Privacy policy.

This privacy policy tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information when you make contact with us or use one of our services including this website.

We may change our policy by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

This policy was last updated 28 October 2020.

Who are we.

Paul Lillie is a landscape and portrait painter based in Nottingham, UK. Paul undertakes Landscape Commissions, Portrait Commissions, Public Commissions, Life Drawing Groups and Urban Sketching Groups. You may get in touch by email via the form on the Contact page.

How we get information.

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

  • You have made an enquiry to us.

  • You engage one of our services.

  • You attend one of our events.

What we collect.

We may collect the following information:

  • name

  • contact information including telephone number and email address

  • customer feedback and testimonials

What we do with the information we gather.

We require this information to respond to any messages sent to us and to undertake our services and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Internal record keeping. We may use the information to improve our products and services.

  • We may periodically send promotional emails about new services, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.

  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes.

Security.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.

Third party services.

Email provider.

We use Gmail for our emails. You can read more about Google’s Privacy Policy here.

Squarespace.

This website is built and hosted on a platform called Squarespace. They provide us with the facilities to maintain and host this website and they are responsible for managing, monitoring and updating the software on which the site is built. Squarespace uses Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, which is a technology that secures the connection between your browser and our website.

SSL provides three important security benefits:

  • Privacy: Encrypts the connection between the browser and web server and securely transmits information (like login credentials) to prevent unauthorized parties from eavesdropping.

  • Data integrity: Prevents unauthorized parties from altering data during transmission

  • Authentication: Protects against impersonation by requiring web server proof of identity.

Our website has a SSL certificate so all visitors view it over an HTTPS connection which means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted.

For more information you can read Squarespace’s Terms of Service here and Privacy Policy here.

Our website.

Analytics.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which 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.

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

Visitor data.

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

For more information about what Squarespace does with visitor data see section 12 of the Squarespace Privacy Policy.

Contacting us.

You may get in touch by email via the form on the Contact page.