Last updated: 23.09.2025

Welcome to Slow Living Art (accessible at https://slowlivingart.com). Your privacy is very important to me. This Privacy Policy explains how I collect, use, and protect your personal data in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Data Controller

The data controller responsible for this website is:

Name: Slow Living Art
Email: info@slowlivingart.com

If you have any questions, please reach out via email.

2. Information Collected

a) Information you provide directly

  • Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site WordPress 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 anonymised 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.
  • Contact forms / Newsletter sign-up: If you subscribe to my newsletter or contact me via a form, I may collect your name and email address.

b) Automatically collected information

  • Cookies: WordPress may set cookies to save your preferences (e.g., remembering your name/email when commenting).
  • Analytics: I may use tools like Google Analytics to collect anonymous data such as pages visited, time on site, or browser type.
  • Embedded content: Posts on this site may include embedded content (e.g., YouTube videos, Pinterest pins). Embedded content behaves as if you visited that website directly and may collect data about you.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. How your data is used

I use your personal data for:

  • Publishing and moderating comments.
  • Sending newsletters if you have subscribed (you can unsubscribe anytime).
  • Improving website performance and content (via analytics).
  • Detecting spam and preventing abuse (via anti-spam plugins).

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

6. Legal Basis for Processing

I process data based on:

  • Consent (newsletter sign-up, non-essential cookies).
  • Legitimate interest (website security, spam prevention, analytics).
  • Legal obligation (record-keeping if required).

7. 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.

You can manage or disable cookies in your browser settings.

8. Data Sharing

Your personal data is not sold or traded. It may be shared only with trusted service providers needed to run the blog, for example:

  • Hosting provider (server storage).
  • Email newsletter service
  • Spam protection plugins 
  • Analytics services (e.g., Google Analytics).

9. Data retention

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.

10. Your GDPR Rights

You have the right to:

  • Access your personal data.
  • Correct your personal data.
  • Request deletion (“right to be forgotten”).
  • Withdraw consent (e.g., unsubscribe from newsletters).
  • Object to processing (e.g., analytics).
  • Request data portability.

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.

To exercise these rights, please contact me at info@slowlivingart.com.

11. Security

I take reasonable measures to protect your data (such as encryption, secure hosting, and trusted plugins).

12. External Links

This website may contain links to other websites. I am not responsible for their privacy practices.

13. Changes to This Policy

I may update this Privacy Policy when necessary. Any changes will appear on this page with a new “last updated” date.