Who we are
Mailing Address:
Ginger Cook Studios
21175 State Highway 249
Unit: 330
Houston, TX 77070-1655
These Privacy Policies will be the same on all of our websites:
https://www.gingercooklive.gallery
https://acrylicpaintingwithgingercook.com/
https://gingercookauction.com/
https://www.gingercooklive.com/
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. We are not responsible for the image data that you may have included with your image.
Contact forms
We use several different forms that enable you the ability to contact us and share information about yourself, your art, to ask a question, to send your artwork in for Personal Art Coaching, and other yet named information. All of this information is kept private on our servers and not shared with anyone or any entity. Depending on the form that you are using, we also will collect the IP address used when communicating with us, the date and time of the form submission, and then the information that you provide on the form. This data is kept indefinitely or until we need to purge for storage or other reasons.
The various forms include the following and others as they may be added:
Contact Us – https://www.gingercooklive.gallery/contact-us/
Get to Know You Form – https://www.gingercooklive.gallery/members-information/
Send Us Your Artwork – https://www.gingercooklive.gallery/send-us-your-artwork/
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days or more, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks or more. If you log out of your account, the login cookies may be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day or more.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use various analytical programs to make sure that we are addressing the right folks with our posts and information. We use Google and JetPack to help us track this information. NO personal data is collected and we use anonymous IP addresses. When possible, we capture the demographic information of our visitors, but there is no identifying data that will point the data is specific to you.
Further policy information from Google can be read here:
Safeguarding your data – https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en&ref_topic=2919631
Security and privacy in Universal Analytics – https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2838718?hl=en&ref_topic=2919631
IP Anonymization in Analytics – https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en&ref_topic=2919631
IP masking – https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2905384?hl=en&ref_topic=2919631
Who we share your data with
As a general rule, we do not sure any of our information with anyone. But, if you have signed up as a paying member, some of your information had to be shared with one of our two payment processors; either PayPal or Stripe. We do not keep any of your financial information on our servers. We leave that to the experts…PayPal or Stripe.
PayPal Privacy Policy can be viewed here https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Stripes Privacy Policy can be viewed here https://stripe.com/us/privacy
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service using the tools provided by Jetpack and Akismet.
Jetpack Privacy Policy can be viewed here https://jetpack.com/support/privacy/
Your contact information
We can be reached via the US Postal service at
Ginger Cook Studios
21175 State Highway 249
Unit: 330
Houston, TX 77070-1655
You can reach us via the “Contact Us” form as well, https://www.gingercooklive.gallery/contact-us/.