Privacy Policy

1. I am Ian Bertram, an artist and writer. This website showcases my art and holds my writing on art and art related matters. If you have any issues with content or wish to know more you may contact me using the form here.

Personal Information

2. The only personal information I collect is as follows:
   1. Contract: information needed to process and fulfil an order.
   2. Legal obligation: information that must be retained to meet legal or accounting requirements.
   3. Legitimate interests: technical information processed where necessary to maintain and secure the website.
3. All sales are currently made via the Etsy platform, who have their own policies over which I have no control. You can read the Etsy privacy policy here.
4. I intend at some time to add the option to purchase directly, with payment via Square and/or PayPal. If either of these are added, this policy will be modified to cover those options.
5. The website is hosted by IONOS. Technical information may be processed by them as necessary to operate, maintain and secure this website. Further information about their handling of such information is available in its privacy policy, here.

Comments

6. When visitors leave comments on this site, the information entered in the comments form, together with the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent string, is collected to help detect spam.

1. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
2. Comments may be disabled at any time, either across the site or for individual posts.

Third Party Services

9. Some Journal posts may contain videos hosted by third-party services such as YouTube. Embedded content is blocked until you choose to load it. When you do so, your browser connects to the relevant provider, which may receive your IP address and technical information about your device or browser. The provider may also use cookies or similar technologies, subject to its own privacy practices. For further information about how YouTube handles personal information, please see Google’s Privacy Policy, here.
10. This website does not use cookies or similar technologies for advertising, behavioural tracking or visitor analytics.
11. WordPress and the website’s hosting services may use cookies or other technologies where necessary for the operation, security or administration of the website. These may include cookies used when an administrator logs in or when a visitor uses certain interactive features.
12. When you follow a link to a third-party website, such as Etsy, PayPal or Square, that service may use its own cookies and other tracking technologies. Their use is governed by the relevant service’s own privacy and cookie policies.
13. This information will be updated if the website’s use of cookies or similar technologies changes.

Retention and Protection of Information

14. Personal information is retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including processing sales, dealing with enquiries or disputes, and meeting legal and accounting obligations. Information that is no longer required is securely deleted or otherwise disposed of.
15. Appropriate measures are taken to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or disclosure. These include the use of cloud storage and security software on the devices and network used to manage the website and its records.
16. No method of electronic storage or transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Your Data Protection Rights

17. Under UK data protection law, you have rights concerning the personal information we hold about you. Depending on the circumstances, these include the right to:
    1. Request access to your personal information.
    2. Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
    3. Request the erasure of your information.
    4. Request that we restrict how we use your information.
    5. Object to the processing of your information.
    6. Request a copy of information you have provided to us in a portable format, where this right applies.
    7. Withdraw your consent, where we rely on consent to process your information.

15. These rights are subject to certain conditions and exceptions. For example, we may need to retain some information to meet legal or accounting obligations.
16. To exercise your rights, please contact us using the contact details provided on this website.
17. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you believe your personal information has been handled improperly. Further information is available from the ICO website.

Changes to this policy

15. This policy may be updated from time to time. The latest version will be published on this website, with the date of the most recent revision indicated. Significant changes will be highlighted on the site where appropriate.