Privacy Policy

Firstly, I give you my solemn promise that I will not sell or rent your personal details to anyone else. As you navigate my website, it may ask you to provide personal details such as your name and email address or phone number. This is to provide a better service or experience to you:  to receive my newsletters with details of new work, exhibitions, special offers, answering enquiries, etc. If you opt-in to allow me to store your details on my  database, this information will be held in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. You may request for your personal details to be removed from my database at any time.

Visitors to this website

I use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. You can find more information on how cookies are used on this website in the Cookies Policy below.

If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Newsletter

You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the button at the end of my newsletters. I  use the the information you provide me with to answer your enquiries and to keep you posted on exhibition news, events, etc. I use a third party Mailchimp to deliver the newsletter.  Using industry standard technologies the Mailchimp platform gathers statistics around these email opening and clicks, in order to understand what content subscribers find more engaging. If you would like more  information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice.

Links to Other Web Sites

This privacy notice does not cover any links on this site linking to other websites. Those sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, If you have questions about how a site uses your information, you’ll need to check that site’s privacy statement.

Access to Your Personal Information

If you would like to access your personal information you can email me at info@justinesmith.net

Cookies Policy

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your personal computer, mobile or other device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. We use cookies to enhance the online experience of our visitors (for example, by remembering your preferences and letting you navigate between pages efficiently) and to better understand how the Website is used. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited the Website before or whether you are a new visitor.

How long are cookies stored for?

Persistent cookies – these cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session cookies – these cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience.

You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Cookies used on the Website

Performance cookies

These cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited.  By using the Website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

These cookies collect information about how visitors use the Website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the Website works.

Functionality cookies

These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience.  By using the Website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

These cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Third party cookies

These cookies allow third parties to track the success of their application or customise the application for you. Because of how cookies work we cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used on our site.

For example, if you choose to ‘share’ content through Twitter or other social networks you might be sent cookies from these websites. We don’t control the setting of these cookies, so please check those websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.