Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
In this privacy policy references to “we”, “us” and “our” are to Avoca Gallery/Avoca Painting School. References to “our Website” or “the Website” are to www.avocagallery.com
We are committed to recognizing and respecting your privacy rights by keeping you informed and processing and protecting your personal data in compliance with applicable law. Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any personally identifiable information collected at this site.
Effective May 23rd, 2018, if you are from the European Economic Area (“EEA“), our processing of your personal data will comply with the Regulations (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR“).
Here is a list of the information we collect from you, either through our website or because you give it to us in some other way, and why it is necessary to collect it:
Basic identification and contact information, such as your name and contact details. This information is used:
1.1 to provide you with the services which you request;
1.2 for verifying your identity for security purposes;
1.3 for marketing our services and products;
1.4 information which does not identify any individual may be used in a general way by us or third parties, to provide information, for example relating to demographics or usage of a particular page or service.
Marketplace Information
When we obtain information from you specifically to enable you to buy a service offered on our website by some other person, we assume that in giving us your information, you are also giving us permission to pass it to the relevant person.
Your domain name and e-mail address are recognised by our servers and the pages that you visit are recorded. We shall not under any circumstances divulge your e-mail address to any person who is not an employee or contractor of ours and who does not need to know, either generally or specifically. This information is used: to correspond with you or deal with you as you expect, in a collective way not referable to any particular individual, for the purpose of quality control and improvement of our site; to send you news about the services to which you have signed up; to tell you about other of our services or services of sister websites.
Information you post on our Website
Information you send to us by posting to a forum or blog or in your profile is stored on our servers. We do not specifically use that information except to allow it to be read, but you will see in our terms and conditions that we reserve a right to use it in any way we decide.
Website Usage Information
We may use software embedded in our website (such as JavaScript) to collect information about which pages you view and how you reach them, what you do when you visit a page, the length of time you remain on the page, and how we perform in providing content to you.
Financial information relating only to your credit cards
This information is never taken by us either through our website or otherwise. At the point of payment, you are transferred to a secure page on the website of PayPal. That page may be dressed in our “livery”, but it is not controlled by us. Our staff and contractors never have access to it.
About PayPal
You can use Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express with PayPal without the need to set up a PayPal account. Also, when you pay with PayPal, you do not expose your credit card number to the merchant. Of course, you may also pay through your PayPal account if you wish. PayPal is a secure online payment system used and trusted by over 78 million users worldwide. PayPal protects your financial information with industry-leading security and fraud prevention systems.
Third Party Advertising
Third parties may advertise on our website. In doing so, those parties, their agents or other companies working for them may use technology that automatically collects your IP address when they send an advertisement that appears on our site to your browser. They may also use other technology such as cookies or JavaScript to personalise the content of, and to measure the performance of their adverts. We do not have control over these technologies or the data that these parties obtain. Accordingly, this privacy notice does not cover the information practices of these third parties.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive through your web browser when you visit any web site. They are widely used to make web sites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
You can manually disable cookies at any time – check your browser’s ‘Help’ to find out how. This will not affect your ability to view the site.
Although your browser software enables you to disable cookies, this will not affect your ability to view the site. We recommend that you allow the use of cookies in order to take advantage of the features of our website that rely on their use. You can still use this web site even if you choose to disable cookies. We use the information to improve your experience of our site and allow us quickly retrieve your login information. This cookie collects information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited.
Third party content
Our website is a publishing medium in that anyone may register and then publish information. We do not moderate or control what is posted. If you make a complaint about any of the content on our website, we shall investigate your complaint. If we feel it may be justified, we shall remove it while we investigate.
Content you provide to us
If you provide information to us with a view to it being read, copied, downloaded or used by other people, we accept no responsibility for what that third party may do with it. It is up to you to satisfy yourself about the privacy level of every person who might see your information.
Use of site by children
We do not market to children, nor do we sell products or services for purchase by children. We may offer products for end use by children, but for purchase by adults. You must be 18 years of age or older to use our website.
Business Transfers or Bankruptcy
In the event of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other sale of all or a portion of our assets or any business, any user information owned or controlled by us may be one of the assets transferred to third parties in such transaction or event. We reserve the right, as part of this type of transaction or event, to transfer or assign your information and other information we have collected from users of the Services to third parties. Other than to the extent ordered by a bankruptcy or other court, the use and disclosure of all transferred user information will be subject to this Privacy Policy. However, any information you submit or that is collected after this type of transfer may be subject to a new privacy policy adopted by the successor entity or acquirer, as applicable.
Accessing, Correcting or Deleting Your Information
We acknowledge your right to access and control your personal data. To request access, correction or deletion of your personal data or if you have any query, please contact us at info@avocagallery.com or send a letter to:
Avoca Gallery
Knockanode, Avoca
Arklow, Co. Wicklow
Y14 V527 IRELAND