Privacy Policy

Who publishes this site

jesusoilpaintings.com is published by Gospel Cycle Editorial. The shop on it, Jesus Christ Oil Paintings by Art & See, is run by Art & See. This policy describes what the site records about a visit, what happens to the details you give when you buy a painting, and what happens to anything you send to desk@jesusoilpaintings.com. It covers this domain only.

What this site actually does

Jesus Christ Oil Paintings is a reference catalogue. There is no account, no profile, no saved reading list, no comment section and no mailing list. Reading the catalogue never asks who you are, and the site has no mechanism for finding out. Only the checkout asks, when you buy a painting, and what it collects is set out below.

No analytics script runs on these pages and no advertising tag is present. Nothing records which episodes a reader looks at, which matters more here than on most sites: what a person reads about religion is not information this catalogue wants to hold, and the simplest way to guarantee that is not to collect it.

Artwork images are served by the collections and repositories that hold them, so loading a page discloses your IP address to those hosts, as it would on any page carrying an image from another domain. Gospel Cycle Editorial neither controls nor receives their logs.

When you buy a painting

Buying a painting is the one thing on jesusoilpaintings.com that asks who you are. To make and deliver it we need your name, email address and shipping address, a phone number if you choose to give one, and the details of what you ordered.

Those details are used to fulfil the order: to make the painting, send you the photograph for approval, ship it, and answer questions about it or handle a return. The studio painting your order and the carrier delivering it receive what they need for that, and nothing else.

We do not sell or rent personal data, and we do not pass it to advertisers.

Payments

Payments are processed by Stripe. Card details are typed into Stripe's secure payment form and go straight to Stripe: they never reach our servers, and we never see your full card number. Stripe handles payment data under its own privacy policy, uses it to process the charge and to detect fraud, and may set cookies on the checkout page for that purpose.

If you pay with a wallet or a pay-later option offered at checkout, the company behind that option receives the details it needs to complete the payment.

How long order records are kept

An order record is kept while the order can still need attention, which includes the 90-day window for returns, and after that for as long as tax and accounting law requires.

Server logs

Like any web server, the hosting provider records a line for each request: the IP address it came from, the page asked for, the time, and the browser's user-agent string. Those logs exist so that failures can be diagnosed and abuse can be blocked. They are not used to build a profile, are not combined with anything else, and are not sold or shared.

Hosting and image delivery are provided by third parties acting on our instructions. They process request data on our behalf and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.

Correspondence with churches, communities and readers

Mail to desk@jesusoilpaintings.com is read by the editor and retained only while the matter it raises is open. A recurring category is worth naming: messages from parishes, religious communities and their volunteers about works in their own care.

Such messages routinely include the location of a valuable painting, the name of the person responsible for it, and details of when a building is open or unattended. That is security-relevant information about a third party, and it is never published, never added to a catalogue entry and never forwarded. Where a correction comes from one of these messages, the entry records the correction and not its source.

Asking what we hold

There is no account, so what can be held about you is an order you placed or an email you sent. You may ask what that is, ask for a copy, ask for a correction, or ask for it to be deleted. For anything about an order, write to info@art-and-see.com; for anything else, to desk@jesusoilpaintings.com.

An order record that tax or accounting law requires us to keep is kept for that period and deleted afterwards. Email to the editors is deleted once the question it raised is closed, so in most cases there is nothing left to delete.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Anything material enough to matter will be described rather than slipped in.