Terms Of Use

Welcome to kristyleawestgeest.com. This website (the "Site") is comprised of various website pages and links. kristyleawestgeest.com is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the "Terms"). Your use of kristyleawestgeest.com constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully, and keep a copy of them for your reference. Emily Kristy-Lea Westgest (kristyleawestgeest.com) offers Fine Art Paintings, Reproductions, Other Products & Goods, Courses, Classes, Workshops, Resources, Consultations, Mentorships, and other products or services.

Electronic Communications

Visiting kristyleawestgeest.com or sending emails to Kristy-Lea Westgeest constitutes electronic communications. By sending them, you consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Your Account

If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity. You acknowledge that kristyleawestgeest.com is not responsible for third-party access to your account resulting from theft or misappropriation. kristyleawestgeest.com and its associates reserve the right to refuse or cancel service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in our sole discretion.

Cancellation/Refund Policy

Non-original products: You may cancel your order within the first 24 hours. After 24 hours, a 20% restocking fee will be applied. Returns and exchanges are handled on a case-by-case basis. We are not liable for any mishandling or failed delivery by the shipping service. Please contact kristylea@kristyleawestgeest.com within 7 days of receiving your artwork. 

All sales of original artwork are final.

RETURNS & REFUNDS POLICIES ARE OUTLINED HERE.

Links to Third-Party Sites/Third-Party Services

kristyleawestgeest.com may contain links to other websites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of kristyleawestgeest.com and as such is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Kristy-Lea Westgeest is providing these links to you only as a convenience or for informational purposes, and including any link does not imply endorsement by Kristy-Lea Westgeest of the site or any association with its operators. 

Certain services made available via kristyleawestgeest.com are delivered by third-party sites and organizations. By using any product, service or functionality originating from the kristyleawestgeest.com domain, you hereby acknowledge and consent that kristyleawestgeest.com may share such information and data with any third party with whom kristyleawestgeest.com has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of kristyleawestgeest.com users and customers.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property

You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use kristyleawestgeest.com strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to kristyleawestgeest.com that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair kristyleawestgeest.com or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.

All content included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of kristyleawestgeest.com or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.

You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site. kristyleawestgeest.com content is not for resale. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular, you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use, and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of kristyleawestgeest.com and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of kristyleawestgeest.com or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.

International Users

kristyleawestgeest.com is controlled, operated, and administered by Kristy-Lea Westgeest from our studio in Canada. If you access the site from a location outside Canada, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the kristyleawestgeest.com content accessed through kristyleawestgeest.com in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions, or regulations.

Liability Disclaimer

This site is always a work in progress. There may be inaccuracies, errors, typographical mistakes, and all sorts of messes on this website and in the studio content in general. We reserve the right to change all of it.

kristyleawestgeest.com shall not be held liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages caused by this website, squarespace.com, or any third party. If you are not happy with this website, you don’t have to use it.

Security

kristyleawestgeest.com does not retain payment information, and we take precautions to protect your information during this process. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and securely transmitted through a Payment Processing System (Stripe or Squarespace payments, depending on our preference at checkout).

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. We do not share any personal, demographic, or financial data with any third party. We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or another direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

By using the kristyleawestgeest.com website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. 

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, kristyleawestgeest.com may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

• First and Last Name

• Mailing Address

• E-mail Address

• Phone Number

When you purchase from kristyleawestgeest.com products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction, but is used in an encrypted and secure payment processing service (Stripe.com or Square Payments). kristyleawestgeest.com has no access to this information. 

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a giveaway or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We may also gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Use of your Personal Information

kristyleawestgeest.com collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

kristyleawestgeest.com may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from kristyleawestgeest.com and its affiliates.

How do we protect your information?

Your information is stored on a password-secured server and is accessible by you and Kristyleawestgeest.com staff only. Additionally, we do not store your payment information.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

kristyleawestgeest.com does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

kristyleawestgeest.com may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to kristyleawestgeest.com, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

kristyleawestgeest.com may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on kristyleawestgeest.com or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of kristyleawestgeest.com; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of kristyleawestgeest.com, or the public.

Tracking User Behavior

kristyleawestgeest.com may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within kristyleawestgeest.com to determine what services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Automatically Collected Information

kristyleawestgeest.com may automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. It is used to operate the service, maintain quality, and provide general statistics regarding use of the kristyleawestgeest.com website.

Use of Cookies

The kristyleawestgeest.com website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. 

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize kristyleawestgeest.com pages, or register with kristyleawestgeest.com ’ site or services, a cookie helps kristyleawestgeest.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same kristyleawestgeest.com website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the kristyleawestgeest.com features that you customized. 

You can accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the kristyleawestgeest.com services or websites you visit.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Children Under Thirteen

kristyleawestgeest.com does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, kristyleawestgeest.com may contact you via email to provide announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from kristyleawestgeest.com or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional emails from kristyleawestgeest.com, you may opt out by selecting "unsubscribe" at the bottom of each newsletter.

Changes to Terms

kristyleawestgeest.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which kristyleawestgeest.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. kristyleawestgeest.com encourages you to review the Terms to stay informed of our updates periodically.

Contact Us

kristyleawestgeest.com welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Terms: 

Kristy-Lea Westgeest

Box 675, Alberta Beach, AB, T0E0A0

kristylea@kristyleawestgeest.com

Your Consent

By submitting a form on our website, you consent to our privacy policy.

Effective & Updated June 2025.