Privacy policy

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Introduction

Protecting your personal and business information is a core value for theMuze.eu. This privacy statement describes how theMuze collects and uses the information you provide on our web site. And the choices available regarding the use of your personal information plus the steps you can take to access this information and request correction or deletion.

theMuze abides by the safe harbour framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.

Privacy Statement overview
•    1. We will not sell your personal or business information to third parties. Never.
•    2. To complete your order, we will share your personal and business information with our fulfilment and delivery company to process and ship your art work.
•    3. We may use information submitted through our online registration form to analyze the characteristics of our customers in order to improve our services.

Register an Account
To shop efficiently in theMuze.eu, please register your own profile to create and order tailor-made prints, and view previous orders. We will store the identifying information our customers provide in the registration form.
After registration your profile enables you to submit tailor-made requests, browse previous designs, get personal advice and order products from theMuze.eu.

Mandatory fields
•    First name
•    Last name
•    E-mail
•    Username
•    Password

Optional fields
•    Company name
•    Phone number

Place an Order/Checkout
A registered account is mandatory to place an order on theMuze.eu. During the checkout procedure, additional information will be required to fulfil your order.

Mandatory additional fields
Delivery address, including:
•    Street name and number
•    City
•    State (if applicable)
•    Zip/Postal code
•    Country

Optional additional fields
•    Company name
•    Phone number
All provided personal and business information will only be used to process your order.

Third party Companies
Payment processor
Your payment will be processed by PayPal. NO credit card information will be known to us or stored in our computers.

Fulfilment parties/Carriers
TheMuze.eu fulfilment parties will use personally identifying information only to process, handle and complete orders, and ship them to your address. Third party companies have agreed upon this privacy statement and will act upon these rules without any restrictions, exceptions or limitations.

For All Visitors to our website

theMuze Newsletter
After signing up for the theMuze Newsletter on our home page, we will use your e-mail address only to send news and company updates. Your email address will not be shared with third parties, besides a service provider that sends the theMuze Newsletter for us.
To unsubscribe, follow the unsubscribe link that appears at the end of each newsletter, click on the ‘Unsubscribe’ button on our home page, or go to our ‘Unsubscribe’ page.

Contact us by email
We will use e-mail addresses provided to us through the contact links on our site only to respond to questions or requests for information. Your information is not shared with third parties without explicit permission.

Contact us form
To use the ‘Contact Us’ form, available throughout the website, e.g. in the Help section or the Contact page, registration is needed. Please see Register an Account above. Your information is not shared with third parties without explicit permission.

Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a web site could place on your computer's hard drive to collect information about your activities on the site, or to simplify certain site functions. The cookie transmits this information back to the web server. Many users do not realise that cookies are being placed on their computers. To know when a web site attempts to place a cookie on your computer, or to prevent it from happening, check the options of your browser.

We may use cookies on our Web sites in the following ways:

•    1. Session cookies
•    2. Language preferences
•    3. Log in information
•    4. Referrer information

Web Site Analytics
theMuze.eu uses Google Analytics to analyze how users move through the web site, and to analyze the effectiveness of marketing. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this web site - including, without limitation, your IP address - will be transmitted to and stored by the service provider. They will use this information to evaluate the use of our web site and compile aggregated reports. The information collected and provided by the service is not personally identifiable.
Information automatically collected by our web site
Our servers automatically collect certain non-personally identifying information, such as IP address, the type of browser, and pages viewed when you visit our web sites. This information is used to understand how visitors navigate through our web site, to enhance your experience while using our web site, and to make the materials we post as valuable to visitors as possible. We do not link this information to personally identifiable information.

Personal Information sharing
We will share your personal information with third parties in the ways that are described above in this privacy statement. We will also share your personal information if we are required to do so by law, if we believe that doing so is necessary in order to conform to the law, to cooperate with law enforcement agencies, to comply with legal process served on theMuze, or to otherwise protect theMuze’s legal rights.

To improve our service, add new features, upgrade products and/or other modifications, we might employ third party service providers to perform various functions that could involve personal information. These service providers are prohibited to use this personal information for any other purpose. The third party service providers have agreed on this privacy statement and will act without any restrictions, exceptions or limitations.

Access to your Personal Information
theMuze will provide you reasonable access to your personally identifiable information, at no cost to you, within thirty days of your access request. If we can not provide access within the 30-day period, we will inform you when we should be able to provide access. In the unlikely event that we can not provide you any access to this information, we will explain why we can not do so. To request access to your personally identifying information, contact us by email at privacyquestions@themuze.eu or by writing us at the following address:

•    theMuze.eu
•    AOC Building
•    WG Plein 456
•    1054 SH Amsterdam
•    Netherlands

Security
Securing the personal information submitted via our site is a top priority for theMuze. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption for information provided in our order process. Please be aware that no transmission of information via the Internet can be entirely secure. You should always use caution when submitting personal information online. We take commercially reasonable steps to provide security for your information once we receive it.

Links to Other Web Sites
This web site may include links to other web sites whose privacy practices differ from those of theMuze. Personal information submitted to any of those sites is subject to their privacy statements. theMuze’s privacy statement does not apply to information submitted to those sites. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any web site you visit.

Changes in this Privacy Statement
theMuze.eu can make changes into this statement at any time without prior notice. Should we change this privacy statement in ways that affect the personally identifying information we have collected through our web site, we will post these changes in this space and advise of choices you may have as a result of these changes. We will also post a notice on our home page that this privacy statement has changed.

Please e-mail questions or comments about this privacy statement to privacyquestions@themuze.eu, or send a letter to the following address:

•    theMuze.eu
•    AOC Building
•    WG Plein 456
•    1054 SH Amsterdam
•    Netherlands

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