Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. When you visit our website www.alexkaiart.com (the “Website”), and more generally, use any of our services (the “Services”, which also include the Website as well as sales, marketing and events), we appreciate that you are trusting us with your personal information. 

This privacy notice applies to all information collected through our Services. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice please contact us at the email address below. 

Policy updates

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, law, our business operations or any other reason we determine is necessary or appropriate. Changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted on our Website. We encourage you to check back periodically to review any changes. This will help ensure you better understand your relationship with us, including the ways we process your personal information.

What personal information we collect

We currently collect and process the following information:

·      Personal information you disclose to us
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide, for example when you contact us. These may include your name, contact details, email address and/or physical address. These may also include other information that is necessary to fulfil a commission or an order.

·      Automatically collected information
Some information is collected automatically when you visit our Website. These may include:

-      your IP address

-      information about your browser, network and device

-      web pages you visited prior to coming to the Website

-      details about your use of this Website, e.g. pages visited, scrolling, etc.

Cookies

Like other web based businesses, our Website also 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. These cookies allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve our Website to you and analyse site traffic, activity and other data, so that we may run our Website effectively and make improvements to our services. We use:

·      functional and required cookies – these are always used, and allow Squarespace to securely serve our website to you

·      analytics and performance cookies – only used when you acknowledge our cookie banner – they allow us to view site traffic, activity and other data to help us make improvements to our Website

For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit “The cookies Squarespace uses” article on Squarespace’s website: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507

Why we collect information and how we use it

Personal information provided by you

We collect personal data in order to answer your enquiries, fulfil commissions and orders, and to provide our Services, e.g. the running of our Website, and it is used exclusively for these purposes.

We will never share your details with anyone else without your explicit consent, unless it is required by law or to enforce our legal right.

We do not, at this point, send regular newsletters and other unsolicited marketing. However, if you actively opted in to receiving information about future events, we may get in touch from time to time to update you of any such events. If you no longer wish to receive this information, please email us at the email address given below.  

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

·      your consent - You are able to remove your consent at any time and you can do this by contacting the email address given below.

·      we have a contractual obligation – This applies if you enquired about a commission or order, or asked us for a quote.

Automatically collected information

Our Website is hosted by Squarespace. When you visit our Website, Squarespace collects personal data in order to run this Website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalized form.  

Our Website also collects personal data to power our site analytics. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. We collect this information in order to run the Website effectively and to allow us to improve our services to you.

You can find Squarespace’s privacy policy at https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

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

·      it is necessary for our legitimate interest, as explained above.

How we store your personal information

We are committed to protecting the personal information you entrust to us. While no service is completely secure, we make every effort to ensure your data is kept safe. Our Website is hosted by reputable hosting services (currently Squarespace), and we use up-to-date technologies, such as valid SSL certificate, to ensure our Website is secured using trusted communication protocols. Personal data that is stored by us is kept password protected on secure devices.

We will not transfer personal data outside of the UK and the EEA unless it is adequately protected, as required by the GDPR.

Our retention periods for personal data are based on our business needs and legal requirements. We will only retain your personal data for as long as we believe it is relevant and necessary for the processing purpose(s) for which the information was collected, and any other permissible, related purpose.

Your rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

·      You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. 

·      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. 

·      You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. 

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

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

·      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 may contact us at the email address below if you wish to make a request, or if you have any concerns or complaints.

You may also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) directly if you are unhappy with how we used your data. Current contact details of the ICO can be found on their website at www.ico.org.uk.

Disclaimer

Please note that our Website may contain external links to third-party websites. However, should you choose to click on the links and visit these websites, please note that we are not responsible for their practice and how they handle visitors’ data. We recommend that you check the privacy policy of each site you choose to visit, and contact them directly if you have any questions or concerns.

Contact details

Alexander Kai             

website:     www.alexkaiart.com

email:        alexkaiart@gmail.com

Last updated: 5th February 2021