This website is operated by Cairnwood Studio, a furniture design, making and restoration business based in Scotland, UK.

For the purposes of UK data protection law, Cairnwood Studio is the data controller for personal information collected directly through this website.

Business: Cairnwood Studio
Location: Scotland, United Kingdom
Email: cairnwoodstudio@gmail.com

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how your personal information is handled, please contact us using the email address above.

We only collect personal information where it is necessary for operating the website, responding to enquiries and understanding how visitors use the site.

Information You Provide

If you contact us through an enquiry or contact form, we may collect information such as:

• Your name

• Your email address

• Your telephone number, if provided

• Details about your enquiry or proposed project

• Any other information you choose to provide in your message

Please avoid including sensitive personal information in website enquiry forms unless it is necessary.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies.

This may include:

• IP address

• Browser and device information

• Pages visited

• Approximate location derived from technical information

• Referring website or source

• How visitors interact with the website

This information may be processed through Squarespace's website infrastructure and analytics functionality.

Personal information collected through this website may be used to:

• Respond to enquiries

• Discuss potential furniture, restoration or other projects

• Provide requested information about our work or services

• Communicate with prospective or existing clients

• Operate and maintain the website

• Understand how visitors use the website

• Improve the website and its content

• Maintain the security and functionality of the website

• Comply with legal obligations

Information submitted through an enquiry form will not automatically be used for unrelated marketing purposes.

Under UK data protection law, we must have a lawful basis for processing personal information.

Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on:

Legitimate interests – where processing is reasonably necessary to operate the business, respond to enquiries, maintain the website or understand how it is being used, provided those interests do not override your privacy rights.

Steps before entering into a contract – where you contact us about potentially commissioning work or purchasing a service and we need to use your information to respond to that request.

Consent – where you have specifically given permission for certain processing, including where consent is required for non-essential cookies or similar technologies.

Legal obligation – where we need to process or retain information to comply with applicable law.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies.

Some cookies may be necessary for the website to function correctly. Other cookies may be used for analytics and to help us understand how visitors interact with the website.

Where required by UK law, non-essential cookies will only be used after you have given your consent through the website's cookie banner or cookie preference controls.

You can change or withdraw your cookie choices using the cookie controls available on the website, where provided. You can also control cookies through your browser settings.

For further information about the specific cookies used on this website, please see the website's cookie information or cookie preferences.

This website is built and hosted using Squarespace.

Squarespace may process certain visitor information on our behalf in order to provide website hosting, security, analytics and related functionality.

Because Squarespace operates internationally, information may be processed or stored outside the United Kingdom. Where personal information is transferred internationally, appropriate safeguards are required under applicable data protection law.

This website may display content from Instagram using Squarespace's built-in social media integration. Instagram is operated by Meta Platforms.

When Instagram content is displayed or interacted with, information about your visit may be transmitted to Meta. Depending on the functionality used, your browser settings and whether you are logged into Instagram, this may include information such as your IP address, browser or device information and your interactions with the embedded content.

If you are logged into Instagram, Meta may be able to associate your interaction with your Instagram account.

Instagram or Meta may use cookies or similar technologies in connection with embedded content. Where consent is required for non-essential cookies or similar technologies, these should only be activated after you have made the appropriate choice through the website's cookie controls.

Cairnwood Studio does not control how Meta processes information collected through Instagram. You can find further information in Meta's Privacy Policy.

We do not sell your personal information.

Personal information may be shared with trusted service providers where this is necessary to operate the website or business. This may include website hosting and technology providers.

Information may also be disclosed where required by law or where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal rights.

We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

General enquiries that do not result in ongoing work will normally be retained only for as long as they remain relevant to the enquiry or business relationship.

Where an enquiry results in a commission, contract or other business transaction, some information may need to be retained for longer to meet accounting, tax, contractual or legal requirements.

Reasonable steps are taken to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.

However, no method of transmitting information over the internet or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Under UK data protection law, depending on the circumstances, you may have rights including:

• The right to access personal information held about you

• The right to ask for inaccurate information to be corrected

• The right to ask for your information to be deleted

• The right to restrict how your information is used

• The right to object to certain uses of your information

• The right to data portability in certain circumstances

• The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the email address provided above.

You also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's independent regulator for data protection.

This website may contain links to third-party websites or social media platforms.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites. You should review their privacy policies separately when visiting them.

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, the services we use or applicable legal requirements.

The date at the top of this page indicates when the policy was last updated.