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This page explains how katrinavangrouw.com handles personal information, cookies, and use of this website. It is intended to be clear, practical, and proportionate to the site’s current features, including books, artwork, contact enquiries, and related content.
Last updated: 4 May 2026
1. Privacy Policy
Who is responsible for this website
This website is operated for Katrina van Grouw. For privacy questions, data requests, or concerns, please contact katrinavangrouw@aol.co.uk .
Personal information collected
Depending on how you use the site, katrinavangrouw.com may collect:
- Contact details you submit, such as your name, email address, subject, and message.
- Technical information such as IP address, browser user agent, browser language, page URL, and referrer URL.
- Cookie consent records, including your consent choices, consent ID, consent version, and timestamps.
- Book, artwork, media, lecture, or general enquiry details where you provide them voluntarily.
- Additional information only where future features such as accounts, purchases, downloads, newsletters, or events are enabled and you choose to use them.
How the information is used
Personal information is used only where there is a practical reason to do so, including:
- To respond to enquiries sent through the contact form or by email.
- To respond to book, artwork, media, lecture, or general enquiries.
- To record and respect cookie consent choices.
- To maintain website security, prevent misuse, investigate errors, and protect the site.
- To understand how visitors use the website, where analytics cookies have been accepted.
- To meet legal, accounting, tax, or regulatory obligations where applicable.
Lawful bases
The lawful bases for processing may include:
- Consent, for optional cookies and any optional communications you choose to receive.
- Contract or steps before a contract, where you ask for services, books, artwork, talks, permissions, or related information.
- Legitimate interests, for website security, responding to enquiries, basic administration, and improving the site.
- Legal obligation, where records must be kept for tax, accounting, legal, or regulatory reasons.
Who information is shared with
Personal information is not sold. It may be shared with service providers only where needed to run the website or provide requested services, such as website hosting, email delivery, database hosting, analytics services where accepted, and professional advisers where necessary.
Some external links on this website lead to third-party sites. Those sites have their own privacy and cookie practices.
How long information is kept
Information is kept only for as long as needed for the purpose for which it was collected. In general:
- Contact enquiries are kept for as long as needed to respond and manage the enquiry.
- Cookie consent records are normally kept for the life of the consent record, currently linked to a 365-day local consent preference unless refreshed or withdrawn.
- Transaction or professional records may be kept for longer where needed for tax, accounting, fraud prevention, copyright, permissions, or legal reasons.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law, you may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict, object to, or receive a copy of your personal information. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
To make a request, email katrinavangrouw@aol.co.uk . You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Children’s privacy
This website is not intentionally directed at children under 13, and personal information is not knowingly collected from children without appropriate consent.
International visitors
This website is operated from the United Kingdom. If you access it from outside the UK, your information may be processed in the UK.
Security
Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect personal information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so absolute security cannot be guaranteed.
3. Website Terms of Use
Using this website
This website is provided for general information about Katrina van Grouw’s books, artwork, writing, lectures, media, natural history interests, and related activities. You may use the site for lawful personal, educational, and professional purposes.
Accuracy and availability
Reasonable care is taken to keep information accurate and up to date, but no guarantee is given that all content will always be complete, current, or available. Content may be changed, removed, or updated at any time.
Intellectual property
Unless otherwise stated, the text, images, design, illustrations, and other content on this website are owned by or licensed to Katrina van Grouw. You may view the website and store temporary copies for normal browsing. You must not copy, republish, modify, sell, or distribute website content without permission, except where allowed by law.
External links
This website may link to external websites, services, videos, social media pages, publications, booksellers, talks, or resources. Those links are provided for convenience. katrinavangrouw.com is not responsible for the content, availability, privacy practices, or terms of external websites.
Accounts, purchases, events, or future features
If future features such as accounts, purchases, downloads, newsletters, events, or restricted areas are added, additional terms or updated policies may apply. Any such features should be used lawfully and responsibly.
Liability
Nothing in these terms excludes liability where it cannot lawfully be excluded. Subject to that, the website is provided without warranties and katrinavangrouw.com is not responsible for losses arising from use of, or inability to use, the website or linked third-party sites.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.
Contact
Questions about these policies or terms should be sent to katrinavangrouw@aol.co.uk .