Privacy Statement

We understand the importance of protecting the personal information of our customers and our employees. To earn and maintain your trust we have designed our policy to meet or exceed the requirements of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the ten principles set forth in the Canadian National Standard for the Protection of Personal Information. In addition, we are constantly looking for new and better ways to secure your personal information and to ensure that it is used in a responsible and respectful manner.

This privacy statement covers the site www.artblessings.com. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact ArtBlessings.com’s Privacy Office as follows:

ArtBlessings.com Ltd
36 Court Street,
Edmundston, NB, E3V 1S3
Telephone: (506) 735-8835
Facsimile: (506) 739-9367
Email: privacy@artblessings.com

Accountability
ArtBlessings.com Ltd has appointed a Privacy Officer who is responsible for ensuring compliance with the requirements of PIPEDA. Should you have any questions regarding this policy or concerns with respect to ArtBlessings.com's compliance with the requirements of PIPEDA, you may contact ArtBlessings.com’s Privacy officer.

Identifying Purpose of Collection
When you make a purchase, you will be required to provide certain personal information to complete your transaction. This may include name, address, telephone number, credit card number and expiry date. The information is required to identify you, in order to contact you, if necessary and to complete the process of your purchase.

We will also use the information you provided to build up a picture of your interests - we then try to ensure that when you visit the site, you don't miss the offers and information relevant to you.

If you request a customized service we need to collect additional personal information.

Cookies
A cookie is a small non-executable file that is stored on your hard drive for the purpose of identifying your computer. While it is possible to make a purchase at ArtBlessings.com by having your browser’s Internet security set such that it will not accept cookies, your online experience may be greatly reduced.

ArtBlessings.com uses both session cookies and permanent cookies. Session cookies are active only during the period you are logged on to artblessings.com website and are removed when you leave. They help us track the sections of the website that you use to allow us to make improvements in keeping with observed user preferences.

Permanent cookies remain on your hard drive until you remove them through your browser’s Internet security settings. Permanent cookies are used to store user preferences such as preferred language and thus eliminate your having to make the same entries on each visit.

Conversion Beacons
ArtBlessings.com also uses Conversion Beacons (small, simple snippet of HTML code) inserted in the source of the designated website pages. Conversion Beacon technology works by leveraging industry standard browser based cookie technology and simple standard html coding. Email recipients who receive a Conversion Beacon enabled email message will receive a small unique cookie that is stored in their browser session. This unique cookie is later used to connect the email recipient with the subsequent recipient activity on the client website.

The purpose of tracking the activity is to better understand the email flow of our subscribers and to measure the effectiveness of ads.

Consent
When you join ArtBlessings.com, the fact of your doing so provides us with your implied consent to use your information to fulfill your request.
If you opt in to one or more of ArtBlessings's email offers you are consenting to allow ArtBlessings.com to contact you regarding those offers.

You may withdraw your consent at any time simply by changing your profile information or by following the instructions on how to “unsubscribe” contained in all emails sent by ArtBlessings.com.

Limiting Collection
ArtBlessings.com will limit the collection of personal information to that which is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.
ArtBlessings.com uses contractual and other means to ensure that your personal information is afforded protection that meets the requirements of PIPEDA whenever a third party agent is used to complete some or all the stages of processing necessary to complete your travel transaction or for research or survey purposes. Research and survey data is reported back to ArtBlessings.com as aggregated data with no reference to individual customers.

Customers who do not wish to be contacted for research or survey purposes should advise ArtBlessings.com's  Privacy Office.

Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention
ArtBlessings.com will not use or disclose your personal information for purposes other than those for which it was collected without your explicit consent or as required by law.  Customer information is retained for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected.

Accuracy
When you join ArtBlessings.com you can ensure that the personal information we hold is accurate and up to date. You supply the information and if it should change, for example if your telephone number changes simply click on ‘View/Update My Profile” and make the necessary changes.

Safeguards
Personal information is encrypted as it travels over the Internet. Depending on your web browser you may see a secure webpage indicator, for example a closed lock in the lower right hand corner of the Internet Explorer browser.

The use of Secure Socket Layer protocol (SSL) allows all personal information such as your credit card number, to be encrypted as it travels from your computer to ArtBlessings.com system. Once received, the information is unencrypted and processed in the same way as a credit card transaction placed via the telephone.

Openness
ArtBlessings.com's privacy practices are as outlined within this policy. Should you have any questions or comments you may contact ArtBlessings.com's Privacy Office as indicated under “Accountability.”

Individual Access
With certain limited exceptions as provided in the PIPEDA you have a right to access your personal information held by ArtBlessings.com. You may access your personal information held in your ArtBlessings.com profile by clicking on ‘View/Update My Profile” on the homepage.  It is in your best interests to keep your user name and password confidential.  If you share this information with others it may allow them access to your personal information through our system.

If you have other queries you may contact ArtBlessings.com's Privacy Office as indicated under “Accountability.”

Challenging Compliance
If you have any concerns regarding ArtBlessings.com's compliance with the 10 principles of the PIPEDA you may address those concerns to ArtBlessings.com's Privacy Office as indicated under “Accountability.” Complaints concerning ArtBlessings.com’s compliance with PIPEDA are taken seriously and all complaints are investigated.

Changes to the Privacy Policy
This policy takes effect on January 1, 2007. ArtBlessings.com reserves the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy we will notify you on our homepage and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.