This Web Site (“Web Site”) is published and maintained by Weeks and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Weeks,” “we,” “us,””our,” or other similar pronouns, or “Weeks Auction”).

This Privacy Policy governs your use of the Weeks Web Sites on which it is posted. By visiting this Web Site, and/or using the services offered on or through this Web Site (the “Services”), you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy as they may be amended from time to time. As we update and expand our services, this Privacy Policy may change, so check back to this page from time to time. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and part of, the Weeks Web Site Terms and Conditions of Use, which governs your use of this Web Site in general.

Purpose

Your privacy is a serious matter to us. In order to make your visits to our Web Site and use of the services available through our Web Site as worthwhile as possible, we may ask you for Personal Information and we may collect certain information about you and your interaction with the Web Site from you and your computer each time you visit us. “Personal Information” includes, for example, your name; title; home and/or business address; e-mail address; home and/or business telephone, wireless and/or fax number; credit card and other payment information; demographic information; your location; art interests or preferences, art purchases, auction activity and bidding history, paddle numbers, bidding amounts, payment history; and/or other information that may identify you as an individual or allow online or offline contact with you as an individual. “personal data” includes “personal data” as that terms defined in Article 2 of the European Union Data Protection Directive. This Privacy Policy explains, in general, what Personal Information and other information is collected on our Web Site, how the information is used, and with whom we may share such information. Please take a few minutes to read our Privacy Policy so that you understand how Weeks treats your information.

WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED ON THIS WEB SITE?

User-Provided Information

We collect Personal Information from users of our Web Site, for example, when you send us an e-mail, or in any other way submit Personal Information to us via our Web Site.

You may be able to send information about our products and services to your friends and family members through our Web Site by clicking on a “Share” or similar button on our Web Site or in an e-mail that we have sent you. In some of these cases (unless you simply forward our e-mail on your own), you may provide the e-mail address of your friend or family member to us.
Web Site Usage Information

Cookies

If you have permitted your computer to accept “cookies” we may use “cookies” to keep, and sometimes track, information about you. Cookies are small data files that are sent to your browser or related software from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies track where you travel on our Web Site and what you look at, transact and purchase. They may store the information in your shopping cart, and/or your username and/or password, and we may use them to deliver specific messages to you (for example, to announce anew feature that was added since the last time you visited the Web Site). A cookie may enable us to relate your use of our Web Site to other information about you, including your Personal Information. All of these purposes serve to improve and personalize your experience on our Web Site.

Most Web browsers can be set to inform you when a cookie has been sent to you and provide you with the opportunity to refuse that cookie. Additionally, if you have a Flash player installed on your computer, your Flash player can be set to reject or delete Flash cookies. However, refusing a cookie may, in some cases, preclude you from using, or negatively impact the display or function of, the Web Site or certain areas or features of the Web Site.

Clear GIFs

We may use “clear GIFs” (aka “Web beacons” or “pixels”) or similar technologies, in the Web Site and/or in our communications with you, to enable us to evaluate Web Site Usage Information about visitors to the Web Site, target campaigns, upgrade visitor information, and know whether you have visited a Web page or received a message. A clear GIFs typically a one-pixel transparent image (although it can be a visible images well), located on a Web page or in an e-mail or other type of message, which is retrieved from a remote site on the Internet thus enabling the verification of an individual’s viewing or receipt of a Web page or message. A clear GIF may enable us to relate your viewing or receipt of a Web page or message to other information about you, including your Personal Information.

IP Address and Clickstream Data

Our server automatically collects data about your server’s Internet address when you visit us. This information, known as an Internet Protocol address, or IP Address, is a number that’s automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider whenever you’re on the Internet. When you request pages from our Web Site, our servers may log your IP Address and sometimes your domain name. Your IP Address is used to help identify you and to gather demographic information about our customers as a whole. Our server may also record the referring page that linked you to us (e.g., another Web site or a search engine); the pages you visit on this Web Site; the Web site you visit after this Web Site; the ads you see and/or click on; other information about the type of Web browser, computer, platform, related software and settings you are using; any search terms you have entered on this Web Site or a referral site; and other Web usage activity and data logged by our Web servers. We use this information for internal system administration, to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Web Site, and to customize your user experience. Such information may also be used to gather demographic information, such as country of origin and Internet Service Provider. We may link this information with your Personal Information.

Any or all of these activities with regard to Web Site Usage Information may be performed on our behalf by our services providers, including, for example, our analytics vendor(s) and our e-mail management partner(s).

How is your Personal Information used?

We will use the Personal Information you provide to our Web Site, for example, to respond to your requests and to provide you with our product and service offerings. For example, we will process and fulfill your orders (e.g., for catalogues), respond to your requests and inquiries and provide you with the services and features offered on or through our Web Site. We may also use your Personal Information to maintain our internal record keeping. We may also report information about your account to credit bureaus. Late payments, missed payments, or other defaults on your account may be reflected in your credit report. We may match information collected from you through different means or at different times, including both Personal Information and Web Site Usage Information, and use such information along with information obtained from other sources, including third parties. We also may compare your contact information to data in our worldwide databases in order to improve our Web Site and marketing. Also, advertisements and other content displayed to you on the Web Site may be customized to your interests and preferences, based on your Personal Information and Web Site Usage Information, including, for example, non-Personal Information, which we may obtain from you or from other sources.

In addition, we may use your Personal Information to send you notices about, or invitations to upcoming events in the collecting area in which you’ve made a purchase (for example, in the form of e-mails, mailings, and the like), and to otherwise correspond with you, about products, services, companies and events, sponsored by us and others, that we think might interest you.

We also may provide visitors to our Web Site an opportunity to receive offers from other entities (outside of Weeks Auction) who have services, products and offers that we think might be of interest to you. .

We may analyze user behavior as a measure of interest in, and use of, our Web Site and e-mails, both on an individual basis and in the aggregate.

Do we share Personal Information and Web Site Usage Information with others?

Weeks does not sell, lease or give your Personal Information to any other company, unless otherwise stated herein.

Service Providers

We may use third party partners to help operate our Web Site and deliver our products and Services, and may, when necessary to do so, share your information with our affiliates, service providers and other third parties that provide products or Services for or through this Web Site or for our business purposes (such as Web site or database hosting companies, address list hosting companies, e-mail service providers, analytics companies, distribution companies, fulfillment companies, and other similar service providers that use such information on our behalf). These third party partners are obligated to protect the security and confidentiality of your information.
Aggregate Statistics

We may disclose aggregate statistics regarding user behavior as a measure of interest in, and use of, our Web Site and e-mails to third parties in the form of aggregate data, such as overall patterns or demographic reports that do not describe or identify any individual user.

Legally Compelled Disclosures

We may disclose user information to government authorities or other third parties when we believe such disclosure is required by law. We may also disclose user information as necessary to enforce the Weeks Web Site Terms and Conditions, in connection with investigations, or when we believe disclosure is necessarily incident to the provision of Weeks services or to the protection of the rights, property or safety of Weeks or others.

Business Transfer

Weeks regards its databases of customer information (which will include your Personal Information) as a valuable asset. In the event that Weeks, any entity of Weeks Auction, or substantially all of its or their assets, are acquired by one or more third parties as a result of an acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, consolidation or liquidation, such databases containing Personal Information may be one of the transferred assets. In addition, such a transfer may mean that your Personal Information is transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). In using the Services you consent to such transfer of your Personal Information.

Wireless Addresses

If the email address you provide to us is a wireless email address, and you have elected to receive promotional messages from Weeks, you agree to receive messages at such address from us, unless and until you have elected not to receive such messages by following the instructions in the Marketing Preferences section above. You understand that your wireless carrier’s standard rates apply to these messages, and that you may change your mind at any time by following the instructions in the Marketing Preferences section above. You represent that you are the owner or authorized user of the wireless device on which messages will be received, and that you are authorized to approve the applicable charges.

Security

Weeks will take reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of all Personal Information provided to this Web Site, including making your Personal Information available to our employees and agents on a need-to-know basis. However, due to the inherent nature of the Internet as an open global communications vehicle, we cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our system or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, such as hackers.

If you contact us by e-mail or a “contact us” or similar feature on our Web Site, you should be aware that your transmission might not be secure. A third party could view information you send by these methods in transit.

We will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties.

In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your personal Information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail. You consent to our use of e-mail as a means of such notification.

Phishing

With identity theft a continuing problem, it has become increasingly common for unauthorized individuals to send e-mail messages to consumers, purporting to represent a legitimate company such as a bank or on-line merchant, requesting that the consumer provide personal, often sensitive information. Sometimes, the domain name of the e-mail address from which the e-mail appears to have been sent, and the domain name of the web site requesting such information, appears to be the domain name of a legitimate, trusted company. In reality, such sensitive information is received by an unauthorized individual to be used for purposes of identity theft. This illegal activity has come to be known as “phishing.”

Weeks will never request a password or social security number via e-mail. If you receive an e-mail or other correspondence requesting that you provide any sensitive information (including your Web Site password or credit card information) via e-mail or to a web site that does not seem to be affiliated with our Web Site, or that otherwise seems suspicious to you, please do not provide such information, and report such request to us.

Marketing Preferences

You have the right to “opt in” and “opt out” of certain of our uses of your Personal Information and may change your preferences regarding such uses at any time. For example, at the time you are requested to provide Personal Information on this Web Site, you may have the opportunity to elect whether or not to: (1) receive commercial correspondence from us (either on our behalf or on behalf of a third party), or (2) have your Personal Information shared with other entities (outside of Weeks Auction) for their marketing purposes. You may also make this request by visiting our marketing preferences Web page. You may also opt-out of Weeks promotional e-mails by clicking on the opt-out link within the e-mail you receive, or of Weeks postal mailings by following the directions in such mailings. Please be aware that it may take up to 10 business day(s)for Weeks to update your preferences. During that time, you may continue to receive messages from us.

Please understand that if you opt-out of receiving promotional correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your relationship, activities, transactions and communications with us (including, for example and without limitation, alerts, tracked lots, wish lists and condition reports, in connection with your use of Weeks website (as defined above). Also, a request to have us stop sharing your Personal Information with other entities for marketing purposes will only apply as of the date on which we receive your request, and we will not be responsible for any communications that you may receive from entities that received your Personal Information prior to such request. In these cases, please contact that entity directly.

Third Party “Linked-To” Web Sites

When you are on our Web Site you may have the opportunity to visit, or link to, other sites not operated by Weeks, including other Web sites operated by other members of Weeks Auction or by unaffiliated third parties. This Privacy Policy does not address the information practices of other Web sites. The Privacy Policies of Web sites operated by other members of Weeks Auction and other affiliated entities are located on those sites.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Weeks reserves the right to change or update this Privacy Policy, or any other of our policies or practices, at any time, and will notify users of this Web Site by posting such changed or updated Privacy Policy on this page. Any changes or updates will be effective immediately upon posting to this Web Site. Under certain circumstances, we may also elect to notify you of changes or updates to our Privacy Policy by additional means, such as posting a notice on the front page of our Web Site to sending you an e-mail.