Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy is designed to explain how we collect, use, share and protect the personal information you provide to us when you access our website, purchase goods and services, or engage with us on social media, as well as your own rights to the information we collect.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Any changes become effective immediately upon publication on this website, and you waive specific notice of changes to the Policy by continuing to use and access our site(s). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically, when you use this website for any purpose or engage with us on social media. You are deemed to have accepted any changes to any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of our website after revised.

Who We Are:

http://www.cjsantoro.com is an online website that sells art products and services. All art products, videos, music and content are copyrighted and belong exclusively to C.J. Santoro. On occasion, and done on a case by case basis, an issue of an exclusive commercial license may be granted. A commercial license allows you to use the artwork according to the agreement set between you and the Artist. For inquiries you may request this information on the contact page. Unless written permission is granted, any use of the artwork of C.J. Santoro, or content as such, is forbidden. Copyright ownership protects C.J. Santoro from having original artwork sold to a third party without being compensated for it. Maintaining copyright ownership allows the artist the ability to showcase artwork in a portfolio or to sell the “original art” as the one taking credit for creating the art. For a traditional artist, this implies they can sell the canvas or paper the art was painted on and art prints and products. For digital art, this implies the art prints and or digital media file.

C.J. Santoro is a subsidiary of Bubble Nugget Productions, LLC, Located in Roswell, Ga.

What Personal Data do we Collect and Why we Collect it:

By accepting this Privacy Policy, you are specifically consenting to the data described below:

Personal Data: Personal Data is information that can be used to identify you specifically, including your name, shipping address, email address, telephone number or demographic information like your age, gender or hometown. You consent to giving this information only when providing it voluntarily on this website or any of its mobile applications. You provide some of this information when you register with, or make purchases from this website. You may also provide this information by participating in various activities associated with this site, including responding to blogs or making inquiries through our contact page. Your decision to disclose this information is entirely voluntary. You are under no obligation to provide the information, however your refusal may prevent you from accessing certain benefits when making purchases.

Derivative Data: Derivative Data is information that servers automatically collect about you when you access our website, such as your IP address, browser type, the dates and times that you access our website, and the specific pages you view. If you are using a mobile application, our servers may collect information about your device name and type, your phone number, your country of origin, and other interactions with our application.

Financial Data: Financial Data is data that is related to your payment method, such as credit card or bank transfer details. We collect financial data in order to allow you to purchase, order, return or exchange products or services from our website and any related mobile apps. We store limited financial data as most financial data is transferred to our payment processor PayPal. You should review PayPal Privacy Policy to determine how they use, disclose and protect your financial data.

Comments:

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media:

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact Forms:

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Cookies:

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Embedded Content from Other Websites:

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information.

How long we retain your data

We keep contact form entries for six months, analytics records for a year, and customer purchase records for ten years.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Your contact information

For for information about our privacy practices, or if you have any question or need further information, please contact CJ at cjsantoroart@gmail.com. 

How we protect your data

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. All credit card information and payment information is strictly handled through our payment service provider Paypal. 

 

Who on our team has access

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:

• Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
• Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.

What we share with others

We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services for example:

Payments

We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more detail.

Source: WooCommerce – https://automattic.com/privacy/

We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.

What we collect and store

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

• Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
• Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
• Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

• Send you information about your account and order
• Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
• Process payments and prevent fraud
• Set up your account for our store
• Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
• Improve our store offerings
• Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 10 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

Source: Akismet

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself.