PREAMBLE

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Protecting the privacy of customers and visitors to the Richard Prince website is a priority for us.

This policy describes the current practices on www.richardprince1994.com (the “Site”) for the protection of your data - your personal data - and the respect of your privacy.

Richard Prince ("Richard Prince" or "The Artist") wished to commit to the protection of your personal data and complies with the applicable regulations, in particular Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978 (“Loi Informatique et Libertés”) and Regulation 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (“RGPD”).

This Data Protection Policy is part of our desire to be transparent and fair to you. Here you will find all the information on how The Artist collects, processes and protects your personal data in the context of using the services on the Site. 


PURPOSE AND USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

 

We may ask you for personal data when you take part in a competition, request a service, answer a survey questionnaire or for any other involvement on your part in an activity on our Site.

 

The data that must be collected is specified at the time of collection, as are the consequences of refusing to provide it.

 

As part of these activities, we may collect your name, telephone number and e-mail address so that we can contact you. In addition, when you connect to our Site, we collect information about your hardware or software, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the pages you visit on our Site, your reference and exit pages, and the dates and times of your visits.

 

The data concerning your visits are necessary for the administration of the Site and provide general statistical information on its frequentation.

 

The processing of your data is based on the legitimate interests of The Artist; and/or be based on your consent when this is necessary.

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Data is also collected during your browsing on the Site to enable the Site to recognize your connection terminal and to open access to the Site's functionalities. The Site uses “cookies” relating to your experience and your preferences, in particular to enable you to access a personalized experience and to improve its services. 
 

 

SUBJECT AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

 

Your data will not be passed on to third parties, apart from the data transfers provided for in article 6 below. We may enter into contracts with other companies for the provision of services. In such cases, we only provide these partners with the data they strictly require to provide their services. They are not authorized to use it for any other purpose, and we require them to comply strictly with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

 

We may disclose personal data if we believe in good faith that we are required to do so by law or legal process, or to defend our rights and interests or those of our members, suppliers or users.

 

We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement authorities any activities that we believe in good faith to be unlawful.

We may disclose certain personal data when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with the law; enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or protect our rights, property or safety, or those of a third party. In the event that we are involved in an administrative transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of some or all of our assets, our users' personal data will, in most cases, be transferred with the transferred assets. You will be notified of the transfer of your personal data as described in this policy.
 

PERSONAL DATA RETENTION PERIOD

 

Personal data is kept by The Artist for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, and in particular for the following periods:

- data relating to the contact form or requests for artwork information: 3 years from the date of the last contact with you;
- data communicated as part of a job application within Richard Prince studio: 2 years from the date of the last contact with the job applicant.

 

We may retain your data beyond the above-mentioned periods (i) to ensure compliance with legal, accounting and tax retention obligations, (ii) for the preservation of evidence during applicable limitation periods, (iii) for the exercise of The Artist's rights in the event of litigation or legal action (including as a preventive measure) for the entire period of the proceedings or investigation. In all cases, your personal data will be kept for a period of time that complies with the legal provisions in force.

 

RESPECT FOR YOUR CONSENT

 

Some processing of personal data may require your consent to be obtained in advance. In accordance with the RGPD, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time and without any justification. You are informed that withdrawal of consent does not compromise the lawfulness of processing based on consent carried out prior to such withdrawal. To do so, please contact us by e-mail at info@lynartstore.com.

Please note that we will retain any personal data we may have collected until your request to withdraw consent has been implemented. The data thus collected will be retained for the duration of the retention period specified in this policy.

TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL DATA

 

Certain personal data collected via the Site is processed by service providers established in Canada, the United States or Ireland, such as those listed below. The transfer of personal data is governed by the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, in order to guarantee an adequate level of protection for personal data.

 
You can request access to these guarantees by contacting us by e-mail at the following address: info@lynartstore.com
 

 

YOUR RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO PERSONAL DATA

 

Within the limits and reservations laid down by regulations on the protection of personal data, and after providing proof of your identity, you have the right to ask us to access, rectify or delete your personal data. Within the limits laid down by law, you also have the right to object to processing, to limit it, to decide on the post-mortem fate of your data, to withdraw your consent at any time and the right to portability of the personal data supplied. 

 

You can exercise these rights by contacting us at info@lynartstore.com.

 

When you ask to be excluded from our commercial campaigns (newsletter), you will nevertheless continue to receive service messages that concern you, and in particular legal notices and messages important for the use of the services you have purchased from us.

 

We remind you that you can contact the CNIL directly on the website www.cnil.fr/fr/agir or by post at the following address: 

Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés, 3 Place de Fontenoy TSA 80715, 75334 PARIS CEDEX 07

 

SECURITY OF COLLECTED INFORMATION

 

In accordance with the French Data Protection Act and the RGPD, and taking into account the state of knowledge, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing implemented, as well as the risks to your rights and freedoms and their likelihood, The Artist and its partners implement the appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk and to prevent the destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized access to your personal data. 

 

We are committed to protecting the security of your personal data, and use various technologies and procedures to ensure their protection. For example, we store personal data in a secure, restricted-access facility.
 
 PRIVACY AND ONLINE DISCUSSION FORUMS

 

The information you post on online comments on the Site or other Internet sites is accessible to others who have access to the forums and may be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personal data you choose to communicate in these comments.

 

USE OF INVISIBLE GIF TECHNOLOGY

 

We may also use transparent GiF technology, also known as Web beacons, or action tags as devices to collect aggregate data about visits to our site in order to see how users access and navigate it. We may also use this technology to track the receipt of HTML pages via e-mail. This data is collected exclusively for use in our marketing and research operations.

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AMENDMENTS TO THIS STATEMENT

 

This Personal Data Protection Policy may be updated from time to time. When an update is made, the "last updated" date at the beginning of the statement is updated accordingly. If material changes are made to this statement that may affect our use of your personal information, we will notify users by placing a prominent notice on the home page of our Site.

 

Mise à jour : May 1, 2025