Privacy Policy

Your privacy is extremely important to us. It is our policy to respect your privacy in regard to any information we collect during the operation of our website. We do not share any personal, financial, or demographic data with any third parties. We are the sole owner of any information collected on this website. We will not rent or sell any information you provide to us, and the only information we collect/have access to is the information you provide to us.

Rebecca ‘Bec’ Bookwalter (“we”, “us”, or “our”) operates the www.becbookwalter.com / www.rebeccabookwalter.com website.

Your use of the Rebecca ‘Bec’ Bookwalter website (www.becbookwalter.com or www.rebeccabookwalter.com) constitutes your agreement to the data and privacy practices described in this privacy policy statement.

This Privacy Policy along with the Terms and Conditions posted on our site, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our website. Depending on your activities when visiting our website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We only collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us. However, if you choose to use certain products or services provided on this website you may be required to provide certain personal information to us. Examples may include;

  • Registering for an account on our website.

  • Submitting payment information when placing an order.

  • Contacting us (via email, contact form, etc.)

  • Signing up for special offers, contests, or giveaways sponsored by us and/or one of our disclosed partners.

In order to provide you with the products and services we offer on our site, we may collect some or all of the following personally identifiable information;

  • First and Last Name

  • Email Address

  • Mailing Address

  • Phone Number

Additionally, when you purchase our products and services, we collect credit card and billing information. This information is only used to complete your purchase transaction but will be held in a secure and encrypted payment processing service (PayPal, Square, or Stripe). Rebecca Bookwalter does not have access to this information.

We will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in regard to the products and services you have requested from us. We may also collect additional information in the future including personal and non-personal information.

We take the security of your personal information very seriously and strive to use commercially acceptable means and practices to protect your personal information. But due to the inherent nature of electronic privacy, we cannot guarantee total security as no method of electronic storage or transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect and use your personal information to operate this website and to deliver the products and services that you have requested. We may also use your personally identifiable information to tell you about other products and/or services available from us and our affiliates.

SHARING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We never sell, lease, or rent our customer lists or personal information to third parties. We may on occasion share your data with trusted partners in order to help us with the following;

  • Arrange for deliveries and send you mail

  • Send you emails

  • Provide you with customer support

  • Perform statical analysis

The third parties involved in these activities are strictly prohibited from using your personally identifiable information in any way other than to provide these services. Rest assured they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Additionally, we may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with the legal process served on Rebecca Bookwalter or the website; (b) protect and defend the rights and property of Rebecca Bookwalter; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Rebecca Bookwalter, or the public.

USAGE DATA & TRACKING USER BEHAVIOR

Information about your electronic device used to access our site may be automatically collected by us.  This information can include;

  • Type of device and operating system

  • IP address

  • Browser type

  • Domain names

  • Referring websites

  • Access times

  • Site clicks and pages visited on our site

This information is used by us for the operation of the services, to provide general statistical data regarding the use of our site, and to maintain the quality of the services we provide on our website.

We may track the pages our users visit within our website, in order to determine what products and services are most popular with our visitors. We use this data to provide customers interested in particular products or services with customized content and advertising within our website.

COOKIES

In order to improve and personalize your experience on our website, we may use ‘cookies.’

A cookie is a text file or string of information that a website stores on your computer. The visitors’ browser provides cookies to the website each time the visitor returns. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by the web server in the domain that issued the cookies to you. Cookies cannot be used to deliver viruses or run programs on your computer.

We use cookies to help identify and track visitors to our website, how they use our website, and their website access preferences. Cookies also help our visitors save time by offering convenient features. For example, if you register with our website a cookie helps our website remember your provided information on subsequent visits. This helps you retrieve the information you previously provided, such as billing and shipping addresses, thus making your return visit easier and more efficient. Examples of Cookies we use;

  • Preference Cookies to remember your preference and settings on our website.

  • Session Cookies to operate our Service.

  • Security Cookies for security purposes.

Cookies are optional, but a refusal of cookies could negatively impact your experience on our website as it may not function properly without the use of cookies. If you do not wish to have cookies placed on your computer you will need to set your browser to refuse cookies before visiting or using our site.

By continuing to use and navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and accept our use of cookies on our website.

ADVERTISEMENTS AND COOKIES

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad servers to recognize your computer/device each time they send you an online ad to compile information about you and others who use your computer/device. They utilize this information to deliver more targeted ads, among other things. This privacy policy only covers cookies used by our website and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers or third parties.

E-COMMERCE

Those who engage in transactions with Rebecca Bookwalter - by purchasing our Fine Art services and products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process all related transactions. In each case, we only collect the information necessary and appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us. We do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described within this Privacy Policy. Visitors can always refuse to supply any personal information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

LINKS TO EXTERNAL SITES

Please be aware that this website contains links to external websites. When you click on these links you will leave our website and be directed to a third-party website. We are not responsible in any way for the privacy or content of these external websites. We advise and encourage our visitors/users to be aware of when they leave our site. We also recommend reading the privacy policies on any other website that collects personally identifiable information.

CHILDREN UNDER THIRTEEN

Rebecca Bookwalter does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen (13). If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS

On occasion, Rebecca Bookwalter may contact you via email in order to provide you with general information, announcements, confirmations, alerts, promotional offers, and/or surveys. For the purposes of improving the services we offer, we may receive a notification letting us know that you received, opened, and/or clicked a link in an email from us.

If you wish to be removed from our promotional and marketing email communications, you may opt out by selecting ‘unsubscribe’ at the bottom of our email newsletter. An option to manage your email preferences is also available at the bottom of our email newsletter.

RETENTION OF DATA

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. This data is generally retained for a shorter period of time with the exception of when the data is used to improve the functionality and/or improve the security of your website. We will retain this data longer if legally obligated to do so.

TRANSFER OF DATE

Your personal information may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers located outside of your state, country, province, or other governmental jurisdictions where data protection laws may differ from those in your location.

If you are located outside of the United States of America and choose to provide your information to us, please note that we transfer data to the United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy and submission of your personal data represents your agreement to this transfer. We will protect all data received as described above.

CALIFORNIA ONLINE PROTECTION ACT (COLOPPA) - “DO NOT TRACK” POLICY

We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). DNT is a preference you can set on your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable this in the Preferences or Settings of your web browser.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA UNDER THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in the Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect said data.

Rebecca Bookwalter may process your Personal Data because:

  • To comply with the law

  • For payment processing purposes

  • You have given up permission to do so

  • We need to perform a contract or commission with you

  • The processing is in our legitimate interests and is not overridden by your rights

YOUR GDPR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. Please contact us if you wish to know what Personal Data we hold about you, and if you want to be removed from our system.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights;

  • The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you.

  • Rectification. You have the right to have your data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

  • The right to object to our processing of your data.

  • The right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

  • The right to be provided a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable, and commonly used format.

  • The right to withdraw your consent at any time as we relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to certain requests. You have a right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your personal data. For more information please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA.

CHANGES TO TERMS

Rebecca Bookwalter reserves the right, in our sole discretion, to change or modify the terms under which BecBookwalter.com / RebeccaBookwalter.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. We encourage you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.

CONTACTING US

Rebecca Bookwalter welcomes your comments and questions in regard to our Terms:

Via email: bec@becbookwalter.com

Via postal mail: Rebecca ‘Bec’ Bookwalter | Fine Artist, 69 Willow Mill Park Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050

Effective date: December 02, 2022

HELPFUL DEFINITIONS

  • SERVICE: Service is the www.BecBookwalter.com website operated by Rebecca Bookwalter.

  • PERSONAL DATA: Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from said data (or from other data in our possession or likely to come into our possession.)

  • USAGE DATA: Usage Data is data collected automatically and generated either by use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (ex. How long you spend on a page on our website.)

  • COOKIES: Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device.)

This document was last updated on May 11, 2023.