Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June 25, 2026
John Pitre respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, share, retain, and protect personal information when you visit our website, purchase artwork, submit an inquiry, join our mailing list, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with John Pitre.
This Privacy Policy applies to website visitors, collectors, customers, prospective buyers, newsletter subscribers, business contacts, and others who interact with us.
By using this website or providing personal information to us, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the website or submit personal information to us.
1. Who We Are
John Pitre sells original artwork, limited edition prints, reproductions, collectibles, and related art products and services.
For questions about this Privacy Policy or to submit a privacy request, you may contact us at:
John Pitre Email: curator@johnpitre.com Website: https://johnpitre.com Privacy Request Form
2. What Personal Information Means
“Personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular person or household.
Personal information may include your name, email address, phone number, billing address, shipping address, payment-related information, order history, online identifiers, or communications with us.
3. Personal Information We Collect
The personal information we collect depends on how you interact with us.
Information You Provide Directly
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide, including:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Billing address
- Shipping address
- Artwork preferences or purchase interests
- Order details
- Inquiry details
- Messages, comments, or communications you send to us
- Newsletter or marketing signup information
- Event, gallery, or collector inquiry information
- Payment-related information needed to process a purchase
- Any other information you choose to provide
Information Collected When You Make a Purchase
When you purchase artwork, prints, reproductions, collectibles, or related products, we may collect information needed to process and fulfill your order, including:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Billing address
- Shipping address
- Artwork or product purchased
- Order date
- Transaction details
- Delivery information
- Customer service notes
- Special shipping or fulfillment instructions
Payments are processed through third-party payment providers such as Stripe. We do not intentionally store full credit card numbers on our website. Payment information is handled by our payment processor according to its own privacy and security practices.
Information Collected Through Forms and Communications
We may use customer relationship management, form, email, automation, or communication tools, including Go High Level, to collect, organize, and respond to inquiries, purchases, customer communications, newsletter signups, and marketing communications.
Information stored in these systems may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Inquiry details
- Purchase interest
- Order-related notes
- Communication history
- Marketing preferences
- Appointment or call details, if applicable
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain information, including:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring website
- Pages viewed
- Time spent on pages
- Clicks and website interactions
- Approximate location derived from IP address
- Cookie identifiers
- Pixel identifiers
- Analytics identifiers
We use this information to operate the website, understand visitor activity, improve the website, measure marketing effectiveness, detect security issues, and provide relevant content or advertising.
4. How We Collect Personal Information
We may collect personal information in the following ways:
- When you submit a form on our website
- When you purchase artwork or related products
- When you contact us by email, phone, text, form, or other communication method
- When you sign up for a newsletter or marketing list
- When you request information about artwork, availability, pricing, shipping, or commissions
- When you interact with our website, advertisements, or marketing campaigns
- When information is provided by service providers, payment processors, fulfillment partners, or communication platforms
- Through cookies, pixels, analytics tools, and similar technologies
5. How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information for the following purposes:
- To respond to your inquiries
- To process and fulfill artwork orders
- To process payments
- To arrange printing, packaging, shipping, and delivery
- To provide customer service
- To communicate about orders, shipping, artwork availability, or related updates
- To send newsletters, announcements, promotions, or marketing communications where permitted
- To manage collector, customer, and prospect relationships
- To improve our website, products, marketing, and customer experience
- To measure website and advertising performance
- To prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents, or illegal activity
- To comply with legal, tax, accounting, payment, shipping, and business obligations
- To maintain internal records
- To enforce our terms, rights, agreements, or policies
- To evaluate or complete a business transaction, such as a sale, transfer, or reorganization
6. How We Share Personal Information
We may share personal information with trusted third parties when needed to operate the website, process purchases, fulfill orders, communicate with you, or support our business.
These third parties may include:
- Website hosting and technology providers
- Customer relationship management providers, including Go High Level
- Payment processors, including Stripe
- Printers and print fulfillment partners, including Pictorum and other printing vendors
- Packaging, shipping, and delivery providers
- Email, SMS, and marketing communication providers
- Advertising, analytics, and website performance providers
- Customer support and business operations providers
- Accounting, tax, legal, insurance, and professional advisors
- Fraud prevention, security, and compliance providers
We share only the information reasonably needed for these providers to perform their services. For example, a print or fulfillment partner may receive your name, shipping address, order details, and contact information as needed to produce and deliver your artwork order.
We do not allow service providers to use your personal information for their own marketing purposes unless permitted by law and disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
We may also share personal information if required by law, legal process, court order, subpoena, government request, or when we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, safety, or security of John Pitre, our customers, our website, or others.
7. Payments
Payments are processed by third-party payment processors such as Stripe. When you make a purchase, your payment information is submitted directly to the payment processor or handled through payment systems connected to our website or sales process.
We may receive limited transaction information, such as:
- Payment status
- Transaction ID
- Order amount
- Billing contact information
- Last four digits or payment method reference, where provided by the payment processor
- Fraud or verification status, where applicable
We do not intentionally collect or store full payment card numbers on our website.
8. Printing, Fulfillment, and Shipping
When you purchase artwork, prints, reproductions, or related products, we may share order information with printing, production, packaging, fulfillment, and shipping partners.
These partners may include Pictorum and other printers or fulfillment providers.
Information shared for fulfillment may include:
- Name
- Shipping address
- Email address
- Phone number, where needed for delivery
- Artwork or product ordered
- Order specifications
- Shipping method
- Delivery instructions
These partners use the information to produce, package, ship, deliver, or support your order.
9. Cookies, Pixels, Analytics, and Advertising Technologies
Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, web beacons, analytics tools, advertising technologies, and similar technologies.
These technologies may be used to:
- Operate the website
- Remember your preferences
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Measure website performance
- Improve website functionality
- Detect fraud or security issues
- Deliver or measure advertisements
- Understand the effectiveness of marketing campaigns
- Provide more relevant content or advertising
Some cookies are necessary for the website to work. Other cookies and pixels may be used for analytics, advertising, or marketing purposes.
You may manage cookies through your browser settings. If the website uses a cookie consent or preference management tool, you may also manage your preferences through the Cookie Preferences link or tool available on the website.
Please note that if you clear your cookies, use a different browser, or use a different device, you may need to reset your cookie preferences.
10. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense of exchanging personal information for money.
However, like many websites, we may use cookies, pixels, analytics tools, advertising platforms, and marketing technologies that may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” targeted advertising, or cross-context behavioral advertising under certain privacy laws.
Where required by applicable law, you may opt out of certain cookies, pixels, analytics, advertising, or marketing technologies by using the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link or Cookie Preferences tool available on our website.
11. Email, SMS, and Marketing Communications
We may contact you by email, phone, text message, or other communication methods for order updates, customer service, collector inquiries, artwork availability, newsletter updates, promotions, or other communications related to John Pitre.
You may opt out of marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the email or by contacting us directly. Even if you opt out of marketing emails, we may still send transactional or order-related communications.
SMS/Text Messages
If you provide your mobile phone number and opt in to receive text messages, you consent to receive text messages from or on behalf of John Pitre. Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply.
You may opt out of text messages at any time by replying “STOP” or following the instructions provided in the message.
We do not sell, rent, or share SMS opt-in consent or mobile phone numbers with third parties for their own promotional use. We may share SMS-related information with service providers who help us send messages on our behalf.
12. How Long We Retain Personal Information
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the purpose for collection, legal or business needs, and applicable obligations.
Examples include:
- Website inquiries may be retained for customer service, follow-up, marketing, and business record purposes.
- Order records may be retained for fulfillment, customer service, tax, accounting, legal, fraud prevention, and business record purposes.
- Payment and transaction records may be retained as required for accounting, tax, audit, dispute, fraud prevention, and legal purposes.
- Shipping and fulfillment information may be retained as needed to complete delivery, resolve issues, support returns or replacements, and maintain business records.
- Marketing records may be retained until you opt out, request deletion, or the information is no longer needed.
- Cookie, pixel, and analytics data may be retained according to our settings and the practices of our analytics, advertising, and consent management providers.
- Suppression records may be retained as needed to honor unsubscribe, opt-out, or do-not-contact requests.
When personal information is no longer needed, we may delete, anonymize, de-identify, aggregate, archive, or securely retain it as required or permitted by law.
13. How We Protect Personal Information
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, misuse, loss, alteration, or destruction.
These safeguards may include:
- Access controls
- Password protection
- Role-based permissions
- Secure cloud-based systems
- Vendor security review
- Encryption where appropriate
- Internal policies and procedures
- Data minimization and retention practices
- Secure deletion or anonymization where appropriate
No website, system, transmission, or storage method is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, but we work to protect personal information using reasonable safeguards.
14. Your Privacy Choices
Depending on where you live and how you interact with us, you may have certain privacy choices or rights regarding your personal information.
These may include the ability to:
- Request access to personal information we maintain about you
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information
- Request deletion of personal information
- Request that we stop contacting you
- Opt out of marketing emails
- Opt out of text messages
- Opt out of certain cookies, pixels, analytics, or advertising technologies
- Request information about how we collect, use, share, or retain personal information
To exercise a privacy choice or submit a privacy request, contact us at:
Email: curator@johnpitre.com Privacy Request Form
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests. Verification may require matching information you provide with information we maintain.
We may deny or limit a request where permitted by law, including where information is needed to complete a transaction, fulfill an order, process payment, deliver artwork, maintain tax or accounting records, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, comply with legal obligations, enforce agreements, or maintain required business records.
15. State-Specific Privacy Rights
Residents of certain states may have additional privacy rights under applicable state privacy laws.
Depending on your state and whether a particular law applies to John Pitre, these rights may include the right to:
- Know or access the personal information we collect
- Receive a copy of personal information in a portable format
- Correct inaccurate personal information
- Delete personal information
- Opt out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling
- Limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information
- Not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights
Even where a particular state privacy law may not legally require us to honor every type of request, we strive to provide reasonable privacy choices as a best practice, subject to legal, contractual, payment, tax, accounting, security, fraud prevention, order fulfillment, and operational limitations.
16. California Privacy Notice
This section applies to California residents where applicable.
Depending on our business activities, applicable law, and the volume and type of personal information processed, certain California privacy laws may or may not apply to John Pitre in a particular year.
Even where we may not be legally required to honor every request under the California Consumer Privacy Act or California Privacy Rights Act, we strive to provide reasonable privacy choices as a best practice.
Categories of Personal Information We May Collect
In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:
- Identifiers, such as name, address, phone number, email address, IP address, online identifiers, or similar information
- Customer records, such as billing information, shipping information, order information, or transaction details
- Commercial information, such as artwork purchased, considered, or requested
- Internet or electronic network activity, such as website activity, page views, clicks, and interactions with advertisements
- Geolocation information, such as approximate location from IP address or shipping location
- Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, such as communications, artwork inquiry records, customer service notes, or order-related documentation
- Inferences or preferences, such as artwork interests, collector preferences, marketing preferences, or information used to understand customer interests
- Sensitive personal information, where required for payment, tax, fraud prevention, legal, or fulfillment purposes
Sources of Personal Information
We may collect personal information from:
- You directly
- Your communications with us
- Website forms
- Website cookies, pixels, analytics, and advertising technologies
- Payment processors
- Shipping and fulfillment providers
- Marketing and communication platforms
- Customer relationship management tools
- Publicly available sources
- Service providers
- Business partners
Business or Commercial Purposes
We may collect, use, or share personal information for the business or commercial purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including responding to inquiries, processing purchases, fulfilling orders, arranging payment, printing, shipping, customer service, marketing, advertising, analytics, fraud prevention, security, legal compliance, and business operations.
Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense of exchanging it for money.
However, our use of certain cookies, pixels, analytics tools, advertising platforms, or marketing technologies may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under California privacy law.
Where required by applicable law, you may opt out by using the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link or Cookie Preferences tool available on our website.
Sensitive Personal Information
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes other than those reasonably necessary to process payments, fulfill orders, comply with legal obligations, prevent fraud, protect security, or support business operations.
Children’s Personal Information
We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of individuals under the age of 16.
California Financial Incentive Notice
We do not currently offer a loyalty, rewards, or financial incentive program that provides benefits in exchange for the collection, sale, sharing, or retention of personal information.
If we offer a discount, giveaway, promotion, loyalty program, or similar program that may be considered a financial incentive under applicable privacy laws, we will provide additional terms or notice at the time of participation.
17. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are intended for adults and are not directed to children.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental or guardian consent. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information.
If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at: curator@johnpitre.com
18. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, payment platforms, fulfillment providers, galleries, social media platforms, or other third-party services.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party websites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites or services you use.
19. Business Transfers
We may disclose or transfer personal information in connection with a business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of assets, transfer of inventory, transfer of customer records, or transfer of all or part of our business.
20. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, services, technology, legal requirements, or business operations.
When we update this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date above. If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice where appropriate.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
21. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or your privacy choices, please contact us:
John Pitre
Email: curator@johnpitre.com
Website: https://johnpitre.com
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Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
