theproposal.art (“we,” “our,” “us”, or the “Company”) cares about your protecting your privacy.  We want to make sure that you understand what we do with your information.  This privacy policy (the “policy”) describes how we collect, use, share, and disclose the personal information of users of theproposal.art (our “website”) and the products, services, features, content, and/or applications that we may offer from time to time (our “services”).

This policy applies to information that we collect on our website and in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and us via our website.  This policy does not apply to information collected by us offline or through any other means (including on any other website operated by us or any third party, or collected by any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from (or on) our website.

By using or accessing our website, you agree with this policy.  If you do not agree, your choice is to not use our website.  This policy may change from time to time (see “Changes and Updates to Our Privacy Policy” below). Your continued use of our website after we make changes is considered an acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Information that we collect

We collect both personal information (data that could potentially identify you as an individual) (“personal information”) and anonymous information (non-personally identifiable information that cannot be used to identify who you are) (“anonymous information”).

Personal information that we may collect includes:

• Information That You Give Us Directly. We may collect your‎ name, email address, phone number, user name, password, demographic information (such as your gender and occupation) and uploaded files, as well as any other information that you directly input into our website (such as by filling in forms on our website); and we may collect your credit card information and billing address (although we may use a third party payment processor, as described below); and we also may keep records of your correspondence if you contact us, or your search queries on our website and of your responses to our surveys; and

• Information That We Get From Third Parties. Information from third-party services such as our business partners, or to which you explicitly give us access.

Anonymous information that we may collect includes information that you provide automatically as you navigate through our website, such as usage details and information collected through cookies, web beacons, or other tracking technologies, including analytics data such as:

• the IP address of the computer you use to access our website;

• the type of browser software you are using;

• the operating system you are using;

• the date and time you access or use our website;

• the website address, if any, that linked you to our website;

• the website address, if any, that you travel to after leaving our website; and/or

• other non-personally identifiable traffic data.

How we collect information

Information Collected Directly from You

When you access our website or our service through any device, including a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including without limitation the type of device you use, your operating system, the type of Internet browser you use, your location information and other statistics (depending on the permissions you have set on your device).  We also may store information that we gather from you. We may use this information to provide features of our website or our service and/or to improve and customize our website and/or our service.  If you use our website, we may request certain personal information such as your name, organization, email address, phone number and billing information. You also may have the option to provide us with information about your social media accounts and any virtual currency wallet address, as applicable.  We (or companies that provide services on our behalf) also may collect certain financial information from you, such as your payment method (which may include a valid credit card number, type, expiration date or other financial information).  If you make a purchase through our website, you give us consent to use and provide your financial information as we consider necessary to process the transaction.

If you contact us in person, by phone or by email, instant message, live chat, social media, or some other means (either through our website or through a third-party service), we may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence for later reference, including to help improve our website or reach you if necessary.

Information Collected Automatically

We may automatically log certain information about you, your computer, and mobile devices when you use certain pages of our website.  We do this by incorporating technologies such as “pixel tags,” “web beacons,” and/or “cookies.”  Pixel tags or web beacons are small electronic-file tracking devices (also referred to as clear gifs and single-pixel gifs) on websites or in emails that monitor the behavior of the user visiting the website or receiving the e-mail.  Cookies are small files that web servers may place on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a website.

We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our website.  This type of information is collected to make our website more useful to you and to tailor the experience with us to meet your special interests and needs. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting in your browser or on your mobile device, but disabling cookies may cause you to be unable to access parts of our website.  Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website.  Certain features of our website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. 

For analytics, we may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic, Amplitude, a cloud-based product analytics service, Mixpanel, a web-based analytics platform, or another analytics service provider (each, an “Analytics Provider”).  Analytics Provider uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website.  This data may be shared with other services; for example, Google Analytics shares data with other Google services.  The Analytics Provider may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.  While we only use the information that we receive from the Analytics Provider to improve our website, and do not combine the information collected through the use of analytics tools with personally identifiable information, we reserve the right to combine information in the future. You may prevent an Analytics Provider from recognizing you on return visits to our website by disabling cookies on your browser.  Specifically for Google Analytics, you may opt out of having your activity on our website made available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout) for your web browser.  The Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.  The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.  For more information on Google’s privacy practices, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms webpage: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  For more information on the Google Analytics terms of use, please visit the Google Analytics Terms of Service at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html.  For more information on Amplitude’s privacy practices and terms of service, please visit https://amplitude.com/privacy and https://amplitude.com/terms.  For more information on Mixpanel’s privacy practices and terms of service, please visit https://mixpanel.com/legal/privacy-policy/ and https://mixpanel.com/legal/terms-of-use/.  

Information Collected by Third-Party Services

We may obtain other information (including personal information) from third parties (such as advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers) and combine that with information that we collect through our website (collectively “third-party services”) in order to run our website.  These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website.  The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information (including personal information) about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. These third parties may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.  We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used.  If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. 

How we use the information that we collect

We primarily use the information that we collect and store to enhance or enable the services we provide.  We do not rent, trade, or sell your personal information, except as otherwise described below (or if we sell all or a portion of our business).  We may use your personal information:

• to present our website and its contents to you, and to facilitate the sale of products and/or services through our website;

• to contact you when necessary, including to provide you with notices;

• to provide you with recommendations;

• to provide you with information, products, and/or services that you request from us;

• to respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service;

• to provide you with additional information according to your preferences;

• to customize and personalize your experience;

• to generate aggregated statistics to help us improve the customer experience;

• to make our website easier and more convenient for you, including to allow you to participate in interactive features on our website;

• to send you information and marketing materials about services and products available on our website;

• to communicate about promotions, upcoming events, and other news about products and services we and our affiliates and partners offer;

• to notify you about changes to our website or any products or services we offer or provide though it;

• to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;

• to train our team members;

• for other internal business purposes; or

• for any other purpose with your consent, except where such disclosure may be required by law without your consent.

Sharing personal information

We may share personal information as follows:

Aggregated Personal Data and Non-Personal Information

We may share or disclose aggregated personal information or non-personal information with contractors, service providers or other third parties that we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.  We may disclose this information for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide such information, or otherwise with your consent (except where such disclosure may be required by law without your consent).  Our contractors, service providers, or other third parties also may share with us aggregated non-personal information that they have independently developed or acquired. Additionally, we may disclose this information to our subsidiaries and affiliates, and we may combine aggregate information from the pixel tags, web beacons, and cookies with similar data that we collect from other visitors to help us improve our website. We also may share aggregated and/or anonymized data with others for their own uses.

Agents or Third Party Partners

We may provide your personal information to our employees, contractors, agents, service providers, or designees in order to enable them to perform certain services for us exclusively, including:

• to carry out requests from you, including order fulfillment and payment processing;

• website-related services such as web hosting;

• improvement of website-related services and features;

• maintenance services;

• distribution of advertisements and other marketing materials on our behalf; or

• allowing third parties to market their products and/or services to you, if you have not opted out of these disclosures, and we contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

Buyers or Successors

We may choose to enter into a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our website users is among the assets transferred.  By accepting this policy, you acknowledge the possibility of (and consent to) any such transfer.

Protection of Us and Others

Notwithstanding anything in this privacy policy to the contrary, we reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information that we reasonably believe is necessary or appropriate to:

• comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;

• cooperate with law enforcement;

• enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; or

• protect the rights, property or safety of us, our customers, users, employees, or others. 

This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices about how we use and disclose your information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information that you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising.  You may typically set your browser to disable or reject some or all browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.  Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website.  If you disable or reject cookies, some parts of this website may become inaccessible or function improperly.

• Promotional Offers from Us. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by us to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request (see “Contact Information” below).  If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.  This opt-out does not apply to information provided to us as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.

• Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by emailing us at info@theproposal.cc. For this opt-out to function, you must have your browser set to accept browser cookies.

While we do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.  You may opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) on the NAI website.

If you decide that you do not want to receive email or other communications from us, you may select the “opt out” provision in our marketing communications to unsubscribe.  Unsubscribing will stop you from receiving most types of communication, but may not apply to emails about orders or transactions you place through our website or to responses to your specific requests.

Data retention and security

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure.  All information that you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.

We are committed to making sure your information is protected and to the extent that we use third-party vendors, such as Stripe, we work to choose vendors that help keep your personal information safe.  We do not, however, control any such third party and therefore cannot guarantee complete security.  We also employ several physical and electronic safeguards to keep your information safe, including not storing any passwords and securing all connections with industry-standard transport layer security.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you.  Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.  We ask you not to share your password with anyone.  We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of our website, or other websites, such as message boards.  Keep your payment information confidential.  The information that you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of our website.  If you log into this website on a shared computer, be sure to sign out when finished.  If you believe that a third party has access to your account, please let us know as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.   Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website, against the access, disclosure, alteration, or deletion of data through events such as hardware or software failure or unauthorized use.  Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.  We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our website.

Data Retention

If you wish to close your account, we will keep some of your data even after your account is closed.  We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our Terms of Use, or fulfill your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed, but will destroy your personal data when it is no longer needed for the foregoing purposes, or we may remove your personal information to render it anonymous.

Privacy of children and minors

Only persons age 18 or older have permission to access our website.  Our website and services are not intended for children under the age of 13.  No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on our website, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.  If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on our website or on or through any of its features, register on our website, make any purchases through our website, use any interactive or public comment features of our website (current or future), or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address or any screen name or user name you may use.  If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us (see “Contact Information” below). If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we may attempt to remove that information from our servers.

Online tracking and how we respond to “do not track” signals

Online tracking is the collection of data about an individual’s Internet activity used to deliver targeted advertisements and for other purposes.  Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome) incorporate a “Do Not Track” (DNT) or similar feature that signals to websites that a visitor does not want to have his or her online activity and behavior tracked.  If an online service elects to respond to a particular DNT signal, the service may refrain from collecting certain personal information about the browser’s user.  Not all browsers offer a DNT option and there is currently no industry consensus as to what constitutes a DNT signal.  For these reasons, many website operators (including us) do not take action to respond to DNT signals.  For more information about DNT signals, visit http://allaboutdnt.com.

Changes and updates to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to update and revise this policy at any time.  We occasionally review this policy to make sure it complies with applicable laws and/or conforms to changes in our business.  If we revise this policy, we will update the “last modified” date on this page so that you can tell if it has changed.  If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account or through a notice on our website home page.

Please review this policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of its terms. You are responsible for ensuring that we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our website and this policy to check for any changes.  Any use of our website or our products or services after a revision to our policy means that you have accepted the revised agreement.

International privacy laws

If you are visiting our website from outside the Switzerland, please be aware that you are sending information (including personal data) to the Switzerland, where our servers are located.  That information may be transferred within Switzerland or back out of Switzerland to other countries outside your country of residence, depending on the type of information and how it is stored by us. These countries (including the Switzerland) may not necessarily have data protection laws as comprehensive or protective as those in the country of your residence.  By visiting our website and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that your personal information may be processed for the purposes identified in this policy, and you consent to your personal information being processed in the country in which it was collected and in other countries, including Switzerland.  Our collection, storage, and use of your personal data will at all times continue to be governed by this policy.

External links

Our website may contain links to other sites.  Unless we expressly state otherwise, we make no representations whatsoever concerning the content of those sites.  The fact that we have provided a link to a site is not an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation with respect to such site, its owners, or its providers.  There are risks associated with using any information, software, or products found on the Internet, and we caution you to make sure that you understand these risks before retrieving, using, relying upon, or purchasing anything via the internet.

Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites.  Our Privacy Policy applies to all web pages under our domain (and not to any web pages not under our domain), regardless of any hyperlinks from a web page under our domain to a web page not under our domain.

Governing law

You agree that your use of this website, and your consent to this policy and any disputes relating thereto, shall be governed exclusively by Swiss law (excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods).The place of jurisdiction shall be exclusively Kerns, Switzerland.

Contact information

We welcome your comments or questions about this policy and our privacy practices. You may email us directly at info@theproposal.cc or contact us at our mailing address,The Proposal, Brandstrasse 2 6066 Kerns, Switzerland

Cookie Policy

THIS WEBSITE USES COOKIES TO IMPROVE YOUR EXPERIENCE

Cookies are small data files that can be stored on a computer’s hard drive. These cookies would only be stored in case the user’s Web browser setting permits such storage. In case a user chooses not to allow cookies, the user can adjust the browser settings to refuse the same. However, some parts of our sites may not function optimally if the browser is set to refuse cookies.  

We use cookies for the following general purposes:

• To help us recognize the particular browser as a previous visitor. We may also retain a user’s registration details on the cookie, if instructed to do so (such as if the user ticks the box that says that he should be signed in automatically in the future).

• To help us customize the content provided on our websites and on other websites across the Internet.

• To help research the effectiveness of our website features, advertisements, and e-mail communications. We may also use a technology called web beacons, which are similar to cookies, and are used to measure the effectiveness of email campaigns to determine which emails have been viewed and acted upon.

Our website may use following type of cookies:

• “First party cookies” are technical cookies used by the site itself with the purpose of optimizing the use of the website (e.g., settings the user has modified on previous visits).

• “Third party cookies” are cookies not from the website itself but from third parties, such as plugins for marketing purposes.  Examples of third party cookies are cookies from Facebook or Google Analytics.  For these cookies, a user must authorize the use of such cookies.  You may do this by accepting the use of cookies on a banner placed on top of below the webpage.  Your use of the website will not be hindered by refusing to accept the use of cookies.)

You may change the settings of your internet browser in such a way that it does not accept cookies or that you receive a warning whenever a cookie is installed or when cookies are deleted from your hard drive. You can do this by changing the settings of your browser.  Be aware that modifying these settings may cause graphic elements not to be shown correctly on the website or may disable the use of certain functionalities on the website.

By using our website, you agree that the website uses cookies.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service offered by Google Inc., Amplitude, a cloud-based product analytics service, and Mixpanel, a web-based analytics platform (each an “Analytics Provider”).  The Analytics Providers use “cookies” to help analyze the use of the website by its visitors. The cookie-generated information about your behaviour on the website (including your IP address) is sent to the Analytics Provider and stored on servers in the United States.  The Analytics Providers use this information to store how you use the website, to create reports of website activity for the website owners and to provide other services concerning website activity and internet usage. The Analytics Providers may share this information with third parties where required to do so by applicable law, or where such third parties process the information on the Analytics Providers’ behalf. You may refuse the use of cookies by modifying the settings of your browser. Be aware that by modifying these settings, you may be unable to use all the website’s functionalities.  By using this website, you agree to the use of information by the Analytics Providers as described above.

Meta/Facebook – we may use Meta to deliver you relevant ads or to analyze the website traffic. You can always change your Meta account privacy from here. We also may use Meta Analytics to understand our website traffic. It helps us to improve our content and to serve your needs better. You can control your Facebook privacy settings from here.