee Secure” Security Scan, and the secure mark appears only when their site passes the daily McAfee Secure tests that keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses, and online scams.)
• HONESTe online member seal (publishes individual "consumer information pages" for the PayDotCom website, to provide consumers with real-time access to each company's current profile, website address and description. Each member has agreed to a "7-Point Consumer Pledge":

1. We display full contact information on our website.
2. Guarantee policies are clearly-stated for all purchases made at our website.
3. We are committed to providing excellent customer service and support.
4. We display a privacy policy, terms of use, and/or similar text/disclaimers that are required by law to show how we intend to use customer/subscriber information.
5. We do not engage in the practice of sending unsolicited bulk email (spam).
6. We use a known, reputable, secure payment processor for all online transactions.
7. We actively look to do business with other third party vendors who follow the same online business practices.

At the bottom of PayDotCom are listed all these verified seals of security mentioned.

For your safety and protection, your credit card information is not stored on our servers. Our order processing provider, ultimately PayPal, keeps this information encrypted and secure on your behalf. PayPal employs encryption technologies using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) from the trusted vendors of VeriSign to encrypt sensitive data between and among you and their systems. Here is their verified certificate. (You will see the title as ebay, because ebay bought and owns PayPal now.)

SSL is encryption technology that provides security while information is
being transmitted over the Internet. You can learn further about secure certificates and verifying here: About SSL Certificates

 
GOVERNING LAW
 
This policy and the use of this Site are governed by California law. If a
dispute arises under this Policy we agree to first try to resolve it with
the help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator in the following location:
Rancho Cucamonga, California. Any costs and fees associated with the mediation is not the responsibility of Paintingtemplates.com.
 
If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution
through mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration at
the following location: Rancho Cucamonga, California, under the rules of the American Arbitration Association. Judgment upon the award rendered by the
arbitration may be entered in any court with jurisdiction to do so.
PaintingTemplates.com is controlled, operated and administered entirely
within California.