Privacy Policy

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This privacy notice explains the privacy policy of Words and Pictures on this website www.alisonbomber.com, and how we use the personal data we collect from you when you use this website.

Data controller: Alison Bomber

Contact Information: wordsandpictures@alisonbomber.com

Vrchlickeho 163, BAVOROV 38773, Czech Republic

Topics:

What data do we collect?
How do we collect your data?
How will we use your data?
How do we store your data?
Payment data
Marketing
What are your data protection rights?
What are cookies?
How do we use cookies?
What types of cookies do we use?
How to manage your cookies
Privacy policies of other websites
Changes to our privacy policy
How to contact us
How to contact the appropriate authorities
What data do we collect?

Our Company collects the following data:

Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number, etc.) when you subscribe to the newsletter or purchase something from the website.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

Information about your browser, network, and device

Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

Clicks

Internal links

Pages visited

Scrolling

Searches

Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide Our Company with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

Register online or place an order for any of our products or services.

Subscribe to the newsletter.

Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.

How will we use your data?

Our Company collects your data so that we can:

Process your order and manage your account.

Email you with special offers on other products and services we think you might like. We will only email you if you choose to subscribe to the newsletter, or if you have previously purchased workshops or products. If you tell us not to contact you, we will not do so.

When you submit information to this website via webform - for example by subscribing to the newsletter - we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with MailerLite for storage and newsletter services and with Zapier for data porting.

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfil the order. We may collect information like your:

Billing and shipping address

Details relating to your purchase

Email address

Name

Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

When Words and Pictures processes your order, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.

How do we store your data?

The data collected for newsletter purposes is stored by MailerLite according to their terms and conditions.

We will keep your data for the duration of your subscription with us. Once this time period has expired, we will delete your data by removing it from MailerLite’s service.

Payment Data

Your payment information will be processed via Paypal, in accordance with Paypal’s terms and policies. This website transmits complete payment information when you initially provide or update it only so that we can pass it along to Paypal. We don’t collect or store your payment information.

Marketing

Words and Pictures would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like via the newsletter.

If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date.

You have the right at any time to stop Words and Pictures from contacting you for marketing purposes.

What are your data protection rights?

Our Company would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data from us. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: wordsandpictures@alisonbomber.com

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store on a device. Cookies can improve your visitors’ browsing experience because they help websites remember preferences and understand how people use different features.

For full information about the cookies dropped on your device when using this website, see below and also see Cookies used by Squarespace.

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

How do we use cookies?

Our hosting platform Squarespace uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on this website, including:

Keeping you signed in, remembering your preferences

Understanding how you use our website, using analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity and other data. These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website only when you acknowledge our cookie banner.

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, our hosting platform Squarespace uses:

Functionality and Required Cookies - Squarespace uses some necessary cookies so visitors can navigate and use key features on this website. Functional and required cookies help these features work: customer accounts, shopping cart & checkout, URL redirects. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

Analytics and Performance Cookies – Squarespace uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. This gives us information such as traffic sources, unique visitors, and cart abandonment so that we can improve our website service.

For a full list of the cookies used click here: Cookies used by Squarespace

How to manage cookies

You can refuse or accept cookies from the pop-up cookie banner on the website. You can also set your browser not to accept cookies, and you can visit allaboutcookies.org to find out how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy policies of other websites

The Words and Pictures website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

Our Company keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 29 September 2022.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about Our Company’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: wordsandpictures@alisonbomber.com

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact your National Data Protection Authority.

For EU country contact details, see here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en, or in the UK contact the Information Commissioner’s Office here: https://ico.org.uk/