privacy policy
Welcome to our Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us.
Crescent Hill Gallery is located at:
10-2575 Dundas Street West,
Mississauga, Ontario
L5K2M6, Canada
1(905)820-2233
info@crescenthill.com
It is Crescent Hill Gallery’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://crescenthill.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://crescenthill.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, crescenthill.com 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. Crescenthill.com’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Crescenthill.com’s visitors use its website. From time to time, crescenthill.com may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Crescenthill.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on https://crescenthill.com blog posts. crescenthill.com only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below. Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information Certain visitors to crescenthill.com’s websites choose to interact with crescenthill.com in ways that require crescenthill.com to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that crescenthill.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://crescenthill.com to provide a username and email address.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites, products, or services. Https://www.crescenthill.com uses Google AdWords for remarketing Https://www.crescenthill.com uses the remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Crescenthill.com 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 crescenthill.com’s behalf or to provide services available at crescenthill.com’s website, 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 crescenthill.com’s website, you consent to transfer such information to them. Crescenthill.com 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, crescenthill.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or another governmental request, or when crescenthill.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of crescenthill.com, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of https://www.crescenthill.com and have supplied your email address, crescenthill.com 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 crescenthill.com and our products. We primarily use our blog 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. crescenthill.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Aggregated Statistics
Crescenthill.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Crescenthill.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Crescenthill.com does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, crescenthill.com uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
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. crescenthill.com uses cookies to help crescenthill.com identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.crescenthill.com, and their website access preferences. Crescenthill.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using crescenthill.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of crescenthill.com’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to crescenthill.com’s use of cookies.
E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with crescenthill.com – by purchasing crescenthill.com’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, crescenthill.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with crescenthill.com. Crescenthill.com 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.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, crescenthill.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in crescenthill.com’s sole discretion. Crescenthill.com 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.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email or phone.
Anti-Money Laundering
As of the 10th January 2020, the Canadian government has introduced new anti-money laundering measures which affect all art dealers, galleries and their clients, existing and new. Crescent Hill Gallery Inc. is required to take all reasonable steps to take significant steps to ensure we comply with Anti Money Laundering procedures in the same way as a bank does when opening new customer accounts. These measures are industry wide including auction houses and individual dealers.
The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Canada (FINTRAC) in compliance with the Criminal Code and Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) requires any sale being purchased internationally is concluded over $10,000, we are obliged by law to verify the identity of clients buying artwork from us.
Individuals:
We will ask for a copy of a valid photo identity (a passport, driving licence or national ID card) which shows the buyer’s full name, date of birth, nationality and permanent residential address.
Companies:
We will require company details including proof of incorporation, directors and the ultimate beneficial owners.
Agents/adviser:
When acting on behalf of a buyer, we will require you to identify the ultimate buyer in addition to yourself.
Payments to the gallery will need to be received from a bank account held in the same name of the client named on the invoice and match the identity documents given. Any information you provide us with will be held securely and confidentially and processed in accordance with Global Data Protection Regulations.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Should you have any questions, please do get in touch with us via email or phone.