This privacy policy applies to information held about clients and prospective clients, suppliers and prospective suppliers, contacts and other persons to whom Mathieson Fine Art might hold information. By 'information' we mean personal information about you that we collect, use, and store.

Mathieson Fine Art may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from September 2022.

What we collect

We may ask you to optionally submit the following information:

  • Your name

  • Your contact information such as your address, email address and telephone number

  • If a client, and only if applicable, your payment details / financial data i.e. your bank name, account number and sort code

  • Information in relation to your purchase of our artwork or use of our services, such as commissions

 

How we collect information about you 

  • We may need to collect relevant information about you when you purchase any artwork

  • This will typically be done via email correspondence or one of the online forms on this website

 

What we do with the information we gather

We use your information to:

  • Provide information about our art work and services to you

  • Keep you informed about art work and events that we think you may find interesting

  • Carry out our obligations arising from any agreements entered into between you and us

  • Communicate with you

  • Administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, marketing optimisation, research and survey purposes

  • Keep our site safe and secure

  • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations

  • For security and to check your identity in the case of entering into a secure agreement

 

Whether the information has to be provided by you and if so why?

The provision of your personal details is required to sell and deliver an artwork to you and for us to collect payment. If you do not provide this information we will not be able to perform our contract or enter into a contract with you and you may also be in breach of contract

We also require your personal details in order to send you marketing communications - however, you are not obliged to provide information to us for this purpose

Legal basis for processing

Our processing of your personal information is necessary for:

  • The performance of contracts to which you will be a party to and in order to take steps at your request prior to you entering into those contracts

  • The purposes of legitimate interests pursued by us

  • In order to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject

In relation to any processing of special categories of personal data, we will generally rely on obtaining specific consent from you at the time unless there is otherwise a legal requirement for us to process such information. Where required for certain marketing activities we will obtain consent for this. 

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical and electronic procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect

Legitimate interests

Where our processing is based on the legitimate interest grounds described above, those legitimate interests are: (i) collecting personal information to provide you with a smooth and efficient client experience; (ii) to make sure you receive updated information from Mathieson Fine Art; (iii) to provide the services you have requested

Sharing your information

Except as expressly set out in this policy we will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties outside our business unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so

Mathieson Fine Art is not interested in selling data for marketing purposes and does not sell such data to third parties at any point

Your rights

At any time, you have the right (which in general is free of charge) to:

  • Request access to or a copy of any personal data which we hold about you

  • Rectify your personal data, if you consider that the information we are holding is inaccurate

  • Ask us to delete your personal data, if you consider that we do not have a right to hold it

  • Withdraw consent to our processing of your personal data (to the extent such processing is based on previously obtained consent)

  • Ask us to stop or start sending you marketing messages as described below in the marketing section

  • Restrict processing of your personal data

  • Object to your personal data being processed in certain circumstances

  • Not be subject to a decision based on automated processing and to have safeguards put in place if you are being profiled based on your personal data 

How long will we keep your information?

We will only keep information we collect about you for as long as required for the purposes set out above, for provenance / authenticity purposes or in relation to any potential disputes or as required to comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject. This will involve us periodically reviewing our files to check that information is accurate, up-to-date and still required.

How we use cookies

  • Mathieson Fine Art does not currently use cookies