Privacy Policy

Mind Pervasion Gallery (‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’) recognizes the importance of your privacy and is committed to ensuring that your personal information is used properly, kept securely and processed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we collect, how it is used, stored, and disclosed when you interact with us, visit our website, or purchase a work from our gallery. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information.

1. Information We Collect

1.1. Personal Information: When you apply to purchase a piece of art, we collect information that you provide to us, including your name, location, profession, and a personal photograph (if available).

1.2. Additional Information: We also ask for an elaborate explanation of why you chose the work of interest, your personal history with art, a brief account of your greatest life obstacles, and your vision of an ideal world.

1.3. Technical Data: We may collect information about the device you use to access our website, your IP address, browser type, time zone setting, and location.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use your personal information for various purposes:

2.1. To provide you with our services and to manage our relationship with you, including processing your purchase, providing customer service, and managing your account.

2.2. To review your application and assess your suitability to become an owner of a Mind Pervasion Gallery artwork.

2.3. To improve our website and services.

2.4. To comply with legal obligations, prevent fraud, and protect our business interests.

3. Disclosure of Your Information

We do not sell, rent, or otherwise share your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes. However, we may disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:

3.1. With service providers who perform services on our behalf. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

3.2. If we are required to do so by law, regulation, or legal process.

3.3. In connection with a merger, acquisition, or asset sale.

4. Your Rights

You have certain rights concerning your personal information under data protection laws. These include the right to:

4.1. Request access to your personal data.

4.2. Request correction of your personal data.

4.3. Request erasure of your personal data.

4.4. Object to processing of your personal data.

4.5. Request restriction of processing your personal data.

4.6. Request transfer of your personal data.

4.7. Right to withdraw consent.

5. Data Security

We take the security of your personal information very seriously and have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. Our primary data repository is hosted on Google’s G Suite and Cloud. Both have received security certifications for ISO 27001, 27017, and 27018 and have passed SOC2 and SOC3 Type II audits. Their audit reports may be found here

That being said, any data transmitted across the internet (especially via e-mail) is not guaranteed to be 100% secure. We are constantly evolving our security strategy, and you will be notified of all modifications that affect the transfer, storage, and handling of your private information. Nonetheless, we make no assurances that your information will not be accessed, altered or lost through a breach of any of our physical and electronic safeguards, and this may be said of any company world-wide that stores personal information.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

7. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time.  All changes to the policy described herein will be communicated to you via the e-mail address associated with your account. It is your responsibility, as the client, to ensure your e-mail address is able to receive our communications and that they do not end up in your spam folder. You are further responsible for periodically checking changes to our privacy policy on this page. If you are engaging in the procurement process at the time of a policy change, you explicitly agree to any changes of terms and, in the event of disagreement, are encouraged to cancel your your application for procurement.

8. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

9. Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, see our Cookie Policy.

10. International Data Transfers

Our business may require us to transfer your information to countries outside of your country of residence, including countries that may not provide the same level of data protection. We will always take steps to ensure that any international transfer of information is carefully managed to protect your rights and interests.

11. Profiling and Automated Decision Making

We may use your personal information to create a profile about you in order to serve you better. However, we do not make decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produce legal effects or similarly significantly affect you.

12. Your Duty to Inform Us of Changes

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

13. Complaints

If you have any complaints about our use of your personal data, please contact us. You also have the right to complain to the relevant data protection authority in your jurisdiction.

14. Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].

By submittiong an application for procurement to Mind Pervasion Gallery, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any part of this Privacy Policy, you should not request consideration for procurement.

Last Updated: May 14, 2023

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