Adae Fine Art Academy

Privacy Policy

Who we are

We are Adae Art Academy of New Haven, CT. Our website address is: https://adaefineartacademy.com. We can be contacted at info@adaeartacademy.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We collect personal information such as name, email address, and telephone number from our sign-up forms so that we can return your inquiry.

Personal data is not just created by a user’s interactions with our site. Personal data is also generated from technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: 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, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Analytics Tracking

We use Google Analytics to monitor website activity, technical performance and content interest. Cookies are used to enable this tracking.

Contact Forms

Our forms store data on our servers at Cloudways. Our IT team and studio managers have access to view this personal data. Additional notification emails may send carbon copy via email to our managers and IT staff.

Email

Our email is provided by Rackspace and Gmail. Our server also delivers mail through Elastic Email.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see 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 to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Our website is hosted through Cloudways hosting. Data submitted in our forms may be stored on their servers.

How we protect your data

A number of systems and steps have been taken to protect your data including technical measures such as SSL/TLS encryption; security measures such as two-factor authentication, firewalls, periodic testing and regular monitoring.

What data breach procedures we have in place

If we encounter a clear breach in security we will do our best to contact those individuals with personal data found on the server or system affected.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We do not use automated decision-making or profiling.

Contact

You can contact us at info@adaeartacademy.com with any data requests or questions.

Sign Up for a Free Trial Lesson!

Thanks so much for your interest in the Adae Fine Art Academy! New students are invited to fill in this form and we’ll contact you to schedule a free two-hour trial lesson at our State Street studio.