Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to Marittie De Villiers Art.

It is Marittie De Villiers Art's policy to respect its users' privacy regarding any information that may be collected while operating its website and is committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide Marittie De Villiers Art through its website. This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explains what information may be collected on Marittie De Villiers Art's website, how Marittie De Villiers Art uses this information, and under what circumstances Marittie De Villiers Art may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through the website and does not apply to the collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Website Terms and Conditions posted on Marittie De Villiers Art's website, sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of Marittie De Villiers Art's website. Depending on your activities when visiting Marittie De Villiers Art's website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Marittie De Villiers Art offers services through its website that may require certain visitors to interact with Marittie De Villiers Art in ways that require the gathering of personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Marittie De Villiers Art gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, Marittie De Villiers Art may ask visitors who submit a contact form on its website to provide a name, contact number and email address.

Marittie De Villiers Art will never sell, rent, transfer to a third party, make available to a third party or in any way misuse any personally identifiable data/information collected. Any such information collected is used mainly (but not limited to) for the operation of Marittie De Villiers Art's services and account management.

Information collected may include your personal details such as your name, surname, email address and contact number; geographical location; IP address assigned by your ISP, billing address, hardware and software details. Marittie De Villiers Art does not collect credit card details via its website, and credit card details are never stored on its servers.

Website Visitors

Marittie De Villiers Art collects non-personally-identifying information that web browsers and servers typically make available for statistical purposes, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Such information is collected and processed by software such as server software, locally hosted statistical software, Google Analytics and other such services. Marittie De Villiers Art collects such non-personally identifying information to better understand how visitors use its website. From time to time, Marittie De Villiers Art may release aggregated statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Marittie De Villiers Art may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Marittie De Villiers Art does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Marittie De Villiers Art also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users. We only disclose IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described in this policy.

External Links & Third Party Services

Marittie De Villiers Art's website may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. By clicking on any third-party links, you will be directed to that third party's website. Marittie De Villiers Art's strongly advise you to review the Privacy Statements, Disclaimers and Terms & Conditions of every site you visit. Marittie De Villiers Art has no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites, products or services.

Marittie De Villiers Art reserves the right to import and manage its e-mail into/through international mail servers such as Gmail. Such service providers' servers are usually located outside of South Africa.

Storage & Data Retention

Marittie De Villiers Art's website service providers host its website on local web servers. However, any or all information may be stored in encrypted format on S3-compatible backup servers outside of South Africa. By using this website you acknowledge and consent.

Marittie De Villiers Art retains and archives data collected through its website and connected sources for the maximum allowable period to satisfy its legal obligations and for statistical purposes.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to Marittie De Villiers Art, however, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While Marittie De Villiers Art strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, Marittie De Villiers Art cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Marittie De Villiers Art's e-mail and the contents therein are confidential and privileged information intended for the sole use of the addressee(s). Marittie De Villiers Art does not guarantee e-mail to be secure, error-free, untampered, uncorrupted, created or originated from unauthorized persons/sources or virus-free. It is important to remember that no system is 100% secure and that information could be intercepted, amended, corrupted, destroyed, lost, incomplete or arrive late.

Please note that due to internet fraud and hacking:

Marittie De Villiers Art will never change its banking details via e-mail without providing a bank-issued and verifiable Confirmation of Banking letter. Should you have any queries, please contact Marittie De Villiers Art before making any payments. Should you make a payment based on a fraudulent e-mail, Marittie De Villiers Art cannot be held responsible for any losses incurred, and you will remain liable to pay the amount due to Marittie De Villiers Art.

Spam

Marittie De Villiers Art maintains a strict anti-spam policy. If an email was received as a result of spamming or phishing, please direct complaints to [email protected].

Marittie De Villiers Art may use your e-mail address to send you updates and information from time to time as required to fulfil its service obligations to you.

Cookies

To provide its users with the best online experience, Marittie De Villiers Art's website uses "Cookies" and/or similar technologies and/or services provided by third parties to display personalized content and store your preferences on your computer as a text string of information. This information is retrieved and provided by your browser each time you return.

These "cookies" are used by Marittie De Villiers Art's website to help it identify and track visitors and their usage of the website. If you do not wish to have cookies placed on your computer, please set your browser to refuse cookies before using Marittie De Villiers Art's website. However, in doing so please note that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of "cookies".

By continuing to use Marittie De Villiers Art's website without changing your browser's "cookie" settings, you hereby acknowledge and consent to the use of "cookies".

Children Online Privacy Protection

Marittie De Villiers Art does not specifically market to children under the age of 18 years old.