art-beat

Privacy Policy

Overview

This privacy policy sets out how this website, 'art-beat', uses and protects any information that you give 'art-beat' when you use this Website under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulations.

'art-beat' is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should you be asked to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. Cookie Policy details follow towards the end.

'art-beat' may change this policy from time to time by updating this page in order to make sure it stays up to date with the latest legal requirements, and make changes to our privacy management practices. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes to this policy. This policy is effective from 26/11/2019.

By using this Website you consent to this policy.

What is collected

Personal data may be collected on this website only if it is directly provided by you, the user:

contact information including phone numbers, addresses and email address
demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
other information relevant to customer enquiries, surveys, newsletters and/or offers

What is done with information gathered

This information is required to understand your needs and provide a service, and for the following reasons:

Internal record keeping
Information may be used to improve products and services
Promotional emails may be sent periodically about new products / material, special offers or other information which it is felt you may find interesting using the email address you have provided
Information may be used to customise the website according to your interests

Your personal information will not be sold, distributed or leased to third parties without your permission or there is a requirement by law to do so.

Your personal information will only be kept for as long as there is / are reasonable business needs e.g. to provide products or services to you and to carry out contractual obligations, and in line with legal and regulatory requirements such as accounting records for HMRC. Your information will be disposed of in a secure manner when no longer needed.

Security

Committed to ensuring your information is secure, in order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures have been put in place to safeguard and secure information collected online.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet or email is not completely secure. The security of data transmitted by you to this site and email provider cannot therefore be guaranteed. Any transmission is at your own risk.

How this site uses cookies

Google Analytics traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps in the analysis of data about webpage traffic, and to improve this website in order to tailor is to user / customer needs. This information is used solely for statistical analysis.

Other cookies may be set by third parties in order to provide services such as You Tube & Vimeo.

Where advertisers feature on this Website they may also use cookies, the control of which is beyond the remit of this Website. Such cookies (if used) would be downloaded once you click on advertisements.

Please note that should you choose to decline cookies, you may be unable to access particular parts of this Website.

For a full explanation view this Website's Cookies Policy.

Links to other websites

This website contains a link to a blog named 'Room 101 With Knobs On' which is also owned and authored by the owner of this website. It is read-only with no exchange of data. There is therefore no issue concerning responsibility for the protection and privacy of any information you may provide whilst visiting said blog. There are no plans to do so, but if the situation changes in the future this policy will be updated accordingly.

Controlling your personal information

For the purpose of the DPA and GDPR 'art-beat' is the data controller regarding this website, and you may request details of personal information which is held about you under the Data Protection Act 1998 and General Data Protection Regulations. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please send an email to davegoble@waitrose.com

You have the right to change the permissions that you have given in relation to how your data may be used. You also have the right to request that 'art-beat' ceases using your data, or that all personal data records held relating to you is deleted.

If you believe that any information held on you is incorrect or incomplete please get in touch as soon as possible. Where information is found to be in error it will be promptly corrected.

These are small pieces of data stored on a site visitor's browser. They are typically used to keep track of the settings users have selected and actions they have taken on a site. In accordance with the GDPR please be aware cookies are used on this site:

Type:

First-party cookies: Cookies that Wix places your site
Third-party cookies: Cookies that are placed, and used, by third parties

Duration:

Session (transient) cookies: Erased when site visitors close their browsers, and are not used to collect information from their computers. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.
Persistent (permanent and stored) cookies: Stored on a site victor's hard drive until they expire, (at a set expiration date), or until they are deleted. These cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as web surfing behaviour, or user preferences for a specific site.

Category:

Strictly necessary cookies: These let the visitor browse through the website, and are also necessary for security reasons.
Functional cookies: These "remember" registered visitors / customers in order to improve their user experience.

You should know how to see what cookies are used and how to manage them properly, including how you can stop your browser from accepting cookies by changing your browser's settings, noting however that deleting or disabling cookies and other tracking technologies may prevent you from accessing some parts of this website.

Please see All About Cookies for more.