Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 1st 2020

Our Promise

Sophia Dionne is committed to protect your privacy and personal information and will never abuse your trust.

Information Collected

• Contact details that you provide to us, including name, telephone number, email address, postal address.
• Notes on any orders, commissions, collaborations or agreements.

Information Collected Via Third Parties

We also obtain personal information from other sources as follwed below. Links to Redbubble have their own Privacy Policy and can be found here: https://www.redbubble.com/privacy.

Cookies & Similar Technologies

We use cookies (small text files placed on your device) and similar technologies to provide our websites and online services and to help collect data. Cookies allow us, among other things, to store your preferences and settings; enable you to sign-in; provide interest-based advertising; combat fraud; and analyse how our websites and online services are performing.You have a variety of tools to control cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, including browser controls to block and delete cookies and controls from some third-party analytics service providers to opt out of data collection through web beacons and similar technologies. Your browser and other choices may impact your experiences with our products.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To contact you with news and releases that are likely to be of interest to you.
• For best practice record-keeping.

Who We Share Your Personal Information With

• Your data is stored securely on paper files.
• In software systems which are managed by Apple Mac hardware and software managed by Go Daddy website builder.
• Your personal information will be shared with law enforcement or other authorities if required by law.
• Personal information will not be shared with any other third party except courier providers and only then if you choose to use this service.

Information Provided By You And Why

Your contact details are required to enable us to make orders or agreements with you.By subscribing via our website, we will keep you informed of any events and artwork, that may be of interest. 

How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept

• At a minimum, we will hold your personal data for a period of 7 years, as is required by current UK tax law (6 years plus the current year).
• Our maximum retention period is ten years from the date of your last purchase or three years from your date of registration with us if you have not made a purchase.
• Nothing is kept indefinitely, your personal data is kept under review. All correspondence of contact details and emails are periodically deleted.

Reasons We Can Collect And Use Your Personal Information

We hold data if you have provided your information through subscribing online or in person with the artist.We rely on the legitimate interest as the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal data.

Your Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights. In summary, those include rights to:

• Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information
• Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address
• Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
• Require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
• Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
• Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
• Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
• Object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
• Otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

How To Complain

We hope to resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner, who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns or via telephone at 0303 123 1113.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

This privacy notice was published in July 2020. Any changes that take place to our policy will be updated here.

How To Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, or would like to unsubscribe from our mailing list, please contact: privacy@sophiadionne.com.

Please Note: Similar wording to this document was taken from a reputable Fine Art Gallery by the name of DeMontfort. We endevour to respect the same privacy.