PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to this website www.houseofcreativity.in (“Website”) of House Of Creativity LLP and its Team.

We provide an integrated platform for all artists to commercially exploit their artworks and for art lovers to find, embrace and purchase the best artworks. Our mission is to make the services available through our Website, mobile applications, and developer platforms, to help connect artists with art admirers and help them have a convenient transaction for the dealing of the artworks.

We respect the privacy of everyone who visits this Website and are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of the personal information of all visitors to this Website in order to ensure that the objectives of the Website can be fulfilled to the satisfaction of all users of the Website houseofcreativity.in

This Privacy Policy governs the online information collection practices of the Website (“we” or “us” or “houseofcreativity.in”). It outlines the nature of information that is gathered about users of the Website.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may provide to us or that we may collect offline and/or through other means. To register for full access to the Website and/or in certain areas of the Website, where personal information is requested, you may be asked for your age or birth date, gender, nationality and/or other personal information about you. You hereby agree that all information you provide to us regarding your age verification shall be truthful, accurate, and complete.

You understand that, by creating an account on the Website, We and other third parties will be able to identify you by your House Of Creativity profile, and you allow the Website to use this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Your House Of Creativity account shall get created only upon the payment of the subscription fee, if any, as may be mentioned on the Website.

After you create an account on the Website, you may choose to provide additional information on your House Of Creativity profile, such as descriptions of your skills, professional experience, and educational background. You can list and sell your artworks, as well as view and purchase the artworks of other users. Further, with your approval, your connections may provide recommendations and endorsements of you and your skills and artworks.

We use personal information from the Website, including image and other details of the artworks in order to refine our search service for users.

By providing personal information to us when you create or update your account and profile, you are expressly voluntarily accepting the terms and conditions of the Website’s Terms of Use. You may choose the parts of your profile that search engines index or completely opt out of this feature in your House Of Creativity account settings, or limit the publicly visible information in your profile. However, third-party search engines may not automatically update their caches, which may contain old public profile information.

Content Filtering: We shall on regular basis, verify and filter the Content (as defined in the Terms of Use) and/or Products (as defined in the Terms of Use) posted on our Website by you/ user including your House Of Creativity account and also reserve the right to delete / remove the Content or Products from the Website (in addition to the closure of the House Of Creativity account), if the Content/Product is found unsuitable or obscene, defamatory, offensive and/or infringing any third party copyright, without any further intimation / notice to you/ user. The user of the Website hereby disclaims us in case of the deletion / removal of such Content and/or Products from the Website and we assume no liability in respect of the same.

Closure of the account: We reserve the right to filter / close your House Of Creativity account and/or immediately stop / restrict your access to the Website by blocking / deleting your House Of Creativity account (either temporarily or permanently), at our sole discretion, without any further notice or intimation to you, in respect of the following and you hereby disclaim us in respect of the same:

  1. Creation of any fake accounts;
  2. your illegal and unauthorized conduct;
  3. user submissions or Content and /or Products which are obscene, defamatory and/or offensive;
  4. user submissions that are objectionable and for which complaints has been received by Us; and/or
  5. user submissions or Content and/or Products that infringe any third party’s intellectual property rights, copyrights, etc.

If you are dissatisfied or harmed by the Website or anything related to Website, you may close your account and terminate this agreement and such termination shall be your sole and exclusive remedy.

This Privacy Policy details important information regarding the use and disclosure of user and/ or member information collected on the Website. We provide this Privacy Policy to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or discontinue using the Website.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Terms of Use. Your use of the Website and any personal information you provide on the Website remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Please note that any video, image, comment or other content posted on the Website becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information which is subject to this privacy notice. By visiting and using the Website, You agree that your use of the Website, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use

All information that is submitted by You as the user of the Website and which is personally identifiable information through the Website may be used to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Website. Any such information which you volunteer will be dealt with the highest standards of confidentiality as reasonably expected. We cannot accept, consider or pay for any unsolicited creative ideas or materials submitted online through the services of Website, means and implies a waiver with respect to any claims pertaining to your submission.

We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, click stream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Website and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing user / member preferences and trends.

We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) login with your user id or membership id during your visit or the next time you visit the Website; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions and status in promotions. (f) Improve the services and overall functionality of the Website.

The Website includes links to other websites and provides access to products and services offered by third parties which may or may not be endorsed by Us, whose privacy policies we do not control. When you access another website or hyperlink or third party products or services through the Website including by way of redirection, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the page you are visiting or the provider of such products or services.

We may also make some content, products and services available through our Website through cooperative relationships with third party providers, where the brands of our provider partner appear on the Website in connection with such content, products and/or services. We may share with our provider partner any information you provide, or that is collected, in the course of visiting any pages that are made available in cooperation with our provider partner. In some cases, the provider partner may collect information from you directly; in which cases the privacy policy of the provider partner may apply to the provider partner’s use of your information. The privacy policy of our provider partners may differ from ours. If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of one of our provider partners, you should contact the provider partner directly for more information.

We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Website.

We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with any law or to respond to a court order or an order from any governing body or statutory authority.

We also reserve the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that Website believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist Government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our Website, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Website, our users / members or others.

Please also note that as our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event that we sell some or all of our assets, or our Website is acquired by another company, information about our visitors may be among the transferred assets. We may retain your personal information even after you have closed your account if retention is reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, although this retention of personal information will be for a limited period of time.

The Website is NOT directed to or intended for people under the age of Sixteen (16). A user less than Sixteen (16) years of age should not register to use the Website and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from people under the age of Sixteen (16). If you are a parent of a child under the age of Sixteen (16) and you have questions about our Website or Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact the Website. Those between the age of Sixteen (16) and Eighteen (18) are to provide either of their parents Email ID and an Email will be send informing that their ward has registered himself/ herself to use the services. The parent will be legally bound by any acts/deeds/violation of Website’s Terms of Use & Privacy Policy by their wards.

We use commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Website and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, Website makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. If Website learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Website may post a notice on the Website if a security breach occurs.

SPECIAL NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL USERS/MEMBERS

Website is hosted in India and is intended for and directed to users / members in India. If you are a user / member accessing the Website from any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, protection and disclosure, that differ from Indian laws, please be advised that through your use of the Website, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to India and you consent to that transfer. We will only be complying with the legal provisions on the subject matter as applicable in India from time to time.

We reserve the right at any time to: change the terms of this Agreement; change the services, including eliminating or modifying any content on or feature of the Website; or change/charge any fees or charges for use of the services. Any changes we make will be effective immediately on notice, which we may give either by posting the new Agreement on the Website or via electronic mail. Your use of the services after such notice will be deemed acceptance of such changes. Be sure to review this Agreement periodically to ensure your familiarity with the most current version. You will always be able to tell when the version was last updated by checking the “Last Revised” date in the header of this Agreement.