Who we are
In simple words:
Sculpt Monkey Design Studio is a sculpture studio making collectibles and products for individuals and businesses. Our website address is: https://www.sculptmonkey.com. This website is used to showcase our work, publish tutorials along with videos to help others and also sell some of our original work. There are NO ADVERTISEMENTS on this website. We do not take in any money for advertisements as these are normally where data leaks happen. Whatever PROMOTIONS that you may see are manually created with no data going to other companies advertisements.
We do not share our data with anyone willingly. There are some places where your data will be shared, viz., shipping company, payment gateway, Google Analytics, etc. These have their own data security and privacy contingencies. We are a design firm and we would like to remain as such.
You can find below a standard explanation just so that we can cover all bases legally. This document was last updated on March 06, 2024.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
For general safety, all comments are disabled. Gravatars are disabled too! Social media helps for better interactions. Have you checked out Instagram, Facebook and Twitter/X?
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. We are using software that tries to delete all that extra information which also enables us to save on space! However, some may fail. Please do delete EXIF GPS data from images that you upload.
Contact forms
No data is saved from contact forms. The form sends your information to directly to the sculptor/instructor. There is no database on this website to store this data.
Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data stored in text files that are saved on your computer or other devices when websites are loaded in a browser. They are widely used to remember you and your preferences, either for a single visit (through a “session cookie”) or for multiple repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”).
Session cookies are temporary cookies that are used during the course of your visit to the Website, and they expire when you close the web browser.
Persistent cookies are used to remember your preferences within our Website and remain on your desktop or mobile device even after you close your browser or restart your computer. They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for you while visiting the Website and Services.
Cookies may be set by the Website (“first-party cookies”), or by third parties, such as those who serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the Website (“third party cookies”). These third parties can recognize you when you visit our website and also when you visit certain other websites.
What type of cookies do we use?
– Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies allow us to offer you the best possible experience when accessing and navigating through our Website and using its features. For example, these cookies let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access the content.
– Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies let us operate the Website and Services in accordance with the choices you make. For example, we will recognize your username and remember how you customized the Website and Services during future visits.
– Analytical cookies
These cookies enable us and third party services to collect aggregated data for statistical purposes on how our visitors use the Website. These cookies do not contain personal information such as names and email addresses and are used to help us improve your user experience of the Website.
Basic Cookie uses
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Cookie policy
This cookie policy (“Policy”) describes what cookies are and how and they’re being used by the sculptmonkey.com website (“Website” or “Service”) and any of its related products and services (collectively, “Services”). This Policy is a legally binding agreement between you (“User”, “you” or “your”) and this Website operator (“Operator”, “we”, “us” or “our”). You should read this Policy so you can understand the types of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used. It also describes the choices available to you regarding accepting or declining the use of cookies.
What are your cookie options?
If you don’t like the idea of cookies or certain types of cookies, you can change your browser’s settings to delete cookies that have already been set and to not accept new cookies. This is also due to the fact that I am an artist and deleting cookies from all search engines requires technical gymnastics! To learn more about how to do this or to learn more about cookies, visit internetcookies.org.
Changes and amendments
We reserve the right to modify this Policy or its terms relating to the Website and Services at any time, effective upon posting of an updated version of this Policy on the Website. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. Continued use of the Website and Services after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes.
Acceptance of this policy
You acknowledge that you have read this Policy and agree to all its terms and conditions. By accessing and using the Website and Services you agree to be bound by this Policy. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Policy, you are not authorized to access or use the Website and Services.
Contacting us
If you would like to contact us to understand more about this Policy or wish to contact us concerning any matter relating to our use of cookies, you may send an email to sculptmonkeyadm@gmail.com
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics as its tracking tool. Google Analytics uses cookies which maintains a standard internet information log as a text file on your own hard drive. It stores this information in an anonymous form. This means that we cannot find out your name, address, etc from Google Analytics. These cookies will be used to plot out statistics and graphs on Google Analytics.
This data helps us know how many people have visited the website and shows us the general geographic area and not the exact location! This helps in maintaining storage of products to areas of high demand and therefore reduces shipping costs and other expenses which is normally passed on to the customer unless special funding and a discount offer is available.
Google Analytics also gives information as to the gender of the customer and that helps us to make products accordingly.
We will put out plans of prospective products and try to see customer interests. This is a basic marketing practice to see if a product generates customer interest. If this fails the product isn’t made! All this is possible with Google Analytics.
Almost all of the analysis from this tool can be used to make our products and services better for you, our customer!
Who we share your data with
When buying a product some information will be shared between you and the payment gateway and some information comes back from the gateway for billing purposes. Once the product is delivered you may request to have your personal details to be erased from the order. Doing so may be difficult later is that particular order will have to be pulled up for any customer service requirements.
We use Google Analytics to find out how people use our website and fix errors if any arise. This also helps us to track the efficacy of advertisements we may take out on different portals like Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.
How long we retain your data
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.
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 forms may be checked through an automated spam detection service like Google recaptcha.
Personal information
Your submission of personal information through the store is private and it belongs to you. We use it only for billing and for customer service purposes when the need arises. Your data will not be given out to any other party either locally or online. The personal information that is entered on payment gateways are to be entered by you and those are not accessible to us. Please do ensure all security protocols are followed.
If we do need your personal information for any reason, we will ask you and state the reason clearly.
This document was last updated on March 06, 2024.