Art by T.Clark Privacy Policies

Here at Art by T.Clark your privacy is our priority

Please find below our privacy policy. We’ve tried to make it as easy to read as possible and not hide behind long words and clauses. If you do have any questions or require any more information you can email us at: artbytclark@icloud.com and we’ll be more than happy to help!

The formal bits:

Company: Art by T.Clark

Website: www.artbytclark.co.uk

Brand: Art and Design

Company Number: Sole Trader

Business Address: Lordswood, Kent, ME5 8YL.

We’ve tried to make how we process your data as simple as possible to understand. Use the handy table below to check out when, what, why and how we process your personal data, but first:

Art by T.Clark will not share or transfer your data to any third parties. To manage our emails we may save your email address and name on our in-house WordPress system and we will send any orders through Royal Mail, Parcel Force or a carefully selected courier. They will be listed as subscribed to the EU-US Privacy Shield framework which ensures they follow EU laws in their processing and security.

When we take payments from you online or by post:

Art by T.Clark do not take or accept any payments by post.

All payments received will be requested either by invoice or via the on-line shop, via PayPal.

Our on-line shop offers one way to make payments, by PayPal who may retain your information for their own purposes. You can review their policy and procedures by visiting the PayPal website. Art by T.Clark will not store any card or bank details from any customer at any time.

Art by T.Clark banks with Natwest in the UK. Natwest may retain your information for their own purposes. You can review their policy and procedures by visiting the Natwest website.

For invoiced orders only – BACS transfers are the only options of payment. Please see information above about payments by BACS.

International Data Transfers

Art by T.Clark utilises the WordPress services to store and process data. WordPress Inc. are committed to processing information in accordance with EU law, and thus abide by the GDPR.
Don’t worry, your information is safe, all the information we store is done so on a private system and is encrypted, so nobody but us (not even Amazon themselves) can access or view the information we store.

Your rights over your information

By law, you can ask us to:

• provide you with a copy of or access to all information we hold about you
• correct it if it is inaccurate
• erase it

You can also ask us to stop using your information, in part or in full – the simplest way to do this is to withdraw your consent, which you can do at any time, by emailing, writing or telephoning us using the contact details above.

If our lawful reason for processing your information is not consent and you would like us to stop using it you can submit a request by email, post or telephone. Please use the contact information provided above.

You can also ask us to give you a copy of the information and to stop using your information for a period of time if you believe we are not doing so lawfully.

Your right to complain

If you have a complaint about our use of your information, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office via their website at www.ico.org.uk/concerns or write to them at:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

For those of you who would like more information on how we look after and protect your data please see the FAQs below.

How/where is your data stored?

All personal data is held within Art by T.Clark’s secure network; WordPress server (as detailed in the above International Data Transfer Secrtion).

Art by T.Clark has its own dedicated folder structure, which ensures that only Mrs Tammy Clark (Sole Traider of Art by T.Clark) can see any personal information.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Do we use the illusive ‘Cloud’ to store data or backups, if so how do we keep it safe?

No. All our data is kept and backed-up using our privately secured WordPress account, accessible only with a user name and password. The user name and password is only used and known by the company sole trader, Mrs Tammy Clark.

Are our staff responsible and reliable, and will they look after your data?

Tammy Clark tends to work solo as her unique artwork and design is why many customers choose to visit the Art by T.Clark website, or work with Tammy directly.

However, in the event that a third party is required to work on a project with Tammy, that person/s shall be asked to produce proof that they have been trained in data protection and have policies and procedures in place to make sure your personal data stays safe.

How is paper with personal data on safely and securely disposed of?

We have secure shredding bins in the office, these are locked and secure at all times. When full, the shredded documents are disposed of at a secure local council recycling centre.

Additional Information

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

So there you have an overview of how we protect your data. You can now relax and know your data is in safe hands. If you would like any further information on how we look after your data please contact us and we’ll be more than happy to help.