Privacy Policy.
Current: Mar 11 2010
1. What information is collected?
Any information you enter during the submission of forms or an order on spOOk's art can be collected and stored in our customer database. In order to better define the types of information that is collected, spOOk's art has identified and grouped these into two categories:
a) Personal Information; and
b) General Non-Specific & Demographic Information.
b) General Non-Specific & Demographic Information.
Personal Information
Personal information as defined by this Privacy Policy is any information that identifies you personally, such as name, address, telephone number and email address.
General Non-Specific & Demographic Information
Any non-personal information either entered by you or recorded as part of the transaction process is considered to be General Non-Specific & Demographic Information. This is information that does not contain personal information, rather is comprised of the type and quantities of products purchased, and any demographic information.spOOk's art may at times have the ability to track your navigation through this site by recording the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), as well as your computer's IP address, which is a unique address assigned to your PC by your Internet Service Provider or Information Systems Department on a TCP/IP network.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
2. What do we use the information for?
In order to provide you with the best online experience possible, we collect both personal and non-personal information to give us a better understanding of the demographic and geographic profile of our customers. The information we collect is reviewed closely to assist us in determining the most popular products of interest to our customers, and better structure our site(s) to suit your needs.By tracking your IP through our site, we can better understand the types of products and information which is relevant to our customers and may from time to time, use this information to provide our customers with information or promotions which match their various geo- and demographic dynamics.
From time to time, we may send surveys to our customers via email or online at our website in order to solicit your feedback on improvements we should make to the site in order to improve your online experience. These surveys are completed on a voluntary basis and personal and general information are not required. Refusal to complete the survey or poll will not result in any penalisation of the customer(s) standings with our organisation. Should you not wish to receive notification of subsequent surveys or polls, you can click the link supplied at the bottom of every promotional e-mail we send you to request that you not receive such notifications in the future.
We may also run contests at various times. By entering a contest you agree to disclose your personal information for our use in future marketing campaigns. Your consent for our use of your information is a condition of your participation and eligibility for any such contest.
Should you contact us via the contact links on our site, or via telephone or written correspondence, we may keep your comments on file for future use in our contact database.
3. Sharing of Information
The primary purpose of collecting personal and non-personal information on this site is for the purposes of informing you of ongoing marketing activities to keep you apprised of new products, special offers or contests we may run from time to time.Your personal information will not be sold, traded or rented to another party and is for the express internal use of spOOk's art only except as otherwise stated in this policy.
4. Use of Cookies.
"Cookies" are text files that are created by websites and stored on your computer's hard drive. These files assist the website in recognising a user's preferences which may have been set by the user while on the website, such as shopping cart preferences, user-names and passwords, etc. If used, A spOOk's art cookie cannot be recognised or viewed by another website, thus ensuring privacy on the customers' part. There is no way for a spOOk's art cookie to view or store any information from your hard drive, capture your email address, or pass on a computer virus.The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying AdSense ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a partner's website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help better serve and manage ads on the publisher's site(s) and across the web.
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
- Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.