Privacy Policy

By entering and navigating the ArtFinishes.com website, you hereby acknowledge and agree to the Terms of Use as outlined below:

Acceptance of Terms:
This Website’s terms of service and online privacy agreement (the "Agreement") applies to Websites owned and operated by Artistic Finishes, Inc. and its designated agents or service providers. Your use of such Websites is conditioned upon your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained or referenced in this Agreement without modification.

This Agreement identifies the type of information Artistic Finishes, Inc., its affiliates and subsidiaries may collect from its customers and how Artistic Finishes, Inc. uses this information. Your use of this Website may also be governed by other terms and conditions contained on separate user agreements. If you have any questions about this policy, or the manner in which Artistic Finishes, Inc. uses personal information, we encourage you to send us an email.

Use of Customer Information:
Artistic Finishes, Inc. respects the privacy of its customers and takes steps to prevent unauthorized disclosure of customer information to third parties. Customer information includes any and all information received by Artistic Finishes, Inc. from its customers, whether such information is received by email, online forms, telephone, facsimile, mail or otherwise. Artistic Finishes, Inc. stores this information to enable it to fulfill orders or to improve the level of service to its Customers. Artistic Finishes, Inc. also shares certain personal and/or financial information with its merchant account and banking vendors to process orders and payments and with common carriers to ship products to you. Unless required by law or by court order, Artistic Finishes, Inc. will not disclose, share or sell any customer information to any other third party without your prior authorization. Unless otherwise stated, this privacy policy does not apply to information posted by users to publicly accessible portions of our Websites, including but not limited to, online forums, bulletin boards, dealer listings or online auction services.

Personal Information Collected by Artistic Finishes:
Throughout our Website there are forms that request information from you and/or allow you to obtain products and/or services offered by Artistic Finishes, Inc. These forms typically ask for contact information (such as name, mailing address and email address), membership, login and password information. The provision of such information by you is entirely voluntary. If you elect or opt in to receive information from us or be contacted by us in response to an inquiry, we will ask for a valid email address and telephone number so we can inform you of other products or services available or to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or potential new products and services that may be offered. You may opt out of receiving future mailings from Artistic Finishes, Inc. by following the procedures detailed in the Choice/Opt Out section located below, on forms located on our Website or in emails you receive from us. You may also request that we delete any personal information from our customer databases at any time by contacting Artistic Finishes, Inc. In certain cases, Artistic Finishes, Inc. may forward purchasing and shipping information to vendors who ship products or provide services directly to consumers. Such third party vendors and suppliers are not bound by this privacy policy.

IP Address Logging:
Artistic Finishes, Inc.’s web servers collect domain names and/or IP addresses of users to measure what pages and features are accessed by our visitors. Artistic Finishes, Inc. uses software such as Web Trends to collect and analyze this information. This information helps us administer the site, improve content and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Artistic Finishes, Inc. links IP addresses to personally identifiable information submitted to Artistic Finishes, Inc. This information is used to verify whether a visitor has opted in to receiving additional information from Artistic Finishes, Inc.

Cookies:
Artistic Finishes, Inc. may use cookies or similar files or scripts throughout its Website to enhance your convenience in using our Website, to improve search functionality or to hold information that you would otherwise need to re-key. Cookies are text files collected by a user's web browser. If you do not wish to accept cookies from our Website, you may configure your web browser so that it does not accept cookies; however, you may lose certain functions available on our Website.

Links:
The ArtFinishes.com Website may contain links to other Websites not affiliated with Artistic Finishes, Inc. including Websites of Artistic Finishes, Inc.’s vendors and service providers. Artistic Finishes, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. By including links to other Websites, we neither endorse such sites nor guarantee that the information they contain is accurate. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site to read the privacy statements of every linked Website as the privacy policies of each may differ from ours. This privacy statement applies solely to Websites owned or operated by Artistic Finishes, Inc.

Changes to Privacy Policy:
In the future, Artistic Finishes, Inc. may offer new and different programs that necessitate a change in this Policy. Artistic Finishes, Inc. reserves the right to change its privacy policy at any time without prior notice. Any changes to the privacy policy will be posted on this page and will be effective immediately upon posting.

Governing Law & Jurisdiction:
This Policy, and Artistic Finishes, Inc.’s collection and use of customer information, shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the United States and the state of Minnesota. Any disputes arising out of this Policy shall be adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Minnesota.

Security:
Artistic Finishes, Inc. is committed to preventing others from unauthorized access to the personal information you provide to us, and Artistic Finishes, Inc. maintains commercially reasonable procedures and technology designed for this purpose. This Website has reasonable technical and organizational security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control. However, Artistic Finishes, Inc. cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those security measures. Although Artistic Finishes, Inc. cannot guarantee that our systems are 100% secure 100% of the time, Artistic Finishes, Inc. periodically updates and tests the technology in order to improve the protection of customer information.

Artistic Finishes, Inc. suggests that you install anti-virus software on your computer and routinely check for viruses, keyloggers, spyware and other programs that may become installed on your computer without your permission. If you believe that you have received a virus from Artistic Finishes, Inc., please contact Artistic Finishes, Inc. as soon as possible so that Artistic Finishes, Inc. may take remedial measures to remove the virus.
Artistic Finishes, Inc. does not send emails to customers requesting billing, login or password information. If you receive an email purporting to be from Artistic Finishes, Inc. that asks you to provide personal or account information, or login and passwords, do not provide such information unless you have first verified that the Website or email is from Artistic Finishes, Inc. as such emails may be fraudulent and used in connection with scams known as phishing. Artistic Finishes, Inc. asks that you report any suspicious emails or Websites to Artistic Finishes, Inc.

Typographical Errors:
In the event content on the Website contains incorrect information, or a product is listed at an incorrect price, due to typographical errors or errors in pricing information, Artistic Finishes, Inc. shall have the right to refuse or cancel any orders placed for products listed at the incorrect price. Artistic Finishes, Inc. shall have the right to refuse or cancel any such orders whether or not the order has been confirmed and your credit card charged. If your credit card has already been charged for the purchase and your order is cancelled, Artistic Finishes, Inc. shall immediately issue a credit to your credit card account in the amount of the incorrect price.

Unsolicited Ideas:
Artistic Finishes, Inc. welcomes feedback, questions and comments about its products, services and this Website. As a general policy, Artistic Finishes, Inc. does not accept unsolicited ideas for products or services through this Website. All communications and other materials (including, without limitation, unsolicited ideas, photographs, drawings, suggestions, or materials) you send to this Website by e-mail or otherwise are and shall remain the sole and exclusive property of Artistic Finishes, Inc. and may be used by Artistic Finishes, Inc. for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to you.

Ownership Notice & Usage Restrictions:
This Website and all content contained on it, including all names, logos, graphics, photographs and text, copyrights, service marks, and trademarks are the exclusive property of Artistic Finishes, Inc. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, post, distribute, transmit, or modify or otherwise use in any way any part of the Website without the express prior written consent of Artistic Finishes, Inc. You further agree not to reverse engineer, hack, spam, block, disrupt, or otherwise change or alter the site; to do so may subject you to legal liability. Artistic Finishes, Inc. will, in its sole discretion, take all appropriate legal action and recourse for violations hereof.

Contests & Surveys:
Artistic Finishes, Inc. may, on occasion, request information from visitors for surveys and/or contests. Participation in these events is voluntary and the user has a choice whether or not to provide these details. Types of information requested may include, but are not limited to, name, shipping address, zip code and age range. Information will be used to contact contest winners and improve the use of the site.

Disclaimer of Warranties & Limitation of Liability:
This Website is made available to users AS IS without any warranty of any kind. Artistic Finishes, Inc. makes no representations, guarantees, or warranties regarding the accuracy, reliability, confidentiality (except as set forth in the Privacy Policy) or completeness of the content (text and/or images) of this Website. Artistic Finishes, Inc., to the greatest extent permissible by law, disclaims any and all warranties, express or implied with respect to the use or function of this website. Further, Artistic Finishes, Inc. does not warrant or represent that this site or the server that makes it available is error-free or that the site will be uninterrupted or free of defects, including, without limitation, computer viruses, worms, bugs, timebombs, or any other similar problems and/or defects.

Artistic Finishes, Inc. shall not be liable for damages of any kind including, without limitation, compensatory, special, direct, indirect, incidental, exemplary, lost profits, loss of revenue, and/or consequential damages arising out of your access to or inability to access this Website, or your use of or reliance upon this site or the content hereof. In addition, Artistic Finishes, Inc. has no duty to update this site, or the content thereof, and Artistic Finishes, Inc. shall not be liable for any failure to update such information.

Reservation of Rights:
Artistic Finishes, Inc., in its sole discretion, reserves the right to take all action or inaction as allowed by law. If any term, condition, or provision of these Terms and Conditions of Use is determined to be unlawful, invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms, conditions, and provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. These Terms of Service constitute the entire representation made by Artistic Finishes, Inc. relating to the subject matter herein.

Modifications to Service:
Artistic Finishes, Inc. reserves the right to modify in part or in whole, or temporarily or permanently discontinue this Website or any content contained therein for any reason and at anytime without notice to you. Artistic Finishes, Inc. is not liable to you or any third party for modifications, suspension or discontinuance of any services or content offered on this Website.