Your privacy is critically important to us. At Art of the Peace we have a few fundamental principles:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:

Art of the Peace Visual Arts Group (“Art of the Peace”) operates a website at www.artofthepeace.ca. It is Art of the Peace’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Art of the Peace collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Art of the Peace’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Art of the Peace’s visitors use its website.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Art of the Peace’s websites choose to interact with Art of the Peace in ways that require Art of the Peace to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Art of the Peace gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at www.artofthepeace.ca to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Art of the Peace – by purchasing products or digital goods, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Art of the Peace collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Art of the Peace. Art of the Peace does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities or completing purchases for products or digital goods.

Aggregated Statistics

Art of the Peace may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Art of the Peace may monitor the most popular pages on the www.artofthepeace.ca site. Art of the Peace may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Art of the Peace does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Art of the Peace discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Art of the Peace’s behalf or to provide services available at Art of the Peace’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Art of the Peace’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Art of the Peace will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Art of the Peace discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Art of the Peace believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Art of the Peace, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the Art of the Peace website and have supplied your email address, Art of the Peace may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Art of the Peace and our products. Art of the Peace takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Art of the Peace uses cookies to help Art of the Peace identify and track visitors, their usage of Art of the Peace website, and their website access preferences. Art of the Peace visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Art of the Peace’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Art of the Peace’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Art of the Peace, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Art of the Peace goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Art of the Peace may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Art of the Peace may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Art of the Peace’s sole discretion. Art of the Peace encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.