Folly Design Studio respects your privacy and is committed to handling your personal information responsibly.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information may be collected when you visit www.follydesignstudio.com, contact Folly Design Studio, enquire about a workshop or commission, or otherwise interact with the studio.

Folly Design Studio is based in Dublin, Ireland and processes personal information in accordance with applicable data protection law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Irish data protection legislation.

1. Who Is Responsible for Your Personal Information?

The person responsible for personal information collected by Folly Design Studio is Tatiana Smith-St Kitts of Folly Design Studio. For any questions about your personal information or this Privacy Policy, please contact heyfollydesignstudio@gmail.com.

2. What Personal Information May Be Collected?

Depending on how you interact with Folly Design Studio, I may collect some of the following information:

• Your name;

• Email address;

• Telephone number, if provided;

• Information included in an enquiry;

• Information relating to a workshop or private class enquiry;

• Information relating to a commission enquiry;

• Purchase or payment information where you purchase work directly from Folly Design Studio;

• Information you voluntarily provide when communicating with the studio;

• Technical information about your visit to the website, where collected through Squarespace or other website technologies.

I only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.

3. How Your Information Is Collected

Personal information may be collected when you:

• Contact Folly Design Studio by email;

• Submit an enquiry through the website;

• Enquire about a workshop or private class;

• Enquire about commissioned work;

• Purchase work directly from Folly Design Studio;

• Voluntarily provide your email address to receive studio updates;

• Interact with the website or its embedded content.

4. How Your Personal Information Is Used

Your personal information may be used to:

• Respond to enquiries;

• Discuss commissions;

• Respond to workshop and private class enquiries;

• Arrange and manage services you have requested;

• Process payments where applicable;

• Communicate with you about an existing enquiry, purchase or booking;

• Send studio news and marketing communications where you have given appropriate consent;

• Maintain and improve the website;

• Meet legal, accounting or regulatory obligations;

• Protect the security and integrity of the website and business.

Your personal information will not be sold or rented to third parties.

5. Legal Basis for Processing

Depending on the circumstances, Folly Design Studio may process your personal information on the following legal bases:

Consent:
Where you have actively chosen to provide your information for a specific purpose, such as receiving marketing emails.

Contract:
Where processing is necessary to provide a product or service that you have requested, or to take steps at your request before entering into an agreement.

Legal obligation:
Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory requirement.

Legitimate interests:
Where processing is reasonably necessary for the operation, security or administration of the business and does not override your rights and interests.

6. Email Marketing

Folly Design Studio may collect email addresses from people who voluntarily choose to receive updates about the studio.

These updates may include:

• New ceramic work;

• Upcoming workshops;

• Markets and events;

• Exhibitions;

• Studio news;

• Collaborations;

• Other Folly Design Studio updates.

An email address will only be added to the marketing list where the person has clearly opted in to receive these communications.

At present, email addresses may be collected and managed manually while Folly Design Studio develops its email marketing system.

Your email address will not be sold or rented to third parties.

You can withdraw your consent to receive marketing emails at any time by contacting:

heyfollydesignstudio@gmail.com

Where a dedicated email marketing platform is introduced in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated where necessary to identify the relevant provider and explain how your information is processed.

7. Contact & Enquiry Information

If you contact Folly Design Studio through the website, email or another communication channel, the information you provide may be retained so that I can respond to your enquiry and manage any resulting conversation or service.

For example, this may include information relating to:

• A workshop enquiry;

• A private pottery class;

• A commission;

• A collaboration;

• An exhibition or event;

• A general studio enquiry.

Your information will not be used for unrelated marketing purposes simply because you contacted the studio.

8. Squarespace

The Folly Design Studio website is hosted and operated using Squarespace.

Squarespace may process certain information when you visit or interact with the website, including technical information and information relating to website functionality, security, analytics or other services enabled on the website.

The information processed and the cookies or similar technologies used may depend on the Squarespace features and integrations enabled on the website.

You can find further information about Squarespace's privacy practices in its own privacy documentation.

9. Cookies & Similar Technologies

The website may use cookies and similar technologies.

Some cookies may be necessary for the website to function properly, including security and essential website functionality.

Other cookies or tracking technologies may be used for purposes such as analytics or understanding how visitors interact with the website.

Where applicable law requires consent for non-essential cookies or tracking technologies, these will only be used after the required consent has been obtained.

You can manage cookies through the cookie controls provided on the website, where available, and through your browser settings.

10. Instagram & Social Media

The Folly Design Studio website may include links to or embedded content from Instagram.

Instagram is operated by Meta Platforms, Inc. and has its own privacy practices and terms.

If Instagram content is embedded directly into a page of the website, Instagram or related technologies may process information about your interaction with that content.

You should review Instagram/Meta's own privacy information for details about how they process personal information.

Folly Design Studio does not control the privacy practices of Instagram or other third-party platforms.

11. Third-Party Services

Folly Design Studio may use third-party services to operate the website and business.

These may include providers involved in:

• Website hosting;

• Payment processing;

• Website analytics;

• Social media;

• Email communication;

• Website security;

• Other services necessary to operate the studio.

Where third-party providers process personal information on behalf of Folly Design Studio, appropriate measures will be taken to ensure that personal information is handled in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.

12. How Long Is Personal Information Kept?

Personal information will only be kept for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Some information may need to be retained for longer where necessary to:

• Comply with legal or accounting obligations;

• Maintain appropriate business records;

• Resolve disputes;

• Establish or defend legal claims;

• Maintain records of consent where required.

Marketing information will be retained while you remain subscribed or until you withdraw your consent, subject to any legal requirements that may require certain records to be retained.

13. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights under applicable data protection law, including:

• The right to request access to personal information held about you;

• The right to request correction of inaccurate information;

• The right to request deletion of personal information in certain circumstances;

• The right to request restriction of processing in certain circumstances;

• The right to object to certain types of processing;

• The right to data portability in certain circumstances;

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

To exercise a data protection right or ask a question about how your information is handled, please contact:

heyfollydesignstudio@gmail.com

14. Complaints

If you have concerns about how Folly Design Studio handles your personal information, please contact me first at:

heyfollydesignstudio@gmail.com

You also have the right to make a complaint to the Data Protection Commission (DPC), the Irish supervisory authority for data protection.

Further information about the DPC and your data protection rights is available from the Data Protection Commission.

15. Security

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

However, no website, email system or method of transmitting information over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

16. Children's Privacy

The Folly Design Studio website is not specifically directed towards children.

Folly Design Studio does not knowingly collect children's personal information for marketing purposes.

Where workshops are offered to participants under 18, any relevant information will be handled only for the purposes necessary to administer and provide the workshop and in accordance with applicable requirements.

17. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to:

• The Folly Design Studio website;

• The services offered;

• The way personal information is processed;

• Third-party services used;

• Applicable data protection requirements.

The latest version will always be published on this page with the date it was last updated.

18. Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how Folly Design Studio handles your personal information, please contact: heyfollydesignstudio@gmail.com

Last updated: September 2026