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Privacy Statement

Your privacy is important to us. This statement explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information.

1. Introduction

The Iacob Foundation ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our cultural heritage archive website.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the website includes:

  • Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, and telephone number, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the website or when you choose to participate in various activities related to the website.
  • Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the website, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the website.
  • Financial Data: Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you make purchases or donations.
  • Mobile Device Data: Device information, such as your mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer, and information about the location of your device, if you access the website from a mobile device.

3. Use of Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the website to:

  • Create and manage your account
  • Process your transactions and send you related information
  • Email you regarding your account or order
  • Fulfill and manage purchases, orders, payments, and other transactions related to the website
  • Generate a personal profile about you to make future visits more personalized
  • Increase the efficiency and operation of the website
  • Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the website
  • Notify you of updates to the website
  • Perform other business activities as needed

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

  • By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
  • Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
  • Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Statement.

5. Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

6. Policy for Children

We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

  • The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data
  • The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate
  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions
  • The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data
  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data
  • The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the website to help customize the website and improve your experience. When you access the website, your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can remove or reject cookies, but be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the website.

9. Changes to This Privacy Statement

We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time in order to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Statement on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Statement, please contact us at:

Iacob Foundation

Email: studio@digitalheritage.studio

Website: Contact Page

Last updated: November 21, 2025