Maria Nilsson

Privacy Policy

 
 

Maria Nilsson 

This Privacy Policy describes how and when I collect, use, and share information when you purchase an item from me, commission work from me, contact me, or otherwise use my services through www.maria-nilsson.com or its related sites and services.

Information I collect

To fulfil your order, you must provide me with certain information, such as your name, email address, postal address, payment information, and the details of the product that you’re ordering. You may also choose to provide me with additional personal information (for customised prints or commissions, for example), if you contact me directly.

Why I Need Your Information and How I Use It

I rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:

  • as needed to provide my services, such as when I use your information to fulfil your order, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support;
  • when you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for my mailing list;
  • if necessary to comply with a legal obligation or court order or in connection with a legal claim, such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law; and
  • as necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests, such as providing and improving our services. I use your information to provide the services you requested and in our legitimate interest to improve our services.

Information about my customers is important to my business. I share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:

  • Compliance with laws. I may collect, use, retain, and share your information if we have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce our agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of our customers, or others.

I retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with our services and as described in my Privacy Policy. However, I may also be required to retain this information to comply with tax, legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. I generally keep your data for the following time period: 5 years.

Any printed documents or information that I need to keep for accounting or tax purposes, are stored in a locked cabinet, or in a password protected Google Docs document, and kept to comply with tax, legal and regulatory obligations only.

If you order through www.maria-nilsson.com your order information will be stored securely with my website host Squarespace (read their privacy policy here).

I may store and process your information through third-party hosting services in the US and other jurisdictions. As a result, I may transfer your personal information to a jurisdiction with different data protection and government surveillance laws than your jurisdiction. If I am deemed to transfer information about you outside of the EU, I rely on Privacy Shield as the legal basis for the transfer, as Google Cloud is Privacy Shield certified.

Your Rights

If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. I describe these rights below:

  • Access. You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information I hold about you by contacting us using the contact information below.
  • Change, restrict, delete. You may also have rights to change, restrict my use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where I am required to store data for legal reasons) I will generally delete your personal information upon request.
  • Object. You can object to (i) my processing of some of your information based on my legitimate interests and (ii) receiving marketing messages from me after providing your express consent to receive them. In such cases, I will delete your personal information unless I have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
  • Complain. If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about my use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.

How to Contact me

For purposes of EU data protection law, I, Maria Nilsson, am the data controller of your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact me at maria@maria-nilsson.com 

Alternately, you may mail me at:

Maria Nilsson, Unit 8, Empire Arches, Watts Mews, London, SW16 6AA, United Kingdom