Privacy Policy
Please know that your privacy matters to us, and we do not share your e-mail or other personal information with anyone.
Communicating With You
We communicate only with individuals who have indicated they wish to receive information from us, either by contacting us directly by phone or by email or other electronic means, sending a message via our “Contact” page, or subscribing to our newsletter. We do not send unsolicited email (spam).
The rest of this page provides more details about our privacy policy.
Background
ANB Communications, the parent company for the https://annenordhausbike.com website and its related services, understands that your privacy and how your information is used and shared online are important to you.
We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits our site. We only collect and use information in ways that are useful to you and in a manner consistent with your rights and our obligations under the law.
This policy applies to our use of any and all data collected by us in relation to your use of our site. Please read this privacy policy carefully and ensure that you understand it.
Your acceptance of our privacy policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of our site. If you do not accept and agree with this privacy policy, you must stop using our site immediately.
Definitions and Interpretation
In this policy the following terms shall have the following meanings:
- Account - means an account required to access and/or use certain areas and features of our site.
- Cookie - means a small text file placed on your computer or device by our site when you visit certain parts of our site and/or when you use certain features of our site.
- Our site - means this website, https://annenordhausbike.com
- UK and EU Cookie Law - means the relevant parts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
- We/Us/Our - means ANB Communications, a division of Central Park Communications, Inc., a company registered in the United States, in the State of Illinois, whose registered address is 6160 W. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60638.
Information About Us
Our site, https://annenordhausbike.com, is owned and operated by ANB Communications, a division of Central Park Communications, Inc., a company registered in the United States, in the State of Illinois, whose registered address is 6160 W. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60638.
Scope – What This Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of our site. It does not extend to any websites to which our site or other communications may link (whether we provide those links or whether they are shared by other users). We have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites, and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
Information We Collect
Our site automatically collects some data. For other data, we collect it only if you voluntarily submit it, for example, when signing up to our newsletter, entering a free drawing, making a purchase, or to download some information.
The https://annenordhausbike.com website and ANB Communications are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We do not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement without your express permission or unless ordered to do so by a court of law. We do not share personally identifiable information with third parties. We do not share or rent our email address lists or other personal data, which remain our exclusive and confidential property.
Contact And Subscribe Pages, Forms
We collect information on our Contact and Subscribe pages and forms, for example, in order to fulfill your request for information, answers to questions, or assistance or service.
Depending upon your use of our site, we may collect some or all of the following data:
- Name
- Email Address
- Telephone number
- Country or other location data to know the best time to reach you
- Answers to survey questions
- IP address (automatically collected)
- Web browser type and version (automatically collected)
- Operating system (automatically collected)
- The URL that referred you our site (automatically collected)
- Your activity on our site (automatically collected)
- The site you exit to (automatically collected)
This information remains confidential and is used only to address a visitor’s question or other inquiry. This website and ANB Communications store information in a secure environment. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job receive access to personally identifiable information.
Information Collected By Third Parties
For collectors purchasing original artwork or reproductions, depending on your preference and purchase terms that apply, the https://annenordhausbike.com website and ANB Communications may use PayPal or another payment service to process payment for purchasing artwork. If you purchase an original work or reproduction, payment is due before art is shipped. PayPal and other payment service providers request personal information to permit payment processing. More information about PayPal’s and other providers' privacy policy and terms of service can be found on each company’s website.
The book Follow the Sun: A Simple Way to Use Astrology for Living in Harmony includes several of Anne Nordhaus-Bike's original paintings as well as her original writings. It is available for purchase online at numerous online booksellers and from the publisher. When you purchase a book online, the company you buy from will request personal information in order to to process your order and communicate with you about it as necessary. See individual booksellers’ websites for information on their privacy policies and terms of service.
The https://annenordhausbike.com website and ANB Communications may use Zazzle, Inc. to process and fulfill orders for zodiac gifts. If you place an order for any of these items, Zazzle collects information about what you wish to purchase as well as personal information to allow the company to process your order and communicate with you about it as necessary. More information about Zazzle’s privacy policy and terms of service can be found on the company’s website.
The https://annenordhausbike.com website and ANB Communications may use Fine Art America to process and fulfill orders for fine art reproductions and fine art greeting cards. If you place an order for any of these items, Fine Art America collects information about what you wish to purchase as well as personal information to allow the company to process your order and communicate with you about it as necessary. More information about Fine Art America’s privacy policy and terms of service can be found on the company’s website.
Cookies
This website, https://annenordhausbike.com ("our site"), uses cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish you from other visitors.
By using cookies, we can give you a better experience and improve our site by better understanding how you use it. Please read this cookie policy carefully to make sure you understand it. By continuing to use our site, you are acknowledging that you do accept our cookie policy. If you do not agree to our cookie policy, please stop using our site immediately.
Definitions And Interpretation
In this policy, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:
- Cookie - means a small file consisting of letters and numbers that our site downloads to your computer or device;
- Web Beacon - means a small, transparent image file (normally 1px x 1px in size) used for tracking user behavior and activity around our site;
- We/Us/Our - means ANB Communications, whose registered address is 6160 W. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60638.
How Our Site Uses Cookies
We may use cookies on our site for a number of reasons, all of which are designed to improve your experience of using it. Cookies allow you to navigate around our site better and enable us to tailor and improve our site by saving your preferences and understanding your use of it.
We use the following types of cookie:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies - A cookie falls into this category if it is essential to the operation of our site, supporting functions such as logging in, your shopping basket, and payment transactions.
- Analytics Cookies - We need to understand how you use our site, for example, how efficiently you are able to navigate around it and what features you use. Analytics cookies enable us to gather this information, helping us to improve our site and your experience of it.
- Functionality Cookies - Functionality cookies enable us to provide additional functions to you on our site such as personalization and remembering your saved preferences.
- Targeting Cookies - We also need to know when and how often you visit our site and which parts of it you have used (including which pages you have visited and which links you have clicked on). As with analytics cookies, this information helps us better understand you and, in turn, make our site and advertising more relevant to your interests. Some information gathered by targeting cookies also may be shared with third parties.
- Third Party Cookies - We do not place third party cookies, and we have no control over them. Third party cookies may be used by advertising services to serve up tailored advertising to you on our site or by third parties providing analytics services to us (these cookies work the same way as analytics cookies described above).
- Persistent Cookies - Any of the above types of cookie may be a persistent cookie. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or device for a predetermined period and get activated each time you visit our site.
- Session Cookies - Any of the above types of cookie may be a session cookie. Session cookies are temporary and remain on your computer or device only from the point at which you visit our site until you close your browser. Closing your browser after you visit our site deletes session cookies.
We also use web beacons on our site to track your navigation around it. As with analytics cookies described above, web beacons help us understand how you use our site and enable us to improve it in the future.
Cookies used on our site are not permanent, and almost all of them expire between 1 day and 1 year from the date they are created.
Our site may place and access certain first party cookies on your computer or device. First party cookies are those placed directly by us and are used only by us. We use cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of our site and to provide and improve our products and services. By using our site you also may receive certain third party cookies on your computer or device. Third party cookies are those placed by websites, services, and/or parties other than us. We use third party cookies on our site for website analytics by Google Analytics, which uses cookies. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyze usage statistics, enabling us to better understand how people use our site.
Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default. You can change these settings if you wish, however, please be aware that doing so will prevent all websites from using cookies, not just ours. Please also be aware that, by disabling cookies in your browser, you may impair our site's functionality on your device. Cookies are required to operate most modern websites.
The links below provide instructions on how to control cookies in all mainstream browsers:
Google Chrome - Delete, Allow, And Manage Cookies In Chrome
Safari (OSX) – Clear Cookies And Browsing History Using Safari
Safari (iOS) - Clear The History And Cookies From Safari On Your iPhone, iPad, Or iPod Touch
Mozilla Firefox - Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox
Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Edge, Browsing Data, And Privacy
How We Use Your Data
Personal data is stored securely in accordance with principles set forth by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We use your data to provide the best possible products and services to you, including:
- Providing and managing your access to our site.
- Personalizing and tailoring your experience on our site.
- Supplying our products and services to you
- Responding to communications from you
- Supplying you with email that you have subscribed to. Please note that you may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email that you have received from us.
- Market research
- Analyzing your use of our site so we can improve our site and your user experience continually
- Facilitating any free prize drawings that the site offers
Collector Communication
Collectors who have purchased original art or reproductions from us may receive e-mails from us for administrative and other purposes. From time to time, we may request information from collectors via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary. Information requested may include contact and demographic information as well as opinions about the artistanne.com website and its products. Survey information will be used to monitor or improve use of and satisfaction with our administration and products.
Marketing And Mailing Lists
With your permission and where permitted by law, we also may use your data for marketing purposes, which may mean contacting you by email with information, news, and offers on our products and services. We will not, however, send you any unsolicited marketing or spam.
If you subscribe to our newsletter online or by asking us to add you to our mailing list(s), or if you purchase artwork, other products, or services from us, your name and email address are added to our group email list for online mailing purposes.
This information remains confidential and is the property of https://annenordhausbike.com and ANB Communications. The https://annenordhausbike.com website and ANB Communications store information in a secure environment. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job receive access to personally identifiable information.
Recipients may opt out at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link on the footer of any email communication from the www.annenordhausbike.com website. Also, subscribers may click on a link at the bottom of every e-mail to change their subscriber options.
Please note that group emails are managed through AWeber, a third party service that provides email newsletter support for https://annenordhausbike.com and ANB Communications. These emails differ from individual emails, which go to an individual rather than a group, typically in response to an inquiry using the form on our Contact page.
We use AWeber to manage our group email lists and to send newsletters and other emails. AWeber takes consumer privacy very seriously and takes every measure to protect the data of its customers and their subscribers. You may view AWeber's privacy policy here: https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm.
AWeber complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and as a customer of AWeber, the https://annenordhausbike.com website and ANB Communications also comply with the GDPR and with AWeber's policies and other terms of service for data confidentiality and all other aspects of managing mailing lists, newsletters, and communication with subscribers. AWeber is self-certified with both the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield, and AWeber complies with lawful transfers of EU/EEA personal data to the U.S. in accordance with its Privacy Shield Certification.
In addition to using cookies on our site, we use cookies and similar technologies in group emails we send to newsletter subscribers, collectors, or others whose names and emails appear on one or more mailing lists maintained by the https://annenordhausbike.com website and ANB Communications. Just like the cookies on our site, we use these to help us understand how you use our site and learn how we can keep improving it.
We use web beacons in group emails to detect when (or whether) you open an email and how you have interacted with it as well as other information such as your email client, web browser, computer or device, and IP address. We also may use web beacons to serve up emails in a particular format so that what you receive is best suited to your computer or device.
Emails from us may contain links. Each link contains a unique tag, which enables us to track which links are being used and by whom. We use this information to improve and tailor our emails in the future so they are of most interest and relevance to you.
Website Analytics
Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyze usage statistics, allowing us to understand better how people use our site.
Our website, https://annenordhausbike.com, uses analytics services provided by Google Analytics. These services use cookies to enable analytics functions. Google uses cookies and processes visitor information in a way that does not identify visitors individually.
Google Analytics: For more information about safeguarding your privacy regarding Google Analytics, see Google's Safeguarding Your Data page at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en. To opt out of Google Analytics, visit this page for a browser tool you can install to opt out of analytics:https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Advertisers
Advertisers whose content appears on our site may engage in what is known as "behavioral advertising" – advertising that is tailored to your preferences, based on your activity. Your activity is monitored using cookies. You can control and limit your data used in this way by adjusting your web browser’s privacy settings. Please note that we do not control the activities of such advertisers, nor the information they collect and use. Limiting the use of your data in this way will not remove the advertising, but it will make it less relevant to your interests and activities on our site
We may use Google Adsense advertising on this site. Please be aware that:
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's previous visits to your website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to our site and to other sites on the internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. You also may consult this website for information on how to opt out of personalized advertising.
For more information about how Google uses your data and how to control the information Google collects, visit the Privacy & Terms page onhe Google's site.
How And Where We Store Your Data
We only keep your data for as long as we need to in order to use it as described above, and/or for as long as we have your permission to keep it.
Some or all of your data may be stored or transferred outside of the United States. You are deemed to accept and agree to this by using our site and submitting information to us. If we do store or transfer data outside the United States, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated as safely and securely as it would be within the United States. Such steps may include, but not be limited to, using legally binding contractual terms between us and any third parties we engage.
Notwithstanding the security measures that we take, it is important to remember that transmitting data via the internet may not be completely secure and that you are advised to take suitable precautions when transmitting data to us via the internet.
When We May Share Your Data
We may sometimes contract with third parties to supply products and services to you on our behalf. These may include payment processing, delivery of goods, search engine facilities, advertising, and marketing. In some cases, the third parties may require access to some or all of your data. Where any of your data is required for such a purpose, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the obligations of the third party under the law.
We may compile statistics about the use of our site including data on traffic, usage patterns, user numbers, sales, and other information. All such data will be anonymized and will not include any personally identifying information. We may from time to time share such data with third parties such as prospective investors, affiliates, partners, and advertisers. Data will only be shared and used within the bounds of the law.
In certain circumstances we may be legally required to share certain data held by us, which may include your personal information, for example, where we are involved in legal proceedings and where we are complying with the requirements of legislation, a court order, or a governmental authority. We do not require any further consent from you in order to share your data in such circumstances and will comply as required with any legally binding request that is made of us.
If Our Business Changes Hands
We may, from time to time, expand or reduce our business, and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of our business. Data provided by visitors will, where it is relevant to any part of our business so transferred, be transferred along with that part, and the new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this Privacy Policy, be permitted to use the data for the purposes for which it was originally collected by us.
In the event that any of your data is to be transferred in such a manner, you will be contacted in advance and informed of the changes. You will be given the chance to unsubscribe and have our data removed from the new owner's email list.
How You Can Access Your Data
You have the legal right to view, change, or delete any of your personal data held by us (where such data is held). Please contact us for more details. See our Contact page for information on how to reach us.
Data Protection Representative
For inquiries related to data protection, our data representative for purposes of Article 27 of the GDPR is William S. Bike. If you are in the European Economic Area, you may contact him for questions related to personal data processing by using this website's contact form.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy as we may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any changes will be immediately posted on our site, and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of our site following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up to date.
This privacy policy has been updated as of February 2024.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about our site or this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the form on our Contact page or by email, by telephone at (773) 229-0024, or by mail at 6160 W. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60638. Please make sure that your question and what you need is clear in all your correspondence with us.