If you have any questions about this policy you can contact ARTcnet.com by phone at our toll-free number: 877.949.9488 or write to the ARTcnet.com Fine Art Gallery at P.O. Box 156, Gladwyne, PA 19035 or email Phyllis at phyllis@artcnet.com .

We collect various types of information depending upon how you use our site. We gather this information by processing sales transactions, by your joining our Email list, Club ARTcnet, our Bridal Registry, by your application as an artist, and by your signing up for our Israel Art Tours.

When you order from us, we collect your name, address, e-mail address, phone number and credit card number (with expiration date). We also gather information on the person who will receive any gift you send (e.g., that person's name and address) and retain a record of your purchases.

When you submit a question to Phyllis or to artists, we need your email to respond. Our policy is to contact only people who have signed up at our ARTcnet.com online gallery.

Session cookies exist only for as long as your browser remains open. Once you exit your browser, they go away. For example, the session ID cookie that we ask your browser to hold retains the ID for your shopping cart. Without the session ID cookie, you cannot add artwork to your cart and carry it to checkout. We also use session cookies in our associates program.

We may use your information in a number of ways, including the following:

We respond to your interests to improve the content on our web site. For example, we may use cookies to find out which parts of our site or our products are visited most often.

We send out e-mails to our customers who have elected to receive our newsletter, mailed only twice/year. At this time, we may send you special sales, our new artists, news about our artists and information about the Atcnet.com Fine Art Gallery.

The information gathered will never be shared with third parties other than the artist and artisan who will ship you his/her artworks! The ARTcnet.com Privacy Policy guarantees that ARTcnet.com will never give or sell your emails, addresses, telephone numbers, credit card information to any third party!

If you leave ARTcnet.com to go to an outside link, you make the decision as to whether to buy merchandise from that other business. ARTcnet.com does NOT capture exit cookies. These third parties will receive your information because you will be visiting their web sites or using their links and, in doing so, you may provide information directly to them. You therefore should refer to their privacy policies to understand how they handle your information and what kinds of choices you have.

Also, ARTcnet.com does NOT save individual cookies other than the browser link which does not identify you as an individual. (The technology is there to do this, but ARTcnet.com has made an ethical decision to protect your privacy.)

ARTcnet.com may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law or to protect our interests or property. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, credit bureaus, agents or government agencies in connection with issues related to fraud, credit or debt collection.

If you do not want to receive email from the ARTcnet.com Fine Art Gallery please email Phyllis at phyllis@artcnet.com to unsubscribe.

If you have questions about your order you may check your order status by emailing Phyllis. If you have questions, compliments or complaints, please email Phyllis.

ARTcnet.com maintains the security of information collected on our site. You can recognize a secure page when it reads https at the top of your screen. The "s" stands for secure. We never collect secure information over email. The telephone and fax are secure for transmitting credit card information.