​PRIVACY POLICY
Amar Singha ("Amar Singha") operates amarsingha.org and may operate other websites and blogs. It is the policy of Amar Singha to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
WEBSITE VISITORS
Like most website operators, Amar Singha 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. Amar Singha's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Amar Singha's visitors use its website. From time to time, Amar Singha may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Amar Singha also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users leaving comments on Amar Singha blogs/sites. Amar Singha only discloses commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
GATHERING OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
Certain visitors to Amar Singha websites choose to interact with Amar Singha in ways that require Amar Singha to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Amar Singha gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, those who engage in transactions (Purchase paintings) with Amar Singha are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal information required to process those transactions. In each case, Amar Singha collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Amar Singha. Amar Singha does not disclose or store 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 and services.
AGGREGATED STATISTICS
Amar Singha discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that
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(i) need to know that information to process it on Amar Singha's behalf or to provide services available at Amar Singha's websites, and
(ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside your home country; by using Amar Singha websites, you consent to transfer such information to them. Amar Singha 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, Amar Singha discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests, or when Amar Singha believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Amar Singha, third parties or the public at large. If you are a user of the Amar Singha website (amarsingha.org) and have supplied your email address, Amar Singha 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 Amar Singha and our products. If you send us a request (for example, via 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. Amar Singha takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
COOKIES
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. Amar Singha uses cookies to help Amar Singha identify and track visitors, their usage of the Amar Singha website, and their website access preferences. Amar Singha visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Amar Singha websites, with the drawback that certain features of Amar Singha websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
BUSINESS TRANSFERS
If Amar Singha, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Amar Singha goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of Amar Singha may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
ADS
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Amar Singha and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Amar Singha may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Amar Singha's sole discretion. Amar Singha encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you sign up for the Amar Singha newsletter (Artist Newsletter) you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Important note concerning data processing in connection with Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the responsible body for the data processing that occurs via this website has their basis outside of the European Economic area and Switzerland, then the associated Google Analytics data processing is carried out by Google LLC. Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC. will hereinafter be referred to as “Google”.
Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files saved on the site visitor’s computer, to help the website analyze their use of the site. The information generated by the cookie (including the truncated IP address) about the use of the website will normally be transmitted to and stored by Google.
Google Analytics is used exclusively with the extension "_anonymizeIp ()" on this website. This extension ensures an anonymization of the IP address by truncation and excludes a direct personal reference. Via this extension Google truncates the site visitor’s IP address within member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional situations will the site visitor’s full IP address be transmitted to Google servers in the United States and truncated there. The IP address, that is provided by the site visitor’s browser in using Google Analytics will not be merged by Google with other data from Google.
On behalf of the site operator, Google will use the information collected to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other website and internet related services to the site operator (Art. 6 (1)( f) GDPR). The legitimate interest in data processing lies in the optimization of this website, the analysis of the use of the website and the adaptation of the content. The interests of the users are adequately protected by the pseudonymization of their data.
Google LLC. offers a guarantee to maintain an adequate level of data protection on the basis of European standard contractual clauses. The data sent and linked to the Google Analytics cookies, e.g. user IDs or advertising IDs will be automatically deleted after 50 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached is carried out automatically once a month.
The website visitor may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in their browser. The website visitor can also prevent Google from collecting information (including their IP address) via cookies and processing this information by downloading this browser plugin and installing it: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
The website visitor can prevent data collection via Google Analytics on this website by clicking here. An "Opt-out Cookie" shall then be applied which shall prevent any future collection of the site visitors data when visiting this website.
Further information concerning data processing and use by Google, the settings and deactivation possibilities can be found in the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) as well as in the Google Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).
reCAPTCHA
We may use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google LLC (Google) to protect your submissions via internet submission forms on this site. This plugin checks if you are a person in order to prevent certain website functions from being (ab)used by spam bots (particularly comments). This plugin query includes the sending of the IP address and possibly other data required by Google for the Google reCAPTCHA service. For this purpose, your input will be communicated to and used by Google. However, your IP address is previously truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area and is, as such, anonymized. Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address provided by reCaptcha from your browser shall not be merged with any other data from Google.
This data collection is subject to the data protection regulations of Google (Google Inc.). For more information about Google's privacy policy, please visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
By using the reCAPTCHA service, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.