Privacy Policy
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
You’ll receive an automated email within 24 hours after you abandon your shopping cart, if all of the following occur:
You enter your email address at checkout, or are logged into your customer account.
You add a product which is in stock to your shopping cart.
You close your browser or leave this website without completing your purchase.
You can unsubscribe from these messages at the bottom of the email.
The email will link back to this website, where you can pick up where you left off and complete your purchase.
Marketing Emails
We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.
We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:
You’ve created a customer account
Your customer account password has been reset or updated
You’ve made a purchase
Your order has shipped
It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.
We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.
Fonts
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address
Private Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk’s sole discretion.
Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Private Policy.
Your continued use of this site after any changes in this Private Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Changes to Privacy Policy
Contacting Me
If you require further information regarding my Privacy Policy, please contact me at the following address: E-mail: vanessa_vanwykart@outlook.com
Should you wish to read more information on privacy legislation or the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) I recommend that you visit the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/
Acceptance
You accept that your use of this site includes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.
Visitor Data
When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:
Billing and shipping address
Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)
Email address
Name
Phone number
We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.
As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.
This Privacy Policy is Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk’s official private policy and it applies to all personal information collected by Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk. In this policy I explain how and why I collect your personal information, how I use it, and what controls you have over my use of it.
Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk is committed to complying with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) governing privacy of personal information by businesses and to protecting and safeguarding your privacy when you deal with me. I will never disclose your personal information to any third party unless I have your permission to do so.
Collection of Information
Some information provided to me by clients, customers, contractors and other third parties might be considered private or personal. Without these details I would not be able to carry on my business and provide my services to you. I will only collect such personal information if it is necessary for one of my functions or activities.
Personal information is collected from people in the following situations by Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk: If you contact Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk, I may keep a record of that correspondence. When you submit your email address to my website mailing list.
At or before the time the personal information is collected I will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of who I am, the fact that you are able to gain access to the information held about you, the purpose of the collection, the type(s) of organisations to which I usually disclose information collected about you, any laws requiring the collection of the information and the main consequences for you if all or part of the information is not collected.
Use of information collected and disclosure of personal information to others
I may use or disclose personal information held about an individual for the primary purpose for which it is collected (e.g. provision of my services, including administration of my services, notification to you about changes to my services, record/keeping following termination of my services to you and technical maintenance).
I may also use such information for a purpose related to the primary purpose of collection and where it would reasonably be expected by you that I would use the information in such a way. This information is only disclosed to persons outside my business in the circumstances set out in this policy or as otherwise notified to you at the time of collection of the information.
In addition, I am permitted to use or disclose personal information held about you:
Where you have consented to the use of disclosure. Where I reasonably believe that the use or disclosure is necessary to lesson or prevent a serious, immediate to someone’s health or safety or the public’s health or safety. Where we reasonably suspect that unlawful activity has been, is being or may be engaged in and the use or disclosure is a necessary part of my investigation or in reporting the matter to the relevant authorities. Where such use or disclosure is required under or authorised by law ( for example, to comply with a subpoena, a warrant or other order of a court or legal process). Where we reasonably believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary for prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of crimes or wrong doings or the preparation for, conduct of, proceedings before any court or tribunal or the implementation of the orders of a court or tribunal by on or behalf of an enforcement body.
Links
My website may contain links to websites and those third party websites may collect personal information about you. I am not responsible for the privacy practices of other businesses or the content of websites that are linked to my website. Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk encourages users to be aware when they leave the site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
Security and storage
Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk places significant importance on the security of all information associated with my customers and contractors. I have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal information under my control. Personal information is de-identified or destroyed securely when no longer required by me.
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 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 information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the 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 at : vanessa_vanwykart@outlook.com if you wish to make a request.
Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk retains the information you provide to me including possibly your contact details to enable me to verify transactions and customer details and to retain adequate records for legal and accounting purposes.
Information stored within my computer system can only be accessed by those entrusted with authority and computer network password sanctions.
No data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result , while I strive to protect the user’s personal information, Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to it or from its online products services, and users do so at their own risk. Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk receives your transmission, I make every effort to ensure its security on my systems.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for keeping your passwords and /or account information secret. You should be careful and responsible whenever you are online.
Access to and correction of personal information
Art Design by Vanessa van Wyk is committed to maintaining accurate, timely, relevant and appropriate information about my customers and website users.
So long as your request for personal information is in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), then I will give you access to that information.
Inaccurate information will be corrected upon receiving advise to this effect from you. To ensure confidentiality, details of your personal information will be passed on to you only if I am satisfied that the information relates to you.
If I refuse to provide you with access or correct the personal information held about you by myself, then I will provide for such refusal.
Complaints
If you have a complaint about my Privacy Policy or the collection, use or safe disposal or destruction of your personal information, your complaint should be directed in the first instance to me at
E-mail: vanessa_vanwykart@outlook.com
I will investigate your complaint and attempt to resolve any breach that might have occurred in relation to the collection, use or destruction of personal information held by myself about you in accordance with the General data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of this procedure, then you may request that an independent person ( usually the Information Commissioner’s Office) investigate your complaint.
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 11/11/2023
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