Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is designed to explain how I collect, use, share, and protect the personal information you provide to me when you access my website, contact me, purchase my artworks, or sign up for my newsletter, and your own rights to the information I collect.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Changes to this policy may occur from time to time, so please check in with this policy often. Any changes become effective immediately upon publication on my website, and you waive specific notice of any changes to the policy by continuing to use and access this site. You are deemed to have accepted any changes to any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of my website after the revised Privacy Policy is posted.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that I do not own or control, including Squarespace, Stripe, or any other third parties. I have linked their individual Privacy Policies below.

These Terms, Conditions and Privacy Policy are governed by Canadian law. Any dispute arising out of or related to the information contained herein is subject to the law of province of British Colombia, Canada. If any part of these Terms, Conditions and Privacy Policy is deemed unlawful and/or unenforceable, all other provisions contained herein will remain in full force and effect. The information contained herein constitutes the entire agreement between site users and myself relating to the use of this website.

Personal Information

I collect a variety of information from you when you visit my website, contact me, or make purchases. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you are specifically consenting to my collection of the data described below, to my use of the data, to the processing of this data, and to my sharing of the data with third party processors as needed for legitimate business purposes. The information I collect may include:

  • Personal Data - Personal Data is information that can be used to identify you specifically, including your name, shipping address, email address, telephone number or demographic information like your hometown.  You consent to giving me this information by providing it to me voluntarily on my website. You may provide some of this information when you make purchases from my website.  You may also provide this information by subscribing to my newsletter, or contacting me with questions. Your decision to disclose this data is entirely voluntary.  You are under no obligation to provide this information, but your refusal may prevent you from accessing certain benefits from my website or from making purchases. I retain personal data as long as it is needed to conduct my legitimate business purposes or to comply with my legal obligations, or until you ask me to delete your data. You can request for this data to be deleted at any time, by contacting me. Please note that I cannot control the retention policies of third parties.   If you wish to have any third parties, including those to whom I’ve transmitted your data, delete that data, you will need to contact those third parties directly.  You may request from me a list of all third parties to whom I have transmitted your data.

  • Derivative Data:  Derivative data is information that the Squarespace automatically collects about you when you access my website, such as your IP address, browser type, the dates and times that you access my website, and the specific pages you view.  If you are using a mobile application, Squarespace may collect information about your device name and type, your phone number, your country of origin, and other interactions with my website.  Squarespace’s Privacy Policy is available here.

  • Financial Data:  All payments are processed through Squarespace by Stripe. I do not have access to bank details or credit card details. Stripe’s Privacy Policy can be found here.

Purchases

When you purchase something from my website, you provide your personal information. This constitutes an agreement for me to process and use this data for the purpose intended. I may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

I share this information with Squarespace, my online store hosting provider, and Stripe, my online payment processor so that they can provide required services to me. Squarespace’s Privacy Policy is available here. Stripe’s Privacy Policy can be found here.

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.

Newsletter

When you sign up for my newsletter using the form provided online, you enter your email address. This constitutes consent for me to use this data for the purpose intended. Your contact information is shared with Squarespace, the website hosting provider, as some of these emails are automatically generated on my behalf. You can unsubscribe to the newsletter by clicking the link at the bottom of the email.

Other Emails

I may email you with messages about your order, or commission. For example, I will email you to tell you that you’ve made a purchase, and that your order has shipped. It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages. I share your contact information with Squarespace, the website hosting provider, as some of these emails are automatically generated on my behalf.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power Squarespace’s 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

This information is shared with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form. Squarespace’s Privacy Policy is available here.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

To change your cookie settings, visit your browser documentation and preferences. 

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

External Links

My website may include hyperlinks to other websites not controlled by me (for example Etsy, or to the external Privacy Policies mentioned above). Although I use reasonable care in including a hyperlink on my website, I don’t monitor these sites, nor am I responsible for any damage or consequences you suffer by using those hyperlinks.  Any linked third-party websites will have their own Privacy Policies that should be reviewed. They are not governed by mine in anyway, and may collect different information and by different methods than I do.

Dislosure

I may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which I am subject. I may share your data as required by law or to respond to legal process, including a subpoena, or as necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of others.  This includes sharing information with other parties to prevent or address fraud and to avoid credit risks.  I may use your information to protect my company, including to investigate and remedy any violations of my rights or policies. I may also disclose your information as reasonably necessary to acquire and maintain insurance coverage, manage risks, obtain financial or legal advice, or to exercise or defend against legal claims.

Data Storage

Squarespace’s servers are located in the U.S.  If you reside elsewhere, some of your data will be transferred internationally to those servers.  Transfers will be protected by appropriate safeguards, Squarespace’s Privacy Policy for more information is here.

Your Rights

You have certain rights with respect to your personal data, as outlined below.  In addition, I reserve the right to request that you provide me with evidence of your identity before I take any action with respect to the exercise of your data rights.  Further, your rights may be restricted or nullified to the extent they conflict with my compelling business requirements or the law.

  • Confirm Personal Data and Its Use: You have the right to request that I confirm what data I hold about you, and for what purposes.  You also have the right to confirmation of whether I process your data or deliver your data to third party processors, and for what purposes. I will supply you with copies of your personal data unless doing so would affect the rights and freedoms of others. 

  • Change Consent: You have the right to change your consent to my use of your information.  In such cases, you may not have access to our website.

  • Request a Copy of Data:  You have the right to request a digital copy of the data that I hold about you.  Your first request for a copy of your personal data will be provided free of charge; subsequent requests will incur a reasonable fee.

  • Delete All Data: You have the right to request that I delete all data that I hold about you, and I must delete such data without undue delay.  There are exceptions to this right, such as when keeping your data is required by law, is necessary to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information, is required for compliance with a legal obligation, or is necessary for the exercise or defense of legal claims.  Such a request may result in denial of use of my website.

  • Emails and Communications:  You may opt out of receiving future email correspondence from me.  You may change your communication settings by clicking on the link at the bottom of my newsletter or by contacting me.

  • Processing: You may, in some circumstances restrict the processing of your data, such as when you contest the accuracy of your data or when you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. When processing has been restricted, I will continue to store your data but will not pass it on to third party processors without your consent, or as necessary to comply with legal obligations or protect your rights or those of others or my company.  In addition, you may opt out of any processing of your data altogether. Please note that doing so may result in the loss of access to our website. 

  • You have the right to complain to a supervising authority if you believe I am misusing your data or have violated any of your rights under this Privacy Policy or applicable law.

Any personal data collected and used is accessible & controlled by you. If you would like to access, erase or withdraw consent about your personal data, please contact me.

Site use by children

This website is not intended for use by children under age 16, and I do not knowingly solicit any personal data from anyone under that age. If you become aware that I have inadvertently collected data of anyone under the age of 16, please contact me so that we may delete that data immediately.