General terms and conditions

-The artist Evelyn La Starza retains the copyright of all images on this website for 70 years beyond her life.

-The artist retains the right, in perpetuity, to use digitally recorded images of any purchased artwork for whatever purpose she chooses, including, but not restricted to, the purposes of promotion and creating reproductions based on such images for financial gain. 

-The artist owns the copyright in the commissioned work, and the person who ordered the work will only have a license to use the work for the purposes for which it was commissioned.

-Whilst every effort shall be made to ensure that the digital images shown on the website are an accurate representation of the original paintings, there may be minor colour differences due to the lighting conditions at the time of photographing and also due to the settings on the screen that the photo is being displayed on. 

-Minor spots are considered intrinsic properties of the work of art and do not constitute a significant discrepancy.

-By purchasing a work of art, original, print or poster through the website, the customer agrees to be automatically included in the mailing list.

-You may unsubscribe from the mailing at any time by either clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link provided in every newsletter, or by emailing the arist directly with UNSUBSCRIBE written in the email subject line

-Any information provided by a user/customer will remain completely private and confidential and will never be disclosed to a any 3rd party entity.

-Customer and user information will only be used for purposes relating to the content of evelynlastarza.com

-I may, at times draw attention to other 3rd party products or services if they are deemed to be relevant to the above.

-I will never use customer information for the purposes of generating spam.

-I am not responsible for the content of any external site that may be linked to on these pages.

-I reserve the right to modify the contents of this website, including user comments and terms and conditions, in any way I feel is appropriate.

Terms and conditions of use

1.      Introduction

1.1    These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.

1.2    By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

1.3    If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

1.4    You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.

2.      Credit

2.1    This document was created using a template from Docular (https://docular.net).

3.      Copyright notice

3.1    Copyright (c) 2023 Evelyn La Starza .

3.2    Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a)    we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

(b)    all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

4.      Permission to use website

4.1    You may:

(a)    view pages from our website in a web browser;

4.2    Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

4.3    You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes; you must not use our website for any other purposes.

4.4    Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

4.5    Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a)    republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b)    sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(c)     show any material from our website in public;

(d)    exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(e)    redistribute material from our website.

4.6    We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.

5.      Misuse of website

5.1    You must not:

(a)    use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;

(b)    use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c)     hack or otherwise tamper with our website;

(d)    probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;

(e)    circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;

(f)     use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(g)    impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);

(h)    decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;

(i)     conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;

(j)     access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

(k)    use our website except by means of our public interfaces;

(l)     violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;

(m)   use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or

(n)    do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.

5.2    You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

5.3    You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

6.      Registration and accounts

6.1    You may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you.

7.      User login details

7.1    If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked to choose a user ID and password.

7.2    You must keep your password confidential.

7.3    You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

7.4    You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

8.      Cancellation and suspension of account

8.1    We may:

(a)    suspend your account; and/or

(b)    cancel your account,

         at any time in our sole discretion with or without notice to you.

8.2    You may cancel your account on our website using your account control panel on the website.

9.      Our rights to use your content

9.1    In these terms and conditions, “your content” means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.

9.2    You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to reproduce, store and, with your specific consent, publish your content on and in relation to this website.

9.3    You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 9.2.

9.4    You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 9.2.

9.5    You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

9.6    Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

10.    Rules about your content

10.1  You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

10.2  Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

11.    Limited warranties

11.1  We do not warrant or represent:

(a)    the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b)    that the material on the website is up to date;

(c)     that the website will operate without fault; or

(d)    that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

11.2  We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

11.3  To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

12.    Limitations and exclusions of liability

12.1  Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a)    limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b)    limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c)     limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d)    exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

12.2  The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a)    are subject to Section 12.1; and

(b)    govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

12.3  To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

12.4  We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

12.5  We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

12.6  We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

12.7  We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

12.8  You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

13.    Breaches of these terms and conditions

13.1  Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a)    send you one or more formal warnings;

(b)    temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(c)     permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;

(d)    commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(e)    suspend or delete your account on our website.

13.2  Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

14.    Variation

14.1  We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

14.2  The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.

15.    Assignment

15.1  You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

15.2  You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

16.    Severability

16.1  If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

16.2  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

17.    Third party rights

17.1  A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

17.2  The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

18.    Entire agreement

18.1  Subject to Section 12.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

19.    Law and jurisdiction

19.1  These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with European law.

20.    Statutory and regulatory disclosures

21.    Our details

21.1  This website is owned and operated by Evelyn La Starza.

21.2  You can contact us:

(a)    using our website contact form; or

(b)    by email, using the email address published on our website.