Privacy policy and consent records

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Contact form details

The contact form asks for a name, an email address, an optional telephone number, the style or session it is about, the placement and size, and a message. Those fields are sent to Ironline Tattoo Studio so that an artist can read the proposal and reply to it.

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Subscribe details

The subscribe band asks for an email address and records which page it was submitted from. Nothing else is collected there, and the address is used only for the occasional note about hours, artists, new flash and rates.

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Why the details are held

Contact details are held to answer a proposal and to arrange the appointment that follows from it. The photo ID check and signed consent form at check-in are kept as part of the studio's licensed health record. Subscribe details are held to send the notes that were asked for. Neither set is used to build a profile, and neither is sold.

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Who else sees them

Form submissions travel through the service that hosts this website and the service that delivers the studio's email. Those processors handle the message in transit and store it only as long as delivery requires. No advertising network, analytics vendor or data broker receives anything entered on this site.

Two categories of processor are involved: the company that hosts this website and the company that delivers the studio’s email. The studio names the current ones on request, by email.

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How long they are kept

A proposal that does not lead to an appointment is deleted within twelve months. One that does becomes part of the studio's appointment record, kept with the consent form for as long as state health rules require. A subscribe address is kept until it is unsubscribed, and is removed within thirty days of that request.

06

Security, and its limits

The site is served over an encrypted connection and access to the studio's mailbox is restricted to the people who answer it. No transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and this notice does not claim otherwise.

07

Choices available to a visitor

Writing by email instead avoids the form entirely. Every subscribe email carries an unsubscribe link. The optional telephone field on the contact form may be left blank.

08

Asking for deletion

A request sent to [email protected] has the details removed. The studio confirms in writing once that has been done.

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Who to contact about this notice

Ironline Tattoo Studio, Portland, Maine. Email [email protected].

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Picture credits

Every photograph on this site came from Wikimedia Commons and every one was cropped to fit the layout. Eight carry a Creative Commons Attribution licence, which asks that the work, its author and its licence be named and that the change be stated. They are named here.

“Tattoo-line” by Grigori Maslov of the Grisha Institute, CC BY 2.5. Source. Changed: cropped.

“London Tattoo Convention 2013–012” by The Dame, CC BY 2.0. Source. Changed: cropped, and the top of the frame trimmed away so that a person standing behind the table is not in it.

“Zoe in Tattoo Parlor Magazine Street New Orleans” by Jake Cvnningham, CC BY 2.0. Source. Changed: converted to black and white, and cropped to the left of the frame so that a person sitting on the sofa is not in it.

“Tattoo needle” by Matt Borowick from Washington, DC, USA, CC BY 2.0. Source. Changed: cropped.

“Tattoing needles, bronze mounted in bone Wellcome M0015082”, Wellcome Collection. The photographer is not recorded at source. CC BY 4.0. Source. Changed: cropped.

“Tattoos on the body Wellcome L0033849”, Wellcome Collection. The photographer is not recorded at source. CC BY 4.0. Source. Changed: cropped.

“Uwhi,1933.379,19567.77, (a)” by Marie Helliwell, CC BY 4.0. Source. Changed: cropped.

“Uwhi,1933.379,19567.77, (b)” by Marie Helliwell, CC BY 4.0. Source. Changed: cropped.

The remaining photographs are released under CC0 1.0 or are in the public domain and carry no attribution requirement. The full record for every image on this site — author, licence, source page, original size and every modification made — is kept in ASSET_SOURCES.md alongside the site files.