We at Art Gallery 18 ("Art Gallery 18") www.artgallery18.com ("Site") respect your privacy and take the issue of internet privacy very seriously. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy online for you, the user. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of the Site. The intent of this Privacy Policy is to help you understand how we collect, use, and safeguard your information for the purpose of operating and using the Site. This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time, so please check it regularly. We reserve the right to amend or modify the policy at any time.

In general, you can browse the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. If you choose to use our services, we may require you to provide us with contact and identity information, billing information, shipping information and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout the Site.

Registration Data:
We collect personal information if you chose to register for use of the Site. This information includes contact and identity information such as name, address, e-mail, phone number, personal information such as birth date, gender, occupation, personal interest, password, billing information and additional information as detailed in the registration form throughout the Site. Such form may be amended from time to time.

Automatic tracking:
We automatically track certain information based on your behavior on the Site. We do this in order to perform internal search on our users' trends, demographics, interests, and behaviors to better understand, protect and serve you. We receive and collect the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet; the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site. Also, when we send emails to you, we may be able to identify information about your email address, such as whether you can read graphic-rich HTML emails.

Cookies:
We use data collection devices such as "cookies" to help us analyze our web pages flow, measure personal promotional effectiveness, make service more convenient, personalized and more secure. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. For instance, by setting a cookie on our Site, the user would not have to log in his or her email and password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Site.

We use your personal information to facilitate the services you request. We use your personal information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote safe trading; collect fees owed; measure consumer interest in our products and services, inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our Terms of Use; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
When you place an order or make a purchase from Art Gallery 18, we use your personal information to process your order, send you e-mails to confirm your order or to contact you via phone, postal mail or e-mail if we have other questions regarding your order or purchase.
You agree that we may use personal information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize the Site's content, layout, and services. These uses improve the Site and better tailor it to meet your needs, so as to provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while using the Site.

You agree that we may use your personal information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the Site.

As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent or give any of your personal information to third parties without your explicit consent. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personal information may be disclosed.
Although Art Gallery 18 uses industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not ensure, and you should not expect, that your personal information or any private communications will always remain private.

The following sub-sections describe some of the ways in which your information may be disclosed:

Subcontractors
We send personal information to third-party subcontractors and agents that work on our behalf to provide certain services. These third parties do not have the right to use the personal information beyond what is necessary to assist us.

Credit card companies:
Credit card transactions are handled by a third-party financial institution and their vendors, which receive the credit card number and other personal identifying information only to verify the credit card numbers and process transactions.

Third Parties:
We may at any time add business partners or co-branded sites to our Site, but the sharing of information with them will be limited to only statistical information regarding users in general, and we will not disclose any of your personal information.

Other Cases:
We may also disclose personal information, in cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Use or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally), our rights or property, other users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
Law Enforcement Investigations. We may release personal information when we believe, in our good judgment, that such release is reasonably necessary to comply with law, enforce or apply the terms of any of our policies or user agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Art Gallery 18, our users, or others.

Links to other web sites:
When you click on links and banners on our site that take you to third-party web sites, you will be subject to the third parties' privacy policies. While we support the protection of privacy on the internet, we can not be responsible for the actions of any third-party web sites. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement of any and every site you visit, whether you are linking from our site or browsing on your own.

You are responsible for all actions taken with your user ID and password, including fees charged to your account. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your password to any third parties. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information, therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.
Accessing, reviewing and changing your personal information.
We offer you the ability to automatically review and change the information you submit to us by logging into the Site and entering in the new information yourself. Generally, we will not modify your personal information based on your request because it is very difficult to authenticate your account manually. You can change your user ID, email address, contact information, financial information, shipping information and user preferences by going to http://www.artgallery18.com/gyro/?doc=my-account
You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate.
Upon your request, we will deactivate your account and remove contact information, billing information, shipping information, and financial information from our active databases. To make this request this request, send an email remove@artgallery18.com. Such information will be deactivated and removed as soon as reasonably possible based on your account activity and in accordance with our deactivation policy and applicable law.
We will retain in our files some personal information you have requested to remove to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and comply with legal requirements as is permitted by law. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personal information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.
Security.
Your information is stored on our servers located in Israel. We use procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy, including encryption, "firewalls" and secure socket layers. We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the internet.