PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: May 2026

Welcome to our Privacy Policy. This document explains how bobede.art collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you visit or make a purchase from our website.

1. Who We Are & Contact Information

bobede.art is owned and operated by Bob Ede. For the purpose of UK data protection laws, we are the "Data Controller" of the personal information collected through this site.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or how we handle your data, you can contact us directly at:

  • Email: bobede1951@gmail.com

2. Our Lawful Basis for Processing Personal Data

We only process your personal information when we have a valid lawful basis under UK law to do so:

  • Contractual Necessity: To fulfill and ship your physical print orders, process your payments, and manage your customer interactions.

  • Consent: For non-essential cookies (analytics) and marketing emails, which you actively choose to accept via our cookie banner or sign-up forms and can opt out of at any time.

  • Legitimate Interests: To maintain website security, optimize performance through basic site diagnostics, and respond to your direct webform inquiries.

3. Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

Website Visitors & Analytics

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website to run, protect, and improve its platform services.

To power our site analytics, we collect:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device.

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website.

  • Your IP address.

This information may also include details about your precise use of this website, including: clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps. We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. You can read more about how Squarespace uses this data for its own purposes in the Squarespace Privacy Policy.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.

  • Necessary and Required Cookies: These are always used, as they allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely and reliably serve this website to you.

  • Analytics and Performance Cookies: These are used on this website only when you acknowledge and accept our cookie banner. We use these to view site traffic, activity, and visitor trends.

For detailed information about viewing the specific cookies dropped on your device, please review the Squarespace Cookie Policy.

Customers & Orders

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfil the order. We may collect your:

  • Name, email address, and phone number.

  • Billing and shipping address.

  • Details relating to your specific purchase.

We provide this information to Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide ecommerce services to us.

Shipping & Address Auto-Complete

When you purchase a physical product, we share your shipping information with Royal Mail and DHL so we can safely deliver your order to you. You can read their respective privacy practices here:

As you go through checkout, this site may also auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

Payments & Fraud Prevention

When you make a purchase from us, we use Squarespace Payments as our native payment solution. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third-party service providers who will receive your payment details and process them securely:

Taxes

When you make a purchase, Squarespace makes use of Stripe to power automated UK tax calculations. We may collect and pass on information like your billing/shipping address, name, and Product Tax Codes so that tax can be accurately applied.

Webforms

When you submit information to this website via a webform, we collect the data requested in the form in order to track, log, and respond to your submissions. We provide this information to Squarespace so they can help us manage our relationship with you. We use this information to respond to your inquiries and store it safely within our secure email and website hosting platform.

4. Email Communications

Abandoned Cart Emails

You will receive an automated email within 24 hours after you abandon your shopping cart if all of the following occur:

  1. You enter your email address at checkout or are logged into your customer account.

  2. You add a product which is in stock to your shopping cart.

  3. You close your browser or leave this website without completing your purchase.

The email will link back to this website, where you can pick up where you left off. You can unsubscribe from these reminders using the link at the bottom of the email.

Marketing Emails

We may send you marketing or gallery update emails, which you can choose to unsubscribe from at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We provide your contact information to Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can deliver these updates on our behalf.

Order and Account Emails

We will email you with essential transactional updates about your order or account activity. For example, we will email you to confirm you have made a purchase or to notify you that your order has shipped. Because these are critical for fulfilling our contract with you, it is not possible to unsubscribe from these transactional messages.

5. International Data Transfers

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Because Squarespace is a US-based platform, the personal data we collect may be transferred to, stored, and processed in jurisdictions outside the United Kingdom (including the United States). Squarespace utilizes legally approved safeguards, such as Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), to ensure your data remains protected to the exact same rigorous standards required under UK data protection law.

6. How Long We Keep Your Data

We only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting duties:

  • Order History & Financial Records: Retained for up to 6 years to comply with UK tax laws (HMRC).

  • Contact Form & Inquiries: Retained for up to 2 years after our last correspondence, unless it results in a formal business contract or order.

  • Marketing Data: Retained securely until you choose to unsubscribe or request erasure.

7. Your Rights Under UK Data Protection Law

You have robust statutory rights regarding the personal information we hold about you. You have the right to request:

  • Access: A copy of the personal data we hold about you.

  • Rectification: The correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.

  • Erasure: The deletion of your data under certain conditions (the "Right to be Forgotten").

  • Object or Restrict: An objection to us processing your data (such as opting out of direct marketing).

How to Raise a Concern

If you have an issue with our data practices, you have the right to lodge a formal complaint with us directly via our contact email (bobede1951@gmail.com). We will acknowledge and investigate your complaint within 30 days.

You also retain the right to escalate or complain directly to the UK supervisory body, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), at www.ico.org.uk.