Wiscasset Bay Gallery

fine nineteenth through twenty-first century American and European paintings, with an emphasis on Maine and Monhegan Island artists

Privacy Policy

Effective: May 1, 2021 

The wiscassetbaygallery.com website (the “Site”) is owned and operated by the Wiscasset Bay Gallery, Inc. (dba Wiscasset Bay Gallery) PO Box 309, Wiscasset, ME 04578. The Wiscasset Bay Gallery respects your privacy and seeks to protect your personal data. This Privacy Policy describes how information, including Personal Information, is collected from you (including you and any person acting on your behalf or with your authorization, collectively “you”) and subsequently used, shared, secured and otherwise processed by the Wiscasset Bay Gallery, (“Gallery”, “us”, “our”, or “we”). “Personal Information” is any information that enables us to identify you, such as your email address, name, shipping and billing address, telephone number, company name, and credit card information. This Privacy Policy is part of our User Agreement. By accessing this website and making use of our services you explicitly agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement. The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is a European Regulation concerning the use and processing of personal information. We are committed to processing your information in line with high standards and in compliance with the GDPR, wherever you are located. We are further committed to processing your personal information in line with the standards of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).

1. Effective date and updates to our Privacy Policy.
You are not obligated to provide us with your Personal Information; however, the performance of making purchases and sales on the Site may not be possible if you choose not to provide your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date set forth at the top of this Policy.

2. Information wiscassetbaygallery.com collects from you.
In general, you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. However, if you correspond with us through our Contact Us page, by phone, email, or otherwise, we will retain the Personal Information that you provide. The Gallery offers items for sale and a forum for buyers to browse and make purchases. When you make a purchase, we will ask you to provide credit card or other payment details as well as shipping information for orders.

3. Children’s privacy
wiscassetbaygallery.com is not designed nor intended to be attractive to use by children under the age of 13. Our Terms of Use require that users must be 18 years old or older in order to use our services. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any information to us.

4. Uses of your Personal Information
We use your Personal Information according to the terms of the Privacy Policy and User Agreement. We may process the Personal Information you provide to us for the following purposes as is necessary for the performance of a sale (e.g. a transaction) to which you are party, or to answer questions or take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract:

  • to assist in completing a transaction or order;
  • to prepare and process invoices
  • to allow tracking of shipments;
  • to respond to your inquiries and to provide you with the information that you request from us; and
  • to contact you, including enewsletters and exhibition cards.

.We use email as the primary form of communicating transactional and relationship information with Site users. We may also use your street addresses and telephone numbers to provide these communications.

5. Sharing of your Personal Information
The Wiscasset Bay Gallery does not sell, share, trade or give away Personal Information other than as described in this Privacy Policy. We reveal your Personal Information to unaffiliated third parties when you request or authorize it, or to help complete a transaction for you, which you have requested. Third parties who will have access to your Personal Information include shipping companies and payment processors completing a transaction at your request.

6. International transfers
By using this Site and by providing any Personal Information to the Site, all users, including without limitation users in Canada, the UK and the European Union, acknowledge the Wiscasset Bay Gallery’s collection and processing of such Personal Information in the United States. When disclosing Personal Information from the EU and the UK to a third party (e.g. our shipping agents) located in a country not recognized by the European Commission as ensuring an adequate level of protection (e.g., the United States), we will take appropriate steps to safeguard such Personal Information.

7. Security.
If you share your computer, we recommend that you log-out and close your browser window after visiting the Site. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. We use reasonable physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to help us protect the security, integrity and confidentiality of data stored on our system. The Site encrypts your credit card number and other Personal Information using Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology to provide for the secure transmission of the Personal Information from your PC to our servers.

Except as specified in this Privacy Policy, we use commercially reasonable efforts to limit access to your Personal Information to the employees, officers, and third-party contractors of the Wiscasset Bay Gallery who need the Personal Information in order to perform their duties. TLS is an industry-standard protocol for encryption over the Internet. While no system is 100% secure, we believe that the measures we have implemented minimize the risk of a security breach to an appropriate level given the types of Personal Information involved. Please note that any Personal Information you provide us by email is unencrypted. Please note that transmission of Personal Information via the internet is not completely secure and although we will endeavor to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our Site; any transmission is therefore at your own risk. However, once we have received your information, we will use procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

8. Updating Your Contact Information
If you wish to update your email and/or mailing address, please contact the Gallery at info@wiscassetbaygallery.com or Wiscasset Bay Gallery, Inc. PO Box 309, Wiscasset, ME 04578. You can also elect not to receive emails from the Gallery by “unsubscribing” to an email.