Website Privacy Policy

Ruth and Kate Portraits, with registered offices at (" Ruth and Kate Portraits "), is committed to protecting the privacy of users of the websites www.ruthandkateportraits.com (the " Website "). Ruth and Kate Portraits's policy regarding your privacy, as well as your personal information will be handled when using the website. This Privacy Policy therefore seeks to provide you with information that will allow you to understand the personal information in an explicit and informed manner.

In general, any information or data provided by Ruth and Kate Portraits on the website or in the context of the use of Ruth and Kate Portraits services (" Services ") as better defined in Section 3 below, wants to be processed by Ruth and Kate Portraits in a lawful, fair and transparent manner. Ruth and Kate Portraits take into consideration the principles of international law.

CONTENTS

1. Data Controller and Data Protection Officer
2. Personal Data processed
3. Name, contact details and other Personal Data
4. Job applications
5. Special Categories of Personal Data
6. Other persons' personal data
7. Browsing data
8. cookies
9. Purposes of processing
10. Grounds for processing and mandatory or discretionary nature of processing
11. Recipients of Personal Data
12. Transfer of Personal Data
13. Retention of Personal Data
14. Data subjects' rights

9, Amendments 

1. Data Controller and Data Protection Officer

Ruth and Kate Portraits, as identified at the top of this Privacy Policy, is the data controller for the website. 

To get in touch with Ruth and Kate Portraits's Data Protection Officer, please contact:  www.ruthandkateportraits.com 

2. Personal Data processed

When you use the Web site, Ruth and Kate Portraits want to collect and process information about you (as an individual) which allows you to collect it yourself. Ruth and Kate Portraits may therefore be able to collect and process information about other persons in this same manner if you choose to provide it to Ruth and Kate Portraits. Ruth and Kate Portraits's Services or simply by analyzing your personal information may be considered as " Personal Data " or "Ruth and Kate Portraits's Services" Behavior on the website. 

Personal Data which can be processed by Ruth and Kate Portraits through the website are as follows: 

1. Name, contact details, and other Personal Data

In various sections of the Website - including, in particular, if you decide to create an account on the Website - you want to submit information such as your name, phone / mobile numbers, e-mail address, date of birth, country of residence and address etc. When subscribing to or signing up for services, you may be asked to provide PayPal, bank transfer or credit card. 

In addition, whenever you participate in surveys and other promotions that may be available on the Website, as well as whenever you communicate with Ruth and Kate Portraits through the contact details provided in the Website or with Customer Service, Ruth and Kate Portraits may collect additional information which you choose to provide.

1. Job applications

When registering to apply for a position at Ruth and Kate Portraits on the website, you are also asked to provide various types of Personal Data, including professional / employment details (eg. resume, cover letter, professional qualifications, candidate's expectations and wishes workplace, availability to start, URLs, etc.). The personal data that you wish to use will be processed by Ruth and Kate Portraits.

1. Special categories of personal data

Certain areas of the website (: such as the form to request an invitation) include free text fields where you can Provide Ruth and Kate Portraits with some information or needs, Which you may use to communicate personal data. 

These areas are completely free, you may use them to disclose (inadvertently or not) more sensitive categories of personal data, search for data revealing your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership. The content you upload in these fields may also include inappropriate or disparate information about you, as well as other types of sensitive information relating to you, as well as your genetic data, biometric data, or data regarding your health, sex life, or sexual orientation. 

Ruth and Kate Portraits ask that you do not disclose any sensitive Personal Data on the Website unless you consider this to be strictly necessary. Ruth and Kate Portraits need your consent to process on a sort of personal data basis. Ruth and Kate Portraits would like to share your personal information with you. 

1. Other Personnel Personal Data

As mentioned in the previous section, certain areas of the website include free text fields where you can write messages to Ruth and Kate Portraits. These messages may (inadvertently or not) include Personal Data related to other persons. 

Personal data and must assume all inherent legal obligations and responsibilities. This means, among other things, that you must fully indemnify Ruth and Kate Portraits against any complaints, which may arise from the processing of this Personal Data, brought by the third parties. 

As Ruth and Kate Portraits Ruth and Kate Portraits does not collect this information directly from these third parties (but rather collects them, you, from you), you must make sure that you have obtained your consent. Ruth and Kate Portraits this information. 

1. Browsing data

The site's operation, as is standard with any website on the Internet, involves the use of computer systems and software procedures, which collect information about the website's users as part of their routine operations. While Ruth and Kate Portraits does not collect this information, it is not possible to identify it directly or by any means. 

This information includes various parameters related to your IT system, including your IP address, location (country), the domain name of your computer, the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) requests made, the methods used to submit requests to the server, the measures received in response to a request, the numerical code indicating the status of the response sent by the server (successful, error, etc.), and so on.

These data are used to compile statistical information on the website, as well as to ensure its correct operation and/or abuse of the website. Save for this last purpose, these data do not persist for more than 7 working days. 

1. Cookies

Relevant information on cookies is available in the Cookie Policy. 

3. Purposes of processing

Ruth and Kate Portraits intends to use your Personal Data, collected through the Website, for the following purposes:

Ruth and Kate Portraits newsletter subscription Subscribe to Ruth and Kate Portraits's registration services, to register your identity, to subscribe to Ruth and Kate Portraits's registration services as a service and which contains only informational material, to send you any information; and provide any other services which you may request;

 

For future marketing, promotional and publicity purposes, including carrying out direct marketing, market research and surveys, via email, sms, over the phone, instant messaging, through operator, traditional mail, through Ruth and Kate Portraits's official social media pages, concerning Ruth and Kate Portraits's products and services, as well as those of selected third parties (" Marketing ");

For future marketing, promotional and publicity purposes, by sending you direct mail marketing communication Regarding products and services similar to Those you have purchased or requested through the use of the website ( " Soft spam "); 

To create a profile of the site as a website user, through the use of cookies and by collecting and analyzing information on the website. Ruth and Kate Portraits believe that you may be interested in, and that you may be interested in, and that you are interested in. All algorithms involved in this processing are regularly tested, to ensure the processing of fairness and control for bias (" profiling ");

For compliance with laws that impose upon Ruth and Kate Portraits the collection and/or further processing of certain types of Personal Data (" Compliance "); 

To prevent or detect any misuse of the website, or any fraudulent activity carried out through the website ("misuse/fraud"). 

4. Grounds for processing and mandatory/discretionary nature of processing

Ruth and Kate Portraits's legal bases for processing your personal data, according to the purposes identified in Section 3, are as follows:

Service Provision: Processing for these purposes is necessary to provide the services and, therefore, is necessary for the performance of a contract with you. Ruth and Kate Portraits your Personal Data for these purposes; however, if you do not, Ruth and Kate Portraits does not want to provide any services to you. 

Marketing: processing for these purposes is based on your consent. Ruth and Kate Portraits is using your personal data for the purposes of this application, and you do not want to give it back. Any consent given may be withdrawn at a later stage (please see Section 8 for more information). 

Soft Spam: Ruth and Kate Portraits of sending you direct e-mail marketing the products and services that you are using. You can block these communications, and you will not receive any further communications from the Ruth and Kate Portraits, by opposing them. 

Profiling: processing for this purpose is done by means of the banner cookie and/or with a specific tickbox. It is not necessary for you to give consent to your Personal Data for this purpose ). Any consent given may be withdrawn at a later stage (please see Section 8 for more information). 

Compliance: Ruth and Kate Portraits to comply with its legal obligations. When you provide any Personal Data to Ruth and Kate Portraits, Ruth and Kate Portraits must process it in accordance with the applicable law, which may include your personal data.

Misuse / Fraud: Information collected for the purpose of preventing or detecting fraudulent activities or misuse of the website (for potentially criminal purposes).

5 . Recipients of Personal Data

        Your Personal Data may be shared with the following list of persons/entities (" Recipients "):

Persons, companies or professional firms providing Ruth and Kate Portraits with advice and consultation regarding accounting, administrative, legal, tax, financial and debt collection. 

Entities engaged in order to provide the services (eg, hosting providers or e-mail platform providers);

Persons authorized to perform technical maintenance (including maintenance of network equipment and electronic communications networks);

Persons authorized by Ruth and Kate Portraits to process Personal Data needed to carry out activities strictly related to the provision of the services, who have an obligation of confidentiality or are subject to an appropriate legal obligation of confidentiality (eg, employees of Ruth and Kate Portraits);

Other companies within the Ruth and Kate Portraits Group for internal administrative purposes, including the processing of clients 'or employees' personal data; and 

Public entities, bodies or authorities to whom your Personal Data may be disclosed, in accordance with the applicable law or binding orders of those entities, bodies or authorities;

Transfer of Personal Data

Considering Ruth and Kate Portraits's worldwide presence and business operations, your personal data may be transferred to several different countries. Ruth and Kate Portraits implement appropriate safeguards to ensure the lawfulness and security of personal data transfers, as well as by relying on the adequacy of the European Commission, standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission, or other safeguards or conditions considered adequate to the transfer at hand, Ruth and Kate Portraits.

7. Retention of Personal Data

Personal Data Processed for Service Provision Ruth and Kate Portraits for the period strictly necessary for fulfillment purposes - in any case, as the Personal Data are processed for the provision of the Services, Ruth and Kate Portraits may continue to store this Personal Ruth and Kate Portraits's interests are related to the provision of services.

Personal Data processed for Marketing and Profiling will be kept by Ruth and Kate Portraits from the moment you give consent until the moment you withdraw your consent. Once consent is withdrawn, Personal Data will no longer be used for these purposes. 

Personal Data processed for Soft Spam wants to be kept up to date at the bottom of all such communications. 

Personal Data processed for compliance by Ruth and Kate Portraits for the period required by the specific legal obligation or by the applicable law. 

Personal Data processed

Misuse / Fraud wants to be kept by Ruth and Kate Portraits for as long as it is strictly necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. 

8. Data subjects' rights

Under the Regulation, you are entitled to exercise Ruth and Kate Portraits, at any time:

Access your Personal Data processed by Ruth and Kate Portraits, as well as information on the processing of your Personal Data; 

Correct or update your Personal Data processed by Ruth and Kate Portraits, where it may be inaccurate or incomplete; 

Request erasure of your Personal Data processed by Ruth and Kate Portraits, where you feel that the processing is unnecessary or otherwise unlawful; 

Request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, where the personal data processed is inaccurate, unnecessary or unlawfully processed, or where you have objected to the processing;

Personal Data provided to Ruth and Kate Portraits, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, as well as the transmission of personal data to another data controller;

Ruth and Kate Portraits from processing your Personal Data; Object to the processing of your Personal Data; or

Withdraw your consent to processing (for marketing and profiling ).

Please note that most of the personal data you provide can be changed at any time, including your e-mail preferences, by accessing, where applicable, the user profile you can create on the website. 

When requesting the services, you may have selected the means of communication through which you desired the marketing to be carried out ( ie fax, phone, SMS, email, mail, or social media). You may withdraw the consent for the marketing through the different means of communication from the user profile, where applicable, by de-selecting the relevant options. So you can withdraw consent for Marketing via e-mail or object to Soft Spam by selecting the appropriate link included at the bottom of every e-mail message received. The same applies to the Ruth and Kate Portraits newsletter.

Consent for Profiling via cookies may be withdrawn as described in Section 2.f or, via tick box, by changing, at any time, the preferences of the user profile you can create on the website. 

In any case, you are entitled to file a complaint with the appropriate authorities for the protection of personal data, if you believe that the personal data carried out through the website is unlawful.

9. Amendments

This Privacy Policy entered into force on 01/01/2020. Ruth and Kate Portraits reserves the right to either partially or completely amend this Privacy Policy, or as it may, as a result of changes in applicable law. Ruth and Kate Portraits wants to inform you of such changes as soon as they are introduced and they are published on the website. Ruth and Kate Portraits collects and uses Personal Data. Ruth and Kate Portraits collects and uses Personal Data.