PRIVACY POLICY

Artworks by Dédé Hourani

This website, https://dedehourani.com/artworks, presents and sells original artworks by Dédé Hourani. This policy explains what personal data we collect when you browse the site, contact us, or purchase an artwork, why we collect it, and the rights you have over it.

Data controller: [INSERT LEGAL ENTITY NAME / ARTIST NAME]

Contact: [INSERT CONTACT EMAIL]

Order and Purchase Data

When you purchase an artwork, we collect the information necessary to process, ship, and invoice your order:

—   Full name, email address, billing and shipping address, and phone number.

—   Order details: artwork purchased, price, order date, and order status.

—   Payment information, processed securely by our payment provider [INSERT PAYMENT PROCESSOR, e.g. Stripe, PayPal]. We do not store full card numbers on our own servers.

This data is retained for as long as necessary to fulfill the order, comply with tax and accounting obligations, and handle any related returns or disputes (see Section 6).

Comments

When visitors leave a comment, we collect the content of the comment along with the commenter’s IP address and browser user agent string, which helps us detect spam.

An anonymized, irreversible code generated from your email address (a hash) may be shared with the Gravatar service to check whether you have an associated profile picture. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here. If your comment is approved, your profile picture may appear publicly alongside it.

Media Uploads

If you upload images to the site (for example, through a comment or contact form), please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors who download an image from the site may be able to extract any location data still embedded in it.

Analytics and Marketing

We use analytics and marketing tools, currently [INSERT TOOLS, e.g. Google Analytics, Meta Pixel], to understand how visitors use the site and to measure the performance of our marketing. These tools may set cookies and collect information such as your approximate location, device and browser type, pages visited, and referring website.

—   If you subscribe to our newsletter or mailing list, we collect your email address and, optionally, your name, to send you updates about new works, exhibitions, and availability. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send.

—   Where required by applicable law, we will request your consent before activating non-essential analytics or marketing cookies, and you may manage your preferences through our cookie banner.

Cookies on this site fall into the following categories:

—   Comment cookies: if you leave a comment and opt in, we store your name, email, and website in a cookie for your convenience on future comments. These last one year.

—   Login cookies: a temporary cookie checks whether your browser accepts cookies when visiting the login page; it contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. If you log in, cookies store your login state (2 days, or 2 weeks with “Remember Me”) and display preferences (1 year). These are removed when you log out.

—   Editing cookies: if you edit or publish content, a cookie noting the relevant post ID is stored for 1 day. It contains no personal data.

—   Checkout/cart cookies: used to maintain your cart and session during the purchase process.

—   Analytics and marketing cookies: as described in Section 2, used to measure site usage and marketing performance.

Pages on this site may include embedded content from other websites (for example, videos or images). Embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited the other website directly: that site may collect data about you, set its own cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your activity if you are logged into an account there.

—   Payment processors, to securely complete your purchase.

—   Shipping and logistics providers, to deliver your artwork and provide tracking information.

—   Spam-detection and analytics services, as described above.

—   If you request a password reset, your IP address is included in the password reset email.

We do not sell your personal data to third parties.

—   Comments and their associated metadata are retained indefinitely, so that follow-up comments from recognized commenters can be approved automatically rather than held for moderation.

—   Order and transaction records are retained for as long as required by applicable tax, accounting, and consumer protection law, even after an order is complete.

—   If you register an account on the site, your profile information is stored until you delete it or request its erasure. You can view, edit, or delete your personal information at any time from your account (except your username), and site administrators can also view and edit this information.

If you have an account, have made a purchase, or have left a comment on this site, you may request:

—   An exported file of the personal data we hold about you.

—   Erasure of personal data we hold about you, except where we are legally required to retain it for administrative, tax, legal, or security purposes (such as completed order records).

To exercise these rights, contact us using the details in Section 1.

—   Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam-detection service.

—   Order and payment data is transmitted to our payment processor and shipping providers as needed to fulfill your purchase.

—   Some service providers used by this site may process data outside your country of residence; where this occurs, appropriate safeguards are used as required by applicable law.