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Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting www.MutualArt.com ("MutualArt.com" or "We" or "Us" or "Our"), a MutualArt Holding Inc. ("MutualArt") website (the "Site"). Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make regarding your personal information in relation to this Site.

Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in this document shall have the definitions as set forth in the MutualArt.com Terms of Use Agreement.

Information Collection and Use by MutualArt.com

When you visit MutualArt.com you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us, and information collected by us as you interact with our Service.

When you register with MutualArt.com, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your age, your gender, language and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us. MutualArt.com collects user submitted information to provide the Service, authenticate users, contact users by telephone and send notifications relating to the Service. The information collected relating to the Service includes, but is not limited to, personal art preferences such as artists, genres, and cities of interest, as well as demographic, geographic and psychographic information. By providing your email address you consent to our using the email address to send you Service-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. We may also use your email address to send you other messages, such as updates, news and events, openings, advertiser offerings, personalized emails, user communications, newsletters, changes to features of the Service, or MutualArt.com offers. By providing your telephone number, you consent to receiving text messages and/or calls from MutualArt.com support and sales staff. If you do not want to receive certain emails, phone calls or text messages, you may opt out by visiting your account page or contact our support team at support@mutualart.com. Opting out may prevent you from receiving valuable messages regarding updates, improvements, offers, or communications from other users. MutualArt.com reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email or phone notifications.

MutualArt.com logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the Site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security purposes.

Certain user profile information including Members' first name may be displayed to a user and viewable once they have logged into certain applications. Other MutualArt.com users cannot view the status of who has logged into the application nor is there a platform to communicate between logged in members. Email addresses are used for the purposes of allowing direct communications between MutualArt.com and users, subject to the requests of such users. The sole exception is a User may have the opportunity to request price quotations for art services that are of interest to them including but not limited to lighting, insurance, shipping and such other services. Such Users upon completion of a form in which they directly completed - can choose to have their information shared with the vendors who will fulfill the services of interest and interact with the User.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information MutualArt.com Collects

Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, MutualArt will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by MutualArt.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the MutualArt.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. MutualArt reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of MutualArt or any of its assets. For more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy Policy" section below.

Use of Cookies

MutualArt.com uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes of providing customized newsletters, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. The cookie information we store in cookies is not linked to identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from MutualArt.com in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that MutualArt allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their privacy policy, not the MutualArt Privacy Policy.

Links

MutualArt.com contains links to sites. MutualArt.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site we encourage users to read the privacy policy on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on MutualArt.com. Content providers may provide links or coding linking to other sites; the content linked is not the content or property of MutualArt.com and should not be considered as such for privacy purposes.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information

MutualArt.com users may modify their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing the user profile In the My Account section that is prominently available on all pages of the application.

Opt-out

We may send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service to the email address provided, or we may call Users providing information on MutualArt Services. Users who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications or change the frequency of such communications may choose to do so from within the preferences area of the My Account section. Users who do not wish to receive MutualArt.com newsletters may de-select either the "Daily" or "Weekly" options that are listed on the Newsletter Preference. These instructions apply for opting-out of notification emails, phone calls or text messages from the MutualArt.com service or sales team, and MutualArt.com newsletters.

Third Party Advertising

Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to Users by MutualArt.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by MutualArt.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Security

MutualArt.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. MutualArt.com takes precautions to ensure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and access to member information is restricted. Note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time.

For any additional information about the security measures we use on MutualArt.com, please contact us at support@mutualart.com.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy

From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy as well as our Terms of Use Agreement. We will post any changes to our site so users are fully informed of the information we collect, how we use it, and our sporadic disclose of such information. Users are bound by any changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted.

Contacting the Web Site

MutualArt.com cares deeply about protecting your privacy. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at support@mutualart.com

Effective: June 08, 2010