Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 20/12/2025

1. Introduction

Gill Waller Arts ("we," "our," or "us") is the trading name of sole trader Gill Waller, a UK‑based art business operating the website https://www.gillwallerarts.co.uk. For the purposes of UK data protection law, Gill Waller (trading as Gill Waller Arts) is the data controller for the personal information collected through this website.

For any questions about this privacy policy or how your data is used, please contact:

Email: gillwaller00@gmail.com

We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and safeguard your information when you visit our website. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the site.

2. Information We Collect

When you use this website, the following information may be collected:
Contact form: your name, email address and the contents of your message.

Technical and usage data: basic information about how you use the site, such as IP address, browser type and pages visited, which may be collected via cookies or similar technologies

Online shop orders: your name, email address, billing address, delivery address, order details and payment confirmation information (payment card details are handled by the payment provider, not by Gill Waller Arts).

No special category (sensitive) data is intentionally collected, and this site is not aimed at children under 18.

3. Use of Your Information

Your personal data is used only when there is a valid legal reason to do so under UK GDPR.

Data may be used to:

Respond to enquiries sent via the contact form (legitimate interests and/or performance of a contract).
Process and fulfil your orders, including arranging printing, packing and delivery of art prints (performance of a contract). This is currently provided by Prodigi and would therefore involve sharing your name, delivery address and order details with them
Maintain business records, manage accounts and comply with legal, tax or regulatory obligations (legal obligation).
Monitor and improve the website, products and services (legitimate interests, using only the data necessary).
Send you periodic emails, such as newsletters, promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you, if you have opted-in

Personal data is not sold and is not used for general email marketing unless you have clearly opted in to receive such messages.

Our company website is provided and hosted by Wix which allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

Your card details are handled directly by the payment provider and are not stored by Gill Waller or Gill Waller Arts.

4. How long your data is kept

Personal information is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes it was collected for, including to satisfy legal, accounting or reporting requirements.

In general:

Enquiry emails may be kept for up to 2 years.
Order records may be kept for up to 7 years to comply with tax and accounting rules.

After this, data will be securely deleted or anonymised where possible.

5. Cookies

This website may use cookies or similar technologies to:

Make the site work properly and keep it secure.
Remember your preferences.
Help understand how the site is used and improve performance.

Some cookies are essential for the website to function. Other, non‑essential cookies (such as analytics or marketing cookies) will only be used with your consent where required by law. You can usually disable cookies in your browser settings, but some parts of the site may not function correctly if you do so.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

Under UK data protection law, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data, subject to certain conditions:

Right to access – to request a copy of the personal data held about you.
Right to rectification – to ask for inaccurate or incomplete data to be corrected.
Right to erasure – to ask for your data to be deleted in certain circumstances.
Right to restrict processing – to request that use of your data is limited.
Right to data portability – to receive your data in a commonly used format in certain cases.
Right to object – to object to processing based on legitimate interests.
Right to withdraw consent – where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please use the contact details in section 1.

7. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: gillwaller00@gmail.com

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