PRIVACY POLICY
I take the privacy of people who contact me very seriously. In accordance with current European Union (EU) privacy GDPR legislation (General Data Protection Regulation) this page outlines exactly how and what your details will be used for, and where all details are securely kept.
In brief:
- I will only contact you by email at the address you have given me.
- Your email address will be used solely to respond to you after your initial contact.
- Your details are kept 100% privately and securely.
- Your details will under no circumstances be passed on to any third parties.
WHO ARE WE:
Dan Green and Val Carcary-Green T/A Novus Studio run this website the address of which is https://novusart.co.uk.
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 anonymized 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.
Any comments you leave may not be published if we consider them to be spam, inappropriate or abusive.
CONTACT FORMS:
By personal information we mean information supplied by you to us when using our contact forms on our site, regarding your name(s) and address and that of any gift card recipient, your contact telephone number(s) and email addresses.
We can confirm that any such personal information we may collect from you following enquiries with regard to classes, gift cards, sales or anything else will be used solely by us for administrative purposes, namely as a means of being able to contact you for the organising of your attendance at art classes with us or the processing of any sales from us and your information will not be shared by us with anyone else.
Your information will be treated confidentially and kept by us only so long as is required for the above stated purposes.
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.
OTHER WEB SITES:
Our Privacy Policy relates only to our web site and not to external sites from which articles on this site may sometimes 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 – please refer to the privacy policies of those sites.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
This includes any links from our site to the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram that we use to share or bookmark our web pages, or give additional content.
At present we use Paypal to process online payments from our web site, which directs you to Paypal’s secure server where you will be asked for additional billing and card details in order to process the payment. We do not ourselves on Novus Art store any of these details.
Any links to external web sites or resources from our web site does not constitute a specific endorsement of that site or resource and we do not take responsibility for any content or information contained therein.
SHARING OF YOUR DATA:
Any personal information we may collect from you will not used to make automated decisions and will not be shared with any third party for marketing or any other purpose.
The information we hold about you will only be stored within the European Economic Area. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
YOUR RIGHTS AND YOUR DATA:
You can obviously at any time request that we provide you with a copy of the information we hold about you for either correction or deletion if you no longer wish us to hold information about you, if for example you finish attending classes with us.
This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
OUR CONTACT INFORMATION:
If you have any questions about the privacy of your data please contact us – Dan Green or Val Carcary-Green either at
Address: Novus Studio, 339 Red Hill, Wateringbury, Maidstone, Kent, ME18 5LB or
Tel: +44 7702568900 or +44 7702647816
Email: info@novusart.co.uk