Privacy Policy

Who we are

The following privacy policy relates to the website www.portfolioworksparis.com, run by Portfolio Works for the services offered by the company and complies with laws and requirements for user privacy.

We take your privacy seriously and are committed to protecting your personal data. This document outlines what data we collect, how it is collected, how it is used and how it is safeguarded. We aim to be as clear as possible in this statement in respect of your personal data.

Principles of the privacy policy

We recognise the need for user privacy and data protection legislation compliance, to process data lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to users of the site.
We understand that we have a duty of care to our clients and users of this site.
We only collect and process data that is essential and in the best interest of our clients and users of this site. Any data that is collected is for the sole purposes of the services we provide.
We endeavour to ensure that all our data is accurate and kept up to date.
When you use the site to access the services, you are consenting to the practices set forth in this statement.

What data is collected, and how it is used

Site visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit the site, including: information about your browser, network and device; web pages you visited prior to coming to this website (for example via Google or Facebook); web pages you view while on this website; your IP address.

Squarespace needs this data to run the website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalized form. Please see Privacy Policy – Squarespace for more details.

Analytics – site visitor tracking

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

This helps inform us on the number of people visiting the site and how it is used, so we can improve our services. Our analytics software collects information about your browser, network and device; web pages you visited prior to coming to this website; your IP address. In terms of website use, we collect information on clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches and timestamps.

We do not have access to information that will identify you, and you can prevent the analytics software from tracking your interaction with the site by disabling cookies on your internet browser.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies to better the users’ experience while visiting the site. Cookies are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Where applicable, the site uses a cookie control system which allows the user to allow or disable the use of cookies on their device.

Contact Form

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Squarespace Email Campaigns for storage and with Zapier for data porting. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form-to-email submission process.

Users contacting this website do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. The contact form on the site only captures the user’s name, email and a short message. We keep contact form submissions for customer service purposes, but do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely, until it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998.

For customers

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfil the order. We may collect information like your: billing and shipping address, details relating to your purchase, email address, name, phone number.

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

Scheduling

When you schedule an appointment by booking through this website, we collect personal information from you to complete the booking. We may collect information like your: name, email address, phone number, details relating to your appointment (for example, dietary requirements).

We share this information with Squarespace, our scheduling service provider, so that they can provide online booking services to us.

Payment

Each monetary transaction made via the site is processed by Stripe, a third-party payment processing partner. To make and complete a financial purchase through the site, the privacy and service terms of Stripe shall apply.

When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Third party data storage:

The site may contain links to other websites or applications. 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.

Portfolio Works is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites or applications or for the privacy policies, cookie policies and practices of other third parties, so you should be careful to read and understand those policies independently.

Fonts: This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including: Information about your browser, network, or device Your IP address.
Google Maps: embedded within the site.
Acuity powers the scheduling platform via Squarespace.
Stripe: facilitates payments through the site, as detailed above.

Data Breaches

In line with data protection regulations, we are obligated to report any data breaches to the appropriate authorities and will endeavour to do so within 72 hours. This applies to any data theft.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy may change in line with legislation or industry developments. Any changes will be detailed on our website.