Effective Date: 30 March 2025
Your privacy is important to us at Black Atlas Tattoo. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information.
1. Information We Collect
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
- Personal info (name, email, phone number) when you book an appointment
- Medical or health information you choose to share before your session
- Website usage data through cookies and analytics tools
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
2. How We Use Your Information
- To confirm and manage appointments
- To respond to inquiries or provide customer support
- To improve our website and services
3. Sharing Your Information
We never sell your data. We only share personal information when necessary to:
- Fulfill legal obligations
- Work with service providers (e.g., booking software) under strict privacy terms
4. Your Rights
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
You can request access to your personal data, ask for corrections, or request deletion by contacting us.
5. Data Security
We implement reasonable safeguards to protect your information, but no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.