PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.saraswansonart.com (the “Site”). Your privacy is very important to us. We do not share any personal, demographic, or financial data with any third party. We are the sole owners of the information collected on the www.saraswansonart.com site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
We collect personal information to improve our checkout experience and customer service. We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us.
In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, Sara Swanson Fine Art may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
Billing and shipping address(es)
Details about your orders (for example, your shirt size)
Email address
Name
Phone number
When you purchase Sara Swanson’s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction but is help in an encrypted and secure payment processing service (Stripe.com or Paypal). Sara Swanson Art has no access to this information.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
Sara Swanson collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.
Sara Swanson may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Sara Swanson and its affiliates.
SHARING INFORMATION
Sara Swanson does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Sara Swanson may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Sara Swanson, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Sara Swanson may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Sara Swanson or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Sara Swanson; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Sara Swanson, or the public.
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including: Information about your browser, network, and device Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website Your IP address This information may also include details about your use of this website, including: Clicks, Internal links, Pages visited, Scrolling Searches, Timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
TRACKING USER BEHAVIOR
Sara Swanson may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within www.saraswansonart.com, in order to determine what Sara Swanson services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Sara Swanson to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Sara Swanson. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Sara Swanson Art website.
USE OF COOKIES
The Sara Swanson Fine Art website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
This information may include your: Billing and shipping address(es) Details about your orders (for example, your shirt size) Email address, Name, Phone number. We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Sara Swanson services or websites you visit.
EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS
We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.
We may email you with messages about your order or account activity.
For example, we may email you to tell you that:
You’ve created a Customer Account
Your Customer Account password has been reset or updated
You’ve made a purchase
Your order has shipped
It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.
From time to time, Sara Swanson Fine Art may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Sara Swanson or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Sara Swanson, you may opt out of such communications by selecting "unsubscribe" at the bottom of a newsletter.
CHECKOUT:
As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience. This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including: Information about your browser, network and device Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website Your IP address Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
SECURITY
Payment information is not retained by Sara Swanson Art and we take precautions to protect your information during this process. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way through a Payment Processing System.
By using the Sara Swanson Art website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
Sara Swanson reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Sara Swanson welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Sara Swanson has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Sara Swanson at:
Sara Swanson Art
EMAIL US AT: shop@saraswansonart.com
Effective as of September, 2020