The Helping Hands Gallery website at available  www.helpinghandsgallery.com  (the “Site”) is operated by Helping Hands Gallery (HHG) (referred to in this privacy policy as “we”, “us” and “our”). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and this privacy policy contains important information about how we use any personal information that obtain about you and also about how the Site uses cookies. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act, the data controller in respect of personal data submitted or collected via the Site is Helping Hands Gallery (HHG) P. O. Box 610 Madisonville, LA 70447.

  1. Information we may collect from you and how we use it
    1.1 We may collect and process the following data about you and your visits to and use of the Site:

(a) If you submit an order to purchase any Artwork from the Site, we will collect and process the information that you include in your order. The information will include your name, address, email address and other contact details, your payment information, delivery details and information about which charity you wish to receive your Donation (as described in our Purchase Terms and Conditions). We will use this information to process your order, take payment and deliver the Artworks you have purchased to you.
(b) We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. This information will be collected using cookies (see below) and we use this information to understand how the Site is used to help us improve the Site.
(c) If you contact us for any reason, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
(d) We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes. These surveys may be undertaken on an anonymous, but in any case you do not have to respond to them.
(e) If you consent for us to do so, we may collect your contact details to enable us to send you updates about the charities you have supported, newsletters and other marketing information about us or the artists whose work we think you may like.
1.2 Payments for Artworks will be handled by our third party payment processors, PayPal, and so you will be required to submit your payment information to them to complete a purchase of Artwork via the Site. We will not collect or store any credit card information as this is dealt with by PayPal. Please refer to PayPal’s privacy policy for more information about how PayPal handle data submitted to them.

  1. Cookies

2.1 As noted above, the Site uses cookies to collect certain aggregated information about the way in which the Site is used. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer which enables us to see how you access and use the Site during your visit and helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and also allows us to improve our Site. The cookies we use to do this are known as “analytical” cookies and more information about the particular cookies we use can be found at [ http://www.google.com/analytics/  ]. This cookie does not collect any information that would enable us to identify you.
2.2 We also use a cookie to remember what Artworks you have placed in your shopping basket before you complete your order. This cookies is essential to the operation of the shopping basket and without it you would not be able to purchase any Artworks.
2.3 By using this Site you consent to our use of the cookies described above.

  1. Disclosure of your information


3.1 We may disclose your personal information to third parties as follows:
(a) If you have given us your consent to do so, we may disclose your name and contact details to the charities that you have chosen to support when purchasing any Artwork from the Site so that they can contact you with newsletters and other communications.
(b) We will disclose your payment information to our third party payment processor who will process your payment for the purchase of any Artwork on our behalf.
(c) In the event that we sell any business or assets, we may disclose your information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets so as to enable them to continue such business.
(d) We may disclose your information to any person that owns the intellectual property rights in any Artwork you have purchased where we have reason to believe that such disclosure is necessary in connection with the enforcement of such person’s rights.
3.2 We may engage third party data processors to undertake processing of personal data on our behalf.
3.3 We may disclose your personal information if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce our legal rights or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Helping Hands Gallery (HHG), our suppliers, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
3.4 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group from time to time, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries,

  1. Storage of your personal data

4.1 We will retain any personal data that we collect about you for as long as is necessary to complete the purpose for which it was collected. We may retain it thereafter for as long as the Act or any other applicable law permits or requires us to do so.
4.2 The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the US. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the company who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
4.3 Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

  1. Your rights


5.1 You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at Helping Hands Gallery (HHG) P. O. Box 610 Madisonville, LA 70447.
5.2 Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
5.3 The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

  1. Changes to our privacy policy

6.1 Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

  1. Contact

7.1 Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Helping Hands Gallery (HHG) P. O. Box 610 Madisonville, LA 70447.

 

HELPING HANDS GALLERY- TERMS OF WEBSITE USE
These terms of use (the “Terms of Use”) apply to your use of the website at www.helpinghandsgallery.com  (the “Site”) and by using this Site you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please refrain from using our Site. These Terms of Use are additional to the terms applicable to the purchase of Artworks via the Site which you are required to accept during the order prices.
In these Terms of Use, references to “we”, “us” and “our” are references to Helping Hands Gallery (HHG) and references to “you” and “your” are references to you, the person using the Site.

  1. Information About Us

1.1 We are a private Limited Liability Company registered in Louisiana our registered office at Helping Hands Gallery (HHG) P. O. Box 610 Madisonville, LA 70447, which is also our main office address.

 

  1. Accessing Our Site

2.1 Access to our Site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our Site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
2.2 You hereby agree to access and use the Site in accordance with these Terms of Use.
2.3 You may not use the Site in any improper or unlawful manner or in breach of any legislation or license that applies to you. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree that when using the Site you will not use the Site for any commercial purposes and you shall not, without our express written approval, distribute or otherwise publish any material containing any solicitation of funds, promotion, advertising, or solicitation for goods or services.
2.4 You agree to comply with all reasonable instructions that we may give you from time to time regarding the use of the Site.
2.5 You are responsible for obtaining (at your own cost) all necessary equipment and telecommunications services required to access and use the Site. You are responsible for ensuring that no one uses your equipment to access the Site without your permission. We will be entitled to assume that anyone who accesses the Site using your equipment has your permission to do so and you will be liable for any charges, costs, liabilities or damages that may be incurred by any such person when using the Site.
2.6 From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our Site or our entire Site, and where applicable to users who have registered with us, for any reason and without advance notice.

  1. Intellectual Property Rights

3.1 “Helping Hands Gallery” and the Helping Hands Gallery logo are trade marks of Helping Hands Gallery (HHG). All our rights therein are reserved.
3.2 All copyright and other intellectual property rights (the “Rights”) in and to the Site and all content and materials contained in the Site, including without limitation any text, photographs, pictures, graphics, and their compilation and lay out (the “Site Content”) are owned by and shall remain owned by us or our licensors. You may access and view the Site Content subject to the following conditions:
(a) the Site and Site Content may only be used for your personal, non-commercial purposes;
(b) the Site Content shall not be reproduced or included in any other work or publication in any medium;
(c) the Site Content may not be modified, copied, altered, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, transmitted or sold in any form or by any means, in whole or in part;
(d) you may not remove any copyright or other proprietary notices contained in any Site Content.
3.3 Save as expressly permitted herein, any other use of the Site Content and any copying, reproduction, modification, distribution, sale or any other use of any Site Content for any purpose shall be an infringement of our Rights.
3.4 If you print, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

  1. Reliance On Information Posted

4.1 Commentary and other materials posted on our Site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our Site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

  1. Our Site Changes Regularly

5.1 We aim to update our Site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our Site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our Site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

  1. Disclaimers

6.1 While we endeavor to ensure that the information on the Site is correct, we do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, currency or reliability of the Site or the Site Content. Commentary and information is not intended to amount to advice and you should not rely on it without seeking independent advice for your circumstances. We may make changes to the Site, the Site Content, or to any services, products, prices or fees described in it, at any time without notice. The Site and/or Site Content may be out of date, and we make no commitment to update such material.
6.2 We will exercise all reasonable skill and care in providing the Site and the Site Content. Some Site Content is provided by third parties and we are not able to guarantee or accept any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, currency or reliability of any such Site Content.
6.3 Therefore, except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, the Site and all Site Content provided through it are provided on an “as is” basis without representation or warranty of any kind, either express or implied (whether by common law, custom, statute or otherwise). We do not warrant or make any representations that the Site and the Site Content will meet your requirements nor that your use of the Site or the Site Content will not infringe the rights of any third party nor do we make any warranty or representations regarding the use or the results of the use of any Site Content in terms of their completeness, accuracy, currency, reliability, or otherwise. Therefore, we advise you to check any Site Content as any reliance that you place on the accuracy, completeness, currency or reliability of that information is at your own risk.
6.4 We do not warrant that the Site, the Site Content and any function of the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. We will not be held responsible for the security of the Site or for any disruption of the Site however caused, loss of or corruption of any material in transit, or loss of or corruption of material or data when downloaded onto any computer system.
6.5 Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions of limitations regarding the exclusion of implied warranties.

  1. Liability


7.1 Nothing in these Terms of Use shall affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Subject to the foregoing, you agree that we shall not be liable for: (a) any direct loss, claim or damage; (b) any indirect loss, claim or damage, or any punitive, special, incidental or consequential damages of any kind; or (c) any loss of profit or loss of savings or loss or corruption of data (in each case whether direct or indirect), in each case whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or otherwise, which arises out of or is in any way connected with (i) any use of the Site or the Site Content; (ii) any failure or delay in the use of any component of the Site, the Site Content including, without limitation, any unavailability of the Site; or (iii) any use of or reliance upon the Site or the Site Content, in all cases even if we have been forewarned of the possibility of such loss or damage.
7.2 Laws applicable in your country and/Sate of residence may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.

  1. Information about You and Your Visits to Our Site

8.1 We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy www.helpinghandsgallery.com/ .  By using our Site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

  1. Transactions Concluded Through Our Site
    9.1 If you wish to order Artworks made available for purchase via the Site, and such order will also be subject our purchase terms and conditions of supply [https://helpinghandsgallery.com] which you will be required to accept when you submit your order.
  2. Misuse of Our Site

10.1 You must not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
10.2 By breaching this provision, you may commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act. We may report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
10.3 We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

  1. Linking To Our Site

11.1 You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
11.2 You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
11.3 Our Site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our Site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
11.4 If you wish to make any use of material on our Site other than that set out above, please address your request to [info@helpinghandsgallery.com ].

  1. Links From Our Site

12.1 Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

  1. Jurisdiction And Applicable Law

13.1 The State of Louisiana/St. Tammany Parish courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
13.2 These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana/St. Tammany Parish

  1. VARIATIONS

14.1 We may revise these Terms of Use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
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