BY USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO ACCEPT STIMULATED, INC’S PRIVACY POLICY. MAKE SURE YOU READ THIS POLICY CAREFULLY BECAUSE IF YOU DO CHOOSE TO USE OUR WEBSITE, YOU AUTOMATICALLY AGREE TO THIS POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE OUR WEBSITE. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT, AT OUR DISCRETION, TO CHANGE, MODIFY, ADD, OR REMOVE PORTIONS OF THIS POLICY AT ANY TIME. WE DO NOT GIVE OR SELL PERSONAL INFORMATION TO ANY OTHER PARTY, EXCEPT TO THOSE OF OUR EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS WHOM WE RELY ON TO HANDLE THIS INFORMATION ON OUR BEHALF IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ABOVE PURPOSES.
We are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers, which is why we do not sell, rent, or loan any personally identifiable information regarding our customers to any third party. We hope the policy below will answer all of your questions regarding how we treat information gathered from visitors to artvotes.wpengine.com. Feel free to e-mail us with any questions you might have by using our contact form.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://artvotes.wpengine.com
Tear Down 2020, a division of Stimulated, Inc was founded by Robb and Pam Wagner in 2020.
We are headquartered in Burbank CA:
STIMULATED, INC.
4100 WEST ALAMEDA AVENUE, 3RD FLOOR
BURBANK, CA 91505
+1.818.853.9000
What personal data we collect and how
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Contact Forms
We collect personal data such as name, email address, business name and the nature of the support request for the sole purpose of providing support to our valued customers. We keep contact form submission data for the duration of our contract with you for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted for marketing purposes.
We use Typeform to collect data to provide you with customer service and inquiry support. The Typeform service privacy and cookie policy are available here: https://admin.typeform.com/to/dwk6gt/
Cookies
Our websites use “cookies” in order to create a trouble-free shopping experience. A cookie is small digital signature files that are stored by your web browser that allows your preferences to be recorded when visiting the website. Also, they may be used to track your return visits to the website.
WordPress
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
By default WordPress does not collect any analytics data. However, we do collect some anonymous analytics data. We collect standard anonymous data using google analytics for the purpose of evaluating website performance, optimizations and business intelligence.
Google Analytics: Google Analytics is Google’s analytics tool that helps us to understand how our visitors engage with our website and its properties. It uses a set of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. The main cookie used by Google Analytics is the ‘__ga’ cookie. For more information about their specific privacy policies visit their website: https://policies.google.com/
Sassy Social Share: provides social sharing tools that collect information from visitors. This information does not directly identify an individual and is instead designed to identify the devices used by our visitors. However, in certain circumstances, the visitor may opt to share their email address with Sassy Social Share to facilitate the services. These email addresses are not used for online behavioral advertising. For more information about their specific privacy policies visit their website: https://www.heateor.com/privacy/
Cookie Consent: Cookie Consent doesn’t store any user data server-side or make use of IP addresses. When a user lands on a site using this plugin and accepts the cookie notification message, the plugin places a cookie on the user’s own machine that records the user’s acceptance. It doesn’t store anything, including IP addresses, server-side. For more information about their specific privacy policies visit their website: https://catapultthemes.com/downloads/category/plugins/
NextRoll
Our site uses technologies of third-party partners such as NextRoll to help us recognize your device and understand how you use our site(s) so that we can improve our services to reflect your interests and serve you advertisements about the [products and/or services] that are likely to be of more interest to you. Specifically, NextRoll collects information about your activity on our site(s) to enable us to:
- measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on our site(s);
- show advertisements for our products and/or services to you on third-party sites;
- measure and analyze the performance of our advertising campaigns;
Cross-Device:
We may share data, such as hashed email derived from emails or other online identifiers collected on our site(s) with NextRoll/ our advertising partners. This allows our partners to recognize and deliver you ads across devices and browsers. To read more about the technologies used by NextRoll/our partner and their cross-device capabilities please refer to NextRoll’s Privacy Notice.
Opting-Out
Our partners [such as NextRoll] may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not permit you to block such technologies. For this reason, you can use the following third-party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving you interest-based advertising:
- The NAI’s opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
- The EDAA’s opt-out platform http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
- The DAA’s opt-out platform: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN
Information You Provide
We collect personal information only for the purposes of fulfilling orders, providing a high level of customer service and gaining knowledge regarding what our customers want. Security is among our top priorities in keeping your Personal Information secure. Encrypted information cannot be read or recorded as it travels over the Internet. Additionally, access to your personal information is provided only to our employees and agents who have a need to know such information for the purpose of fulfilling your order and offering our high level of customer service.
Who we share your data with
By default, WordPress does not share any personal data with anyone. We share your data with Mailchimp.com to collect first name, last name and email address for the sole purpose of delivery of occasional marketing, newsletters or technical alerts via email. For more information about their specific privacy policies visit their website: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We use Akismet. The Akismet privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/
Contact Information
For privacy-specific concerns, you may contact us via email: [email protected]
How We Protect Your Data
We use SSL encryption to protect data that you submit to us during the transit from your device to our servers.
We use two-factor authentication whenever possible.
What data breach procedures we have in place
Customers are notified within 24 hours of the discovery of a data breach via email.
What third parties we receive data from
Our website does not receive data about users from third parties, including advertisers.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Our website does not provide any service which includes automated decision making – for example, allowing customers to apply for credit, or aggregating of data into an advertising profile.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
We are not a member of a regulated industry, so no additional privacy laws are required.