PRIVACY POLICY
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OPEN ARTS INITIATIVE (hereafter referred to as “us” or “we”) and/or its affiliates are committed to protecting your confidential information. We follow stringent procedures to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of data stored on our systems. Access to your information is restricted to only those employees who need it to perform their duties.
This privacy policy sets out how we use your personal information collected through our website. We encourage you to review it so you know how your information is used and stored.
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COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
When registering with us at OPEN ARTS INITIATIVE you need to provide us with certain “Personal Information” like your name, phone number, email, billing and shipping addresses, before completing your first purchase. We collect and retain the information you choose to provide us when you visit our website to offer you the best possible customer experience.
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HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
OPEN ARTS INITIATIVE will collect only relevant and necessary information and will process such information fairly and lawfully for the purpose it is collected. The purpose of collection will be specified at the time of collection. The information you provide may be used in one of the following ways:
• To send periodic promotional and marketing emails, subject to your prior approval
• To personalize the content on our website, facilitate navigation, the login process and
• To enhance security
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DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We do not share, sell, or trade information collected through our website with third parties for their sole promotional purposes. We may share information with third party service providers contracted to provide services on our behalf for business purposes, like our website vendor. These third party service providers may only use the information we provide them as instructed by us.
We may also disclose your Personal Information if we believe it to be necessary or appropriate under applicable law and to comply with legal process; to enforce our terms and conditions; and to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), we may transfer the Information we may have collected to the affiliates/subsidiaries/ relevant third parties.
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CONTROL OF YOUR INFORMATION
Your consent for personal data collection and processing may be revoked by notifying us via email or phone listed below. For users below the age of 18 years, consent should be provided by the holder of parental responsibility of the child.
You may also request us to correct or amend the Personal Information that you have previously provided us through our website. If you have concerns regarding your Personal Information, or wish to correct or amend it please contact us at goaopenarts@gmail.com
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COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY
Your Personal Information is kept secure. Only authorized employees, and/or certain third party providers (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information.
We employ industry standard security measures to ensure the security of information through legally binding terms and conditions. However, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your password, user ID, or other form of authentication involved in accessing our website.
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USE OF COOKIES
Like other online shopping websites, we use “cookies” to improve your shopping experience and to save you time when you shop and browse. Cookies are tags that we place onto your computer when you first visit us in order to enable us to recognize you each time you return. Through cookies we can customize our website to your individual preferences in order to create a more personalized, convenient shopping experience. Please note that the cookies we use do not store personally identifiable information about you or your finances. We may offer certain features that are only available through the use of “cookies”. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties and are not responsible for the same.
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RETENTION OF DATA AND DISPOSAL
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with services. We may also retain and use your information as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. If you wish that we no longer use your information please let us know.
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CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time without prior notice. Your continued subscription to our services constitutes an acceptance of the current Privacy Policy. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to review any changes.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy or if you need to update, change or remove your Personal Information, you can do so by contacting us during business hours, from Monday to Saturday via email at goaopenarts@gmail.com