Privacy Policy
Introduction
This Privacy Policy outlines and governs the data collection and usage of visitors and users of this website, Garrett Porter Art, and any of its direct or third party provided services. The following terms “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to the website, Garrett Porter Art, and owner and operator, Garrett Porter. The terms “you” and “your” refer to, you, the website visitor and user of our website.
We appreciate your interest in viewing and using our website and we view it important to keep all visitor and user information safe when using our website. This Privacy Policy is intended to be available to clearly inform you our privacy practices.
If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our website. By using our website and services provided by us or a third party, you indicate that you have read, understood, and consent to our Terms and Conditions, Copyright and these data practices outlined in this Privacy Policy notice.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 27 October, 2023.
Information We Collect and Use
You are not required to provide us with your personal information to access and visit our website. However, we may collect personally identifiable information depending on your interaction with our website and services. We only collect your personal information you provide to us knowingly and voluntarily to complete services you have requested and to better serve you. If you use the email contact form or send us donations, you may provide us with your name and email address.
Automatically Collected Information
We automatically collect certain non-personal information when you visit and use our website. This information does not reveal your identity, but does include the date, page(s) viewed, your ip address, location, browser, and device type and operating system type. This information is available to us and is only used to maintain the security integrity of our website in the case of preventing abuse or other prohibited behaviours outlined in our Terms and Conditions.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
We do not sell, rent, lease, or loan your personal information to third parties. We may share your provided personal information to send emails, provide user support, and answer questions and concerns.
Our website makes use of third party payment processors that complete and process your donations. When sending donations through Paypal and Venmo, users are directed off of our website. Since these third party services use secure methods of encryption and other enhanced security measures, we are not able to access, view, save and store, lose, or abuse your sensitive personal and financial information. We are only able to access limited transaction information (amount donated, your name, date, and method of payment). We are not responsible and liable for any information you provide to these third party services.
Please see the Paypal Pricacy Policy and Venmo Privacy Policy for more information.
In specific circumstances, we may disclosure your personal information without notice if required to do so by law or if such action is necessary in order to protect and defend the rights or property of Garrett Porter Art and owner/operator or the personal safety visitors and users of our website.
Cookies
Our site makes use of cookies that sometimes collect information and help with the functionality of our site and its elements. Youtube uses cookies through our site to:
- track views of embedded videos on Youtube pages
- measure bandwidth to determine the new or old player interface
- create visitor privacy metadata
- register anonymous statistical data
It is possible for some users to block cookies depending on which browser they use.
Protecting Your Information
Our website and its use of secure third party services use encryption to maintain safe and protected interactions between our site and visitors and users. However, electronic transmissions of information over the internet cannot be guaranteed to be fully secure. Therefore, we cannot promise or guarantee that any unauthorised parties will not be able to bypass our security measures, intercept, and collect your information. Transmission of your information to us is at your own risk.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes outlined in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. When we have no ongoing legitimate need to process your personal information, we will delete such information.
Right to Deletion
We respect your personal information you knowingly and voluntarily provide to us. You have the right to request deletion of any and all information that you have provided to us. Please send your request by contacting us directly, we will delete your personal information from our records. In specific cases we may not be able to fulfill your deletion request if it is necessary to:
- maintain our website’s integrity by detecting security vulnerabilities, malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, disruptive, illegal activity, and to prosecute those responsible for these activities; and
- comply with an existing legal obligation.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update and change our Privacy Policy from time to time without prior notice to you. The latest update date will reflect above in the Introduction clause. In the case of significant changes to our personal information collection and use practices, we will include a notification on the ‘Home‘ page. You acknowledge, understand, and agree to any future updates and changes to our Privacy Policy by your continued use of our website and/or services.
Contact
Please contact us via the email contact form or directly at our email address below for any questions or concerns.
Garrett Porter