Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 11/01/2021
We, Studio Suss, owners of https://www.studiosuss.ie/ value your privacy and data protection and are fully GDPR compliant. We have outlined our how any data is collected and who and where is it stored, what purposes we use it for and how long the data is held for. If you have any questions, just get in touch with us through our contact form.
Outline of this Policy
A Brief Overview
What Information We May Collect, How we Collect it and Why
How We May Use Your Information
How Your Information May Be Shared
Where Your Information is Stored
Who has Access to your Records and Why
How Long is Your Information Retained?
User Rights
How to Contact Us
Our Cookie Policy
A Brief Overview
The personal data collected via our website is based on what you enter yourself via forms and booking consultations. Some anonymous data will be collected to ensure you have a valid account to log in and view. Other anonymous data is it collected as a result of analytics to help us maximise the website experience collected by Squarespace. You can find out about how we store this data and how to request a deletion further on in this document. We only use your data for our own purposes and never sell data to 3rd parties.
By using our website, you agree to the use of these and have a choice if you wish to enter your personal data or not.
GDPR is now EU law which gives control to individuals on how their data is used.
We store the minimum information required to provide you with the service, share it only with GDPR-compliant processors when required for operational purposes, and do not let any other third-party link, track or access information about our users.
STUDIO SUSS is group of creative designers registered in Ireland so we work under the jurisdiction of Irish law while complying with EU GDPR standards for our global audience. All information we collect via our website is strictly for the use of the business.
We are happy to offer the same level of privacy protection to all our users, not just those who are resident in the EU.
What Information We May Collect, How we Collect it and Why The Data provided directly by the User
Contact Detail such as name (first and last), email address, payment details and phone numbers where applicable via any or all of the following:
Contact Form.
Booking Consultations.
All the information we collect from the above methods are to processes your requests and to answer your questions about our services. You have the right to request deletion of your data at any time however in accordance with revenue and tax laws, we do need to keep receipt of payments for 5 years but can anonymise the data on your request.
The Anonymous Data collected automatically by our website
We use Google Analytics and Facebook pixels to help us run our business online and Squarespace gathers data for their analytics. This is standard practice and strictly for our own use. The privacy policies for both are connected via the links provided. We use these to help us optimise our website and use these platforms to reach our audience in marketing campaigns.
In the event we use other tracking code, we aim to list it here. Please be assured, we only ever use analytics for our own benefit to improve the website and never pass on analytics collect to other parties.
How We May Use Your Information
The purpose of retaining the information that you provide to STUDIO SUSS will only be used for the following purposes appropriate to the services provided:
Providing information to contact you from our contact form.
Providing information to better understand your business requirements you from our online booking consultation.
Testimonials are given only with the permission of the business and can be removed or deleted at any time upon request.
Billing (Invoicing and receipts) where appropriate. Please note we must retain payment receipts for 5 years in line with tax laws.
We never sell or pass on your personal information to 3rd parties and retain it only for the use of our website STUDIO SUSS.
How Your Information May Be Shared
All information we collect will be for the purpose of our business, STUDIO SUSS and we will only use the information and data for our business which may extend to individual projects where the dancer feels the student may also be interested in the marketing.
Where Your Information is Stored
All emails are sent directly and automated emails via Sqaurespace which is compliant with GDPR. Should you want your data permanently deleted, simply reply to any email and request permanently deletion of all data in line with your User Rights.
Our web hosting is handle by Squarespace and email hosting via GSuite and are also fully compliant with GDPR.
We use Stripe and PayPal as our payment systems which are both well recognised online payment platforms and legally fully compliant.
Who has Access to your Records and Why
The staff management team of STUDIO SUSS have access to your records directly, based on their appropriate roles and requirements to do their job. We value privacy and ensure our team will always do the same. In all cases with the services we use, our DPO has ensured that these companies are also fully compliant with GDPR and links to their current privacy policy are provided in the document to the best of our ability.
How Long is Your Information Retained?
Our policy is to retain data for max 2 years after the last interaction. Data protection law requires interaction to have taken place within 12 months. After this period, the data is marked for deletion every 3–6mths and will be deleted on the following cycle check. However, all records can be deleted at any time if you request it in writing by contacting our data controller.
User Rights
You can request to see all our records on you at any time.
If you think some information is incorrect, or not needed for the purposes outlined above, you may request that we amend it or destroy it.
You can request us to destroy all records that we hold on you.
Please allow up to 30 days for us to comply.
How to Contact Our Data Controller
Our Data Protection Officer, (DPO), Ruza Leko may be contacted for all matters relating to your personal records. All requests for destruction of records or requests to receive or amend records should be made directly by email and confirmed by email read receipt and delivery.
E: ruza@studiosuss.ie
P: +353 87 1222467
Disclaimer
All information on these pages is provided by the management of STUDIO SUSS and is believed to be correct as at the time of issue. STUDIO SUSS accepts no liability for any inaccuracies or any loss or damage arising from the use or reliance on information obtained from the website.
COOKIE POLICY EU
This Cookie Policy was last updated on Jan 18th, 2021 and applies to citizens of the European Economic Area.
Introduction
Our website, https://www.studiosuss.ie/ (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
What are scripts?
A script is a piece of programme code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
Cookies
TECHNICAL OR FUNCTIONAL COOKIES
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
ANALYTICAL COOKIES
We use analytical cookies to optimise the website experience for our users. With these analytical cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place analytical cookies.
MARKETING/TRACKING COOKIES
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
SOCIAL MEDIA BUTTONS
On our website we have included buttons for Facebook to promote webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook. These buttons work using pieces of code coming from Facebook themselves. This code places cookies. These social media buttons also can store and process certain information, so a personalized advertisement can be shown to you.
Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymised as much as possible. Facebook is located in the United States.
Placed cookies
Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on "Save preferences", you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
MANAGE YOUR CONSENT SETTINGS
We have received a privacy signal from your browser. For this reason, we have set your privacy settings on this website to strictly necessary. If you want to have full functionality, please consider excluding https://www.studiosuss.ie/ from your privacy settings.
Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
· You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
· Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
· Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
· If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
· Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
· Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our websites again.
Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
Ruza Leko
Rockbrook, 19 Grande Central, Sandyford, Dublin, D18 XD61, Ireland
Website: https://www.studiosuss.ie/
Email: ruza@studiosuss.ie
Phone number: +353 87 1222467