This privacy & cookie policy sets out how Paul Ratcliffe Art uses and protects any information that Paul Ratcliffe Art obtains if you purchase a painting or when you use this website.
This policy is effective from November 2021 and complies with the GDPR Data Protection laws that came into effect on 25th May 2018 and the current UK GDPR Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR DATA AND WHY
Any name or address information that is collected through a conversation with you if you decide to purchase a painting from Paul Ratcliffe Art. The upmost care is taken to store this information. No personal information is collected from this website.
STORING YOUR INFORMATION
Any personal information that you have passed to Paul Ratcliffe Art, for example your name and address, complies with its obligations under the "DPA" & “UK GDPR” by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.
YOUR RIGHTS AND YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- The right to request a copy of your personal data which Paul Ratcliffe Art holds about you;
- The right to request that Paul Ratcliffe Art corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
- The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for Paul Ratcliffe Art to retain;
- The right to withdraw your consent (if under the consent permission) to the processing at any time;
- The right to request that the data controller provide the data subject with his/her personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as the right to data portability), (where applicable) [Only applies where the processing is based on consent or is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject and in either case the data controller processes the data by automated means].
- The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
- The right to object to the processing of personal data, (where applicable)
- The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.
If you want to know what Information we collect and hold about you, please email rodentwithe@gmail.com.
INFORMATION THAT THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND WHY IT COLLECT'S IT
Site visitation tracking: Like most websites, this site uses analytics to track user interaction, this is done through the company cPanel*. Paul Ratcliffe Art uses this data to determine the number of people using the site, to better understand how they find and use the web pages and to see your journey through the website. Although cPanel records data such as your geographical location, device type, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to Paul Ratcliffe Art. Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop cPanel from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
ABOUT THIS WEBSITE’S SERVER
This website is hosted by Krystal Hosting based in the UK. The data centre’s security features are as follows: CloudLinux Security & Mod Security for Site Protection. Full details of Krystal can be found here. All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.
COOKIES AND HOW THEY ARE USED
What is a cookie? A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive. It enables a website to identify your computer as you view different pages on this website and to make sure pages are sent to the browser as quickly and efficiently as possible. There are 3 types of cookies; Session: a cookie that is erased when you close the Web browser. The session cookie is stored in temporary memory and is not retained after the browser is closed. Session cookies do not collect information from your computer. They typically will store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user. Persistent: Also called a permanent cookie, or a stored cookie, a cookie that is stored on your hard drive until it expires (persistent cookies are set with expiration dates) or until you delete the cookie. Persistent cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific Web site. Third-party: Cookies attributes usually corresponds to the website domain they are on. Not for third-party cookies—as you probably gathered from the name, they are installed by third-party websites, such as advertisers. They gather data about your browsing habits, and allow them to track you across multiple websites.
Paul Ratcliffe Art does not use third party or persistent cookies.
We use the following types of cookies on our website: Statistical Cookies; managed directly by Paul Ratcliffe Art (not third-parties). Technical Cookies; used to perform computer authentication, monitoring sessions and storing specific information about users accessing a web page. For example, this type of cookie allows us to recognise that you have visited our website before and shows which sections of our website are most popular by allowing us to see which pages visitors’ access most frequently and how much time visitors spend on each page. This is done through the Google Search Console* who do not collect or process “sensitive” data that is subject to GDPR as using the console does not cause any cookies to be created on users machines. Paul Ratcliffe Art uses this data to determine the number of people using the site, to better understand how they find and use the web pages and to see your journey through the website. Although the Google Search Console* records data such as your geographical location, device type, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to Paul Ratcliffe Art. *The use of the Google Search Console does not have to be stated in the data protection declaration, as the website operator does not have to inform according to Art. 13 and 14 GDPR.
Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop the Google Search Console from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
The publishers of this website reserve the right to change this privacy policy as they may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any changes will be immediately posted on the website and you are deemed to have accepted the terms of this policy on your first use of this website following the alterations.