AFYNA STUDIO 

Privacy Policy 

 

Our contact details  

Name: Afyna Studio

Address: Unit 4, Lanteague studios, Scotland road, Zelah, TR4 9JG

E-mail: info@afynastudio.com

Date: 30th September 2026

The type of personal information we collect  

We currently collect and process the following information: 

  • Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, full name, date of birth, home address, phone number, email, date of procedure, area of body being tattooed which may include photos of the area).

  • Tattoo design ideas

  • Where you are travelling from

  • Transaction Data

How we get the personal information and why we have it 

We gather your information through the following methods:

  • Tattoo consent forms - this may include medical information

  • Social media messaging - including Instagram and Facebook

  • Direct email

  • In person

Webform

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. 

Website

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a depersonalised form.

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons: 

  • Liaise with Afyna Studio about a tattoo design 

  • Book your tattoo appointment(s) or consultation(s)

  • Send you appointment reminders

  • Share aftercare information

  • Obtain written formal consent, provide services and respond to enquiries

  • Deliver requested information to you about our services

  • Ensure the billing of any procured services and obtain payment

  • Process and respond to any complaints 

Cookies 

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. 

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

To summarise the above, we use the information that you have given us in order to contact you directly (before and after your tattoo), design your tattoo, take payments, arrange your appointment(s) and to provide future Afyna Studio updates.

We may share this information with our artists if relevant to them named:

Ellie Mathews

Rebecca Burnett

Louis Hartridge

Max Wyld 

. We will not share your information with any businesses outside of our collective.

Data Processing - Legal Aspect

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are: 

(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting info@afynastudio.com

(b) We have a contractual obligation. We have a contract that requires us to process your data in order to comply with our obligations or specific counter-obligations eg. processing payment details. Or we do not yet have a contract but you have asked us to do something as a first step eg. provide a quote.

(c) We have a legal obligation. This may include but is not limited to insurances, consent and licensing requirements set out by Cornwall County Council or the relevant council if working as a guest tattoo artist.

(d) We have a vital interest. For example, if you are involved in a medical emergency at our tattoo studio that requires emergency medical care eg. providing your information to an ambulance crew.

(f) We have a legitimate interest. We may process information on the basis there is a legitimate interest, either to you or to us, of doing so.

How we store your personal information  

Your information is securely stored.  

We keep the aforementioned information for a period of up to seven years from the conclusion of service provision matters. This is due to regulatory reasons and limitation periods in respect of any future claims or complaints and to ensure our business records are adequate to maintain the requisite levels of insurance to protect our clients and non-clients. We will then dispose of your information securely by permanent deletion unless you have consented to receive marketing communications.

 

Your data protection rights 

Under data protection law, you have rights including: 

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.  

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.  

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.  

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.  

Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. 

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances. 

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. 

Please contact us at info@afynastudio.com if you wish to make a request. 

How to complain 

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us via email (info@afynastudio.com) or post:

Afyna studio

Unit 4

Lanteague studios

Scotland road

Zelah 

TR4 9JG

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data. 

The ICO’s address:             

Information Commissioner’s Office 

Wycliffe House 

Water Lane 

Wilmslow 

Cheshire 

SK9 5AF 

 

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113 

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk