Maria-Aurelia Riese, Hurston Studio Collective (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Maria-Aurelia Riese, Hurston Studio Collective, Pulborough, West Sussex RH20 1FL
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you: Information you give us. You may give us information about you by illing in forms on our site or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use our site, search for a product, place an order on our site, and if you report a problem with our site.
The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, inancial and credit card information. Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information: technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect
your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain
pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse- overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number Cookies.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy below.
Cookies deployed by our website:
Ensure that functionality operates as intended. Remember your choices and preferences during and between visits
allow you to share pages via popular social media networks including Facebook and Twitter allow you to interact with our website by leaving comments or opinions.
Post enquiries via online forms track your visit for statistical analysis, allowing us to improve the usability, speed and security of our website. Cookies are not deployed to:
Collect any personal identiiable information (without your express permission)
Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
Pass data to advertising networks
Pass personally identiiable data to third parties
Pay sales commissions
We may send a small ile to your computer when you visit our website, this ile
stores your session identiier. This enables us to identify your computer and to
allow our systems to tailor their response to your requests. We only use cookies to save your website preferences, keep you logged into the website or to customise the way you view the website to meet your choices.Except through the use of cookies, we do not automatically log or collect data unless you speciically provide it to us. You can set your computer browser to reject cookies but this may preclude your use of certain parts of this website.You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.
To ind out more about cookies, including how to control and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. If you decide to disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our sites may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Uses made of the information. We use information held about you in the following ways:
Information you give to us. We will use this information:
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information and products that you request from us; to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about; to provide you with information about art, exhibitions and events that we are hosting that we feel may interest you. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data; to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you
and for your computer.
Information we collect about you. We will use this information:
to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer; to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
As part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure; To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others,
and to deliver relevant advertising to you; To make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).
Disclosure of your information. We may share your information with selected third parties including:
Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and
optimisation of our site. We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may
disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets. If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety of our customers, or others. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud
protection and credit risk reduction. Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a
destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be
processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our
suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulilment of
your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support
services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or
processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data
is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment
transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables
you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this
password conidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely
secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot
guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at
your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict
procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Your rights: You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes
on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any
time by contacting us.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our
partner networks, advertisers and afiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these
policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of
access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be
subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the
information we hold about you. Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notiied to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
Contact Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to maria.riese@gmail.com
Maria-Aurelia Riese , Hurston Studio Collective
Pulborough, West Sussex
United Kingdom
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