Privacy

Welcome to our privacy policy.

This policy applies to www.madeleinedawsonart.com, a website which acts as an online portfolio and art work sales platform for Madeleine Dawson Art.

It is the policy of Madeleine Dawson Art to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of any personal information, such as your name, address, email address, or telephone number that you provide to us. By using this site, you consent to the terms of this website privacy policy.

This privacy policy has been compiled to explain how ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ collected via this website is being used, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our newsletter, purchase a product or service or take part in a competition. Personally Identifiable Information is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this privacy policy, together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our website?

When ordering or commenting on our site, or making contact with us, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, credit card information or other details to help you with your experience.

When do we collect information?

We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, browse the website or enter information on our site using a comment or contact form.

How do we use your information?

We may use the information we collect from you in the following ways:

To personalise your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
To improve our website in order to better serve you.
To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
To quickly process your transactions.
To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.
To follow up with them after correspondence (live chat, email or phone enquiries).
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We do not collect, use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than those identified above, except with your consent or as required by law.

Site activity data

Each time you visit our website, the web server collects and logs certain information. We keep these access logs for a reasonable period of time. These logs include, but are not restricted to: your computer’s TCP/IP address, your username (if applicable), date, time and files accessed. These logs also contain information about referrer information if you clicked on an external link in order to access a webpage. We use these logs solely for performance, site administration and security reviews. We do not sell or share this information with any third party.

How is your information stored and protected?

Our company is hosted on the wix.com platform and has a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate. wix.com provides us with a secure online platform that allows us to sell out products and services to you. Your data may be stored through wix.com's data storage, databases and the general wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

All direct payment gateways offered by wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

How long do we keep your information?

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically. Customer purchase records are kept for a minimum of 6 years to comply with legal requirements.

What rights do 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.

A “cookie” is a block of text placed in a file on your hard drive by a website you’ve visited. Portions of the website may use cookies for security and authentication purposes. We use cookies on this website for a number of reasons, including but not limited to tracking the number of people who read each article (via Google Analytics), and serving advertisements.

We do not share or sell information we may learn about you through our use of cookies to any third party or for any purpose.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since every browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

Third-party disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.

Third-party links

Occasionally this website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Privacy
Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or as a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our website. Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above. You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page. You can change or review your personal information by emailing us at hello@madeleinedawsonart.com.

We collect your email address in order to:

Send information, respond to enquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
Process orders and to send information and updates about your orders.
Send you additional information related to your product and/or service.
Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.

We agree to the following:

Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
Honour opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at hello@madeleinedawsonart.com. Alternatively, follow the instructions at the bottom of each email and we will promptly remove you from all correspondence.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you can contact us using the Contact form on www.madeleinedawsonart.com or by emailing hello@madeleinedawsonart.com.