Privacy Policy

In Summary

Gallery Chouffot only collects and uses the personal data you are asked for, in order to deliver your purchase safely to you. It adheres to all the GDPR current rules and regulations. It does not use your information for any other purpose and will never pass it on to unauthorised parties.

All payments and financial transactions are made through either PayPal or the other Payment Gateways and we have no access to your payment details. 

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Read the full version of our Privacy Policy below.

1.   INTRODUCTION

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our website www.gallerychouffot.com including any information you may provide through our site when you purchase a product or sign up to our newsletter.

By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 16 years of age.

Gallery Chouffot is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).  

Our Contact Details: Gallery Chouffot

Postal address: 32 The Malyons, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 1TU United Kingdom

Email address: info@galleryChouffot.com

If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, we should be grateful if you would contact us first with any complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.  You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at info@galleryChouffot.com

2.  WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. We may process certain types of personal data about you, necessary for processing your order as follows:

•  Identity Data may include your first name, maiden name, last name, username, marital status, title, date of birth,

•  Contact Data may include your billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.

•  Sensitive data. We do not collect any sensitive data about you.

•  Additionally, if you wish to join our mailing list and fill in the online form to do so we may collect

•  Work data. May include information about the artwork you do and the experience/education you have relating to that and skills needed for working in our shop

3.  HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Direct interactions: You may provide data by filling in forms on our site (or otherwise) or by communicating with us by post, phone, email or otherwise, including when you order our products or services or subscribe to our monthly newsletter.

4.  HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA  

We will only use your personal data when legally permitted. The only uses of your personal data are

•     Where we need to perform the contract between us.

•     Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

•     Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation

We do not use your personal data for marketing purposes and it is only shared with Gallery Chouffot, with the specific artist from whom the purchase is made for the purpose of completing the contract with you.

Your purchase is processed by either Paypal or a Wix Payment gateway partner and we have no access to the data held by them other than proof of payment.

Purposes for processing your personal data  

Set out below is a description of the ways we intend to use your personal data and the legal grounds on which we will process such data. We have also explained what our legitimate interests are where relevant.

We may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground, depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.  

•     Purpose/Activity    

•     Type of data

•     Lawful basis for processing

•     To register you as a customer

•     Identity

•     Contact    

•     Performance of a contract with you

To process and deliver your order including: (a) Manage payments, fees and charges (b) Collect and recover money owed to us 

•     Identity

•     Contact

•     Performance of a contract with you

•     Necessary for our legitimate interests to recover debts owed to us.

To administer and protect our business and our site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)

•     Identity

•     Contact

•     Technical

Necessary for our legitimate interests for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise or necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

Change of Purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.

If we need to use your personal data for a purpose unrelated to the purpose for which we collected the data, we will notify you and we will explain the legal ground of processing.

We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.

5.  DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above:

•     Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.

•     Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.

•     HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the United Kingdom and other relevant jurisdictions who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

    Artists (sellers) who use our website as a means to sell their work in order for them to send you your artwork.

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6.  DATA SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to any Artist who has been invited to guest on Gallery Chouffot to that need to forefil any business contract with you.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

The data you provide would only be shared with a third party if we were legally obliged and instructed to do so.

7.  DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

By law, to comply with tax regulations, we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see below for further information.

8.  YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

If you wish to you can find out about these rights at:

ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at info@gallerychouffot.com.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

9. THIRD-PARTY LINKS

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications, including Paypal. 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 notice of every website you visit.

10. COOKIES

The website only uses Cookies to help with a smooth operational experience whilst on the site. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.