Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 28, 2024
Last Updated: March 12, 2025
 
Who we are
Our business name is Fine Art Printing Studio, and our website address is https://fineartprintingstudio.com.au. We provide print services tailored to customer requirements using the capacity of our printing equipment.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at 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, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Protection of Customer Images: We ensure that customer-uploaded images are solely used to fulfill print orders. Customer images are not reproduced, shared, or distributed outside the requested print job.
Uploaded Images and Privacy Protection:
  • Copyright Responsibility: Customers are fully responsible for ensuring they hold the appropriate copyrights or permissions for any images submitted for printing.
  • Image Handling: Uploaded images are transferred to secure offline local storage within 3 business days after the order is placed.
  • Data Deletion: Uploaded image files are permanently deleted from our systems within 7 days after the associated prints have been successfully delivered to the customer.
  • Use Limitation: Customer images are used strictly for fulfilling the requested print services and are not shared, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose.
Cookies
1. Functional Cookies (Essential for Website Use)
• When you leave a comment on our website, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not need to re-enter your details when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
• If you visit our login page, a temporary session cookie will be set to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
• When you log in, multiple cookies will be created to save your login information and screen display preferences:
• Login cookies last for two days.
• If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks.
• If you log out, all login-related cookies will be removed.
2. Cookies for Editing and Publishing
• If you edit or publish content on our website, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser.
• This cookie does not store personal data and only records the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.
3. More Information About Cookies
For details on how we use cookies for analytics, advertising, and third-party integrations, please refer to our Cookie Policy. There, you will find information on:
  • The types of cookies we use.
  • How to manage your cookie preferences.
  • How to disable cookies in your browser.
  • Third-party services that may use cookies on our website.
By continuing to use our website, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy.
Embedded content from other websites
Pages and articles on our site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, and articles from external sites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We share data strictly for operational and legal purposes. If you place an order on our site, we may share limited personal data with third-party services essential for processing and fulfilling your order, such as payment processors (e.g., Stripe or PayPal) and shipping providers (e.g., Australia Post). These third-party services have their own privacy policies regarding the data they receive.
We do not share customer-uploaded images or original files with any external parties for purposes other than fulfilling your order. Customer images are not reused, distributed, or sold for any other activities.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Registered users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for changing their username). Website administrators can also view 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 an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold, excluding any data required for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Additionally, payment and order data may be transmitted securely to external payment processors and shipping providers for order fulfillment.