Privacy Policy

M-Art Inc. operates several websites including snorkelin.com.

Your privacy is very important to us. At M-Art Inc. we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

It is M-Art policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, M-Art collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. M-Art purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how M-Art visitors use its website. From time to time, M-Art may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

M-Art also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. M-Art only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze your browser data

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

Information Provided When You Shop at Our Store

When you shop at one of our stores, we may collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide to us before or after you make a purchase in connection with marketing activities such as signing up to our newsletter. During your purchase, we may collect information that allows us to process your transaction

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to M-Art websites choose to interact with M-Art in ways that require M-Art to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that M-Art gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Snorkelin updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, M-Art collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with M-Art. M-Art does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

M-Art may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, M-Art may monitor the most popular pages on the snorkelin.com site or use spam screened by our anti-spam service to help identify spam. M-Art may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, M-Art does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

M-Art discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on M-Art behalf or to provide services available at M-Art websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using M-Art websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

M-Art will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, M-Art discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when M-Art believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of M-Art, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of an M-Art website and have supplied your email address, M-Art may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with M-Art and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. M-Art takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. M-Art uses cookies to help M-Art identify and track visitors, their usage of M-Art website, and their website access preferences. M-Art visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using M-Art websites, with the drawback that certain features of M-Art websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If M-Art, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that M-Art goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of M-Art may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by M-Art and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to our anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, M-Art may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in M-Art sole discretion. M-Art 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.