Privacy Policy

Introduction

This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how springmountaingallery.com in United States ("Company", "we" and "our") processes, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this site (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and the way we'll process data.

Purposes of Processing

What is personal information?

We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal information. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as described in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in combination with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, as an example, your name, postal address, email address and phone number.

Why do we need your personal data?

We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data so as to offer you access to the Site. If you registered with us, you would have been asked to tick to agree to provide this information in order to access our services, purchase our products, or see our content. This approval provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your information. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you don't agree to our use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please do not use our Site.

Collecting Your Personal Data

We collect information about you in the following ways:

Information from Social Networking Sites

Our Site includes interfaces that allow you to connect with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS through our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the details you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your settings on this SNS. We will access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our access to the information you provide in this manner at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.

Information Automatically Collected

We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For example, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and version, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the website you visited before navigating to our Site, pages you've viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and information regarding your use of and activities on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.

Automated Decision Making and Profiling

We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automatic decision-making. But we may do this in order to satisfy obligations imposed by law, in which case we'll notify you of any such processing and offer you an opportunity to object.

Cookies

What are cookies?

We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard disk of your computer or mobile device by a site. We may use both session cookies (which expire as soon as you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your personal computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on the Site.

We use two broad classes of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which can be used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Siteand (2) third-party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and may be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites.

Cookies we use

Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:

Type of cookie

Purpose

Essential Cookies

These cookies are crucial to provide you with services available through our Site and to let you use some of its features. For instance, they allow you to log in to secure areas of our Site and help the content of the pages you request load quickly. With no cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we just use these cookies to provide you with these services.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and recalling the changes you make to other parts of our Site which you can customize. The objective of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and also to prevent you having to re-enter your preferences each time you visit our Site.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies are used to gather information regarding visitors to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the amount of visitors to our Site, the websites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, whether they have visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on the Site.

We use Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It is only utilized to enhance how our Site functions.

You can find out more about how Matomo protects your data here: https://matomo.org/privacy/.

Targeted and advertising cookies

These cookies track your surfing habits to enable us to demonstrate advertising that's more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your surfing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our permission, third-party advertisers can set cookies to allow them to show adverts which we believe will be relevant to your interests when you are on third party sites.

You can disable cookies that remember your browsing habits and target advertising at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you decide to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see ads, but they may not be applicable to you. Even if you do decide to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all companies that serve online behavioral advertising are included in this listing, which means you may still get some cookies and tailored ads from companies which are not listed.

Social Media Cookies

These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or"like" button on the Site or you join your accounts or engage with our content on or through a social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social networking will record that you have done this.

Disabling Cookies

You may typically reject or remove cookies via your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the directions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your preferences.

If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience on your usage of our Site. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may need to log in each time you visit our Site.

Advertising

We may use other companies to serve third-party advertisements when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or clicked over during your visits to the Site and other sites in order to provide ads about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These companies typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.

Using Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data as follows:

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data as follows:

User Generated Content

You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated articles to our Site, including via our rewards program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please note that any information you post or disclose on our Site will become public information, and will be accessible to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal information, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information won't be confidential or confidential once it is published on our Site.

If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our Site, provided we don't associate such opinions with your personal information. If you have given your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name along with your comments on our Site. We'll collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.

International Data Transfer

Your data, including personal data that we gather from you, may be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country where you live, where data security and privacy regulations may not provide the same level of protection as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this move, storing or processing. We will take all measures reasonably necessary to make certain that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.

Security

We seek to use reasonable organizational, administrative and technical measures to protect personal data within our business. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be totally secure, and the transmission of data via the internet is not completely secure. If you have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the safety of any accounts you could have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the issue by contacting us.

Retention

We will only retain your personal data as long reasonably required for you to use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (for example for regulatory purposes).

Our Policy on Children

Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without their consent, they should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.

Your Rights

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. On your request, please make clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the above rights you'd like to enforce. For your protection, we may only implement requests regarding the private data related to the specific email address which you use to send us your request, and we might need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to finish any transactions that you began before requesting such change or deletion.

Complaints

We are committed to resolving any complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. If you would like to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in regard to your personal data, please contact us through the information listed on our website. We will respond to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We expect to solve any complaint brought to our attention, but if you feel that your complaint has not been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact your regional data protection supervisory authority.

Contact Information

We welcome your comments or questions about this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our website.