Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for Lucas Smith Art

Information Collection and Use

Your privacy is important to us. We do not share any personal, demographic, or financial information with third parties. We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site, and we only access/collect information you voluntarily provide via email or other direct contact. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

Security

Payment information is not retained by Lucas Smith Art. We take precautions to protect your information during the payment process. Sensitive information (e.g., credit card data) is encrypted and transmitted securely through a payment processing system (such as GoDaddy, Squarespace, Venmo, or PayPal, depending on your preference at checkout).

Consent

By using the Lucas Smith Art website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of Personal Information

To provide you with our products and services, Lucas Smith Art may collect personally identifiable information, including:

- First and last name

- Mailing address

- Email address

- Phone number

When you purchase products or services, billing and credit card information is collected through Squarespace. This information is used solely to complete the transaction and is stored securely. Once the transaction is complete, the information is deleted. Lucas Smith Art does not have access to this information.

We only collect personal information that you voluntarily provide. This may include registering for an account, entering a contest, signing up for special offers, sending us an email, or submitting payment information when ordering products or services. We use this information to communicate with you and provide the requested services. We may also collect additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Use of Personal Information

Lucas Smith Art uses your personal information to operate its website and deliver the services you request. We may also use your information to inform you about other products or services available from Lucas Smith Art and its affiliates.

Squarespace

Our web store is hosted on Squarespace, which provides an e-commerce platform for selling products and services. Your data is stored securely through Squarespace's data storage, databases, and application, protected by a firewall.

Security

To protect your personal information, Squarespace follows industry best practices, including SSL encryption for credit card information and AES-256 encryption for data storage. While no method of transmission over the Internet is completely secure, Squarespace adheres to all PCI-DSS requirements and other industry standards.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Lucas Smith Art does not sell, rent, or lease customer lists to third parties. We may share data with trusted partners to perform statistical analysis, send emails or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange deliveries. These partners are prohibited from using your information for any other purposes and must maintain its confidentiality.

Tracking User Behavior

Lucas Smith Art tracks the websites and pages our users visit to determine which services are most popular. This data helps deliver customized content and advertising to customers based on their interests.

Automatically Collected Information

We may automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software, including IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used to operate the service, maintain quality, and provide general statistics about website use.

Use of Cookies

The Lucas Smith Art website may use cookies to personalize your online experience. Cookies are text files placed on your hard disk by a web server. They cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued them. Cookies help save you time by recalling your specific information on subsequent visits.

You can accept or decline cookies through your browser settings. Declining cookies may affect the full experience of the Lucas Smith Art website's features.

Links

Our website contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other sites. We encourage users to read the privacy statements of any site that collects personally identifiable information.

Children Under Thirteen

Lucas Smith Art does not knowingly collect information from children under thirteen. If you are under thirteen, please ask a parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Email Communications

Lucas Smith Art may occasionally send emails for announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and other communications. To improve our services, we may receive notifications when you open an email or click on a link.

If you wish to stop receiving marketing emails from Lucas Smith Art, you can opt out by selecting "unsubscribe" at the bottom of a newsletter.

Changes to this Policy

Lucas Smith Art reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy. We will notify you of significant changes by sending a notice to your primary email address, placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or updating the privacy information on this page. Continued use of the site after such modifications indicates your acknowledgment of the updated policy and agreement to abide by it.

Contact Information

If you have questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Lucas Smith

lucas@lucassmithart.com

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

As described in our Privacy Policy, we collect personal information from your interactions with our website, including through cookies and similar technologies. We may share this information with third parties, including advertising partners, to show you relevant ads on other websites.

Sharing personal information for targeted advertising may be considered "sales," "sharing," or "targeted advertising" under certain U.S. state privacy laws. Depending on your location, you may have the right to opt out of these activities. If you wish to exercise this right, please follow the instructions below.

If you visit our website with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal enabled, we will treat this as a request to opt out of activities considered "sales" or "sharing" of personal information or other uses considered targeted advertising.

To opt out of these activities, please submit your email.