Privacy Policy

At Griff Wason art and illustration (from hereon known as GWai), we know how much you care about the way your personal information is used. We are committed to protecting the integrity and confidentiality of your information and appreciate the trust you place in us. We have drawn up this privacy policy to inform you how we collect and use your information in a careful, sensible manner in compliance with the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 1998. By visiting Griff Wason art and illustration, you are consenting to the procedures outlined in this statement.

 

Who Controls The Personal Information Collected?

All personal information collected is in the control of Griff Wason art and illustration.

 

How Do We Collect Your Personal Information?

The information we gain from you is essential in helping us continually improve your experience with GWai.

 

There are essentially 3 types of customer information we collect:
 

1: When you visit the site, we sometimes use cookies to collect website usage information and information about your computer and internet connection, including your computer's IP address, the type and version of browser and operating system you use, your internet domain and, if you arrived at GWai via a link from another Website, the referring URL.

 

2: We will request you enter personal information when you are subscribing to our special email offers or placing an order:

• When you subscribe to GWai special email offers, we will request your name and email address.
• When you place an order from GWai, we will request all the personal information required to complete the sale and deliver the item(s) purchased. This information will include: name, address, email address, telephone number, credit card details and shipping information. You will be given the option to receive weekly email specials and GWai newsletter, targeted mailings and Selected 3rd Party email offers.

3: We will receive confirmation of you opening GWai HTML special offer emails by the use of special image tracking. This information is used as an indication of the popularity of the offer. You can unsubscribe from receiving email offers at any time.

 

What Is Your Personal Information Used For?
We use your personal information for five primary purposes:

 

1. To alert you to product upgrades, special offers, updated information and other new services from GWai.
2. To support the order process through order confirmation and product despatch notification.
3. To make GWai Website easier for you to use by enabling you to log-in and access your secure personal details.
4. To help you personalise your Website experience on GWai.
5. To help us create and deliver Website content most relevant to you.

 

We also use the information for internal analysis to:

• Identify areas of the Website in need of improvement.
• Build customer profiles to improve the relevancy of the Website.

 

Do We Share Your Information?

GWai will NOT share personal information with third parties without your permission, other than for the very limited exceptions listed below.

 

GWai will only disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on GWai; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of GWai, and, (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of the users of GWai, or the public.

 

GWai will NOT share personal information with third parties without your permission, other than for the limited exceptions listed above.

 

GWai will NOT sell, share, forward, distribute any of your details with anyone individual or company - other the the very limited exceptions listed above.

 

What Happens When I Delete My Profile?

 

• Your user profile data is erased.
• All uploads, photos and their associated comments are deleted.
• Mail and forum posts will be left with blank profile associated to preserve continuity of discussions.
• You may re-use the email address you used to sign up again later, but not your username.

 

How Do We Use Cookies?

We sometimes place a cookie, which is a small text file, on to your computer's hard drive through your web browser. This file enables us to enhance your future visits to the site through personalised greetings, the showing of relevant content and the storage of previously found items of interest. All we can do to the cookie is write data to it. We can't and would not wish to make anything run on your PC.

 

It is also a tool we can use to aggregate usage statistics about the site. This information enables us to recognise popular site features and further develop new ones, adding to the overall viewing or shopping experience of the site. We NEVER share any of this information outside the company (GWai).

 

If you choose to delete GWai cookies or do not have your browser set to accept cookies from GWai, you will still be able to view the site, however you will not experience a personalised visit nor will you be able to benefit from other personalised site offerings.

How Can You Gain Access To Your Personal Information?

We will provide you with the means to ensure that your personal information is correct and current. You may review and update this information at any time by writing to us. You can:

 

• Tell us whether you want GWai to send you marketing information.
• Subscribe or cancel subscriptions to special service and product offers.

 

You can write to us at any time to obtain details of the personal information we may hold about you. Please click here to contact us.

 

Please quote your name and address together with your username. We would be grateful if you could also provide brief details of the information required as this will help us to accurately deliver your data requirements.

 

For the protection of all our customers, we will take all reasonable steps to confirm your identity before providing you with details of any personal information we may hold about you.

 

We will respond to such requests within 20 working days.

 

How Secure Is Your Personal Information?

GWai recognises that you are increasingly concerned about the protection of personal information from misuse and abuse, and about privacy in general. We constantly review and enhance our technical, physical and managerial procedures in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure personal data in order to protect it from unauthorised access, accidental loss and/or destruction.

 

We use industry standard 128 bit secure sockets layer (SSL) technology to encrypt sensitive information such as your credit card and other financial information.

 

It is important to remember to protect yourself against unauthorised access to your password if you use a shared PC. Make sure you sign off or close your browser when you have finished using it.

 

Do We Monitor and/or Record Your Communications?

Monitoring or recording of your calls, e-mails, and other communications may take place in accordance with UK law, and in particular for business purposes, such as for quality control and training, and in order to prevent or detect crime. Please visit the following Websites for further information:

 

www.dataprotection.gov.uk

www.dti.gov.uk

 

What Happens If We Change This Statement?

GWai will occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the privacy statement. For material changes to this statement, GWai will notify you by placing a notice on the site's home page for at least 7 days.

 

Gwai’s Anti-Spam Policy

GWai prohibits the use of the services in any manner associated with the transmission, distribution or delivery of any unsolicited bulk or unsolicited commercial e-mail ("Spam"). We HATE Spam, and we know you do too.

 

In addition, e-mail sent, or caused to be sent, to or through the Services may not:

 

1. use or contain invalid or forged headers;

 

2. use or contain invalid or non-existent domain names;

 

3. employ any technique to otherwise misrepresent, hide or obscure any information in identifying the point of origin or the transmission path;

 

4. use other means of deceptive addressing;

 

5. use a third party's internet domain name, or be relayed from or through a third party's equipment, without permission of the third party;

 

6. contain false or misleading information in the subject line or otherwise contain false or misleading content;

 

7. fail to comply with additional technical standards described below; or

 

8. otherwise violate the applicable Terms of Use for the Services.

 

GWai does not authorize the harvesting, mining or collection of e-mail addresses or other information from or through the services. GWai does not permit or authorize others to use the services to collect, compile or obtain any information about Gwai’s customers or subscribers, including but not limited to subscriber e-mail addresses, which are GWai's confidential and proprietary information. Use of the Services is also subject to the applicable Privacy Statement and Terms of Use.

 

GWai does not permit or authorize any attempt to use the services in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair any aspect of any of the services, or that could interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any service.

 

If GWai believes that unauthorized or improper use is being made of any service, it may, without notice, take such action as it, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate, including blocking messages from a particular internet domain, mail server or IP address. GWai may immediately terminate any account on any service which it determines, in its sole discretion, is transmitting or is otherwise connected with any e-mail that violates this policy.

 

Nothing in this policy is intended to grant any right to transmit or send e-mail to, or through, the services. Failure to enforce this policy in every instance does not amount to a waiver of GWai’s rights.

 

Unauthorized use of the services in connection with the transmission of unsolicited e-mail, including the transmission of e-mail in violation of this policy, may result in civil, criminal, or administrative penalties against the sender and those assisting the sender.

 

Contact Information

GWai welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy, please click here to contact us.

 

Thank you for your trust.

 

All the team at Griff Wason art and illustration

Griff Wason art & illustration - Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 1st 2008