Revised Effective 10/2026

Who we are?

This website is operated by Heather Ford Gallery (HF Gallery), throughout the site, the terms we, us, and our refer to Heather Ford Gallery.

Our website address is: https://heatherfordgallery.com

Contact

For privacy-related inquiries, please fill out contact form under “contact us” section.

Comments

If comments are enabled on our site and visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to a third party service to determine if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture if applicable may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website may download and extract any location data from images on the site.

Cookies

If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie will be set 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 set cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last two days. Screen option cookies last one year. If you select Remember Me your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.

Embedded content from other websites

Pages on this site may include embedded content such as videos or images. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited those websites directly. These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content. If YouTube videos are embedded on this website, YouTube may collect information such as your IP address, browser details, and interaction with the video player. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites. Any data collected by these services is governed by their own privacy policies.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell, trade, or rent personal information. If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments. For users who register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time except usernames. Website administrators can also access and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

f you have an account on this site or have left comments, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, or that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. To make a request, use the contact form above.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through automated spam detection services. Some data may be processed outside of Canada depending on third party service providers.

LiteSpeed Cache

This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily. Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.

Akismet

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet Anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.