Scope
Welcome to the Heritage Coa group of companies (“Heritage Coa” or “we”). From its
beginnings in 1744, Heritage Coa has built its business on the trust of its customers, clients and
visitors. We endeavor to
understand their interests in art and design and, at the same time, protect their privacy. Those
values remain essential to us even as we have grown into a global network of offices in
approximately 40 countries. Heritage Coa publishes this Privacy Policy to let you know how we
collect, use, and disclose your personal information in the course of operating our business. It
also describes your rights in relation to this information. In some circumstances, such as for
certain events, we may provide additional information regarding our data practices. This
Privacy
Policy applies to any Heritage Coa service, event, website, mobile application or other digital or
no digital service, and any hard copy (paper) form which provides a link to or refers to this
Privacy
Policy.
For those who reside in California, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, please
see the end of this Policy for additional information regarding our practices.
Informations Heritage Coa Collects About You
Personal information is information, or a combination of pieces of information, that could
reasonably allow you to be identified. As described in more detail below, we collect personal
information about you from a variety of sources, including information we collect from you
directly,
information we collect about you from other sources, and information we collect automatically
from you.
Information We Collect Directly From You:
We collect information that you submit to us. The types of information that we collect directly
from
you include: personal details (e.g., name, date of birth, alias and/or avatar alias), contact details
(e.g., phone number, email address, postal address), transaction information (e.g., bidding or
purchase records, shipping details, information about items you purchase or wish to consign),
details about your collection, limited financial information (e.g., tokenized payment information
in
connection with your purchases, wire instructions, digital wallet details and address), username
and password, user ID, unique device ID, information on forms required for certain tra nsactions
(e.g social security number), and identification information (e.g. photo ID).
We rely on the information you provide to us or that we collect or observe about your
individual
interactions with us, for example, if you attend a live event, consign property, participate in one
of
our auctions, become a client, register or bid online.
Information We Collect Automatically
We may make video recordings of our auctions, gallery spaces, and certain live events.
We record calls made to our customer care line for quality assurance, compliance purposes,
and
recordkeeping purposes.
We may use common data collection technologies as you visit our websites or apps or interact
with our emails. For example:
– Our logs gather date, time, information about your browser and system or device
configuration,
information about how you interact with our digital properties, and an IP address for all visitors
to
our sites.
– If you have registered with us online, we use data collection technologies to collect
information
that indicates your individual interests in our websites, online platforms and apps, and your
response to our emails and marketing campaigns.
– The Cookies and similar technologies on our digital platforms can also read and collect data
about your browsers as you visit and interact with those platforms: please read our Cookie
Policy for more detailed information about what cookies are, what kinds are used on our sites,
and what choices you have. As described further in our Cookie Policy, we use these
technologies
to enable you to use our digital platforms, learn how you and others interact with our digital
platforms, personalize the content on our digital platforms, and to deliver advertising based on
your interests, including those inferred from your activities over time and across
digital platforms
operated by us and others.
HOW Heritage Coa USES INFORMATION A
How Heritage Coa Uses Informations About You
Heritage Coa uses data about you for the following purposes, as permitted by applicable law:
– To manage and assure the integrity of our auctions.
– To fulfill your orders and purchases, facilitate consignments, provide the services,
publications,
catalogs, and information you request, and manage your account, enquiries and requests and
to
manage your relationship with us.
– To send you information about upcoming events and content that you may be interested in.
– To improve and personalize based on your inferred interests from our website and services.
– To match online ads to your interests, arrange for Heritage Coa and other companies’ ads to
reach
you after you have left our sites, and help advertisers show you ads that are more relevant to
your interests.
– To expand our online audiences.
– To provide, maintain, and protect our digital offerings.
– To check your identity and to protect against the risk of fraud and to detect money laundering
or
other financial crime.
How Heritage Coa Discloses Informations About You
We share information within the Heritage Coa group of companies. Sotheby’s may disclose
personal
information to other companies or entities as follows:
– To business partners and vendors that work on our behalf to provide services such as item
shipments, mailings, customer account and technology support, secure payment processing,
fraud prevention, digital marketing management, and data storage.
– To our auction partners in association with auctions.
– To consigners, sellers and others as needed to facilitate a consignment or purchase, including
to arrange the delivery of property to you.
– To organizations we partner with to host events.
– To digital wallet and cryptocurrency providers as required to complete your sale or purchase.
Please see their privacy policies for details of how they use your personal information. One such
provider is Circle Internet Financial, LLC ("Circle") that provides payment processing services on
Heritage Coa Metaverse. Note that as part of the process of minting NFTs, your digital wallet
details
will be made available on the public blockchain to enable the NFT to be made available to you
and
will be a permanent record of the transaction, along with the details of the NFT’s you purchase.
– To law enforcement or other entities that present valid legal process or in our discretion,
unless
otherwise prohibited by law, to protect human safety, our rights, or the rights of others