Privacy Policy
Effective date:
Digitised.Art (“Digitised.Art", “we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information when you use our website located at digitised.art (the “Website”), and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This Policy is incorporated into, and is subject to, our Terms of Use. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the “Personal Information” means information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person. We act as a data controller when processing the Personal Information.
1. How we collect the personal information
We collect the Personal Information as described below.
1.1. The Personal Information you provide us directly
Online forms: When you fill in online forms on the Website, we may ask you to provide us with certain Personal Information including, but is not limited to: full name, email address, phone number, or other information.
Subscription: When you subscribe to our newsletter as offered on the Website, we ask you for the Personal Information such as email address.
Contact Information: If you contact us, for example through our email or otherwise, we collect your name, contact information (such as an email address), and the contents of any messages you send.
Social Media Sites: We have pages on social media sites. When you interact with our social media pages, we will collect the Personal Information that you elect to provide to us, such as your contact details.
1.2. The Personal Information we receive automatically
Log Data: Information that your browser or device automatically sends when you use the Website. Log data includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interact with the Website.
Usage Data: We may automatically collect information about your use of the Website, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use and the actions you take, as well as your time zone, country, the dates and times of access, user agent and version, type of computer or mobile device, and your computer connection.
Device Information: Includes name of the device, operating system, device identifiers, and browser you are using. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
Cookies. We and our third-party partners may use various technologies to collect and store the Personal Information which may include cookies and similar tracking technologies. We use cookies to operate and administer the Website, to enhance and analyze the effectiveness of the Website, to improve, personalize and analyze your use and experience on the Website, provide analytical information, and for other purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Cookies are small text files sent by us to your computer or mobile device. They are unique to your browser. Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session”. Persistent cookies remain on your computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your browser. You will be notified about the use of cookies when you first visit the Website. If you do not want us or our third-party partners to collect the Personal Information through the use of cookies, you can set up your choices via the Cookies Preference Center at any time. Most browsers give you the ability to manage cookies to suit you. In some browsers, you can set up rules to manage cookies on a site-by-site basis, giving you more fine-grained control over your privacy. This means you can disallow cookies from all sites except those you trust. Browser manufacturers provide help pages relating to cookie management in their products. However, refusing a cookie may in some cases worsen your overall use and experience on the Website, preclude you from using, or negatively affect the display or function of, the Website or certain areas or features of the Website. For more details on cookies, please visit All About Cookies.
1.3. The Personal Information that we collect from other sources
The Personal Information from publicly available sources. We may collect the Personal Information that is publicly available on the internet, in particular to enhance the Website and improve, personalize and analyze your use and experience on the Website. We must tell you that once collected, this information may remain with us even if you delete it from the publicly available sources.
The Personal Information from our vendors and service providers. Our vendors and service providers may share with us certain information they have collected, such as your interaction data, preferences within the Website.
2. HOW WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION
The purposes and reasons for collecting and processing the Personal Information are detailed below.
- To provide, administer, maintain, and secure the Website.
- To communicate with you (such as through email) about your use of the Website, changes to this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use, and to other applicable legal agreements, policies or other important notifications.
Performance of contract:
- To improve and analyze the Website.
- To develop new features and functionalities of the Website, and conduct research.
- To communicate with you, including to send you marketing information, promotional materials, newsletters, and other notices related to the Website.
- To monitor, check, and record communications between you and us.
- To improve, personalize and analyze your use and experience on the Website.
- To make recommendations to you.
- To ask you to leave feedback on the Website.
- To monitor and improve marketing campaigns and make suggestions relevant to you.
- To prevent misuses of the Website, and to protect the security of our systems and the Website.
Legitimate interests:
- To comply with legal obligations and legal process and to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of the Affiliates, you, or other third parties.
- To cooperate with investigations by law enforcement or other authorities of suspected violations of law.
- To detect, prevent fraud, violations of our Terms of Use, or other applicable legal agreements, policies, and/or otherwise harmful or illegal activities.
Compliance with legal or regulatory obligations:
- When you give us consent to do so for a specific purpose.
Consent:
Where we rely on legitimate interests to process the Personal Information, you can object to that processing as described below under “YOUR RIGHTS”. In response to your objection, we will stop processing your information for the relevant purposes unless we have compelling grounds in the circumstances or the processing is necessary in the context of legal claims. We may also process the Personal Information for direct marketing purposes and you have a right to object to our use of the Personal Information for this purpose at any time.
3. AGGREGATED OR DE-IDENTIFIED INFORMATION
We may aggregate or de-identify Personal Information so that it may no longer be used to identify you. We may use this anonymous, aggregated or de-identified information and/or disclose it for the purpose of enhancing and analyzing the effectiveness of the Website, developing new features to the Website, conducting research and for other similar purposes. We will maintain and use de-identified information in anonymous or de-identified form and we will not attempt to reidentify the information, unless required by law.
4. TO WHOM WE DISCLOSE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we will not intentionally disclose the Personal Information that we collect or store on the Website to third parties without your consent. We may disclose the Personal information to third parties if you consent to us doing so, as well as in the following circumstances.
Vendors and Service Providers. To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may disclose the Personal Information to vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, customer service vendors, cloud services, content delivery services, data warehouse services, support and safety monitoring services, email communication software, web analytics services, and other information technology services providers. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store the Personal Information only in the course of performing their duties to us.
Business Transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, assignment, transfer, change of control, or asset sale, the Personal Information may be transferred to third parties in connection with such transaction. Should another entity acquire our company or assets, it will acquire the Personal Information we have collected and will be bound by the rights and obligations relating to that information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Affiliates. We may disclose the Personal Information with any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies or products under our common control (the "Affiliates"). The Affiliates may use the Personal Information we disclose in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Professional Advisors. We may disclose the Personal Information to our professional advisors, such as lawyers, accountants, or other consultants, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us. We limit the Personal Information provided to our professional advisors to that which is reasonably necessary for them to perform their functions, and our contracts with them require them to maintain the confidentiality of such Personal Information.
- https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1; or
- https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN;
- for users in the European Union: https://youronlinechoices.eu/.
Advertising and Marketing. We partner with third-party ad networks to display advertising on the Website or to manage our advertising on other websites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and web beacons to collect information about your activities on the Website and other websites to provide you with targeted advertising based on your interests. If you wish not to have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by using these services:
Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising, you will continue to receive generic ads.
Law enforcement. Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose the Personal Information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements. We may disclose the Personal Information in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with legal obligations, to protect and defend our, the Affiliates’ rights or property, if we determine, in our sole discretion, that there is a violation of our Terms of Use, other applicable legal agreements, policies, or the law, to detect or prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website, to protect the security or integrity of the Website and any facilities or equipment used to make the Website available, to protect your personal safety or the public, to enforce our legal agreements and policies, to protect against legal liability.
5. YOUR RIGHTS
- Right to access – is commonly known as a "data subject access request". This enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Right to the Personal Information correction – this enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate Personal Information we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new Personal Information you provide to us.
- Right to the Personal Information erasure – this enables you to ask us to delete or remove the Personal Information in certain circumstances such as where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it, where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase the Personal Information to comply with law. We may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
- Right to restriction of processing – this enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of the Personal Information in the following circumstances: (a) if you want us to establish the Personal Inforamtion's accuracy; (b) if our use of the Personal Information is unlawful, but you do not want us to erase it; (c) if you need us to hold the Personal Information even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) if you have objected to our use of the Personal Information, but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
- Right to withdraw consent at any time – applicable only where we are relying on your consent to process the Personal Information. Any withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide some features or functionalities of the Website to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
- Right to the Personal Information portability – you have the right under certain circumstances to receive the Personal Information in a “structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format” and to transmit the Personal Information to another controller without hindrance.
- Right to object – you have the right to object to the use of the Personal Information in certain circumstances, such as the use of the Personal Information for direct marketing.
- Right to complain – you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe our processing of the Personal Information violates applicable law. This right may not be available to you if there is no supervisory authority dealing with data protection in your country.
You may have the following rights with regard to the Personal Information:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us as set forth in the “CONTACT US” Section.
You may decline to share certain Personal Information with us, in which case we may not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality of the Website.
If you believe your right to privacy granted by applicable data protection laws has been infringed upon, please contact our Data Protection Officer by email specified in “CONTACT US” Section.
6. TRANSFER OF THE PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THIRD COUNTRIES
We may transfer the Personal Information to countries other than the one in which you live, including transfers to the European Union. To the extent that the Personal Information is transferred abroad, we will ensure compliance with the requirements of the applicable laws in the respective jurisdiction in line with our obligations. We use EU Standard Contractual Clauses and/or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement / Addendum for transfers to countries not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission or your local legislature and/or regulator.
7. RETENTION OF THE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will retain the Personal Information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, or as necessary, we will retain and use the Personal Information to the extent necessary to comply with legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, protect our, the Affiliates’ legal rights and other interests, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. When we no longer have a legitimate need to process the Personal Information, we will delete or anonymize the Personal Information from our databases. We will also securely store the Personal Information and isolate it from further processing on backup discs until deletion is possible.
8. SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We ask you not to send us, and not to disclose on or through the Website sensitive Personal Information such as biometric, genetic, health, race, ethnic origin, political opinions, sexual orientation.
9. SECURITY OF THE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We implement a number of technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect the Personal Information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of the Personal Information. If you believe the Personal Information has been compromised, please contact us as set forth in the “CONTACT US” Section. If we learn of a security systems breach, we will inform you and the authorities of the occurrence of the breach in accordance with applicable law.
10. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
The Website does not address anyone under the age of 18, and we request that they not provide Personal Information through the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us as set forth in the “CONTACT US” Section. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our databases.
11. OPT-OUT FROM EMAILS
We may occasionally send you newsletters and/or emails that directly promote the use of the Website. You may opt-out of these emails by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the email, or contacting us as set forth in the “CONTACT US” Section. Please note that if you choose to opt-out of direct marketing-related emails, you will continue to receive essential notices and emails such as security incident alerts, security and privacy update notifications, and others.
12. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
The Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
13. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the changes to this page and encourage you to review the Privacy Policy to stay informed. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. If we make changes that materially alter your privacy rights, we will provide additional notice via email. Your continued use of the Website after the revised Privacy Policy has become effective indicates that you have read, understood and agreed to the current version of the Privacy Policy.
14. CONTACT US
If you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy or our data protection practices, you can contact us by email: [email protected].
15. LANGUAGE AND TEXTUAL DISCREPANCIES
This Privacy Policy may be translated in different languages. In case of discrepancy between the texts in English and any other languages, the text of this Privacy Policy in English language shall prevail.