Who we are

Our website address is, https://shop.isikguner.com under the artist’s main website https://isikguner.com. All the paintings and prints in this site is prepared by Işık Güner.

Işık Güner is an established botanical artist. She works full time botanical artist since 2006. She has been involved many book projects and exhibited her paintings in Turkey and abroad. She organizes workshops all around the world and one of the main tutor of Diploma Botanical Illustration at Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh and as an art editor of ‘Illustrated Flora of Turkey’. She is traveling very often after plants to illustrate and organizing many workshops around the world. Currently she is living in Fırtına Valley, north east of Turkey, where the mountains are.

Most of these paintings can be seen at Evin Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, and sent by them.

Evin Art Gallery is the one of the leading galleries in figurative plastic arts in Turkey since its foundation in 1996 by Evin İyem and Umit İyem. The gallery undertakes in full, the representation and promotion of its signed artists as well as guest ones by a new generation dynamic team committed to the founders’ essentials values of trust and expertise. 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect information about you during the checkout process on our store you give us such as your name, address and email address.

Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.

For users that register on our website (if any), we 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.

What rights you have over your data

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. 

Our contact information

If you have any questions for privacy-specific concerns, please contact Işık Güner.

How we protect your data and what data breach procedures we have in place

We are entirely using SSL/HTTPS throughout all our sites. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so personal identifiable information is never captured by third parties without authorization.

In case of a data breach, System administrators will immediately go through affected users and will attempt to reset passwords if needed after informing the user.

What third parties we receive data from

We do not receive data about our users from third parties, including advertisers. 

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We do not use automated decision-making. Regarding profiling, we use the tracking tool Google Analytics. For further information about our use of Google Analytics see section “Google Analytics”. 

What we collect and store

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

  • Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
  • Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
  • Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
  • We’ll also use cookies to keep track of basket contents while you’re browsing our site. Our cookie policy is written above.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  • Send you information about your account and order
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Set up your account for our store
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
  • Improve our store offerings
  • Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 5 years accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them. 

Who on our team has access to your data

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Işık Güner and Evin Art Gallery members can access:

  • Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent
  • Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information
  • Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you. 

Payments

We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.