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PRIVACY POLICY
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Definitions
“We” / “us” / “our” refers to Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio.
“User” / “you” / “your” refers to the website visitors, customers, and any other users of the website. “Content” refers to the text, graphics, images, music, software, audio, video, information, or other materials that are posted, generated, provided, or otherwise made available through the Services.
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“Cookie” refers small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. It is used to identify your browser, provide analytics, remember information about you such as your language preference or login information. “Country” refers to the Republic of Malta.
“Device” refers to any internet connected device such as a phone, tablet, computer, or any other device that can be used to visit www.jessicavella.art and use the services.
“IP address” refers to every device connected to the Internet is assigned a number known as an Internet protocol (IP) address. These numbers are usually assigned in geographic blocks. An IP address can often be used to identify the location from which a device is connecting to the Internet.
“Personnel” refers to those individuals who are employed by Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio or are under contract to perform a service on behalf of one of the parties. “Personal Data” refers any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
“Service” refers to the service provided by Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this platform.
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“Third-party service” refers to advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you.
“Website” refers to site, which can be accessed via this URL: www.jessicavella.art
Scope of Privacy Policy
Use of the Site
You agree to use the site only for lawful purposes and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restricts, or inhibit anyone else’s use or enjoyment of the website. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any other user, transmitting obscene or offensive content, or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within our website.
Copyright and Ownership
All content included on the site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio or its content suppliers and protected by the Copyright Laws.
Art Pieces
We strive to ensure that all details, descriptions, and prices of products appearing on the website are accurate, but errors may occur. If we discover an error in the piece of any goods which you have ordered, we will inform you of this as soon as possible and give the option of reconfirming your order at the correct price or cancelling it. Purchasing an art piece transfers ownership of the physical art piece but does not grant the buyer any reproduction rights or any other intellectual property rights.
User Conduct
You must not use our website in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the website to access to it to be interrupted, damaged, or impaired in any way. You understand that you, and not Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio, are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer to us and you must use the website for lawful purposes only. Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed by Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio.
Your Privacy is important to us, and we have developed our Privacy Policy in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 which came into effect on 25th May 2018.
This Privacy Policy applies to our website, and its associated subdomains (collectively, our “Service”) alongside our website www.jessicavella.art
Our Privacy Policy offers you a thorough explanation regarding your personal data provided to us or any data we may collect from you. This Policy is updated from time to time; therefore, it should be reviewed occasionally. You agree to the updated posted version.
By providing us with your personal information, you signify your consent to us processing such personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy, as specified below.
What information do we collect?
Data can be collected and processed during the operations of our website. The following are ways we may perform these actions: Data regarding your visit(s) to our website and any resources used are collected. The following is included and not limited to location data, weblogs, traffic data, and any other communication information. Any forms you filled out on our site allow us to collect data such as registering and submission of information. If for any reason you communicate with our personnel or site we may collect information.
We collect information from you when you visit our website and place an order.
ï‚· Name
ï‚· Phone Numbers
ï‚· Email Addresses
ï‚· Billing Addresses
How do we use the information we collect?
Information stored or collected regarding your helps us improve and offer services you need. The following list contains how we might use your data: Any request you make of our site or personnel allows us to use information you provided us with, relating to the products or services we have. We may also send information on products or services you may be interested in, as long as consent has been received. We may also use information about you to administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature.
Contract Commitments: To meet any Commitment, we make to you. Changes or Improvements made to the site can warrant use of your information, with regard to notification of such changes. An existing customer may be contacted regarding products and services related to any item of previous sale you made on our site. We use your personal information to contact you to give you information relating to your orders with us, this is mandatory in order for us to process and fulfil your order. Anyone who does not wish to give consent for our site or third-party use has the opportunity to decline. Once we receive your withhold for consent we will remove your details from any mailings or third-party communications. The personal information you provide to us will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the information was collected or as required by law. We do not share personal information with third parties except as necessary to carry out our business or as required by law or other legal processes, and we never sell your personal
information. We understand the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment. Our sites are not intentionally designed for or directed at children under the age of 13 years. It is our policy never to knowingly collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 13.
Locations outside the European Economic Area may be used for transferring data we collect about you. These data sites are for storing or processing of your information. The information we share outside the European Economic Area may be shared with staff based on the process and storage of said data. It may include such processes as processing a payment or offering support for your service or product needs. The staff processing or storing information may work for our suppliers outside the European Economic Area. By submitting your data to use you have agreed to this transfer and storage of data. We take all reasonable action to ensure the safety of your personal data in agreement with this Privacy Policy. Information we are provided will be stored on secure servers. Transaction data is encrypted for your safety. You should understand data via online transmission is not completely secure. We cannot guarantee full protection and security data, only that we take all reasonable action to protect information sent to us electronically. Transmission of any data by you is at your own risk. Where applicable you may be given access to sections of our site that require a password. You are responsible for the password’s safety and confidentiality.
When does Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio use end user information from third parties?
Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio will collect End User Data necessary to provide the Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio’s services to our customers. End users may voluntarily provide us with information they have made available on social media websites. If you provide us with any such information, we may collect publicly available information from the social media websites you have indicated. You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings. At times we may disclose personal information to Third Parties.
Third Party disclosure may occur for, but not limited to, the following reasons:
- Selling any or all of our business to a third party may result in sharing your information.
ï‚·- At any time when we are legally required to, we may disclose information about you and your visits to our sites.
- To prevent fraud and help in fraud protection in order to reduce risk, we may disclose information.
When does Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio use customer information from third parties?
We receive some information from the third parties when you contact us. For example, when you submit your email address to us to show interest in becoming a Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio’s customer, we receive information from a third party that provides automated fraud detection services to Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio. We also occasionally collect information that is made publicly available on social media websites. You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings.
Do we share the information we collect with third parties?
We may share the information that we collect, both personal and non-personal, with third parties such as advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you. We may also share it with our current and future affiliated companies and business partners, and if we are involved in a merger, asset sale or other business reorganization, we may also share or transfer your personal and non-personal information to our successors-in-interest. We may engage trusted third-party service providers to perform functions and provide services to us, such as hosting and maintaining our servers and the website, database storage and management, e-mail management, storage marketing, credit card processing, customer service and fulfilling orders for products and services you may purchase through the website. We will likely share your personal information, and possibly some non-personal information, with these third parties to enable them to perform these services for us and for you. We may share portions of our log file data, including IP addresses, for analytics purposes with third parties such as web analytics partners, application developers, and ad networks. If your IP address is shared, it may be used to estimate general location and other technographics such as connection speed, whether you have visited the website in a shared location, and type of the device used to visit the website. They may aggregate
information about our advertising and what you see on the website and then provide auditing, research and reporting for us and our advertisers. We may also disclose personal and non-personal information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in order to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect our rights and interests or those of a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to otherwise comply with applicable court orders, laws, rules and regulations.
Third Party Links
Third party links may be discovered on our site. These third-party links have their own privacy policy, which you agree to when you click on the link. We are not responsible, nor do we accept responsibility for third party links. Our liability covers us only on our site, and thus we do not accept liability for third party links as we have no control over them.
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Where and when is information collected from customers and end users?
Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio will collect personal information that you submit to us. We may also receive personal information about you from third parties as described above.
How do we use your email address?
By submitting your email address on this website, you agree to receive emails from us. You can cancel your participation in any of these email lists at any time by clicking on the opt-out link or other unsubscribe option that is included in the respective email. We only send emails to people who have authorized us to contact them, either directly, or through a third party. We do not send unsolicited commercial emails, because we hate spam as much as you do. By submitting your email address, you also agree to allow us to use your email address for customer audience targeting on sites like Facebook, where we
display custom advertising to specific people who have opted-in to receive communications from us. Email addresses submitted only through the order processing page will be used for the sole purpose of sending you information and updates pertaining to your order. If, however, you have provided the same email to us through another method, we may use it for any of the purposes stated in this Policy. Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
How long do we keep your information?
We keep your information only so long as we need it to fulfil the purposes described in this policy. This is also the case for anyone that we share your information with and who carries out services on our behalf. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we’ll either remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so that we can identify you.
How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) is never kept on file. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the absolute security of any information you transmit to Jessica Vella Art &
Design Studio or guarantee that your information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
Could my information be transferred to other countries?
Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio is based in Malta. Information collected via our website, through direct interactions with you, or from use of our help services may be transferred from time to time to our offices or personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the world, and may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have laws of general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data. To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, by using any of the above, you voluntarily consent to the trans-border transfer and hosting of such information.
Is the information collected through the Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio Services secure?
We take precautions to protect the security of your information. We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard, prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use your information. However, neither people nor security systems are fool proof, including encryption systems. In addition, people can commit intentional crimes, make mistakes, or fail to follow policies. Therefore, while we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If applicable law imposes any non-disclaimable duty to protect your
personal information, you agree that intentional misconduct will be the standards used to measure our compliance with that duty.
Can I update or correct my information?
The rights you have to request updates or corrections to the information Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio collects depend on your relationship with Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio Personnel may update or correct their information as detailed in our internal company employment policies. Customers have the right to request the restriction of certain uses and disclosures of personally identifiable information as follows. You can contact us in order to (1) update or correct your personally identifiable information, (2) change your preferences with respect to communications and other information you receive from us, or (3) delete the personally identifiable information maintained about you on our systems (subject to the following paragraph), by cancelling your account. Such updates, corrections, changes, and deletions will have no effect on other information that we maintain, or information that we have provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction, change or deletion. To protect your privacy and security, we may take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to us from our system. The need to back up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to
locate. Promptly after receiving your request, all personal information stored in databases we actively use, and other readily searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as and to the extent reasonably and technically practicable. If you are an end user and wish to update, delete, or receive any information we have about you, you may do so by contacting the organization of which you are a customer.
Governing Law
This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of Malta without regard to its conflict of laws provision. You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in connection withany action or dispute arising between the parties under or in connection with this Privacy Policy. The laws of Malta, excluding its conflicts of law rules, shall govern this Agreement and your use of the website. Your use of the website may also be subject to other local, state, national, or international laws. By using Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio or contacting us directly, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you should not engage with our website, or use our services. Continued use of the website, direct engagement with us, or following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy that do not significantly affect the use or disclosure of your personal information will mean that
you accept those changes.
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Your consent
We have updated our Privacy Policy to provide you with complete transparency into what is being set when you visit our site and how it is being used. By using our website, registering an account, or making a purchase, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Cookies
Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio uses “Cookies” to identify the areas of our website that you have visited. A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to enhance the performance and functionality of our website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality like videos may become unavailable or you would be required to enter your login details every time you visit the website as we would not be able to remember that you had logged in previously. Most web browsers can be set to
disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our website correctly or at all. We never place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies.
Blocking and disabling cookies and similar technologies
Wherever you are located you may also set your browser to block cookies and similar technologies, but this action may block our essential cookies and prevent our website from functioning properly, and you may not be able to fully utilize all of its features and services. You should also be aware that you may also lose some saved information (e.g., saved login details, site preferences) if you block cookies on your browser. Different browsers make different controls available to you. Disabling a cookie or category of cookie does not delete the cookie from your browser, you will need to do this yourself
from within your browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
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DATA PROCESSING RULES
This Data Processing Rules (“Rules”) are rules, including any amendments thereof, as applicable, to ensure there is in place proper arrangements relating to personal data exchanging or processing or to be exchanged or processed between the parties. In consideration of the mutual obligations set out herein, the parties hereby agree to the terms set out in these Rules. Information about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) We may be collecting and using information from you if you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), and in this section of our Privacy Policy we are going to explain
exactly how and why this data is collected, and how we maintain this data under protection from being replicated or used in the wrong way.
What is GDPR?
GDPR is an EU-wide privacy and data protection law that regulates how EU residents' data is protected by companies and enhances the control the EU residents have, over their personal data. The GDPR is relevant to any globally operating company and not just the EU-based businesses and EU residents. Our customers’ data is important irrespective of where they are located, which is why we have implemented GDPR controls as our baseline standard for all our operations worldwide.
What is personal data?
Any data that relates to an identifiable or identified individual. GDPR covers a broad spectrum of information that could be used on its own, or in combination with other pieces of information, to identify a person. Personal data extends beyond a person’s name or email address. Some examples include financial information, political opinions, genetic data, biometric data, IP addresses, physical address, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.
The Data Protection Principles include requirements such as:
- Personal data collected must be processed in a fair, legal, and transparent way and should only be used in a way that a person would reasonably expect.
ï‚· Personal data should only be collected to fulfil a specific purpose and it should only be used for that purpose. Organizations must specify why they need the personal data when they collect it.ï‚· Personal data should be held no longer than necessary to fulfil its purpose.ï‚· People covered by the GDPR have the right to access their own personal data. They can also request a copy of their data, and that their data be updated, deleted, restricted, or moved to another organization.
Definitions and Interpretation
“Data Protection Laws” refers to any applicable law with respect to any Personal Data, replaced or superseded from time to time, including the GDPR, laws implementing or supplementing the GDPR, European Union or applicable member state laws or any other Personal Data or personal privacy laws to the extent applicable to the parties of this Agreement.
“GDPR” refers to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).
“Personal Data” refers to the personal data of data subject as defined by the GDPR.
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“Processing” refers to the meaning as defined by the GDPR. Special terms (not defined herein) shall be interpreted according to the GDPR. Special
terms which have they meaning set in these Rules shall be interpreted according to this meaning (settled herein) and according to the GDPR.
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Information and Data Processing:
1. We may exchange, process, or collect various types of information and data in order to provide the Services, subject to the terms and conditions.
2. The processing of regular data and information provided by you to us or accessed by the recipient of such information or by any other person involved in the cooperation with or introduced by any of parties, including involuntary disclosures or leaks are governed by the Agreement and particular applicable laws. However, if any of provided, processed, or introduced information is a Personal Data nature, terms of this Rules will always apply.
3. Representative Data: We may from time-to-time process Personal Data of you or the persons associated with you (e.g., contact persons, representatives, shareholders, employees, affiliates, etc.) to observe contractual and legal rules regarding the provision of services or fulfilling regular duties according to the applicable legal rules (e.g., AML rules, etc.). Such data are provided and processed always on the need-to know basis (e.g., name, job title, e-mail, phone number, on-line identifier, etc. – as defined by particular party or used in the correspondence), for a particular purpose. Representative Data, i.e., data of particular natural persons participating on the business of one of the party shall be therefore processed, regularly, according to these Rules (pursuant to rules and principles as stipulated hereunder).
Personal Data Processing Principles:
1. We may process from time-to-time Personal Data for the purposes of providing the services or following obligations according to valid legal rules, always subject to the terms and conditions of these Rules. Each party declares and agrees to process Personal Data in accordance with the GDPR and Data Protection Laws (if Data Protection Laws of the Licensor and Licensee differs from GDPR and legislation of the other party, party requesting to follow any specific duty according to such laws shall inform the other party of such particular duty).
2. When processing Personal Data, we undertake to ensure that all employees and representatives accessing the Personal Data are (i) aware of the terms of these Rules and (ii) are bound by a commitment of confidentiality with respect to Personal Data.
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3. We agree to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, complying with the Article 32 of GDPR and other GDPR provisions. Protective measures shall include, but not be limited to the use of state-of-the-art software, computer and further encryptions methods as well as the use of adequate access controls, password procedures, blocking events, case specific authorisation or pseudonymisation concepts, logging and documentation of processes, further methods and tools to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services, tools and measures to restore the availability and access to Personal Data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident and implementation of procedures for testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organisational measures for ensuring the security of the processing.
4. We shall not involve any third party in the processing of the Personal Data without your consent, nevertheless you provide hereby the universal consent to process Personal Data by the third parties guarantying the same level of Personal Data protection, complying with the measures as described in the previous par. 3 of these Rules (subject to the Article 28, para 3(d) GDPR). The consent may be withheld by a written notification delivered to us.
5. We agree and warrant that the security measures are appropriate to protect Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, in particular where the processing involves the transmission of data over a network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing, and that these measures ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks presented by the processing and the nature of the Personal Data to be protected having regard to the state of the art and the cost of their implementation.
6. We are committed to helping our customers meet the data subject rights requirements of GDPR. Jessica Vella Art & Design Studio processes or stores all personal data in fully vetted, Rules compliant vendors. We do store all conversation and personal data for up to 1 year unless your account is deleted. In which case, we dispose of all data in accordance with our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, but we will not hold it longer than 60 days.
7. The processing carried out under or in connection with these Rules shall either be carried out in the territory of the Union (and particular Member States) or in the territory of one of the approved third countries or international organisations designated from time to time by the European Commission; if any processing of Personal Data shall be carried to third country territory, we will inform you about such transfer.
8. Any and all personal information shall be considered as Confidential Information, and shall always be interpreted, processed, and kept pursuant to the applicable provisions the Data Protection Laws.
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CONTACT US
Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
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