Cookies and Technical Information

This is part of our privacy statement.

MagCloud/Blurb, Inc.

Payment Processor, Printer and Distributor
http://www.blurb.com/privacy
When you purchase and download magazine issues, your financial and shipping information is handled by a third-party payment processor and distributor, Blurb. The ArtAscent website does not store financial or shipping information nor process financial transactions when you download and/or purchase magazine issues. That information is provided directly by you to Blurb, via your Blurb account, whose use of your personal information is governed by its privacy policy.

PayPal

Payment Processor
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
ArtAscent does not collect or store your payment card details. That information is provided directly to PayPal whose use of your personal information is governed by its privacy policy. PayPal adheres to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

Mailchimp

Newsletter Platform
https://mailchimp.com/legal/

By subscribing to our newsletter, you agree to the receipt of the newsletter and the procedures described. We do this to pursue our legitimate interest in delivering our Services and marketing our business.

Registration for our newsletter is handled through an opt-in procedure. We only need a first name and email address to register for the newsletter.

The newsletter is sent using MailChimp, a newsletter platform. The newsletter’s registrations are recorded to prove the accurate registration process according to legal requirements. Furthermore, changes to the data stored by MailChimp are recorded. The email addresses of our newsletter recipients, as well as further data described in the context of this information, are being stored on the servers of MailChimp. MailChimp and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole to provide our services. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions in our Services.

There are cases where we direct newsletter recipients to the Mailchimp websites. For example, our newsletters contain a link with which the newsletter recipients can access the newsletters online (e.g., in case of display problems in the email program). Furthermore, newsletter recipients can change their data (like their email address). By subscribing to our newsletter, you agree to the receipt of the newsletter and the procedures described. You may terminate the receipt of our newsletter at any time. You will find a link to unsubscribe from our newsletter at the bottom of each newsletter.

For information on the Mailchimp cookie statement, see https://mailchimp.com/legal/cookies/.

Google, Inc.

Analytics, Online Advertising, Authentication Provider
https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics for the purposes of the adequate design and continuous optimization of our Services. Google Analytics works with cookies and creates pseudomonysed usage profiles, which enable an analysis of your use of our Services. Information stored in such cookies (such as browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL, Hostname of the accessing computer, time of server request) are usually transmitted to and stored on Google’s servers in the USA. We do this in the pursuit of our legitimate interests of better understanding how our Services are used and to report aggregated usage statistics. Due to the activation of the IP anonymization (IP masking), Google will truncate and therefore anonymize the IP address of your device within the European Union or the European Economic Area.

Solid Security

Security Logs
https://solidwp.com/privacy-policy/
The IP address of visitors, user ID of logged in users, and username of login attempts are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and to protect the website from specific kinds of attacks. Examples of conditions when logging occurs include login attempts, log out requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to website content, and password updates. Security logs are retained for 120 days.

This website is scanned for potential malware and vulnerabilities by Sucuri’s SiteCheck. We do not send personal information to Sucuri; however, Sucuri could find personal information posted publicly (such as in comments) during their scan. For more details, please see Sucuri’s privacy policy.

This website is part of a network of websites that protect against distributed brute force attacks. To enable this protection, the IP address of visitors attempting to log into the website is shared with a service provided by solidwp.com.

Akismet

Antispam Service
https://automattic.com/privacy/
Akismet, a service of Automattic, collects information about visitors who comment on websites that use its Akismet anti-spam service. The information it collects depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the website, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and website URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Other relevant privacy policies
DropBox

Cloud Drive
https://dropbox.com

Facebook

Online Advertising, Social Media
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Instagram

Online Advertising, Social Media
https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870

Bluesky

Online Advertising, Social Media
https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy

Twitter

Online Advertising, Social Media
https://twitter.com/en/privacy

Pinterest

Online Advertising, Social Media
https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

YouTube

Online Advertising, Social Media
https://policies.google.com/privacy