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Privacy Policy

A LEGAL DISCLAIMER

Effective Date: 30 September 2025
Website: www.siddharthbimal.com
Operator: World Art Initiative

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​This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information when you visit our site or order products.

1. Information We Collect

  • Personal & Contact Data: Name, email, phone, billing/shipping addresses.

  • Order Data: Product selections, custom notes, images you submit, transaction details.

  • Content & Images: Photographs you upload for creating the custom piece.

  • Payment Data: Processed by third parties (we don’t store full card data).

  • Technical & Analytics Data: IP address, device/browser type, pages visited, cookies, logs.

  • Communications: Email or message exchanges with us.

2. How We Use Your Data

  • Order Fulfillment: produce, package, ship your custom work; send status updates.

  • Support & Communication: customer service, returns, damage handling.

  • Security & Fraud Prevention: verify accounts, prevent misuse.

  • Marketing (optional): promotional emails if you consent; you may unsubscribe anytime.

  • Analytics & Improvement: measure site performance, analyze trends, optimize UX.

  • Legal Obligations: bookkeeping, compliance, responding to lawful requests.

3. Sharing Your Data

  • We share data with third parties only to the extent necessary: couriers, printers, payment gateways, analytics tools, and other service providers. We require them to protect confidentiality and limit use.
    We may also disclose data for legal compliance, protection of rights, or business transfers (merger, sale, etc.).

4. Your Photos & Designs

  • We use your submitted images only for fulfilling your order.

  • We do not use them in marketing unless you explicitly allow.

  • You retain all rights to submitted images and may request deletion subject to order obligations.

5. Cross-Border Transfers

  • Data may be processed or stored outside your home country. Where required by law, we adopt safeguards (e.g. contractual clauses).

6. Data Retention

  • Order-related and financial records: kept as required by law.

  • Design files & images: retained for business continuity and support, then deleted or anonymized after a defined period.

  • Marketing preferences: kept until you unsubscribe or withdraw consent.

7. Your Rights

  • In India (DPDP Act): rights to access, correction, erasure, nomination, grievance redressal, withdraw consent.

  • Under GDPR/UK (if applicable): rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing, data portability, object, withdraw consent.

  • Under CCPA/CPRA (if applicable): rights to know, delete, correct, opt-out of sale (we don’t sell).
    To exercise rights, contact us at: siddharthbimal@gmail.com (or the Grievance Officer in India).

8. Children’s Data

  • We do not knowingly collect data from children under 18. Do not submit personal data of minors without parental consent.

9. Security

  • We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your data. But no system is completely secure.

10. Cookies & Tracking

  • We use cookies and similar technologies for site functionality, remembering preferences, analytics, and marketing (with consent). You can manage or disable cookies via browser settings.

11. External Links

  • Our site may link to external websites whose privacy practices are not ours. This policy doesn’t apply to those third parties.

12. Policy Updates

  • We may revise this policy; changes will be posted with the updated Effective Date. Continued use of the site signifies acceptance of updated terms.

13. Contact

  • If you have questions or concerns about these Policies:
    Email: siddharthbimal@gmail.com
    Tel: +91 8874700004

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