Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 01-01-2021
Your privacy is important to us
It is The Art of the Icon’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://theartoftheicon.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://theartoftheicon.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, 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 of service.
1. Website Visitors
Like most website operators, The Art of the Icon collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Art of the Icon’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Art of the Icon’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Art of the Icon may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Art of the Icon also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://theartoftheicon.com blog posts. The Art of the Icon only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
2. Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The Art of the Icon’s websites choose to interact with The Art of the Icon in ways that require The Art of the Icon to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Art of the Icon gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who contact us to provide their name, phone number, and email address.
3. Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
4. The Art of the Icon uses Google AdWords for remarketing
The Art of the Icon uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
5. Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, The Art of the Icon uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Art of the Icon uses cookies to help The Art of the Icon identify and track visitors, their usage of https://theartoftheicon.com, and their website access preferences. The Art of the Icon visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Art of the Icon’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Art of the Icon’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to The Art of the Icon’s use of cookies.
6. Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Art of the Icon may change it’s Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Art of the Icon’s sole discretion. The Art of the Icon encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
