Siela Art Studio Privacy Policy

How SIELA ART STUDIO handles and protects your information

Your privacy is important to us. Siela Art Studio’s policy is to respect your privacy and comply with applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including on our website, https://siela.art, and other sites we own and operate.

Personal information is any information about you that can be used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as name, address, and date of birth), your devices, payment details, and even information about how you use a website or online service.

If our site contains links to third-party sites and services, please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to your activities after leaving our site.

This policy is effective as of March 22, 2025

Last updated: April 4, 2025

Information We Collect

We collect information in two categories: “voluntarily provided” or “automatically collected.”

“Voluntarily provided” refers to any information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in our services and promotions.

“Automatically collected” information refers to any information automatically sent by your devices when you access our products and services.

Log Data

When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data your web browser provides. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details about your visit.

Additionally, if you encounter specific errors while using the site, we may automatically collect data about the error and its circumstances. This data may include technical details about your device, what you tried to do when the error happened, and other technical information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive notice of such errors, even when they occur, that they have occurred, or the nature of the error.

Please be aware that while this information may not personally identify individuals by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to identify them personally.

Personal Information

We may ask for personal information – for example when you submit content to us, when you subscribe to our newsletter, when you participate in any of our giveaways, sweepstakes, or promotions, when you make a purchase, when you submit a review or other types of content, when you register an account – which may include one or more of the following:

  • Name
  • Email
  • Phone/mobile number

User-Generated Content

We consider “user-generated content” to be reviews, ratings, images, and/or video materials voluntarily supplied by our users for publication on our website or re-publishing on our social media channels. All user-generated content is associated with the account or email address used to submit the materials.

Please be aware that any content you submit for publication will be public after posting (and subsequent review or vetting process). Once published, it may be accessible to third parties not covered under this privacy policy.

Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information

We only collect and use your personal information for legitimate reasons. In this instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.

Collection and Use of Information

We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website:

  • Register for an account
  • Purchase any products and/or services
  • Purchase a subscription
  • Enter any of our competitions, contests, sweepstakes, and surveys
  • Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels
  • Please post a comment or review or otherwise participate in our online community
  • Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content
  • Contact us via email, social media, or any similar technologies
  • When you mention us on social media

We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:

  • to provide you with our platform’s core features and services
  • to deliver products and/or services to you
  • to contact and communicate with you
  • for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
  • for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you
  • to run competitions, sweepstakes, and/or offer additional benefits to you
  • to attribute any content (e.g., posts and comments) you submit that we publish on our website

We may combine voluntarily provided and automatically collected personal information with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources. For example, suppose you provide us with your location. In that case, we may combine this with general information about currency and language to enhance your experience of our site and service.

Security of Your Personal Information

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain it, we will protect it using commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure. No one can guarantee absolute data security.

You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your information within the bounds of our services, and ensuring any passwords associated with accessing your personal information and accounts are secure and confidential.

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We keep your personal information only for as long as necessary. Following this privacy policy may depend on what we use your information for. For example, suppose you have provided us with personal information as part of creating an account. In that case, we may retain this information for the duration of your account’s existence on our system. If your personal information is no longer required for this purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.

However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information to comply with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research, or statistical purposes.

Children’s Privacy

We do not directly target any of our products or services at children under 13 and do not knowingly collect personal information about them.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We may disclose personal information to:

  • A parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company
  • third-party service providers to enable them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, ad networks, analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing or advertising providers, professional advisors, and payment systems operators
  • our employees, contractors, and/or related entities
  • our existing or potential agents or business partners
  • sponsors or promoters of any competition, sweepstakes, or promotion we run
  • credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals, and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you
  • courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
  • third parties, including agents or sub-contractors who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you
  • third parties to collect and process data
  • an entity that buys or to which we transfer all or substantially all of our assets and business

Third parties we currently use include:

  • Google Analytics
  • MailChimp
  • SendFox
  • Google AdSense
  • Bing Ads
  • Paypal
  • Stripe
  • Google Payments
  • Apple Pay
  • Authorize.net

Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information

Your choice: By providing personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use, and disclose your personal information following this privacy policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us; however, if you do not, it may affect your use of our website or the products and/or services offered on or through it.

Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

Marketing permission: If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below.

Access: You may request details of the personal information we hold about you.

Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please get in touch with us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.

Non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights over your personal information. Unless your personal information is required to provide you with a particular service or offer (for example processing and fulfilling orders), we will not deny you goods or services and/or charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties, or provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.

Notification of data breaches: We will comply with laws regarding any data breach.

Complaints: If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please get in touch with us using the details below and provide full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with it. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority concerning your complaint.

Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our email database or opt out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy, or opt out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

Use of Cookies

We use “cookies” to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer and accesses each time you visit so we can understand how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on your preferences.

Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information.

Business Transfers

If we or our assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, we would include data, including your personal information, among the assets transferred to any parties who acquire us. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any parties who acquire us may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, continue to use your personal information according to this policy, which they will be required to assume as it is the basis for any ownership or use rights we have over such information.

Limits of Our Policy

Our website may link to external sites that we do not operate. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

Changes to This Policy

We may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy.

Suppose the changes are significant or required by applicable law. In that case, we will contact you (based on your selected preferences for communications from us) and all our registered users with the new details and links to the updated or changed policy.

If required by law, we will get your permission or allow you to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.

Additional Disclosures for U.S. States Privacy Law Compliance.

The following section includes provisions that comply with the privacy laws of these states (California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Virginia, and Utah) and apply only to their residents. Specific references to a particular state (in a heading or the text) refer only to that state’s law and apply only to its residents. Non-state-specific language applies to all of the states listed above.

Do Not Track

Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that lets you tell websites you do not want your online activities tracked. We do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.

We adhere to the standards outlined in this privacy policy, ensuring we collect and process personal information lawfully, fairly, transparently, and with legitimate, legal reasons for doing so.

Cookies and Pixels

You may always decline cookies from our site if your browser permits. Most browsers allow you to activate settings on your browser to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Accordingly, your ability to limit cookies is based only on your browser’s capabilities. Please refer to the Cookies section of this privacy policy for more information.

California Privacy Laws – CPPA

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, if you live in California and your business relationship with us is mainly for personal, family, or household purposes, you may ask us about the information we release to other organizations for their marketing purposes. Following your right to non-discrimination, we may offer specific financial incentives permitted by the California Consumer Privacy Act and the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, CCPA) that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels for the goods or services we provide. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to the value of your personal information, and we will give written terms that clearly describe the nature of such an offer. Participation in a financial incentive program requires prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time.

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, if you live in California and your business relationship with us is mainly for personal, family, or household purposes, you may ask us about the information we release to other organizations for their marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy with “Request for California privacy information” in the subject line. You may make this type of request once every calendar year. We will email you a list of categories of personal information we revealed to other organizations for their marketing purposes in the last calendar year, along with their names and addresses. Not all personal information shared this way is covered by Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code.

California Notice of Collection

In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information enumerated in the CCPA:

  • Identifiers include name, email address, phone number, account name, IP address, and an ID or number assigned to your account.
  • Commercial information, such as product or service history and purchases.
  • Audio or visual data, such as photos or videos you share with us or post on the service.

For more information on the information we collect, including the sources we receive information from, review the “Information We Collect” section. We collect and use these categories of personal information for the business purposes described in the “Collection and Use of Information” section, including providing and managing our Service.

Right to Know and Delete

You have the right to delete the personal information we collected and to know specific details about our data practices in the preceding 12 months. In particular, you have the right to request the following from us:

  • The categories of personal information we have collected about you;
  • The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected;
  • The categories of personal information about you we disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
  • The categories of third parties to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
  • The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the personal information; and
  • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy.

Shine the Light

In addition to the rights discussed above, you can request information from us regarding how we share certain personal information as defined by applicable statute with third parties and affiliates for their direct marketing purposes.

To receive this information, send us a request using the contact details provided in this privacy policy. Requests must include “Privacy Rights Request” in the first line of the description and include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code.

Contact Us

For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us using the following details:

Asta Zimkus
https://siela.art/contacts

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