Privacy Policy
Andy van Vliet operates www.andyvanvliet.com, which provides the service of acting as an informative website for Andy van Vliet Ceramics and a store front for when items are sold online.
This page is used to inform website visitors of our policy in relation to the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information. If you choose to use the website then it is deemed you agree to the collection and use of your information in accordance with this policy. This information is used to provide and improve our services and we will not share your information with anyone else except as described in this policy.
If you would like us to delete any personal information we have, we will do so on request and wherever possible within the law. Please contact us if you would like your information to be corrected or destroyed.
Information Collection and Use
In order to better operate our service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, email and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfil the order. We may collect information like your:
- Billing and shipping address
- Email address
- Name
- Phone number
We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.
As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
- Information about your browser, network and device
- Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
- Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalized form.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer's hard drive. Our website uses these “cookies” to collection information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the Squarespace website and search for cookies Squarespace uses. These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
- To facilitate taking payments, collecting information for the newsletter and shipping pottery.
- To assist us in analysing how visitors use the website.
We want to inform our users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, and we use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. Please remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children's Privacy
Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will immediately delete this from our servers.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
Contact
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact Andy van Vliet at a.vv@hotmail.co.uk.