Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 24th, 2024

Euro_Persian Art Organization (“us”, “we”, or “our”) uses cookies on https://www.europersianarts.com (the “Service”). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.

Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies, and additional information about cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser when you visit a website. A cookie file is stored in your web browser, allowing the Service or a third party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and more useful.

Cookies can be either “persistent” or “session” cookies.

How Euro_Persian Art Organization uses cookies

When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser.

We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Service, provide analytics, store your preferences, and enable advertisement delivery, including behavioral advertising.

We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service, employing different types to run the Service:

  • Essential cookies: We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

Cookie policy

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own (squarespace) cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and more.

What are your choices regarding cookies?

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Visitor data

When you make a donation or become a patron via this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill your request. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your donation

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online platform hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

Our payment processor(s) [payment processor name(s) : Stripe , PayPal , Square] will also collect payment information from you. You can read their privacy policy at [payment processor privacy policy URL].

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

For form block submissions

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online platform hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with [third party service name : Google Drive, Google Forms, Mailchimp] for storage and [with Zapier for data porting].

For Donation form, payments, and privacy policy, Please check our partner donation website
https://donorbox.org/

For member site subscribers

When you subscribe to a membership or make a contribution to the organization, we collect personal information from you to enable access to any exclusive content or communications. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your subscription or contribution

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide exclusive member site hosting services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

For website visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

For use of share buttons We Don’t Use it anymore!

This website includes share buttons that enable you to share pages or other content from this site to third-party services. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared

  • Your IP address

For use of blog comments We Don’t Use it!

This website includes commenting functionality on some pages that allows you to post a comment. When you post a comment, we collect personal data, including:

  • Your name (which will be displayed with your comment)

  • Your email address (optional, to notify you of replies)

  • Your website URL (optional)

    This website includes “like” functionality on some posts, and we may collect personal data when you like a post, including: We Don’t Use it!

    • Information about your browser, network, and device

    • Your IP address

Customer accounts

If you create a customer or donor account on this website, we collect personal information to improve your experience and service. This information may include your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us.

Emails

You’ll receive an automated email within 24 hours if you begin a process (like a donation or membership) but do not complete it. The email will provide you with the option to complete your action.

You can unsubscribe from these messages at the bottom of the email.

Marketing emails

We may send you marketing emails related to our events, campaigns, and organizational news, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider https://mailchimp.com/?currency=EUR or Google , so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Order and account emails

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

  • You’ve created a customer account

  • Your account password has been reset or updated

  • You’ve made a donation

  • Your donation receipt is ready

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

Scheduling

When you schedule an appointment or consultation by booking on this website, we collect personal information from you to complete the booking. We may collect information like your:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • Details relating to your appointment (e.g., inquiry specifics)

  • Files you uploaded

We share this information with Squarespace, our scheduling service provider, so that they can provide online booking services to us.

Squarespace Payments

When you make a donation or purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. Squarespace Payments uses third-party service providers to process your personal information and payment data, which will be handled in accordance with their privacy policies:

Data Retention (store information)

How Long We Store Your Information

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

  • Account Information: Retained as long as your account is active or as needed to provide services, and up to 10 years after account deletion.

  • Transaction Data: Retained for up to 10 years for tax and financial regulations.

  • Marketing Data: Retained until you opt out.

  • Legal Obligations: Retained as long as necessary to comply with legal obligations or resolve disputes.

If you have any questions about our data retention practices, please contact us via our Contact Page.