Legal Terms & Conditions of Use of CanvasUSA® Site

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. BY USING THIS SITE, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR ACCEPTANCE TO THESE TERMS OF USE. If you do not agree with any of the Terms of Use, do not use this site.

CanvasUSA® reserves the right, at any time, to modify, alter, or update these Terms of Use, and you agree to be bound by such modifications, alterations, or updates.

Materials you see on this web site and your use of them.

CANVASUSA® MAKES NO REPRESENTATION THAT MATERIALS IN THE SITE ARE APPROPRIATE OR AVAILABLE FOR USE IN ALL LOCATIONS. THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO ACCESS THIS SITE FROM LOCATIONS OUTSIDE OF THE U.S. DO SO ON THEIR OWN INITIATIVE AND ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLIANCE WITH LOCAL LAWS, IF AND TO THE EXTENT LOCAL LAWS ARE APPLICABLE.

All material on this site, including for example images, illustrations, and special surveys, sweepstakes, games, and promotions, is protected by copyrights which are owned and controlled either by CanvasUSA® INC. an affiliated entity, or by third parties who have licensed their material to CanvasUSA® Material from www.CanvasUSA.com may not be copied, downloaded, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any purpose other than your own personal, non-commercial or home use is a violation of the copyrights and other property rights held by CanvasUSA®, Inc, or affiliated companies. The use of any such material on any other Web site or networked computer environment is prohibited.

The trademarks, logos, and service marks ("Trademarks") which you see on this site are registered and unregistered trademarks of CanvasUSA, Inc., the participating unaffiliated vendors, its affiliates, and others. Nothing in this site grants you any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on this site without the written permission of the owner of the Trademark. Your use or misuse of the Trademarks displayed on this site, or any other content on this site, is strictly prohibited.

This site is controlled and operated by CanvasUSA®, Inc. at:
CanvasUSA®
1010 Highway 35 South
Rockport, Texas 78382

Materials You Submit to CanvasUSA

CanvasUSA® welcomes your comments regarding our merchandise and services, including our website. However, any notes, messages, billboard postings, ideas, suggestions, photographs, or other material which you submit to CanvasUSA® will become property of CanvasUSA® and CanvasUSA® shall be entitled to use any kind and nature of material which you submit for any type of use forever including in any media whether now known or hereafter devised. When you submit material to the CanvasUSA® site, you agree that CanvasUSA® has the right to publish the material for any type of use as outlined above including for promotional and advertising purposes, without compensation to you of any kind. As a result, we must ask that you do not send us any original creative materials such as stories, product ideas, catalog ideas, or original artwork.

You agree to indemnify CanvasUSA, Inc., its shareholders, officers, directors, employees, agents, distributors, vendors, and affiliates from and against any and all third party claims, demands, liabilities, costs or expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from your breach of any of these terms and conditions.

Privacy

Where you go and what you do - What we know without you telling us. Data about your activity while here on this site is automatically provided to CanvasUSA® when you sign on. For each visitor, our web server automatically recognizes only your domain name, but not your e-mail address. We collect only the domain name, but not the e-mail address of visitors to our web pages; we collect aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, how many visits we get, and information such as where visitors arrived from as far as other sites on the internet or if they directly typed our website address into their browser. It is used by us for internal review in aggregate and non-personally-identifiable form.

Cookies - How we know what we know without you telling us. When you come to CanvasUSA® or when you register with CanvasUSA® we create your personal profile, assign a personal identification number, send this personal identification number back to your computer’s hard drive in the form of a "cookie," which is a very small bit of code. A "cookie" is very small text file placed on your hard drive by a web page server. It serves as your personal identification card, and cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses. The use of cookies is an industry standard; you will find them at most major web sites. Cookies enable us to know more about you, allows your use of the site, and allow you to utilize some of our website's functionality, and correspond with us about your personal profile without having to fill out registration forms with information you've already provided. We use cookies to record session information, such as items that you added to your shopping cart and to conduct marketing tests on our web pages.

By showing how and when you use the site, cookies help us see which areas and products are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies. We use the information from cookies to provide services better tailored to our visitors’ needs. The purpose of a "cookie" is to tell the server that you returned to that web page. Of course, if you never register or leave personal information with CanvasUSA® then the server only knows that someone with your cookie has returned to the web site. You are in charge of deciding whether we know anything about you. But the more you tell us about yourself, the more we can help you find information or products you want. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, note that some parts of the CanvasUSA® website and its functionality and links will not function properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies. For example, without cookies, you may have difficulty completing shopping transactions, entering giveaways, or creating your personal profile. You can order your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time a cookie is offered. Then you can decide whether to accept one or not. If you want to control which cookies your computer accepts, just follow the instructions for your particular internet browser system located at http://www.microsoft.com/info/privacy.htm.

Your E-mail address - Do We Know It?

Your e-mail address and other personally identifying data about you is known to CanvasUSA® only when you voluntarily submit it to CanvasUSA® We collect your e-mail address only if you post a message to us, if you communicate with us via e-mail, if you ask us to communicate with you by e-mail such as for a confirmation of your order or shipment advice, or if you volunteer it for any reason, such as survey information and/or site registration, or sign-up for a newsletter, and if you started but did not complete an order.

Your E-mail address - What Do We Do With It?

If you begin to place an order from this website, and if you have at any time given us your e-mail address, we will use your e-mail address not only to communicate with you about the status of your order but also to send you our own e-mails regarding special sales, exclusive offers, and other valuable promotions that we think will interest you. If you enter one of our giveaways or sign up for one of our newsletters and give us your e-mail address, we will use your e-mail address not only for the purpose it was submitted, but also to send you e-mails regarding our own special sales, exclusive offers, and other valuable promotions that we think will interest you.

Personal Information Other Than Your E-mail Address

California Privacy Rights: CanvasUSA® DOES NOT disclose the personal information of our customers to third parties. The following paragraphs explain what we do with your personal information and how you can prevent it, or simply click here to change your privacy preferences. We use your shipping and payment address, and the address you give us when you “register” your profile with us, to send you our print catalog, by postal mail. We indefinitely maintain all of the information you give to us to help serve you better and to understand our customers and their purchasing patterns over time. Any payment information that is maintained by us is masked to keep it protected in the unlikely event of unauthorized breaches of security. If you have given us your telephone number, when registering your profile with us or when ordering merchandise from us, we may use your telephone number to reach you to follow up on your order. We do not share your telephone number with any outside parties for any purpose whatsoever. Lastly, we do not rent e-mail addresses to outside parties or allow any outside parties to use them for e-mailing purposes.

Opt-Out of Future Catalogs

If you have requested a catalog from us, or have purchased from us at any time, we will send you one of our catalogs.

Correction of Your Personal Profile

You can always edit or correct any personal information you give CanvasUSA® by writing us at: service@CanvasUSA.com.

Shopping Analysis

Provided by Third Party: CanvasUSA® uses a third party data gathering and analysis service, which aggregates information into broad categories to help us provide you better products, services, and improved websites. We refer to them here as our "Data Compiler." Our Data Compiler is contractually bound to keep our visitors’ and customers’ data absolutely secure and confidential, and only to analyze the information it has access to by the software we license from it and return it back to CanvasUSA® They have no rights to use this information for any purpose, match it against any other information in its possession, nor transfer or disclose this information to anyone other than CanvasUSA® Customer Opt-out Choice for Tracking By Our Data Compiler. As a visitor to the CanvasUSA® site, you have the option to deactivate the ability of our Data Compiler to analyze your web browsing and purchasing behavior.

You also have the option to continue to benefit from the improved shopping experience which our Data Compiler enables us to provide to you. CanvasUSA® relies on our Data Compiler. For their opt-out standard, visit their opt-out page information on our Data Compiler’s data collection and instructions for selecting the various levels of privacy and confidentiality that you desire, while still improving your As a visitor to the CanvasUSA® site, the operator of our security monitor, If at any time you have a question or dispute concerning your visit here, your order transaction, or our compliance with this privacy policy, you may contact us at custserv@CanvasUSA.com. Please provide your first and last name, order number, if any, and, if you have a question about our merchandise, item number(s), and we will get back to you promptly. If we are unable to resolve your complaint to your satisfaction, you may elect to proceed to submit your complaint to an independent arbitrator to obtain an impartial assessment of your case, in writing. Any such arbitration will be deemed "conditionally binding", meaning that the decision of the arbitrator will be binding upon CanvasUSA® if you elect to accept the decision, and it will be binding upon you as well. To Residents of a European Union Member Country (EU Residents) - Re: The DMA Safe Harbor Program If you are an EU Resident, your personal data in the possession or control of CanvasUSA® is subject to the United States-European Union Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, FAQs and other relevant EU documents (the "Safe Harbor"). Safe Harbor Privacy Principles are made available by the U.S. Department of Commerce on their website . FAQs and other relevant Safe Harbor documents are made available by the U.S. Department of Commerce. If you are an EU Resident, in the event you are not satisfied with the resolution by CanvasUSA® of any questions or complaints you may have regarding your personal data in our possession, then you may submit your questions and complaints to the Direct Marketing Association ("DMA") Safe Harbor Enforcement Program as follows: e-mail: safeharbor@the-dma.org; mail: Safe Harbor Line, Direct Marketing Association, 1111 19th Street, NW - Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20036, USA, Telecopier: 202-955-0085; Telephone: 202-861-2445.

Security

The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated with our customers and visitors is of utmost concern to us. We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, CanvasUSA® cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. When your credit card information is transmitted to CanvasUSA® we use industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption to ensure the security of your information. We also have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at CanvasUSA®. Notwithstanding, the foregoing, due to the open nature of the internet, we do not guarantee the absence of theft, hacker activity, electronic or non-electronic tampering, or computer crime, and we hereby disclaim responsibility and liability for stolen information.

Disclaimer

The Privacy Policy adopted by CanvasUSA and all statements contained on this site about privacy and how we deal with data supplied by visitors to this site are not intended to be a contractual obligation of any kind and any such obligation is hereby disclaimed. These statements constitute the present policy of CanvasUSA® as to which it will take reasonable measures to implement. Similarly this Privacy Policy is not intended to be "advertising" or "advertising claims." Rather it is intended to set forth our policy, including our practices and intentions about how we conduct our business.

Notice

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. All changes to this policy which we deem material and which affect your personal identifiable information, are effective only after we provide you with at least thirty (30) days' notice of the changes by posting the changes here in Terms & Conditions for Use of Site and sending an e-mail to users who have provided us their e-mail address for this purpose. We provide you with thirty (30) days' notice to give you the opportunity to notify us if you do not agree to the changes we highlight to you in our e-mail notice. Our e-mails will always remind you that you have the opportunity to inform us of your preferences, and will alert you how to inform us of your preferences by such e-mails and through this Privacy Policy. If we make any changes which have no effect upon the collection of your personal information (i.e., revisions to our access and access of third parties to your activities here on an anonymous basis only), then you will not receive an e-mail notification of the change. Such changes will become effective five (5) days after we post the revision to our Privacy Policy on this site.

Disclaimer of Website

THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITH WARRANTIES AS STATED ONLY. CANVASUSA, INC. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CANVASUSA, INC. DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE MATERIALS WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SITE, INCLUDING BULLETIN BOARDS, OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE, ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE TECHNOLOGY THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE, ARE IMMUNE TO HACKER ACTIVITY, ELECTRONIC OR NON-ELECTRONIC TAMPERING, COMPUTER CRIME, OR THEFT. CANVASUSA, INC. DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE OR IN LINKED SITES IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.

The material that you read in the CanvasUSA® site is provided solely for entertainment, promotional, and commerce purposes.

Typographical Errors: Although all information on this website and in our print catalogs has been carefully checked for accuracy, typographical errors and omissions occur and are therefore subject to correction. We regret any inconvenience.

Limitation of Liability

Neither CanvasUSA®, Inc., or related entities or its vendors or content providers are responsible or liable to any person or entity whatsoever for any direct or indirect loss, damage (whether actual, consequential, punitive, special or otherwise), injury, claim, liability or other cause of any kind or character whatsoever based upon or resulting from (1) any CanvasUSA® information or opinions provided on the CanvasUSA® site or from the use of, or the inability to use, CanvasUSA® materials on the site, or (2) any electronic or non-electronic tampering with the site, hacker activity, computer crime, or theft of personal information. You specifically agree that CanvasUSA®, Inc. is not liable for any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of any user, or for any illegal tampering with the site, hacker activity, computer crime, or theft of your personal information. If you are dissatisfied with the CanvasUSA® site or any materials on the site, or with any of the CanvasUSA® Terms of Use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the CanvasUSA® site.

Termination

These Terms of Use constitute an agreement which is effective until terminated by CanvasUSA® at any time, without notice. CanvasUSA® may terminate your right to use this site immediately without notice to you if, in CanvasUSA' sole discretion, you fail to comply with any of these Terms of Use. In the event of termination, you are no longer authorized to access the CanvasUSA® site, and the restrictions imposed upon you with respect to material copied or downloaded, and the disclaimers and limitations of liabilities set forth in these Terms of Use, shall survive the termination of this agreement.

These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and CanvasUSA® relating to the subject matter addressed herein.

The Law that Governs this Web Site

This agreement is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, the principal place of business of CanvasUSA® without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. You agree to bring any claims against CanvasUSA, Inc., exclusively in the state or federal courts of Texas in Aransas County. If any provision of these Terms of Use shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.