Privacy Policy for Clay Whisper Studio
This Privacy Policy describes how Clay Whisper Studio ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your information when you visit our website, register for courses, or interact with our online platform. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal data in a transparent and secure manner, in compliance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information for different purposes to provide and improve our services to you.
Personal Data:
While using our site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This may include, but is not limited to:
- First name and last name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Billing address and payment details (processed securely by third-party payment providers)
- Any other information you choose to provide when registering for courses, workshops, or open studio sessions.
Usage Data:
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website or when you access our online platform by or through a mobile device ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
2. How We Use Your Information
Clay Whisper Studio uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain our services, including facilitating course registrations and managing open studio sessions.
- To manage your course enrollment and participation in workshops.
- To notify you about changes to our services or courses.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our online platform when you choose to do so.
- To provide customer support.
- To process payments for courses and workshops.
- To monitor the usage of our online platform.
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.
- To display student portfolios with their explicit consent.
3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under GDPR
We process your personal data under the following legal bases:
- Performance of a Contract: The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party (e.g., when you register for a course).
- Consent: You have given explicit consent for the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes (e.g., for marketing communications or the display of your portfolio).
- Legitimate Interests: The processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by Clay Whisper Studio, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
- Legal Obligations: The processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which Clay Whisper Studio is subject.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our services, to contact you. This includes payment processors for secure transaction handling.
- For Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent (e.g., displaying your artwork in student portfolios).
- Law Enforcement: Under certain circumstances, Clay Whisper Studio may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
- Other Legal Requirements: Clay Whisper Studio may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of Clay Whisper Studio, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the site, protect the personal safety of users of the site or the public, protect against legal liability.
5. Security of Your Information
The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk.
6. Your Data Protection Rights Under GDPR
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Clay Whisper Studio aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. Your rights include:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The right to withdraw consent: You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Clay Whisper Studio relied on your consent to process your personal information.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us at [email protected] to exercise any of these rights.
7. Links to Other Sites
Our site may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
8. Children's Privacy
Our services are designed for individuals aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
9. 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. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our site, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- By visiting this page on our website: [email protected]
- By mail:
- Clay Whisper Studio
- 14 Dame Street
- Dublin 2
- D02 X001
- Dublin, Ireland