Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION & OUR COMMITMENT TO DISCRETION
Gammas Art Gallery ("we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. Operating at the pinnacle of fine Asian art curation, we understand that discretion and confidentiality are paramount to our discerning clientele. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, process, and protect your personal information when you visit www.gammas.com (the "Site") or acquire an artwork from us, in strict compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other global data protection laws.

THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
To facilitate secure, high-value art acquisitions, we may collect and process the following categories of data:

Identity Data: First name, last name, username, or similar identifier. For high-ticket acquisitions, we reserve the right to request government-issued identification to comply with international Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations.
Contact Data: Billing address, secure delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
Financial Data: Payment card details and bank account information (processed securely through encrypted, PCI-compliant third-party gateways like Stripe; we do not store full credit card numbers on our servers).
Transaction Data: Details about payments to and from you, and records of the artworks you have purchased.
Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, and operating system used to access our Site.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your data in the following circumstances:

To Perform a Contract: To process your payment, safely package your artwork in secure archival tubes, and manage global delivery via couriers (DHL/FedEx).
To Comply with Legal Obligations: To maintain proper tax records, prevent fraudulent transactions, and comply with international art market financial regulations.

DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA (THIRD PARTIES)

We absolutely do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data. We only share data with trusted third parties to the extent strictly necessary to fulfill your acquisition, including:

Logistics Partners: Courier services (such as DHL or FedEx) require your Contact Data to securely deliver your artwork with Tracked & Signed protocols.
Payment Gateways: Trusted financial institutions to process your transactions securely.
Legal Authorities: We may disclose information if legally required to do so by law enforcement or to defend Gammas Art Gallery against fraudulent claims, chargebacks, or illicit activities.

DATA SECURITY & DEFENSE MEASURES

Gammas Art Gallery has implemented stringent, industry-leading security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. All financial transactions are heavily encrypted. Access to your personal data is strictly limited to authorized personnel who are subject to a strict duty of confidentiality.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS & LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Our Site may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. Gammas Art Gallery assumes no liability for data breaches occurring on external platforms.

DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, tax, or reporting requirements. By law, we must keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial, and Transaction Data) for tax purposes for a specified number of years after they cease being customers.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under global data protection laws (including the GDPR), you have the right to:

Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of incomplete or inaccurate data.
Request erasure of your personal data (subject to our legal requirements to retain transaction records).
Object to processing or request restriction of processing.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your data.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our administrative team via the contact form on our website.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in legal requirements or our operational practices. Any updates will be published on this page.

Thank you for your understanding, for your appreciation of the unique allure of Thangka paintings, and for joining us on this exciting voyage of cultural discovery and preservation.

Warmest Regards,

The Gammas Art Gallery Team.