Terms of use

 

Welcome to the Blush & Blue Designs website! This site is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the "Terms"). By continuing to use this site you herby accept all the terms, conditions, and policies on this page. Please read these terms carefully. If at any time you do not accept the terms below please immediately exit the site and clear your cache and cookies.

Maria Denisco, Blush & Blue Designs, Blushandbluedesigns.com is a service and commerce company offering Custom Fine Art Wedding Invitations, Fine Art Paintings, Calligraphy Artwork, Commissioned Paintings, Artwork Prints, Products & Goods, Calligraphy Classes, and other products or services.

Rights to Artwork and Images

All artwork, images, and graphics are the sole property of Maria Denisco and may not be used by any third party without written permission.  

Where appropriate images that were not taken by Maria Denisco within this site have been credited to the appropriate photographer. These images may not be copied or used without the written permission of the listed photographer.

Copying or reproducing artwork created by Maria Denisco (as seen on this website or elsewhere) is strictly prohibited without written permission.

Your Account

If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity. You acknowledge that Blush and Blue Designs is not responsible for third party access to your account that results from theft or misappropriation of your account. Blush and Blue Designs and its associates reserve the right to refuse or cancel service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content at our sole discretion.

Electronic Communications

If you opt-in to receive email or other electronic communications from us including but not limited to newsletters, site updates, promotions, sale announcements, or other communications. You agree that all electronically-sent agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. You agree to be bound by any agreement reached through electronic communications. We accept no responsibility for the accurate receipt of any such emails and you are responsible for ensuring that your email address is not blocked or impaired in any way, including by ensuring 'white-listing' of our email address and is up-to-date at all times.

If you unsubscribe from receiving our emails, you acknowledge and understand that you may no longer receive information or updates from The Contract Shop, related courses, or any of our other properties.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property

You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use blushandbluedesigns.com strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to Blush & Blue Designs that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair Blush & Blue Designs or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.

 All content included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of Blush & Blue Designs or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.

 You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on this Site. Maria Denisco’s (Blush & Blue Designs) content is not for resale. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of Blush & Blue Designs or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.

Restrictions

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Maria Denisco (Blush & Blue Designs) as a result of this agreement or use of the Site. Blush & Blue Designs performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Blush and Blues Designs right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by Maria Denisco with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.

 

Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and Blush & Blue Designs with respect to the Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Blush & Blue Designs with respect to the Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.

Governing Law

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the state of North Carolina the United States of America (USA) and the courts of North Carolina, USA shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine any dispute arising in relation to this Agreement.

Changes to Terms

Blush & Blue Designs reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which this site is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions.

 

Privacy policy.

 

Privacy Notice 

Last updated January 2021

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Blush & Blue Designs. By continuing to use Blushandbluedesigns.com and any of our services you are complying with the terms set out in this policy. If you do not agree to any of the policies below please exit this site and remove cookies from your computer after leaving the website. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

  1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared.

  2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.

  3. The security procedures in place to protect against the misuse of your information.

  4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to Blush and Blue Designs. "You" refers to you, the viewer, user, or customer of this website.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing 

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or another direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship or fulfill an order.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Information other than personal information

We consider this information to be data collected through a variety of sources. One of our sources for other information is cookies and other technologies that record Data about the use of our website. Other information that may be collected are:

  • Browser and device data, such as IP address, device type, operating system and Internet browser type, screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, plug-ins, add-ons, and the version of the Services You are using;

  • Transaction data, such as purchases, the purchase amount, date of purchase, and payment method;

  • Cookie and tracking technology data, such as time spent on the website, pages visited, language preferences, and other anonymous traffic data

Your personal data: Collected personal data may be used to (i) provide services; (ii) detect and prevent fraud; (iii) mitigate financial loss or other harm to Users, Customers, and Blush and Blue Designs; and (iv) promote, analyze and improve our shop products, webinars, classes and other media. Examples of how we may use Personal Data include:

  • To verify an identity for compliance purposes;

  • To create contracts for services between us and you

  • To respond to inquiries, send service notices and provide customer support;

  • To process a payment, communicate regarding a payment, and provide related customer service;

  • To develop new products;

  • To send marketing communications;

  • To improve or modify our Services; and

  • To develop business plans that allow us to make informed decisions, and report on the performance of Our business

In addition to the purposes above for which we may process your personal data, we may also process your personal information where such processing is necessary, such as for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another person.

 

Orders

We request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we'll use this information to contact you.

We may disclose personal information such as your name, address and/or business address, and phone number to our suppliers or subcontractors as necessary for shipping, fulfillment, and billing purposes.

This website implements stripe.com for all payment processing. Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to stripe in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

Security 

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal data. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If You have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please contact us at maria@blushandbluedesigns.com and immediately discontinue your use of our site.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Sensitive Information. Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive Data (such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, health, or the like) in Your emails to us.

Cookies

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies. 

These companies may place or recognize a unique cookie, or similar tracking technology, on Your browser (including the use of pixel tags). They may also use these technologies, along with data they collect about Your online use, to recognize You across the devices You use, such as a mobile phone and a laptop, and to make decisions about the advertisements You see. If You would like more information about this practice, and to learn how to opt out of behavioral advertising delivered by Network Advertising Initiative member companies in desktop and mobile browsers on the particular device on which You are accessing this Privacy Policy, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance.

Your Access to and Control Over Information 

This website incorporates privacy controls that affect how we will process your personal data. By using the privacy controls, you can indicate how you would like to be communicated with, whether you would like to receive direct marketing communications, and whether you would like to include email marketing communications. Such controls are used whenever we collect personal data on forms and email marketing signups

You may opt-out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via maria@blushandbluedesigns.com or by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email communications.

  • See what data we have about you, if any.

  • Change/correct any data we have about you.

  • Have us delete any data we have about you.

  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

If emailing us your request, please make clear in the email what Personal Data You would like to have changed. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Data associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. 

Data Retention

We will retain your personal data and information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Data is retained for specific purposes, including to ensure that transactions can be appropriately processed, settled, refunded or charged-back, to help identify fraud, and to comply with anti-money laundering and other laws and rules that apply to us and to our financial service providers. For this reason we may not always be able to specify in advance the periods for which your personal data will be retained.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Advertisements

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements regarding goods and services that may be of interest to You when You access our websites,

To understand and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, we may also use web beacons, cookies, and other technologies to identify the fact that You have visited our website or seen one of our advertisements, and we may provide that Data to one or more third party advertising networks. The Data we provide may include the time and date of Your visit to our website, pages viewed, links clicked and other information. This information does not include your identity.

We may choose to work with Google AdWords, Doubleclick, or other advertising networks. Each of these companies has its own privacy policy, which we encourage You to review. 

Our blog

We can’t be held responsible for how someone interprets and implements the content on our site. Blog post both written by Blush and Blue Designs and in some cases, paid or unpaid third parties, are writing on experiences and offering suggestions. The ideas and suggestions offered in such posts are for entertainment purposes only. Please use discretion if attempting any of the recommendations provided.

Your California Privacy Rights

California's "Shine the Light" law, Civil Code section 1798.83, requires certain businesses to respond to requests from California customers asking about the businesses' practices related to disclosing personal information to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. Alternately, such businesses may have in place a policy not to disclose personal information of customers to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes if the customer has exercised an option to opt-out of such information-sharing. If you wish to opt-out of our sharing of your information with third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes, edit your preferences by emailing us at maria@blushandbluedesigns.com (please include your name, mailing address, and email address).

Children under the Age of 13

The Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or store any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not register on the Site, make purchases through the Site or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number or email address. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately at maria@blushandbluedesigns.com

Surveys & Contests 

From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

Future Updates to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. We may provide you with disclosures and alerts regarding the Privacy Policy or Personal Data update, or through the email address and/or the physical address listed in Your Account. You agree that electronic disclosures and notices have the same meaning and effect as if we had provided You with hard copy disclosures. Disclosures and notices in relation to this Privacy Policy or Personal Data shall be considered to be received by you within 24 hours of the time they are posted to our website or, in the case of subscribed users and clients, sent to through one of means listed in this paragraph.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 919.351.9897 or via email maria@blushandbluedesigns.com.