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Effective date: 11.11.2024

1. Who am I?

1.1 I am Martina O’Brien, trading as Golden Leaf Illustrations. For privacy queries, you can contact me at martinaobrien29@gmail.com. Other contact details are on my website under the section Contact.

2. What’s the point of this policy?

2.1 It tells you what to expect when I collect personal information from my customers or website users via my website or otherwise. Please only use my service and products if you are completely happy with this policy.

3. What do I collect?

3.1 Information which you upload to buy my products or otherwise give me such as:

● your name and contact details;

● other information you provide on registration or otherwise such as your date of birth and gender;

● account information such as your username and password;

● details about your transactions on my website;

● information that you include in reviews displayed on my website or which you include in communications with me including surveys and feedback; and

● contact or other information which you give or allow me to use for newsletters or other marketing.

3.2 Automated information about your use of my service such as: the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the internet, connection information such as browser type and version, information about your device including device-type and device identifier, operating system and platform, mobile network data, a unique reference number linked to the data you enter on my system, login details, the site from which you arrived at my service, details of your activity with date / time stamps including pages you visited and your searches / transactions.

3.3 The following information about you may be provided to me by other people:

● Limited billing information sent to me by my payment provider for verification purposes e.g., your name, email address and billing address.

● Credit-related information from credit services.

● Identity and contact information from publicly available sources such as Companies House and the Law Society.

4. What’s my reason / legal basis for collecting the information?

4.1 Because it’s necessary to take steps at your request to enter into a contract with you and/or to perform such a contract. This applies to initial inquiries, and to contact and transaction details.

4.2 Because it’s in my “legitimate interests”, e.g., to send marketing communications to customers about my similar products, to manage and improve my service including tracking usage patterns and preventing or detecting fraud or abuse. This applies to automated usage data as well as to reviews that are displayed on my service as well as surveys and feedback.

4.3 Because you’ve specifically agreed on my service (e.g, by ticking a consent box). This may apply to contact or other information which you give or allow me to use for certain kinds of marketing. You can withdraw permission at any time as explained on my service or by emailing me at the above email address.

5. How long do I keep personal information?

5.1 Until my contract with you has ended.

5.2 I may nonetheless hold on to some (or all) of your information for longer if reasonably needed for legal, regulatory or tax reasons, deal with disputes, prevent fraud or abuse and/or enforce my terms and conditions (typically up to six years).

5.3 I will keep your information which I use only for newsletters or other marketing until you tell me to stop sending you such messages.

5.4 I will generally keep automated browsing information for up to 26 months.

6. To whom do I send or make available your personal information?

6.1 To other people who supply me with a service, e.g., hosts, couriers, payment providers, accreditation bodies, software developers and businesses which help me send communications or monitor my service and which provide me with e-commerce, analytics, social media, review management, live chat, IT support and other services.

6.2 To other users of my service if you display personal information in a review that is posted on my service.

6.3 To regulators, the police and other law enforcement or official authorities to help deal with fraud and abuse and/or comply with legal requirements and/or to protect me or others.

6.4 To insurers and professional advisers in connection with my insurance cover or to deal with legal claims.

6.5 To potential buyers so far as reasonably necessary, in the case of an actual or proposed (including negotiations for a) sale or merger or business combination involving all or the relevant part of my business.

7. Do I send your information outside the UK?

7.1 Your personal information which I collect is stored within the UK and is not transferred to any other countries except as follows.

7.2 I may send some of your personal information to countries within the European Economic Area (EEA) for the purposes explained above.

7.3 Your personal information (e.g., name, email address, IP address, browsing information) may be transferred to the ME by the following companies: Google (analytics), Facebook (social media) and Gmail (emails). Transfer is on the basis of contracts with special standard contractual clauses designed to provide adequate safeguards for your personal information.

7.4 I may need to send your contact information to delivery companies in your country, including outside the UK/EEA, to enable me to perform the contract with you.

8. What rights do you have?

8.1 If the legal requirements are met: To ask me for access to your personal information, to rectify it if there are mistakes, to delete it or restrict its use in certain circumstances or to “data portability” or to withdraw any consent you’ve given (e.g. marketing).

8.2 You may also have the right to object to use of your personal information in certain circumstances.

8.3 If you have a complaint about how I am dealing with your personal information, please contact me via the email address above. If you are not happy with my response or think I am not handling your personal information in accordance with the law, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

8.4 For more information about your rights, visit the ICO’s website: www.ico.org.uk.

9. What about cookies?

9.1 I and/or other companies use cookies and other tracking technologies on my website. A cookie is an identifier (a small file of letters and numbers) that is sent to your web browser. Cookies are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the website owner or others. Some are session temporary “session” cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser only until your browser is closed. Whereas persistent cookies stay for longer (depending on the lifetime of the specific cookie). For further information on cookies, including how to use your browser to block them and how to delete existing cookies, visit: www.allaboutcookies.org. My site’s functionality will be limited if you configure your browser to reject cookies.

9.2 I myself may place the following types of cookies:

Affiliate cookies to track whether you have visited me from websites affiliated with me so I can pay affiliates and assess the effectiveness of the affiliate links.

9.3 Companies which provide me with a service also place cookies. Some of these cookies (e.g. from Google) may involve certain information, such as your name and contact details and/or the IP and web address of the page you’re visiting, being sent to the company concerned. Below is a summary of the kinds of cookies used together with details about who places them and where you can go to get more information and to opt out (where possible):

● Analytics cookies: These kinds of cookies recognise and count the number of website visitors as well as providing other information about the visit such as duration, route through the website and where the visitor came from. This information helps me to improve the way my website works, for example by making sure users find what they need easily. These cookies are provided by:

● Google Analytics (“GA”).More information:

- Google’s overview of GA data practices and safeguarding

- how to specifically opt out from GA cookies

- Google’s mee of its partners’ data

● Social media cookies: These kinds of cookies are placed by social media companies when you use their features on another site, e.g., click a Facebook “like”. These features may involve the relevant company using cookies to collect information relating to your visit to my website or your interaction with its services or otherwise. Here is some further information including how you can opt out where this is possible: Facebook

● Payment provider cookies: My payment provider may place cookies if you use their payment services on my site:

- Paypal's privacy policy

- Stripe’s privacy policy

- Payzone’s privacy policy

● Squarespace cookies: Squarespace, my hosting / security provider, may place cookies in connection with its service. See its privacy policy.

Cookie Policy

Last updated 11/11/2024

1. Overview

This Cookie Policy explains how Martina O’Brien, trading as Golden Leaf Illustrations (‘I’, ‘me’ and ‘my) uses cookies and similar technologies to identify you when you visit my website www.golden-leaf-illustrations.com. This policy explains what these technologies are, why I use them and your rights to control my use of them.

In some cases, I may use cookies to collect personal information.

2. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites function or to work more efficiently, as well as providing reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (Martina O’Brien, trading as Golden Leaf Illustrations) are called ‘first party cookies’. Cookies can also be set by third parties, such as those who serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the website (“third party cookies”).

Both websites and HTML emails may also contain other tracking technologies such as “web beacons” or “pixels.” These are typically small transparent images that provide me with statistics, for similar purposes as cookies. They are often used in conjunction with cookies, though they are not stored on your computer in the same way. As a result, if you disable cookies, web beacons may still load, but their functionality will be restricted.

3. How I Use Cookies

I use cookies for a number of different reasons. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons in order for my website to function correctly; some enable a personalized experience for visitors; and some allow the display of advertising from selected third party networks. Some of these cookies may be set when a page is loaded, or when a visitor takes a particular action (clicking the “Contact Me” button on a post, for example).

4. How Can I Control Cookies?

You have the right to accept or reject cookies, apart from Essential cookies which are needed for my website to function correctly and enable you to access the services you want when visiting www.golden-leaf-illustrations.com.

The Cookie Content Manager can be found in the notification banner on my website. If you choose to reject cookies you may still use my site but some functionality may be restricted.

5. The Cookies I Use

5.1 Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.

5.2 Functional cookies

Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.

5.3 Analytics cookies

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

5.4 Advertisement cookies

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customised ads.

6. Contact Me

If you have any questions about my use of cookies you can contact me via email at martinaobrien29@gmail.com.