PRIVACY POLICY
At Monet, we believe privacy is a fundamental right. Monet is founded on the principle of helping
photographers and artists within our platform where users can share their art with the community,
join contests or challenges, sell it on our marketplace and like or comment on them.
BASICALLY,
We collect certain information to make Monet better for you and to provide a great overall
experience.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY MONET
We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our app. This information
allows us to provide you with a customized and efficient experience. We collect the following types
of information from our users:
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US
1. We receive and store any information you enter on our app or provide to us in any other
way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be
able to take advantage of many of our special features.
2. Registration: In order for you to use our services you must complete a registration form. As
part of this registration form, we require certain personal information.
3. User Profile: To allow you to express yourself beyond just the information collected during
registration, we enable you to provide additional information, such as your first and last
names, email address, social media account names, your birthday, your field of art and your
electronic device information. In addition, you may choose to include photos of yourself in
your profile.
BASICALLY,
During your registration we collect your user profile data. Our servers might collect log information
to make the website faster. We also collect geographical location data to present a better
experience regardless of your location.
AUTOMATIC INFORMATION
1. We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Monet
and its authorized agents automatically receive and record certain "traffic data" on their
server logs from your browser including your IP address, Monet cookie information, and the
page you requested. Monet uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers,
analyze trends and administer the website. This does not involve collecting any of your
personal information.
2. In addition to the "traffic data", Monet and its authorized agents may collect information
about the device you're using to access Monet, its operating system, unique device
identifier, device settings such as language and crash data. Which data is specifically
collected depends on the type of device and/or system running on that device. This data is
again used to help us diagnose problems with the site and/or mobile apps and analyze usage
trends. This does not involve collecting any of your personal information.
3. Monet may collect and use information regarding the geographic location of your devices. If
the location data contains your personal information, then Monet will treat this location
data in accordance with this Policy.
4. Monet may collect and, on any page, display the total counts that page has been viewed.
This includes User Profile pages.
5. Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While Monet
will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you,
we want you to be aware that these programs are available.
E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS
Monet is very concerned about your privacy and we will never provide your email address to a third
party without your explicit permission, as detailed in the "Sharing Your Information" section below.
Monet may send out e-mails with Monet-related news, products, offers, surveys or promotions. You
may also receive notification e-mails from Monet, which inform you of actions (e.g. event
notification) that have been performed on the site. If you do not want to receive e-mail from us,
please reach out to us and we will get it done. However, please note that in all cases you will
continue to receive all system e-mails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal
notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us.
BASICALLY,
We will send you emails based on your profile settings which you can change at any time.
Occasionally, we might send emails to all our members.
COOKIES
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your
Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in
our website are visited and by how many people. Monet cookies do not collect personal
information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal
information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or e-mail address is.
Monet utilizes third-party services like Google Analytics to help analyze how our site is used. These
services, including Google Analytics, also use cookies to collect information about visitors to our site
(including IP addresses) in an anonymous form that does not include personal information.
The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your
browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a
new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We recommend that you leave the cookies activated
because cookies allow you to use some of Monet’s coolest features. Some of our business partners,
like our advertisers, may use cookies on our website. We have no access to, or control over, these
cookies.
BASICALLY,
Our system will give you a safe cookie to remember you. Third-party services that help us analyze
how our site is used also use cookies to collect information about visitors to our site.
ANALYTICS
Monet uses services like Google Analytics and/or Amplitude to help analyze and understand how our
site and mobile applications are used, so that we can make Monet products more interesting to you.
These tools capture data about how individual users are using our site and mobile applications. This
includes event logs, device type and device configuration settings such as language, crash data and
other data but never personal information. These third-party services treat the analytics data in
accordance with this privacy policy and Monet does not disclose your personal information to any
third parties through our use of these services.
BASICALLY,
The analytics services that we use do not collect personal information, and all information collected
is used in accordance with this policy. Analytics services help us better understand usage trends and
help us improve your experience based on those trends.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
Because Monet enables people to discover and share information with one another, information
about the people who use Monet is an integral part of the Monet experience. Rest assured that we
will not rent or sell your personal information to anyone and that we will share your personal
information only as described below:
• Monet Personnel: Monet personnel and authorized consultants and/or contractors may
have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of Monet business.
• Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of
transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred.
Moreover, if Monet, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would
be one of the assets that is transferred.
• Protection of Monet and Others: We may release personal information when we believe in
good faith that release is necessary to comply with a law; to enforce or apply our Terms of
Use and other policies; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Monet, our employees,
our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and
organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• User Profile information: Information collected during registration and subsequent visits,
such as your full name and location, may be displayed to other Monet users in your User
Profile. The User Profile is the area on Monet where we allow you to tell other Monet users
about yourself. You may control what personal information is displayed in your User Profile
by visiting the Settings section of your User Profile.
• Syndication: Monet allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the
Monet website.
• Service Providers: Monet may share user information as well as information from tools such
as cookies, log files, device identifiers and location data, with third-parties that help Monet
provide services to you (“Service Providers”). Our Service Providers will be given access to
your information as is reasonably necessary for Monet to provide our services. Monet
requires Services Providers to protect your data in a manner consistent with this Policy and
to limit the use of such information to the performance of services for Monet. Moent may
also remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with Service
Providers, including combining your information with other information in a way that it is no
longer associated with you.
• With Your Consent: Except as noted above, we will contact you when your personal
information is shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the
purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to opt out to prevent
the sharing of this information.
BASICALLY,
We do not sell your information to anyone. We show publicly available information to other users
such as in your profile, and you can change what you wish to display in your account settings. We
may share information so that we can provide our service, and we may share information where
required by law. We may also share information with third-parties that help Monet provide services
to you.
KEEPING INFORMATION SECURE
• Your Monet account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security.
Protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off
once you have finished using a shared computer.
• Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a
customer service representative) are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up
to date on our privacy and security practices.
BASICALLY,
Your account is protected by an encrypted password. We keep it secure; you must also keep it safe.
Our employees may not access your account unless required to do a specific job.
CHILDREN UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE
You must be 14 years and older to register to use the Monet website. As a result, Monet does not
specifically collect information about children. If we learn that Monet has collected information from
a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend
that minors between the ages of 14 and 18 ask and receive their parents' permission before using
Monet or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.
BASICALLY,
You cannot register if you are under 18 years old. Ask for your parents' permission if you are
between 14 and 18 years old. You are not allowed to register if you are under 14 years old.
INFORMATION MODIFICATION OR DELETION
You have the right at any time to request information about what personal data we process about
you and to demand correction, deletion and/or restriction of your personal data stored by us. For
your security, we will ask you to verify your details in the event of such a request or change.
BASICALLY,
You can contact us with any questions or requests at any time.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Monet may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we
collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make
changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Monet website
so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
BASICALLY,
The Privacy Policy may change.
CONDITIONS OF USE
If you decide to visit the Monet website or use any of our official mobile applications, your visit and
any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including
limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of California law.
BASICALLY,
Visiting Monet or using any of our official mobile applications is subject to our Terms of Use and
Privacy Policy.
Privacy Policy of Monet
This Application collects some Personal Data from its Users.
Users may be subject to different protection standards and broader standards may therefore apply
to some. In order to learn more about the protection criteria, Users can refer to the applicability
section.
Types of Data collected
Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties,
there are: Tracker; Usage Data; device information.
Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of
this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.
Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically
when using this Application.
Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Application is mandatory and failure to
provide this Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services. In cases where
this Application specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to
communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the
Owner.
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this Application or by the owners of third-party
services used by this Application serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in
addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if
available.
Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this
Application and confirm that they have the third party's consent to provide the Data to the Owner.
Mode and place of processing the Data
Methods of processing
The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure,
modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational
procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some
cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation
of this Application (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties
(such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies,
communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated
list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.
Legal basis of processing
The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:
• Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes. Note: Under some
legislations the Owner may be allowed to process Personal Data until the User objects to
such processing (“opt-out”), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following
legal bases.
• Provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for
any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
• Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject.
• Processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of
official authority vested in the Owner.
• Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or
by a third party.
• In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the
processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or
contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Place
The Data is processed at the Owner's operating offices and in any other places where the parties
involved in the processing are located.
Depending on the User's location, data transfers may involve transferring the User's Data to a
country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred
Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.
If broader protection standards are applicable, Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis
of Data transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any international organization
governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about
the security measures taken by the Owner to safeguard their Data.
If any such transfer takes place, Users can find out more by checking the relevant sections of this
document or inquire with the Owner using the information provided in the contact section.
Retention time
Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been
collected for.
Therefore:
Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner
and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long
as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate
interests pursued by the Owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the
Owner.
The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given
consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may
be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the
performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the
right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after
expiration of the retention period.
The purposes of processing
The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its
legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its
Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Analytics,
Infrastructure monitoring, Advertising, Remarketing and behavioral targeting and Access to thirdparty accounts.
For specific information about the Personal Data used for each purpose, the User may refer to the
section “Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data”.
In particular, Users have the right to do the following:
Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have
previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.
Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if
the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent. Further details are provided in the
dedicated section below.
Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain
disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing
processing.
Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to
be updated or corrected.
Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict
the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose
other than storing it.
Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain
circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner.
Receive their Data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their
Data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to
have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable
provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on the
User's consent, on a contract which the User is part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.
Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection
authority.
Details about the right to object to processing
Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested
in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object
to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.
Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing
purposes, they can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn,
whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to
the relevant sections of this document.
How to exercise these rights
Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details
provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by
the Owner as early as possible and always within one month.
Applicability of broader protection standards
While most provisions of this document concern all Users, some provisions expressly only apply if
the processing of Personal Data is subject to broader protection standards.
Such broader protection standards apply when the processing:
• is performed by an Owner based within the EU.
• Concerns the Personal Data of Users who are in the EU and is related to the offering of paid
or unpaid goods or services, to such Users.
• Concerns the Personal Data of Users who are in the EU and allows the Owner to monitor
such Users’ behaviour taking place in the EU.
Cookie Policy
This Application uses Trackers. To learn more, the User may consult the Cookie Policy.
Additional information about Data collection and processing
Legal action
The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in the stages
leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Application or the related Services.
The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request
of public authorities.
Additional information about User's Personal Data
In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Application may provide the User
with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and
processing of Personal Data upon request.
System logs and maintenance
For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third-party services may collect
files that record interaction with this Application (System logs) use other Personal Data (such as the
IP Address) for this purpose.
Information not contained in this policy
More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the
Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.
How “Do Not Track” requests are handled
This Application does not support “Do Not Track” requests.
To determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honor the “Do Not Track” requests,
please read their privacy policies.
Changes to this privacy policy
The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its Users
on this page and possibly within this Application and/or - as far as technically and legally feasible -
sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly
recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the
bottom.
Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User’s consent, the
Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.
Categories of personal information collected, disclosed or sold
In this section we summarize the categories of personal information that we've collected, disclosed
or sold and the purposes thereof. You can read about these activities in detail in the section titled
“Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data” within this document.
Information we collect: the categories of personal information we collect
We have collected the following categories of personal information about you: identifiers and
internet information.
We will not collect additional categories of personal information without notifying you.
How we collect information: what are the sources of the personal information we collect?
We collect the above mentioned categories of personal information, either directly or indirectly,
from you when you use this Application.
For example, you directly provide your personal information when you submit requests via any
forms on this Application. You also provide personal information indirectly when you navigate this
Application, as personal information about you is automatically observed and collected. Finally, we
may collect your personal information from third parties that work with us in connection with the
Service or with the functioning of this Application and features thereof.
How we use the information we collect: sharing and disclosing of your personal information with
third parties for a business purpose
We may disclose the personal information we collect about you to a third party for business
purposes. In this case, we enter a written agreement with such third party that requires the recipient
to both keep the personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose(s) other than
those necessary for the performance of the agreement.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties when you explicitly ask or authorize
us to do so, in order to provide you with our Service.
To find out more about the purposes of processing, please refer to the relevant section of this
document.
Sale of your personal information
For our purposes, the word “sale” means any “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating,
making available, transferring or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic means,
a consumer's personal information by the business to another business or a third party, for
monetary or other valuable consideration”.
This means that, for example, a sale can happen whenever an application runs ads, or makes
statistical analyses on the traffic or views, or simply because it uses tools such as social network
plugins and the like.
Your right to opt out of the sale of personal information
You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information. This means that whenever
you request us to stop selling your data, we will abide by your request.
Such requests can be made freely, at any time, without submitting any verifiable request, simply by
following the instructions below.
Instructions to opt out of the sale of personal information
If you’d like to know more, or exercise your right to opt out in regard to all the sales carried out by
this Application, both online and offline, you can contact us for further information using the contact
details provided in this document.
What are the purposes for which we use your personal information?
We may use your personal information to allow the operational functioning of this Application and
features thereof (“business purposes”). In such cases, your personal information will be processed in
a fashion necessary and proportionate to the business purpose for which it was collected, and
strictly within the limits of compatible operational purposes.
We may also use your personal information for other reasons such as for commercial purposes (as
indicated within the section “Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data” within this
document), as well as for complying with the law and defending our rights before the competent
authorities where our rights and interests are threatened or we suffer an actual damage.
We will not use your personal information for different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes
without notifying you.