Privacy policy

This Privacy Policy covers Atelier's treatment of personal information that Atelier gathers when you are on the Atelier website and when you use Atelier services. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Atelier does not own or control, or to individuals that Atelier does not employ or manage.

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a friendly, customized, and efficient experience. We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with the purpose for which it has been collected or subsequently authorized by you.

We collect the following types of information from our users:

Information You Provide to Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our website 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. The personal information you provide is used for such purposes as:

Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While Atelier 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.

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. Atelier 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 email address is.

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 strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of Atelier's most attractive features.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our website (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Information about our users is an integral part of our business. We neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone.

We share your personal information only as described below.

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 would be transferred. Moreover, if Atelier, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets transferred.

Protection of Atelier and Others. We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with that law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Atelier, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

With Your Consent. Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your personal information may be 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 prevent the sharing of this information by opting out.

Your Atelier account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to work to 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.

No security system is impenetrable.

As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose information, but then you may be unable to use certain features on our website, such as posting new links.

You are able to add or update certain information on pages, such as those listed in the "What Personal Information About Users Does Atelier Collect?" section above. When you update information, however, we often maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records.

You may request deletion of your Atelier account by using the deactivate account button located in your personal profile. This removes all of your past Atelier usage from public view (future communication would be through Atelier's internal messaging system).

As explained earlier, 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. Please note, however, that if your browser does not accept cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of some of our attractive features.

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