Privacy Policy

paulpitsker.com has developed this privacy policy to help visitors to understand how personal information is collected, used, communicated, and disclosed, as well as how paulpitsker.com makes use of personal information. The following outlines the paulpitsker.com privacy policy:

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to the paulpitsker.com website choose to interact with paulpitsker.com in ways that require paulpitsker.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information gathered depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, a user who sends the artist a message using the website's Contact page is asked to provide a valid email address. In each case, paulpitsker.com collects such information only when it is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with the website. paulpitsker.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always decline to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain ways with the paulpitsker.com website.

Website Visitor Information

paulpitsker.com may record a minimum amount of information about all visitors. This information, such as Internet Protocol (IP) address, operating system, browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each request, is automatically provided by your web browser to each web site you visit. This information might be temporarily stored and used by administrators of paulpitsker.com for diagnostic purposes, such as debugging or producing aggregate counts, and, when collected, is normally deleted within 30 days. While stored, it is accessible by the administrators of the website, but otherwise not disclosed other than as described below. This data is not shared with any other business or organization, except as described below.

No Cookies

Cookies are tiny pieces of information stored by a web browser on your computer. paulpitsker.com does not use cookies for visitors.

Website Messages

paulpitsker.com may temporarily store potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information such as email addresses for visitors who send the artist private messages by means of the website Contact page. Thus, by using the website Contact page, you consent to the storage of this information. The storage is required to deliver messages via industry-standard message protocols and to allow the artist to reply to the sender when appropriate. This stored information is visible only to the artist and to administrators of the website and is not shared with any other business or organization, except as described below.

Newsletter Subscriptions

If you sign up to receive announcements of future exhibitions (the "Newsletter") by checking this option on the website Contact page, potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information such as your email address may be stored indefinitely until you unsubscribe. By checking this option, you consent to the storage of this information as well as to receiving future email messages from paulpitsker.com. This information will not be used to send other unsolicited email messages. This information is visible and disclosed to the artist and the administrators of the website but will not be shared with any other business or organization, except as described below. After a website visitor opts out by unsubscribing, this data will be deleted within 30 days.

Unsubscribing

Website visitors who have opted to receive announcements of future exhibitions by checking this option when sending a message from the website Contact page can opt out by clicking the "Unsubscribe" link (when provided) at the bottom of such an announcement or by simply replying to such an announcement with the word "Unsubscribe."

Backups

paulpitsker.com follows the common practice of storing backups of website data. When data is removed from the website, it will persist in earlier backups for no longer than 30 days. The content of backups is accessible only by site administrators.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

paulpitsker.com may disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to trusted third party services that (i) need to know that information in order to provide services available at paulpitsker.com, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to other parties. One example of this type of disclosure would be the use of a third-party mailing service to deliver an email Newsletter to all subscribers. The administration, service hosting, and data storage for some of these services may be located outside of your home country. So, by using the paulpitsker.com website, you consent to the transfer of the necessary information to these third-party services. paulpitsker.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. In addition, paulpitsker.com will not disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information except, when appropriate and necessary, to the artist, the website administrators and trusted third parties, as described above, or in response to a subpoena, court order, or other legitimate and legally compulsory governmental request, or when paulpitsker.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of paulpitsker.com, third parties, or the public at large. paulpitsker.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Privacy Policy Changes

paulpitsker.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time and at its sole discretion. paulpitsker.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Last Updated: April 15, 2023