This privacy policy explains how LR Art Studio processes the personal data of visitors to www.lrartstudio.com and of customers who buy our works, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Italian Legislative Decree 196/2003.
1. Data controller
The data controller is Luciana Russo, Via del Biancospino 18, 73048 Nardò (LE), Italy, VAT number IT14539360967, tax code (codice fiscale) RSSLCN92T41Z112J.
For any request concerning your personal data, please write to info.lrartstudio@gmail.com.
2. Data we collect
- Order and account data: first and last name, billing and shipping address, email, phone number, order history and, if you create an account, your login details.
- Payment data: payments are processed by PayPal. We do not receive or store your full card or account details.
- Contact data: name, email and the content of the messages you send us through the contact form, the “Ask a question” form or by email.
- Newsletter: the email address you give us when you subscribe to the newsletter.
- Browsing data: IP address, browser type, pages visited and other technical data collected automatically by the systems that run the website.
3. Purposes and legal bases
- Handling orders, payments, shipping, returns and customer service: performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
- Meeting tax and accounting obligations: legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR).
- Answering your enquiries: pre-contractual steps taken at your request (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
- Sending the newsletter: consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time using the link in every email.
- Keeping the website secure and preventing fraud and abuse: our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
The data needed for an order is mandatory: without it we cannot fulfil your purchase. All other data is optional.
4. Who receives your data
Your data is processed by the controller and, where necessary, by the following providers, acting as processors or as independent controllers:
- website hosting provider: Aruba S.p.A.;
- PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., for payment processing;
- Mailchimp (Intuit Inc.), for sending the newsletter;
- couriers and shipping services, for delivering orders;
- tax and accounting advisers, for legal obligations.
Your data is never sold or made public.
5. Transfers outside the European Union
Some providers, such as Mailchimp and PayPal, may process data in the United States. In these cases the transfer is based on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework or on the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.
6. How long we keep your data
- Order data and tax records: 10 years, as required by tax law.
- Account data: for as long as your account is active; you can ask us to delete it at any time.
- Contact requests: for as long as needed to reply, and no longer than 24 months.
- Newsletter: until you withdraw your consent.
7. Your rights
At any time you can ask for access to your data, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest (Arts. 15–22 GDPR). Where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before.
To exercise your rights, write to info.lrartstudio@gmail.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority, in particular the Italian Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (www.garanteprivacy.it) or the authority in your country of residence.
8. Cookies
This website only uses technical and functional cookies that it needs to work. We do not use profiling or marketing cookies. Technical cookies do not require consent.
- wp-wpml_current_language: remembers the language you chose (duration: 1 day).
- woocommerce_cart_hash, woocommerce_items_in_cart, wp_woocommerce_session_*: manage the cart and the order (duration: up to 2 days).
- wordpress_logged_in_*, wordpress_sec_*: keep you signed in to your account (duration: the session, or up to 14 days if you choose “Remember me”).
- pls_cookie_notice_accepted: remembers that you closed the cookie notice.
- Wishlist and product comparison cookies: remember the products you saved.
- PayPal cookies: set by PayPal during payment, under PayPal’s own privacy policy.
You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings. Blocking technical cookies may stop the cart and checkout from working properly.
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. The version in force is always published on this page, with the date of the last update.
