Privacy policy.
Introduction
Meg Fine Art regards user privacy as an important part of our relationship with our users. We are dedicated to protecting your privacy and personal information when you visit the website, sign up for the mailing list and purchase items from us. We are committed to complying with applicable laws and regulations to ensure that any information you share with us is kept securely.
The following privacy policy applies to all Meg Fine Art (https://www.megfineart.com.au/) users, and conforms to internet privacy standards. If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, you can contact us at:
Email: info@megfineart.com.au
Post: 1 Conlan Street, Nudgee, Queensland 4014
Australia
Collection of Information
In order to use the Meg Fine Art website, Meg Fine Art may require information from you in order to provide the best service possible. All correspondence may also be collected and stored, particularly in regard to sales, support and accounts, including email. Any information collected by Meg Fine Art is collected via correspondence from you. This may be via the telephone, email, mail, fax or directly through our website, mobile apps, live chat or social media accounts. If Meg Fine Art has trouble processing your transaction, it will use this information to contact you.
This information is used to send occasional newsletters, exhibition information, discount codes or updates to the website.
When you order a product from the Meg Fine Art website, we need to know your name, billing and shipping addresses, telephone number, e-mail address and credit card information to process your order. Your credit card information will be used only by Stripe or PayPal to process your transaction.
We do not collect personal information about individuals, such as names and mailing or e-mail addresses, unless the individual knowingly provides it. We are committed to maintaining the security of personal information provided by users accessing this website.
We do not rent, sell or distribute our customer base or newsletter subscribers to anyone.
Children 12 years and below
Meg Fine Art does not solicit personal information from children. Visitors twelve years of age and under should remember that they are required to obtain an adult’s permission before submitting any personal information to this or any other website.
Mailing List
As a service, Meg Fine Art offers visitors to its website the opportunity to subscribe to our mailing list. We agree to use the e-mail address you provide only to send our E-newsletters and announcements. If you choose to subscribe, you will receive the Meg Fine Art E-newsletter in addition to various announcements about our activities. You may subscribe or unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions at the bottom of the emails.
Storage of Information
Meg Fine Art cares about the security of your personal information. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit/debit card numbers) on our website, Meg Fine Art encrypts that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). When credit/debit card details are collected, Meg Fine Art simply passes them on in order to be processed as required. Meg Fine Art never permanently stores complete credit/debit card details, though it retains personal information for as long as a user account remains active.
Meg Fine Art follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to Meg Fine Art, both during transmission and once Meg Fine Art receives it.
Access and Use of Information
Details collected from Meg Fine Art website users are used to provide you with our products and/or services. They also enable Meg Fine Art to offer a high level of customer service. Correspondence is recorded in order to provide service references, and to assist in our staff development. Collected information may also be used to send you marketing communications and remarketing digital advertising.
Meg Fine Art uses personally identifiable information for essential communications, such as emails, accounts information, and critical service details. Meg Fine Art may also use this information for other purposes, including some promotional emails. If at any time a user wishes not to receive such correspondence, they can request to be removed from any mailing lists by emailing info@megfineart.com.au
If your personally identifiable information changes, or you no longer desire our service, or wish to opt-out of your identifiable information being used for Meg Fine Art’s digital marketing campaigns, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate your information by modifying your account on the website, or by emailing info@megfineart.com.au. All personal details will be deleted / de-activated from Meg Fine Art’s system provided all financials and/or disputes, if any, are cleared.
Meg Fine Art reserves the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when it believes that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.
Payment Security
Meg Fine Art uses the Stripe Payment Gateway and PayPal for its online credit card transactions. Stripe and PayPal process online credit card transactions for thousands of Australian merchants, providing a safe and secure means of collecting payments via the Internet. All online credit card transactions performed on this site using the Stripe gateway and PayPal are secured payments.
Payments are fully automated with an immediate response. Your complete credit card number cannot be viewed by Meg Fine Art or any outside party. All transactions are performed under 128 Bit SSL Certificate. All transaction data is encrypted for storage within Stripe’s bank-grade data centre, further protecting your credit card data.
For more information about Stripe and online credit card payments, please visit https://stripe.com
For more information about PayPal and it’s security policy, please visit https://paypal.com
Third Parties
Meg Fine Art, may at its discretion use other third parties to provide essential services on our site or for our business processes. Meg Fine Art may share your details as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose. Meg Fine Art does not share any information with third parties for any unknown or unrelated uses.
These parties include but are not limited to digital marketing providers for advertising and remarketing campaigns, our freight provider, and any information collecting organisation nominated by the Australian Government.
Links on https://www.megfineart.com.au/ to external entities are not covered under this policy.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies, to help provide you with the best experience possible. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile when you browse a website. They provide aggregated but anonymous information and analytics about our customers, without identifying you. The types of cookies that we may use are listed below:
1. Website functionality cookies which allow you to navigate the website and use features such as “Add to cart”
2. Website analytics cookies which allow us to measure and analyse how our customers use the website, to improve both its functionality and your shopping experience
3. Customer preference cookies which will remember your preferences (such as your location) when browsing or shopping on our website, so we can make your shopping experience as seamless and personalized as possible
Privacy Policy Updates
Our Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, however the latest version will always be available on our homepage (https://www.megfineart.com.au/) so that you are aware of what information Meg Fine Art collects, how it uses that information, and under what circumstances, if any, it discloses that information. Meg Fine Art reserves the right to modify this policy at any time, so please review it frequently. We encourage you to periodically visit this page to review our most current policy.