Privacy Policy

This website is owned and managed by Artverbium Unipessoal Lda, referred throughout this document as ‘We’ or ‘Us’. When you use and visit our website, including its mobile version, and when you submit your personal information, agree to us using your personal data as described in this privacy policy.
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We respect your privacy and recognize that when you choose top provide us with personal information, you place your trust in us to responsibly handle this data. This document contains details on how we use the personal information you provide, and consequently, we encourage you read it thoroughly.What information do we collect?The voluntary submission of personal information may be requested in several parts of the website with the purpose of providing you with specific services you decide to opt into: artworks, exhibitions, and artists updates, as well as when you share pages and links taken from our website with others. We may gather the following information about you or third parties: first and last name, email address, telephone number, address, credit card and bank account information, artists and artworks interest. When you complete one of our online forms, you consent to be contacted by Artverbium.com and by EmergeConverge.com using the personal details you provide through the forms. Your registration will allow us to contact you regarding Artverbium® and Emerge | Converge™ as an affiliated site. Our mailing list is managed by Mailchimp and as such, your subscription will also be subject to Mailchimp’s terms of use and privacy policy. We encourage you to review it.
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Other personal information may be collected automatically, this includes yourInternet Protocol (IP address) and mobile ID. These are associated with the portal through which you access the internet, like your internet service provider, your company or your university. We gather this information using Google Analytics to monitor website performance and act upon customer service and website improvements. You can visit Google’s privacy policy to learn more and customize the opt-out choices that might be relevant to you. How do we use your information? When you enter your contact information or that of others, we will retain the information you provide to process your requests or ease your experience when you visit our website again. Do we pass your information to third parties?We do not use your information or the contact information you provide of others, to send unrelated messages, nor do we sell or provide this information to parties outside Artverbium®, unless it is exclusively related to the processing of your direct inquiries.
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We may disclose personal information to third parties when reasonably required by law, in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding unlawful or prohibited activities. Where do we send your information?We store your information on the servers of our service provider: Webflow. We or our service providers may transfer your personal information across borders. By using our website, you consent to the transfer of information to any country in which we, or our service providers maintain facilities. We treat your and any third-party information you provide with confidentiality, and use it for the exclusive purpose of processing your direct requests, as well as to provide you with an optimal experience when visiting our website.

How long do we keep your information?
We will keep your information for a reasonable period for the purposes set out above.

Third-party websites
Our website links to third-party sites which we do not operate. When you access those links, such third-party websites may place cookies and collect your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. This privacy policy document does not apply to third-party websites, since we are not responsible for them.

Children and minors
This website is not intended to attract children aged 13 or less, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from or about any person in such age range. If we learn that a child’s personally identifiable information has been collected, we will delete the account. If parents or guardians believe that we unintentionally collected their child’s personal information, they should contact us to request deletion of this information at info@emergeconverge.com

How to obtain a copy of your information?
You are entitled to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies in that information corrected. Please contact us at info@emergeconverge.com with any enquiries of this type.

How to contact us if your information or choices change
If your personal information or your preferences change, you don’t want us to send you the information you initially requested, or if you have any queries about how we use your personal information, please let us know by contacting us at info@emergeconvege.com changes to this privacy policy.

We reserve the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this privacy policy at any time. We will however not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without notifying you of any changes in the way we collect your personal information. We will notify you by sending an email at the last email address that you provided us, or by posting notice of the changes on the Privacy Policy page of our website. We encourage you to review this privacy policy from time to time. 

‍What Are Cookies
‍As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

‍How We Use Cookies
‍We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

‍Disabling Cookies
‍You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Cookies Policy Generator from CookiePolicyGenerator.com.

‍The Cookies We Set
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Orders processing related cookies
This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

Surveys related cookies
From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

Forms related cookies
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

‍Third Party Cookies
‍In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.

As we sell products it's important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

The Cookies We Use

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This cookie is necessary for making credit card transactions on the website. The service is provided by Strip e.com which allows online transactions without storing any credit card information.
Duration: 1 year

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This cookie is necessary for making credit card transactions on the website. The service is provided by Strip e.com which allows online transactions without storing any credit card information.
Duration: 1 day

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Determines the device used to access the website. This allows the website to be formatted accordingly.
Duration: 2 years

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Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.
Duration: Persistent

wf-csrf
Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor.
Duration: Session

wf-csrf.sig
Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor.
Duration: Session

wf-order-id
This cookie is used in conjunction with the payment window - The cookie is necessary for making secure transactions on the website.
Duration: 13 days

wf-order-id.sig
This cookie is used in conjunction with the payment window - The cookie is necessary for making secure transactions on the website.
Duration: 13 days

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Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Duration: 2 years

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Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit.
Duration: 2 years

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Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.
Duration: 1 day

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Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Duration: 1 day

‍More Information
‍Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. For more general information on cookies, please read: allaboutcookies.org
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If you have questions or concerns about this privacy policy please contact us at info@emergeconverge.com with the subjectline: Privacy Inquiries.