Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Laasya Art LLC (“Laasya Art”, “we”, “us” and/or “our”) operates this website (https://laasyaart.com) and its associated art gallery in Palo Alto, California (altogether,the “Services”). This Privacy Policy sets forth our policy concerning information, including personally identifiable data (“Personal Data”) that is collected from visitors to this website and through our Services.

By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data through our Services, or by virtue of an “optin” request from us, you consent to our use of your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In addition, by visiting or using our Services, you hereby consent to this Privacy Policy. So we are clear about the terminology we are using, when we use the term “Personal Data” in this Privacy Policy, we mean any information relating to you as an identified person (such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, etc.). When we use the term “Anonymous Data” in this Privacy Policy, we mean information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Data. Anonymous Data does not, by itself,permit the identification of individual persons. We collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data, as described below.

Information We Collect
In general, you can interact with our Services without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Data about yourself. However, you should be aware that elements of our Services allow for the submission of Personal Data. For example, you may submit your name, email address and/or phone number(s) to us through our website or you may provide us with Personal Data when corresponding with us, such as by mail, phone, e-mail, in person, through online sales platforms (such as Artsy), on social media or otherwise. In these cases, you will know what information is collected through our Services because you will provide the information to us. Here are some examples of Personal Data we may collect from you:

  • We may collect your email address or other Personal Data that you provide to us either in an e-mail or if you contact us with a question or inquiry.
  • We may collect your name, address, phone number, email address, and any other Personal Data that you provide to us if you contact us for employment.
  • We may collect your name, address, phone number, email address, company name and any other Personal Data that you provide to us if you contact us regarding product or service information, sales inquiries, partner inquiries or customer inquiries.
  • When you provide information in connection with a transaction, we may ask you for and may collect from you Personal Data such as your name, email address, shipping address, and telephone number.
  • When you interact through our website or other Services, such as in community discussions, chats, and other correspondence (whether throgh our website or sent directly to us), we may collect Personal Data such as your name, email address, correspondence address, and telephone number.
  • When you interact with our website and other Services, we may collect information such as your device ID, computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the website(s), IP address and standard web log information.
  • If you provide us feedback on our Services or contact us via email, we may collect Personal Data such as your name and email address, and we may also collect other information included in your inquiry, such as information needed to send you a reply.

You can always refuse to supply Personal Data to us, with the understanding that by not providing us with access to that Personal Data, you may not be able to interact with certain of our Services or transact or interact with us.

When you interact with us through our Services, we automatically receive and store certain anonymously collected information from your computer or device to make our Services more useful to you and to better understand the access, navigation and utilization of our Services. In particular, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) collect information from visitors, such as browser and platform type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address (which is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer or device when you use the Internet, and which may vary from session to session), domain name, referral or exit data (the last website you visited before your use of the Services and the next website you visit afterwards), a date time stamp and/or other clickstream data from your visit. We or our third-party service providers may also use publicly available sources to approximate your geographic region and Internet Service Provider based upon your IP address. Such information, which is collected passively through various technologies, is generally statistical data and generally is anonymous and does not identify you personally. We may store such information itself or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by our agents or service providers. We may pool such anonymously collected information with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to a Service, or the number or visitors to a particular page of a Service, or the domain names of our visitors’ Internet service providers, or to better understand how our visitors use our Services. It is important to note that no Personal Data is included or available in this aggregation of automatically collected information.

How We Use the Information We Collect and Who We Share It With
We use Personal Data that you provide in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Persona Data for a certain reason, we may use the personal information in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For example, if you contact us by email, we will use the Personal Data you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. By way of further illustration, we may use your Personal Data and other non-identifiable or anonymous information collected through our Service, to:

  • Deliver information, products or services you request or purchase or complete your transaction or service request.
  • Communicate or share information relating to paintings, offerings or programs thatwe think may be of interest to you.
  • If you opt-in to our mailing list, we may deliver communications such as gallery news, artist updates, special promotions and events, such as information relating to paintings, offers.
  • Complete your transaction or service request.
  • Contact you in response to general e-mail inquiries and specific inquiries regarding our Services, employment, sales, artists, suppliers and service or purchase request or questions.
  • Respond to your inquiries, investigate complaints, issue invoices, collect charges, resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.
  • Monitor compliance with and enforce the terms of our Services and prevent, detect and investigate potentially illegal or prohibited activities.
  • Help us better understand our customers and improve the quality, content and functionality of our Services.
  • Tell you about our Services and artwork, and promotional offers, based on your communication preferences.
  • Compare information for accuracy and verify it with third parties.

Each marketing communication we send to you will contain an instruction permitting you to “opt-out” or unsubscribe from receiving future marketing communications. If at any time you do not wish to receive any future marketing communications, please contact us as indicated below. If you provide us with Personal Data, for instance when ordering products or information material, we treat the Personal Data in compliance with applicable law and regulations. To the extent these regulations allow the collection, processing or use of Personal Data without a separate formal consent for the processing of orders or inquiries, we will observe the applicable legal requirements and limits while obtaining formal consent where required. When registering for a newsletter, your email address will be used for the purpose of providing you with the newsletter until you unsubscribe. Opting-out of receiving our publications or from receiving promotional or marketing emails from us is possible at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” like at the bottom of our emails.

The movement of our visitors through our Services may be tracked by us through a variety of means. These may include:

  • Reports based on links visited
  • Reports based on source of entrance to the site domain
  • Reports based on search engines and search terms used to find our site
  • Reports based on amount of time spent viewing specific sections/pages of the site.

We may use the above information to understand how our users as a group use the Services, to improve our Services and for our internal marketing, research and development projects.

In operating our Services, we may also use “cookies” (as defined below) and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the information which you searched and viewed. “Cookies” are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use you make of the Services. Most of the cookies we use are deleted from your computer at the end of the browser session (so-called “session cookies”). Other cookies remain on your computer and allow us to recognize your computer on the next visit (so-called “persistent cookies”). These cookies provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our website. For example, these cookies may be used to greet you with your username and not require you to re-enter information or fill out forms with your data for subsequent interactions.

We may use cookies from our Services for the following purpose:

  • Analytics. We may use cookies to help provide additional functionality to the Services or help analyze usage of the Services more accurately, for example gathering information about when the Services are accessed, what pages or services are used, or other website traffic information.
  • Authentication. We may use cookies to authenticate customers when they  log into Services and are necessary for your use of the Services.
  • Preferences. We may use cookies to remember you as a visitor to the Services, including your information and preferences, so that you do not have to enter information again with each visit.
  • Heat Mapping. Heat mapping services are used to display the areas of a page where visitors most frequently move the mouse or click. This shows where points of interest are located and helps make it possible for us to monitor and analyze web traffic and keep track of user behavior. Some of these services ay record sessions and make them available for later visual playback.

We may also gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp and clickstream data.

We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you, including Personal Data, to improve our Services, as well as for marketing analytics and Service operation purposes.

When we use cookies, we do not collect Personal Data without your permission. If you do not want to use cookies or if you otherwise want to manage their use, you may deactivate, delete or manage them in your web browser settings. For more details, please visit  http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or https://www.aboutcookies.org/. Please be aware that limiting or disabling cookies might make it difficult to use some of our Service features, as some Service feature may only be available with activated cookies.

By using our Services or by clicking “accept” to our use of cookies when the option is made available to you, you agree that the Services may place cookies on your computer or device and you agree to our use of cookies as provided in this Privacy Policy.

We may allow third party providers to use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of, or engagement with, the Services. For example, we may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help analyze how users use the website(s) associated with a Service and enhance your experience when you use our Services.

On behalf of the operator of the website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide other services related to website activity and Internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Such data collection and storage can be contested at any time with effect for the future. In addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of a Service (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by using the following link to download and install the available browser plug-in.

For more information on how Google uses this data, go to https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. For more information about the Google Analytics Terms of Service, please visit:  www.google.com/analytics/terms/. The Privacy Policy for Google Analytics may be found at www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

Certain pages on our website may have software or lines of code installed within the page that provide us with information about the “clickstream” of our visitors during their visit to our Service. This also allows us to know which pages the visitors came from, what navigational paths they took, and which areas of the site they visited. We currently do not respond to Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals.

Links to Other Sites
For your convenience, our Services may from time to time include links to third-party sites whose information practices may be different than ours. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by us of the content of such sites. Third party links include our social media buttons or links to other art organizations. You should consult these other sites’ privacy policies, as we do not make any representations or warranties regarding, or take any responsibility for, the content or accuracy of materials located on such sites or the privacy practices of the providers of such sites.

On our website we use the following social media plug-ins: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube. The plug-ins can be identified by the social media buttons marked with the logo of the provider of the respective social media networks. We have implemented these plug- ins using the so-called 2-click solution. This means that when you surf on our website, personally identifiable information will initially not be collected by the providers of these social media plug-ins. Only if you click on one of the plug-ins will your personally identifiable information be transmitted: By activating the plug-in, data is automatically transmitted to the respective plug-in provider and stored by them. We neither have influence on the collected data and data processing operations conducted by the providers, nor are we aware of the full extent of data collection, the purposes or the retention periods.

Information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the respective data protection policies of these providers, where you will also find further information on your rights and options for privacy protection.

Sharing Your Personal Information
We are not in the business of selling your information. We consider this information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. There are certain circumstances, however, where we may share your Personal Data with third parties without further notice to you, as described below:

We may disclose Personal Data if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (i) comply with a legal obligation or government request; (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of Laasya Art, including prevent illegal use of Services or violation of our service or sales terms and conditions or our policies; (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Services or the public; or (iv) protect against legal liability, defend against third party claims or assist in fraud prevention or investigation (such as counterfeiting).

We may provide your Personal Data to our vendors or other service providers to help us bring you the Services we offer or to facilitate our transactions with you. Specifically, we may share the Personal Data you have provided to us with vendors who house our servers, host our website, for shipping and delivery, to manage and service our data, distribute emails, manage brand and product promotions, manage accounts, prepare invoices, send email updates about Laasya Art and its Services, remove repetitive information from our customer lists, process payments for our products and services, and provide certain Services and features. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of Personal Data, we endeavor to implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the purposes we specify.

We may also disclose your Personal Data to those third parties to whom you ask us to send Personal Data. We may offer products or services jointly with other companies and we may share your information with that company in connection with your use of the product or service. As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.

We may also use your Personal Data to create Anonymous Data records from Personal Data by excluding information (such as your name) that make the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this Anonymous Data to analyze request and usage patterns so that we may enhance the contents of our Services and improve site navigation. We reserve the right to use Anonymous Data for any purpose and disclose Anonymous Data to third parties in our sole discretion.

Protecting Your Personal Data
We take reasonable measures to protect Personal Data provided to us via the Services from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction, including using a variety of technical and organizational security measures to maintain the safety of your Personal Data. We also use firewalls and other industry standard technologies and procedures to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction, and your Personal Data is processed in secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons with access rights to these systems. However,
please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such firewalls and technologies. No Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free and our Services may not be secure. As you probably know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse your Personal Data that they collect from our Services. Please keep this in mind when disclosing information to us via the Internet. You should not expect that your Personal Data or private communications will always remain private. We will have no liability for disclosure of such data due to errors in transmission or interception by unauthorized acts of third parties.

Compliance with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
We do not knowingly or intentionally collect any information on children under 13 years of age. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any Personal Data through the Services. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Data on the Services without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to us through the Services, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete the information from our databases.

Your Personal Data Rights
You have the right to request a copy of any Personal Data which we collect about you, as well as to update your personal information. In responding to your request, we may request information from you and use information previously corrected to verify your identity or take other actions that we believe are appropriate. We will take reasonable steps to update or correct Personal Data that you have previously provided to us through the Services. You may also request that we delete your Personal Data, which we will do subject to any legal or contractual retention requirements, in which case we will only retain
such Personal Data for so long as such requirement persists. We are also not obligated to comply with requests that are unreasonably burdensome or expensive, or with requests that would interfere with the rights of another individual. In some circumstances, we may charge a reasonable fee to fulfill your request.

Exclusions
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to us through a Service or other means. All such unsolicited information will be deemed non-confidential and we are free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute any such unsolicited information to others without limitation or attribution. This Privacy Policy applies only to our Services. Our Services may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Laasya Art (the “Third Party Sites”). The policies and procedures we describe here do not apply to the Third Party Sites. The links from the Services do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed the Third Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.

Other Terms and Conditions
Your access to and use of the Services, and your purchase of products and services from us, is subject to the Laasya Art Terms and Conditions.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy
The Service, our business, and applicable law and  regulations may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary or appropriate for us to make changes to this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically and especially when you provide Personal Data. This Privacy Policy was last updated on the date indicated above. Your continued use of the Services after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy will indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.

Contacting Us
If you have any questions or concerns relating to this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at info@laasyaart.com. Thank you for visiting Laasya Art!

You may object to the processing of your Personal Data and withdraw your consent (with effect for the future) at any time. For any questions about data privacy, to request changes or corrections, or to issue an objection or withdraw your consent, please contact info@laasyaart.com.

This document was updated on September 16, 2020.