Our Privacy Policy

Ritu's Meraki Art has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for our website: exoticindiaart.com as well as our mobile shopping apps on Android and iOS.

Collection of Device Data

In order to use this Web site or mobile App, we track/collect the following information in order to provide an enhanced, customized experience:

  • When you use our mobile apps, we collect and store Device ID in order to send relevant targetted notifications.
  • When you use our web site or mobile apps, we collect your IP address and detect the country location in order to provide content specific to your location.

Registration

In order to use this Web site, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on the registration form. During registration you are required to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.

Orders

If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).

We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.

Newsletters

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section.

Links to Other Sites

If you click on a link to a third party site, including on an advertisement, you will leave the ritusmerakiart.com site you are visiting and go to the site you selected. Because we cannot control the activities of third parties, we cannot accept responsibility for any use of your personally identifiable information by such third parties, and we cannot guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy practices as ritusmerakiart.com. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of any other service provider from whom you request services. If you visit a third party website that is linked to a ritusmerakiart.com site, you should read that site’s privacy statement before providing any personally identifiable information.

ritusmerakiart.com does not share, sell, rent or trade your personal information with third parties other than as described within this privacy statement.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information. In certain situations, Ritu's Meraki Art may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

Agents/Service Providers

We use other third parties such as a shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services, we will share (such as your shipping address, phone number, or email) as necessary for the third party to provide that service.

These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for promotional purposes.

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.

We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this [to improve services we offer you, to improve marketing, analytics, or site functionality.

Ritu's Meraki Art and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service.

We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our website or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this website and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking here (or if located in the European Union click here). Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number, national ID, personal health information) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personally identifiable information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can email us at contact@ritusmerakiart.com

Choice/Opt-Out

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving newsletters from us at the point where we request information about the visitor.

This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.

Correct/Update/Delete/Remove

Upon request Ritu's Meraki Art will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, delete/remove or update it by making the change within the “My Account” section of the site once you have logged in or by emailing our Customer Support at contact@ritusmerakiart.com. We will respond to your access request within 30 days.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer user your information to provide you services contact us at contact@ritusmerakiart.com. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Customer Testimonials/Comments

We post customer testimonials/comments on our web site which may contain personally identifiable information. We do obtain the customer's consent via email prior to posting the testimonial or comment to post their name along with their testimonial or comment. To request removal of your personal information from our testimonials or comments, contact us at contact@ritusmerakiart.com In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

Social Media (Features) and Widgets

Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook recommend button, Google+ recommend button, and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy statement of the company providing it.

Single Sign-On

You can log in to our site using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on this Web site to your profile page to share with others within your network.

Gift Voucher

If you purchase a gift voucher from us we will collect the recipient’s name, email address and the gift voucher value. Once you purchase the voucher we will send your friend a one time email that contains their gift voucher. We store their information for the purpose of tracking the success of the gift voucher program and to ensure that the gift voucher has been delivered. Your friend may contact us at contact@ritusmerakiart.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

Changes in this Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy policy, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page prior to the change becoming effective.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:


contact@ritusmerakiart.com