PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: September 2026
1. Controller
The controller responsible for the processing of personal data on this website is:
Vera Jochum
Schillerstraße 7
66557 Illingen
GermanyEmail: vjochum1964@gmail.com
2. General Information
The protection of your personal data is important to me. Personal data is processed on this website only to the extent necessary to operate and securely provide the website, communicate with visitors, process orders and payments, ship purchased products and, with your consent, send newsletters and use optional analytics or other services.
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.
Depending on the purpose of the processing, personal data is processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(a), (b), (c) or (f) GDPR.
3. Hosting and Squarespace
This website is hosted by Squarespace.
When you visit this website, Squarespace may process information including your IP address, information about your browser, network and device, pages you visited before accessing this website and pages you view on this website.
This information is required to operate and securely provide the website and to protect and improve the platform and its services.
Squarespace may process personal data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. Where required, appropriate safeguards for international data transfers are used, including applicable adequacy mechanisms and/or the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
Further information about the processing of personal data by Squarespace is available in the Squarespace Privacy Policy.
4. Cookies and Analytics
This website uses cookies and similar technologies.
Necessary cookies are used to enable the secure and proper operation of the website. These cookies may be required for functions such as website navigation and the operation of the online shop.
Analytics and performance cookies are used only where you have given your consent through the cookie banner. They help me understand how visitors use the website, for example which pages are visited and how visitors interact with the website.
Depending on your settings and consent, information processed for analytics purposes may include your IP address, browser and device information, visited pages, referring pages, clicks and other information relating to your use of the website.
You can accept or reject non-essential cookies through the cookie banner and change your cookie preferences where this option is provided.
5. Contact
If you contact me by email or through a contact form, I process the information you provide in order to respond to your enquiry.
This may include your name, email address and any information contained in your message.
Where your enquiry relates to a contract or potential purchase, processing is based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. For other enquiries, processing may be based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. My legitimate interest is to respond to enquiries concerning my work and this website.
6. Orders and Purchases
When you purchase a product through this website, personal data necessary to process and fulfil your order is collected.
This may include your name, billing and shipping address, email address, telephone number where provided, information about the products purchased and order and payment information.
This information is processed in order to fulfil the purchase contract, arrange payment and deliver your order.
The legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. Where information must be retained in order to comply with tax, accounting or other legal obligations, processing is also based on Article 6(1)(c) GDPR.
Information necessary to operate the online shop is also processed by Squarespace as the website and commerce platform.
7. Payments
Payments on this website are processed through Squarespace Payments.
Squarespace Payments uses third-party service providers, including Stripe for payment processing and Sift for fraud monitoring and detection. These providers may receive and process personal data necessary to complete and secure your payment.
Depending on the payment method selected at checkout, additional payment providers, card networks or financial institutions may be involved in processing the transaction.
Payment information is processed for the purpose of completing your purchase and, where applicable, preventing fraudulent transactions.
The legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR for payment processing and, where applicable, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR for fraud prevention.
8. Shipping
Physical products are shipped using DHL.
To deliver your order, I provide DHL with the personal data necessary for shipping. This may include your name, delivery address and, where necessary for delivery or shipment notifications, your email address or telephone number.
Shipments are sent with tracking and insurance.
The processing and transfer of this information is necessary to fulfil the purchase contract and deliver your order. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.
9. Newsletter – Atelier Insights
If you subscribe to my newsletter Atelier Insights, I use the information you provide, in particular your email address, to send you news about my work, exhibitions, publications and other studio-related updates.
The newsletter is sent using Squarespace Email Campaigns. Your contact information is therefore processed by Squarespace for the purpose of sending and managing these emails.
The newsletter is sent only with your consent. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by using the unsubscribe link contained in every newsletter. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.
10. Transactional Emails
If you place an order, you may receive emails relating to your purchase, for example an order confirmation, payment information or shipping notification.
These messages are necessary for processing and fulfilling your order and are not marketing emails. Squarespace may process your contact information in order to send these messages on my behalf.
11. Fonts
This website uses fonts provided through Squarespace's integrated font services, including Google Fonts.
When these fonts are provided or displayed, information such as your IP address and information about your browser, device and the page you are viewing may be processed by the relevant service provider.
The fonts used on this website include Manrope and Poppins.
12. YouTube
This website may include videos embedded from YouTube, a service provided by Google.
When an embedded YouTube video is displayed or played, information may be transmitted to Google. This may include your IP address, information about your browser and device, the URL of the page you are visiting and information about your interaction with the video.
If you are signed in to your Google or YouTube account, Google may associate your interaction with your account, depending on your account and privacy settings.
YouTube content and related non-essential technologies are used in accordance with your cookie and consent choices where consent is required.
Further information about how Google processes personal data is available in the Google Privacy Policy.
13. Storage of Personal Data
Personal data is stored only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected or for as long as statutory retention obligations apply.
Where data is processed on the basis of consent, it will no longer be used for that purpose after consent has been withdrawn, unless another legal basis requires or permits further storage.
14. Recipients of Personal Data
Where necessary for the purposes described above, personal data may be processed by or transferred to service providers involved in operating this website and fulfilling orders.
These may include Squarespace as website, commerce and email marketing provider, payment service providers involved through Squarespace Payments, DHL for the delivery of orders and, where applicable, providers of embedded external content.
Personal data is not sold to third parties.
15. Your Rights
Under the GDPR, you have the right, subject to the applicable legal requirements, to request:
access to your personal data;
correction of inaccurate personal data;
deletion of your personal data;
restriction of processing;
data portability.
You also have the right to object to certain processing based on legitimate interests and to withdraw your consent at any time where processing is based on consent.
Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority.
To exercise your rights, please contact:
Vera Jochum
Email: vjochum1964@gmail.com16. Changes to this Privacy Policy
I may update this Privacy Policy where necessary to reflect changes to this website, the services used or applicable legal requirements.
Last updated: September 2026