Textile art | limited edition prints | Michelle House
Michelle House - Printed Textile Artist

Privacy

PRIVACY POLICY

I know your privacy is important to you, I certainly value mine ( I have a reputation in my family for being super secure). This policy I hope will give you sufficient information about my website and how Squarespace and Google collect data. As an artist and designer working on my own I have limited time to analyse reams of information (and find it a bit boring to be honest, although sometimes it is necessary for me to improve my website).

I mainly use the analytics to see which artworks people like and which are most popular, if pages are being visited such as my commissions page and if an event i.e. an exhibition or design fair has been successful in pointing visitors to my website. If my website didn’t get many visitors after an event, I would certainly reconsider paying to exhibit again. All of this is important for me to make sure I am reaching the people that are interested my work and hopefully want a bit of colour in their life either through buying a print, wanting to work with me, or commission me to create something unique for them.

This privacy policy explains what personal information is collected when you visit the michellehouse.co.uk website and how your data is used.

ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

michellehouse.co.uk is the website of the artist and designer Michelle House who is based in South london in the UK.

You can contact Michelle by email at:  mail@michellehouse.co.uk 

WHAT PERSONAL DATA THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND HOW IT IS USED

VISITORS TO THIS WEBSITE

If you sign up and subscribe to the newsletter on michellehouse.co.uk, you will occasionally be sent a Mailchimp newsletter by Michelle to keep you informed about new work, exhibitions and events. Michelle will collect your name and email address for the purpose of sending you information that she thinks you may be interested in via the newsletter. This may include invites to private views and exhibitions, news on the Dulwich Festivals Artists' Open House and news on Michelle's latest prints, projects and commissions. We will only send you marketing material if you agree and you can opt out at any time by:

  • clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of Michelle's Mailchimp newsletter, or

  • by sending an email to mail@michellehouse.co.uk

You can view Mailchimp's privacy policy here

Michelle does not share her mailing list with anyone else, other than to send Michelle's newsletter via Mailchimp.

This is a Squarespace website. Squarespace do not have access to your subscription details, they go directly to Mailchimp. You can view Squarespaces privacy policy here.

CUSTOMERS BUYING FROM THIS WEBSITE

If you buy from this website you are entering into a contract with michellehouse.co.uk,  we will collect your name, address, email and phone number in order to fulfil that contract. It's good to have a phone number just incase there's a problem. Some of this information will be shared with Royal Mail or a courier company like Parcelforce Worldwide if it's a larger order that needs to arrive quickly. You can view Royal Mail’s privacy policy here and Parcelforce Worldwide’s privacy policy here.

Your billing address is also collected for payments in order to fulfil your contract with michellehouse.co.uk. Your card details are handled either by Stripe or by PayPal, michellehouse.co.uk doesn't have access to your card details. You can view Stripes privacy policy here and PayPal’s privacy policy here.

The checkout page is protected by SSL to keep your credit card data safe and secure. The checkout pages are Level 1 PCI compliant and use 128 bit SSL encryption.

CUSTOMERS BUYING IN PERSON FROM MICHELLE AT AN EVENT

If you buy a print or other item from Michelle at her Artists' Open House or other event, you may have paid using the card payment system Sum-Up. Michelle does not have access to your card payment details or email address if you opted for an email receipt. These details are processed by Sum-Up. You can view their privacy policy here

COOKIES AND ANALYTICS

We use "cookies" as part of a normal business procedure. Cookies are small text files that are created by a web server and stored on your computer when you visit a website. The website that created the cookie can read the contents when you are at their website.

Many websites use cookies to improve your browsing experience e.g. remember your log-in details, record which items you have selected to purchase, or even tailor what content is displayed depending on your preferences. Cookies can also be used to record 'analytics' data i.e. which web pages you visit, whether or not you arrived at the web page by clicking on an advertisement or an affiliated website. Many websites find the collection of analytics data valuable in improving the quality and content of their web sites. Currently Michelle uses Squarespace functional and analytics cookies and Google Analytics on this website.

Squarespace uses functional and required cookies that enable you to navigate this website and some of the key features. There are also analytic and performance cookies which collect information and see how you interact with Michelle’s website. This website uses the Squarespace 7.0 platform and Michelle hasn’t installed the option for users to set up an account on her website at this current time.

This website collects personal data to power Michelle’s site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

(Michelle has disabled the activity log on her website so does not personally view IP addresses).

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

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

This information is shared with Squarespace, Michelle’s website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

HOW TO VIEW, BLOCK AND DELETE COOKIES

All the major browsers allow you to block cookies and delete those that have already been created on your computer, usually within the 'Tools' section of the browser. These tools allow you to specify which cookies you will accept by type and often by specific websites using an exception list e.g. you can block all cookies and then list the website from which you will accept cookies. This may affect the functioning and viewing of this website.

To see which cookies are active in your browser’s settings or to clear from your browser, device or for a specific website, visit your browsers’s documentation for help:

YOUR RIGHTS

You also have a right to request to see a copy of any personal data Michelle holds about you. Please send any such requests to Michelle by sending an email to mail@michellehouse.co.uk

HOW TO CONTACT MICHELLE

If you have any questions or complaints about this data privacy policy or personal data that Michelle may hold about you please contact Michelle by email at mail@michellehouse.co.uk

THIRD PARTY LINKS

This privacy policy does not cover other websites that we may link to from this website.

UPDATES

This policy was reviewed and updated 6th October 2020.