PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Statement describes how ART OF CARE manage personal information and respect your privacy. This policy may be amended from time to time. We encourage visitors to and users of our sites to regularly review our Privacy Policy.

 

All "Personal Information" (which is defined as any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains) that we collect and maintain will be subject to this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time. 

 

ART OF CARE is made up of different legal entities. This privacy notice is issued on behalf of Art of care. When we refer to "ART OF CARE", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice, we mean the ART OF CARE entity that acts as the controller or processor of your information, as explained in more detail in the "Entities Collecting Personal Information" section below.

 

Privacy Shield Framework 

 

ART OF CARE participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield. ART OF CARE is committed to subjecting all personal data received from European Union (EU) member countries, United Kingdom (UK), and Switzerland, respectively, in reliance on the Privacy Shield Framework, to the Framework’s applicable Principles. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Frameworks, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield List. [https://www.privacyshield.gov/list] 

 

ART OF CARE is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives, under the Privacy Shield Framework, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. ART OF CARE complies with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU, UK, and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions. 

 

With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Frameworks, ART OF CARE is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, Art of care may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. 

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If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request. 

 

Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website [https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=How-to-Submit-a-Complaint], you may be entitled to invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted. 

 

Collection of Personal Information 

 

As a visitor to the Site, you can engage in many activities without providing any Personal Information. However, when you register to use a ART OF CARE site and order products or services as a ART OF CARE subscriber in order to provide the services to you, we may collect the following Personal Information from you: 

 

• Contact information such as your name, phone and fax numbers, address and email address; and

• Billing information such as the number, expiration date, card type and billing address of your credit card;

• Demographic information such as your job title, job description and company name and company type; and

• Profile data, including your username and password, details about your purchases and the Content that you license from us. 

 

If you submit content to ART OF CARE for licensing, you may be asked to provide the following information: 

 

• Contact information such as your name, phone number, primary address, and email address.

• ART OF CARE may verify this information by asking you to either: a) upload a scan of a government issued ID (which will be stored securely on our servers); or b) provide a credit card number. If used to verify your identity, your credit card number will be used solely for the purpose of verifying your name and address. The credit card number will not be stored.

• Payment and contributor information including, but not limited to, payout method, payout email, desired display name, content focus, camera equipment, and information about your skill level and creative process. 

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Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.

 

As is true of most websites, when you use the Site, ART OF CARE or third party subprocessors contracted by ART OF CARE may also collect certain technical and routing information about your computer to facilitate your use of the Site and its services. For example, we may log environmental variables, such as browser type, operating system, CPU speed, and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer. We use these environmental variables to facilitate and track your use of the Site and its services. ART OF CARE also uses such environmental variables to measure traffic patterns on the Site. To better understand the needs of our visitors to the Site we may occasionally match such information with your Personal Information.

 

In order to reduce errors in our database, authenticate our users, and prevent abuse of our system, we may on occasion supplement the Personal Information you submit to us with information from third-party sources. For example, we may supplement your contact information with address information provided by the U.S. Postal Service to qualify your information and prevent errors in our database. We may supplement the information that we collect directly from you with information stored in third-party databases, such as demographic information or company information in order to make it more likely that any marketing communications we send will be relevant and of interest to you. You may find a list of any third-party subprocessors that we use to process information.

 

When you download and use our Mobile Apps or Services, we automatically collect information on the type of device you use, and operating system version. We do not ask for, access or track any location-based information from your mobile device at any time while downloading or using our Mobile Apps or Services. 

 

Legal Bases for Processing 

 

For individuals located in European Economic Area (EEA) and UK, we rely on the following legal bases for the processing of your personal data:

 

• Where processing is necessary to perform our contract with you:

  • Providing access to the ART OF CARE websites, mobiles applications, and services to fulfill the terms of your contract;

  • Customizing your experience, including targeting our services, search results, and offerings to you.

  • Providing information so that you can make decisions about ART OF CARE services;

  • Processing your financial transactions and sending you order / renewal confirmations;

  • Register your rights, if any, to technical support or other benefits that may be made available to registered users;

  • Responding to your customer service requests, questions and concerns;

  • Administering your account.

• Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person:

  • Investigating and protecting against intellectual property infringement;

  • Confirming the validity of licenses to ART OF CARE content;

  • Investigating, preventing or taking action regarding violations of our Terms of Service.

• Processing in furtherance of ART OF CARE’s legitimate interests:

  • Providing, improving and customizing our website and services;

  • Administering our operations and meeting our contractual obligations to our customers and contributors;

  • Analyzing and understanding how our online platforms are being used;

  • Maintaining the security and integrity of our websites, mobile applications and other services;

  • Sending you requested product or service information and keeping you informed about special offers and services of ART OF CARE and selected third parties;

  • Administering promotions and sweepstakes;

  • Research and product/service development for the improvement of our site, services and offerings.

• Processing is necessary for compliance with ART OF CARE’s legal obligations, including:

  • Investigating and protecting against intellectual property infringement, fraud, spam, harassment, crime and security risks;

  • Compliance with money laundering, bribery, corruption, and applicable sanctions laws and regulations; and

  • Meeting financial reporting and other obligations under applicable securities laws. 

 

Information Sharing with Service Providers / Agents

 

ART OF CARE uses one or more outside credit card processing companies to bill you for our goods and services. To the best of our knowledge, these companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purpose. 

 

We also share Personal Information with certain companies that perform services on our behalf. We only share the Personal Information which is necessary for them to perform those services. We require any company with which we may share Personal Information to protect that data in a manner consistent with this policy and to limit the use of such Personal Information to the performance of services for ART OF CARE. 

 

We do not sell or otherwise provide Personal Information to other companies for the marketing of their own products or services. 

 

Data Retention and Data Portability 

 

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active and your information is needed to provide you services, as necessary to validate or enforce the licenses to use Content, or as required to fulfill our legal obligations. If you wish to no longer use your information to provide you services by contacting us. We will respond to your request within 30 days. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. 

 

Protection of Your Personal Information 

 

The Personal Information that you provide in connection with the use of the Site is protected in several ways. 

 

• Access by you to your account profile is available through a password and unique customer ID selected by you. This password is encrypted. You should strive to use a strong, alpha-numeric password which you should not divulge to anyone.

• Your Personal Information resides on secure servers that only selected ART OF CARE personnel and contractors have access to via password.

• Your Personal Information is encrypted whenever it is transmitted to ART OF CARE.

• When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using transport layer security technology. 

 

We strive to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we take into account the sensitivity of the Personal Information we collect, process and store, and the current state of technology to use these measures protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. 

 

Cookie and Tracking Technologies 

 

The Site may automatically collect information as you browse, such as Internet Service Provider, browser type and version, operating system and device type, average time spent on our site(s), pages viewed, information accessed, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet and other relevant statistics. Such information is sometimes referred to as web analytics and/or clickstream data. 

 

We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you, to improve marketing, analytics, and provide site functionality. 

 

Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by ART OF CARE and our affiliates, analytics services and service to provide site features and functionality. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

 

• A cookie is a small, unique text file that a website can send to your computer when you visit a site. We may use session cookies, which terminate when a user closes his or her browser, and/or persistent cookies, which remain on the user's computer until manually deleted. Most web browsers can either alert you to the use of cookies or refuse to accept cookies entirely. If you do not want us to deploy cookies to your browser, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer. Rejecting cookies may affect your ability to use the Site.

• We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking here (or if located in the European Union click here) Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads. 

 

We enable you to create a profile for accessing blogs or online communities for sharing information such as messages, photos and videos. Please note that we cannot control the actions of others with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Any information you post to a public bulletin board or chat room, such as the Forum For Contributors (the "Forums"), is available to all persons accessing that location.In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why. Alternatively, if you used a third party application to post such information, you can remove it, by either logging into the said application and removing the information or by contacting the appropriate third party application. 

 

Your email address will not automatically be posted on the Forums unless you modify the default setting to permit that. Your email address will then be available to all persons accessing the Forums. In addition, any information that you choose to include in your profile can be viewed by all visitors to the Forums. 

 

We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our Mobile Software on your phone. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We do not link the information we store within the analytics software to any personally identifiable information you submit within the mobile application. 

 

Changes in Privacy Policy 

 

ART OF CARE reserves the right to amend the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion and will provide notice by email or on the home page of the Site when we make material changes to this Privacy Policy prior to the change becoming effective.

 

You will be deemed to have been made aware of, and will be subject to, any material changes to the Privacy Policy after such notice has been posted with the following exception: If at the time you provide Personal Information to ART OF CARE you are given the opportunity (as you currently are) to limit how such information will be used to communicate with you, either by ART OF CARE or by third parties, ART OF CARE will not change your preference in this regard without your express consent. However, if ART OF CARE is acquired by or merged with another entity, ART OF CARE may provide to such entity customer information that is related to that part of our business that was sold to or merged with the other entity without your consent, but ART OF CARE will provide notice of such asset sales, acquisitions, or mergers on this Site. 

 

Links to third party sites 

 

Our Site includes links to other Web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of ART OF CARE. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any Web site you visit. 

 

Social Media Widgets 

 

Our Web sites may include Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it. 

 

Referral Program Emails 

 

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our Site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Site. ART OF CARE stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. 

 

Children 

We do not intend to solicit or collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, do not enter information on this site or engage our services. If you believe a child of yours under the age of 18 has entered Personal Information please contact us to have the data removed and terminate the child's account.