Thank you for visiting PearlWorldArt.com! We want you to know that your privacy is important to us. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to ensure your experience with www.pearlworldart.com is one that you will want to repeat and share with your friends. As part of our commitment to you, we respect and protect the privacy of the personal information you provide to us. This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you of what information we collect, why we collect it, and how we use it. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Service.
When you submit your personal information to us, you are giving us your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Collection and Use of Information
You can browse our Website without revealing any personal information. However, you may decide to provide us with your personal information at various times. We receive and store all personal information that you provide to us through our Website, via email, over the phone, or by any other means.
Personal information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, first and last names, home, billing, or other physical addresses, email addresses, and any information associated with the foregoing.
Use of Your Personal Information
We may use the information we collect about you to:
– Facilitate your purchases and provide the services you request.
– Confirm and track your order.
– Respond to your inquiries and requests.
– Verify and correct your personal information for accuracy.
– Prevent and detect fraud or abuse.
– Improve our Website, services, product offerings, marketing, promotional efforts, and overall customer experience.
– Identify your product and service preferences.
– Understand our customer demographics, preferences, interests, and behavior.
– Contact you (via email, postal mail, or telephone) regarding products and services that may be of interest to you.
Personal Information We May Share with Others
In certain circumstances, we may share your personal information with trusted partners:
Service Providers: We use trusted third-party service providers to perform certain services on our behalf, including shipping, payment processing, data storage/management, web hosting, web analytics, fulfillment, assembly, marketing, mailing, emailing, etc. These service providers receive personal information only if it is needed to perform their functions, and they are not authorized to use personal information for any other purposes.
Special Events: If you choose to participate in a special event (e.g., a promotion, contest, or sweepstakes), Pearl World Art will share your personal information with organizations participating in the event. Unless stated otherwise, these third parties do not use your information for any other purpose than to manage the event. We may authorize trusted partners to send you information about products and services that may interest you.
Compliance with Law and Fraud Protection: We may, and you authorize us to, use and disclose any information, including personal information:
(1) we deem necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request;
(2) to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or situations involving potential threats to physical safety;
(3) to other companies and organizations for credit fraud protection and risk reduction; and
(4) to enforce any agreement we have with you.
Anonymous Information: We may create anonymous records from personal information by excluding information (such as your name) that makes the information personally identifiable. We may use these records for internal purposes, such as analyzing usage patterns to enhance our services, and we reserve the right to use and disclose any information in such records at our discretion.
Suggestions and Feedback: We value your comments, feedback, and testimonials, which help us improve our website, products, and services. By making such submissions to us, you assign your rights in the submissions to us, as described in the “Submissions” section of our Terms and Conditions page.
Other Uses of Your Information
IP Address: When you visit our Website, Pearl World Art collects your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, administer and tune the operation of our Website, analyze trends, track traffic patterns, gather demographic information for aggregate use, and track the date and duration of each session within our Website. Your IP address may also be used with your personal information to prevent fraud or abuse, customize your shopping experience, improve our website, customer service, products, and promotional efforts, and understand your preferences, patterns, and interests.
Data Collection Devices, such as Cookies and Web Beacons: In some instances, Pearl World Art may collect data through cookies, weblogs, web beacons (also known as pixel gifs or action tags), and other monitoring technologies to enhance your browsing and shopping experience on our website. “Cookies” are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive to collect information about your activities on our website. Web beacons are small strings of code placed on a web page or within an email for the purpose of transferring information.
We use cookies and web beacons to deliver our ads, improve and measure the usability, performance, and effectiveness of our Website, track visits from our affiliates and partners, improve and measure the effectiveness of our marketing programs, learn how customers use our website, estimate our audience size, deliver co-branded services, and customize your shopping experience. Examples of the type of information we collect through these devices include total visitors to the website, pages viewed, unique visitors, time spent on our Website and certain web pages, etc.
We may authorize third parties to use cookies, web beacons, and other monitoring technologies to compile information about the use of the Website or interaction with advertisements that appear on the Website.
You are always free to decline cookies if your browser permits; however, by declining the use of cookies, you may not be able to use certain features on the Website.
Our Website may provide links to other third-party Websites which are outside our control and not covered by this privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) Websites.
Accessing and Updating Your Information
If the personally identifiable information Pearl World Art has gathered from you changes or if you would like to access, correct, or delete such information, we will gladly provide you access to, correct, or delete (to the extent allowed by law) any personal information we have collected about you. To request access to, a correction to, or deletion of your personal information, please send an email to contact@pearlworldart.com.
Thank you for choosing Pearl World Art. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting it.