Scottish Pictures - Privacy Policy

This privacy policy relates to your interaction with and usage of the Scottish Pictures website. For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK-GDPR compliance, the data controller & processor is:

Ian Smith – owner, Scottish Pictures; 64 West Port, Edinburgh, EH1 2LD, SCOTLAND

The policy describes how we collect and use your personal information that we may collect from your interaction with the website and from our communications with you.

Your privacy is important to us and we are committed to ensuring your privacy is protected. This policy sets out how Scottish Pictures uses any information that you give us when you use our website.

What information do we request from you?

 On our website “Get in Touch” page we invite you to Email us regarding maps & prints for sale, or to request any other information you require. Once you make a purchase we shall also require the following personal information:

Name, Email address and telephone number;

Full address including post code for delivery purposes.

How do we use the information you give us? 

We shall never share or sell any personal or contact information you give us; it will be used only by Scottish Pictures to fulfil any request you make of us or to deliver products ordered.

It will be used for internal company record keeping and legally required business records.

We may, on occasion, send you an Email with information about new stock acquisitions which we think may be of interest to you; if you do not wish to receive such marketing information please Email us and we shall not do so again.

Security 

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to mitigate against unauthorised access or disclosure we maintain adequate technical and managerial procedures to secure information we collect online; we have procedures in place to protect your data once we have received it.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computers hard drive; once you agree the file is added. They are widely used to make websites operate more efficiently as well as to provide information to the owners of the website e.g. we use Google Analytics to identify which pages on our website are most visited. No information which personally identifies you is collected from our website through cookies, and a website user can choose to accept or decline cookies; further information about cookies can be found on www.allaboutcookies.org

Links to other websites 

Our website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to Scottish Pictures website and please note that we have no control over any external websites. It therefore follows that we cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you may provide to  websites other than Scottish Pictures.

Third Parties

We use third parties to host our website. We satisfy ourselves that these third parties have systems and procedures in place to protect your personal data and are compliant with the requirements of the GDPR/UK-GDPR or operate under accepted Privacy Shields or European Commission Agreements if they are located outside the EEA.

This Privacy Policy is effective from 1st June 2022