Privacy Policy & GDPR

The type of personal information that we collect:

We currently collect and process the following information:

Name and contact details: email address, phone numbers & postal address.

These are collected for communicating about and delivering orders of sculpture or teaching activities, and also to send out our email newsletter.

How we get the personal information and why we have it:

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

Ordering an artwork.

Booking and participating in a course or workshop.

Signing up to one of our newsletters.

Sending an enquiry.

Website:

This website is hosted by Squarespace, which collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device.

• Web pages you view while on this website.

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website.

• Your IP address.

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalized form.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

• These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

To delete or reject cookies

We recommend you allow the cookies we set by this website as they help us provide a better service.

Under your browser’s settings you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored.

You can find more information on how to delete and control cookies at ico.gov.uk or aboutcookies.org.

If you set your browser to refuse cookies, please be aware that there may be functionality on various websites that does not work.

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

• Information about your browser, network, or device

• Your IP address

Newsletter and marketing emails:

We may send you a Newsletter and marketing emails if you sign up for them.  You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of the email.  We share your contact information with Mailchimp, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

 

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are: 

(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting [contact details]

(b) We have a contractual obligation.

(c) We have a legitimate interest.

 

How we store your personal information:

Your information is securely stored:

On SquareSpace’s secure storage:

On Mailchimp’s secure storage:

On this system:

If you request to be sent our newsletter and communications about events, exhibitions, activities, offers and promotions, then we keep your information until you unsubscribe or request that it is deleted.  Contact.

We keep your information for the purposes of completing an order for 3 weeks, after which time it will be deleted. 

For Classes and Workshops, we keep your details during the course in order to communicate about it, and then for 3 weeks after the event in order to comply with Government Covid Contact-tracing requirements.

We will only add your email to our mailing list if you give us permission to. 

 

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office:

Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website

Date: 15.01.2022