PictureValuation.com Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the PICTUREVALUATION Internet web site ("Site") located at the URL www.picturevaluation.com. This Privacy Policy details certain policies implemented by PICTUREVALUATION governing the use of personally identifiable information about users of our Site, and users of services available through this Site (the "Services"), and how we use cookies.

The privacy and protection of clients' personal data is of utmost importance to PICTUREVALUATION. We want clients to be completely confident when communicating with us, and when providing us with personal information, photographs and details of their items. Our practices in relation to the collection and use of personal data are outlined below.

Information Collection and Use

You can generally visit our Site without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. However, in certain sections of this Site, and when you use our Services, we may invite you to provide information, upload images, contact us with questions or comments, contact us with feedback, or complete a registration form.

Due to the nature of some of these activities, we may collect personally identifiable information that you submit, such as your name, email address and phone number.

Privacy

We may use your personally identifiable information to register you to use our Site and Services, deliver certain Services, provide notices regarding Services you have purchased, verify your authority to enter our Site, and improve the content and general administration of the Site, and our Services.

We will not share your Personal Data with anyone outside PICTUREVALUATION without your consent, except as set out in this policy under 'Disclosure', below. We may provide your personally identifiable information to employees, agents or contractors that PICTUREVALUATION may engage to assist us in providing our Services to you. Such third party entities will be obligated to use your personally identifiable information solely to provide the Services to us.

Your Financial Information

Any payments made to PICTUREVALUATION via the Internet are conducted on third party sites, using well-established secure Internet transmission protocols such as encryption. Any questions you may have regarding the submission of your credit or debit card information should be addressed to the payment processing gateway site, and not to PICTUREVALUATION. It should be clear which processing gateway you are being directed to for submission of your payment to us, but if you have any questions about this, please contact us as outlined below.

Security

We may employ procedural and technological security measures that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. PICTUREVALUATION may use encryption, password protection, and other security measures to help prevent unauthorised access to your personally identifiable information.

Email

We will normally provide you with your valuation by email using the personally identifiable email address you supply. We may also send you notice by email of PICTUREVALUATION news or upcoming offers and events.

You may opt out of receiving these notices at any time using the opt out information included in these email notices, or by sending your opt out request to us by contacting us as outlined below, or, in the case of users who have registered an account with us online, by logging into your account on our website and changing your newsletter preferences. Your email address will then be removed from our list.

Disclosure

We may disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation, or in co-operation with any governmental investigation. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to any company or organisation except we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganisation in which PICTUREVALUATION participates, or to a purchaser of all, or substantially all, of PICTUREVALUATION's assets to which this Site relates.

Correcting/Updating/Deleting Personally Identifiable Information

If you wish to review, correct or request deletion of any personally identifiable information you have provided to us, you may submit a request to us as outlined below. Users who have registered an account with us online may modify personally identifiable information we hold about them by logging into their account on our website.

Aggregate Information

The Site may track the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, browser type, and IP addresses, and we may analyse this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such aggregate information to analyse trends, administer the Site, track users' movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Client Comments and Testimonials

We occasionally share client comments we receive via our website. We do not publish any names or specific address information that may identify you.

Privacy Policy Updates

Due to the Internet's rapidly evolving nature, PICTUREVALUATION may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If so, PICTUREVALUATION will post its updated Privacy Policy on our Site located at www.picturevaluation.com, and we may send clients or registered users an email notifying them of such changes, so they are always aware of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use this information. If any modification is unacceptable to you, you shall cease using this Site and the Services. If you do not cease using this Site and the Services, you will be deemed to have accepted the change.

How We Use Cookies

This site, like many others, uses small files called cookies to help customise your experience. A cookie is a small text file which is stored by the browser on your computer or mobile device. Websites are able to read and write these files.

Cookies perform a number of functions, including assisting web applications to respond to you as an individual, and analysing web traffic. Cookies are a kind of "memory" for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and their preferences, and respond appropriately.

Each web domain can only access cookies set by that specific web domain. However, most web pages contain elements from multiple web domains, so when you visit this site, your browser may receive cookies from several sources - from this website, and from third-party websites.

Generally speaking, we use cookies to enable Web applications to tailor their operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We also use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to better meet customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and no personally identifiable data is collected.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, and enable us to monitor which pages visitors find useful and which they do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Cookies Used By This Website

Cookie/s	Cookie Name	Lifetime	ICC Classification	Description/Purpose	How to Block	Source	Pages Present
Ordering a Valuation	PHPSESSIONID	Session	Strictly Necessary	Links your valuation order to you as you progress through the valuation process, and remembers you for 2 days.		picturevaluation.com	All pages of the valuation order process.
	ccUser	2 days	Functionality
Google Analytics	_utma	2 Years	Performance & Targeting or Advertising	These cookies are used to measure visitor behaviour and usage patterns, such as the time spent on site, number of visits or what pages were viewed during a visit. All information is anonymous and reports always show aggregate, not individual data.	Google offers an opt-out browser add-on for most modern web browsers. You can also disable cookies directly within your browser.	picturevaluation.com	All pages.
	_utmb	30 mins
	_utmc	Session
	_utmz	6 Months
Google Adsense	_drt_	12-24 Hours	Targeting or Advertising	Remembers which adverts you have seen to enable delivery of adverts that may be of most interest to you.	You can download an advertising cookie opt-out plugin from Google. This will stop any further cookies being served to your browser from this third party. You can also disable third-party cookies directly within your browser.	doubleclick.net	All pages not part of the valuation order process.
Cookies set by third-parties may change over time, but those listed were correct at the time this cookie audit was published.

Managing Cookies

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Browser settings will typically be found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the 'Help' option in your browser for more details.

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari
• Cookie settings in Opera

In the case of any cookies stored on your machine by third parties when you use our website, please note that we have no control over these cookies, or how the third parties use them. They are used to allow that third party to provide a service to us - providing digital maps, embedded video, social networking interaction, or anonymous data analysis, for example.

If you want to reject third party cookies, you should visit the relevant third party's website directly to manage cookies stored on your machine by them.

If you only want to reject any interest-based advertising cookies we place on your machine, you can opt-out of receiving these cookies at any time by going to the Internet Advertising Bureau website at www.youronlinechoices.eu and following the opt-out instructions for the advertiser concerned.

The EU e-Privacy Directive

We are constantly reviewing our use of cookies and our compliance with the EU e-Privacy Directive in line with guidance from the Information Commissioner's Office.

This Privacy Policy is effective from 22nd May 2012