Privacy Policy

Overview

At The Art and Beyond we are committed to protecting your personal information. Please note that we may update this policy from time to time.

At The Art and Beyond, accessible from theartandbeyond.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by The Art and Beyond and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regard to the information that they shared and/or collect in The Art and Beyond. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

Provide, operate, and maintain our website
Improve, personalize, and expand our website
Understand and analyze how you use our website
Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
Send you emails
Find and prevent fraud

Log Files

The Art and Beyond follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, The Art and Beyond uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of The Art and Beyond.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on The Art and Beyond, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that The Art and Beyond has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

The Art and Beyond’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The CCPA regulations govern compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act. They provide guidance to businesses on how to inform consumers of their rights under the CCPA, how to handle consumer requests, how to verify the identity of consumers making requests, and how to apply the law as it relates to minors. In doing so, the regulations make it easier for consumers to exercise their CCPA rights.

The regulations went into effect on August 14, 2020. Additional amendments to the regulations went into effect on March 15, 2021.

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business deletes any personal data about the consumer that it has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new EU regulation aimed at helping to strengthen data protection for EU citizens and residents both within the EU and the wider world and will be effective from 25th May 2018.

This new legislation will replace current data privacy law, giving more rights to you as an individual and more obligations to organizations holding your personal data. It replaces the existing Data Protection Directive (1995).

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Topics

Our Privacy Principles
Who We Are
What information do we collect about you & where is your information stored?
How will we use the information about you?
Cookies
Affiliate Disclaimer
Third-Party Links
Security
Children’s Online Privacy
Your Rights
Data Breaches
Policy Updates
Advertising

1. Our Privacy Policy Principles

We will never spam you with irrelevant emails
As a subscriber to The Art and Beyond, you will receive regular tips, website updates, and relevant art promotions (twice a week)
You may opt out or in of our email communications at any time
You have the right to remove any information we may hold on you
We will never sell, rent, make public, or distribute your personal information
Data is a liability and therefore should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary

2. Who We Are

The Site is operated by The Art and Beyond. The Art and Beyond is a personal blog directed and moderated by Khaoula Chatt.

The Art and Beyond is not a registered business. Khaoula Chatt is managing the blog as an individual.

Contact: contact us

3. What information do we collect about you & where do we store it?

3.1 Online Forms

We collect the personal information you voluntarily provide to us, which includes your name and e-mail address, in order to subscribe to our newsletter, receive our free content, comment on our blog, and/or purchase services or online products.

3.2 Customer data

Email marketing: we may send you emails about our site and related course(s), registration, course content, your course progress, or other updates. We may also use your email to inform you about changes to the course, survey you about your usage, or collect your opinion.

Payment:

If you make a purchase on our site, we use a third-party payment processor such as Stripe or Paypal. Payments are collected via a third-party processor, Samcart. Payments are encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, and MasterCard.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our site and related courses and its service providers.

3.3 Website Visitor Tracking

Like most websites, our website uses Google Analytics. This tool collects information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited. We use this information to better understand how visitors find us and how they interact with our website. We can use this to make adjustments to our website, to deliver a better user experience.

We also use tracking from Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram so that we can better understand how visitors are interacting with our site via social media and to track the effectiveness of any adverts we place on social media.

This data is all anonymized but you can opt-out of this tracking at any time via your own browser settings. See our Cookie Policy for more details.

3.4 Email updates

If you choose to receive email updates your email address will be stored in Convert Kit which is the app we use. Convert Kit is a third-party data processor. At any time you can unsubscribe from our emails either from within the email or by emailing us.

3.5 Comments

Should you choose to add a comment to any posts or online courses that we have published on the Site, the name and email address you enter and your comment will be saved to our website’s database, along with your computer’s IP address and the time and date that you submitted the comment.

This information is only used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section and is not passed on to any of the third-party data processors. Only your name will be shown on the public-facing website although if the supplied email address is linked to a Gravatar account, your Gravatar photo will also be displayed.

Your comment and its associated personal data will remain on this site until we see fit to either:

Remove the comment or
Remove the blog post.

Should you wish to have the comment and its associated personal data deleted, please email me using the email address that you commented with.

3.6 WordPress

This Site is built on WordPress a website content management system (CMS). This service may collect anonymous information about users’ activity on the Site, for example, the number of users viewing pages on the site, to monitor and report on the effectiveness of the site and help us improve it.

WordPress requires visitors that want to post a comment, to enter a name and email address. If you submit a comment to a blog post published on this website or if you submit a contact form, some personal information will be stored in this website’s database.

These are currently the only occasions where personal data will be stored on this Site. For more information about how WordPress processes data, please see Automattic’s privacy notice.

4. How will we use the information about you?

We collect information about you to understand your needs and provide you with a better service. Specifically, we use your information for:

4.1 Internal record keeping

4.2 Improving our services

The legal basis for this type of processing is either consent or our legitimate interests in growing our business.

4.3 Providing you with offers relating to our products or services.

The legal basis for this type of processing is either consent or our legitimate interests in growing our business. We may send you such communications if you requested them and/or if you agreed to receive such communications. You can opt out of these emails at any time through the ‘unsubscribe’ button in each email or by contacting us via email.

We will only share your information with trusted 3rd parties if necessary to provide support in running this Site. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

5. Cookies

A cookie is a piece of code that allows the web server to identify and track the activity of the web browser. They are widely used in order to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.

You can enable or disable your Cookie settings via your own web browser. See our Cookies Policy for more details.

For further details please consult the help menu in your browser or visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

6. Affiliate Disclaimer

The Site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn affiliate fees by linking to books and art supplies on Amazon.com. As an Amazon Influencer, I earn from qualifying purchases.

The Site is also a participant in other affiliate programs such as CJ Affiliates, Awin, and more.

I have included certain art education books and supplies and links to those art education books and supplies on this website that I will earn an affiliate commission for any purchases you make.

Please note that I have not been given any free products, services, or anything else by these companies in exchange for mentioning them on my site.

7. Third-Party Links

This website may contain links to third-party websites. Unless otherwise stated, this Privacy Policy only covers information that we collect from you on this Site. Any other link will be covered by the privacy policy of that specific site. You acknowledge and accept that we are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third parties.

When you click on links on the Site, they may direct you away from the Site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

8. Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Though we have these procedures in place we can’t be held responsible for any intercepted information shared through the Site without our knowledge or permission.

9. Age of Consent

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence.

10. Your Rights

Your rights under data protection laws include the right to access, erase, correct, restrict, and/or object to our use and processing of your personal data, as well as the right to portability of the data. You have the right to confirmation as to how and where we process your data. To the extent that the legal basis for our processing consent, you have the right to withdraw at any time. If you consider our processing to infringe data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. If you have any requests regarding your personal information, please contact us.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

11. Data Breaches

We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third-party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

12. Policy Updates

Khaoula Chatt through theartandbeyond.com may update this policy and you should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please email chattkhaoula@gmail.com.

Updated: 11 November 2022

13. Advertising

This Site is affiliated with Google Adsense, for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Google will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Google Adsense’s data usage, click here: Google Adsense privacy & terms

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

The Art and Beyond does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately, and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.