Effective date: November 6, 2026
This site, alexanderturanski.com, belongs to Alexander Turanski Art (me, Alexander Turanski) in Penobscot, Maine, USA. This page explains what I collect when you visit or buy something, why, and who else sees it. Questions: alexceturanski@gmail.com.
When you buy something
Orders through the Buy buttons are paid through Stripe. When you order, Stripe collects your name, email address, shipping address, phone number and payment details. It passes me your name, email address, shipping address, phone number and billing details, so I can ship your order and contact you about it. Of your payment I see how you paid, a few card details such as its type and last four digits, and what Stripe uses to check for fraud, such as your IP address and roughly where it is; never the full card number or security code. Stripe’s own privacy policy is at stripe.com/privacy.
If you order a puzzle set or a commission by email, or write to me, I keep your email address, what you send and the address you give me for shipping. The service you pay a puzzle set or commission through handles that payment under its own privacy policy.
I use these details only for your order: to pack and ship it, to email you about it, and to keep the records the tax laws require. I don’t send ads, the only emails I send you myself are about your order, and I never sell or rent your details.
Who else sees it
- Stripe, which processes Buy-button payments, checks them for fraud and works out sales tax.
- Apple Pay, Google Pay, Klarna, Affirm, Cash App Pay or Amazon Pay, only if you choose one at checkout. Each one collects what it needs from you directly and gets your order details through Stripe, under its own terms and privacy policy. Klarna and Affirm may check your credit.
- The payment service you use for a puzzle set or commission ordered by email, under its own privacy policy.
- The carrier (USPS), which gets your name, address and phone number to deliver the package.
- Google (Gmail), which holds my email: messages you send me, the emails I send you about your order, and any order notices that reach me by email.
- WordPress.com (Automattic), which hosts this site and stores likes.
- Pictorem, if you buy a print: my print shop at shop.alexanderturanski.com runs on Pictorem, which collects your order details itself under its own privacy policy (pictorem.com/privacy.html) and shows me your name, address, phone number and email for that order.
- Tax authorities, or anyone else, only when the law requires it.
When you visit the site
This site is hosted by WordPress.com, which is run by Automattic. Like most websites, it receives technical information such as your IP address, your browser and the pages you view. Its Jetpack tools count visits and clicks on links that leave the site for me (I see totals, such as how many people viewed a page, which sites sent them and roughly where they are, not who you are) and run the Like and share buttons. If you’re logged in to WordPress.com and press Like, your WordPress.com name and picture appear with the likes. The share buttons load nothing from X or Facebook until you press one; then that site opens, under its own privacy policy. Automattic may use cookies for these features. Its notice for visitors to the sites it hosts explains what it collects: automattic.com/privacy-notice.
Other services supply parts of the pages and can see your IP address. Google Fonts supplies the title font. YouTube supplies the films on the front page (Bio in the menu), Videos and Stone Balance. Their small film pictures come from YouTube too: on Videos as soon as the page opens, and on the front page once you scroll near its Video section. A film itself loads from YouTube only when you open it. The films play in YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com), so watching one here doesn’t shape what YouTube shows you later, but YouTube still receives information about you once a film plays. Google’s privacy policy covers Google Fonts and YouTube: policies.google.com/privacy. And if your browser can’t show an emoji, the emoji picture comes from WordPress.org.
The site itself keeps two small notes in your browser while your visit lasts: whether its photo service works for you, and which emoji your browser can show. Neither holds anything about you.
Tracking and Do Not Track
I don’t use advertising, and I don’t track you across other websites. But the companies whose tools run on these pages can collect information about your visits over time and across other websites: Automattic (visit counts, Like buttons and Gravatar pictures) and Google (fonts, YouTube’s small film pictures, and any film you play). Your browser’s Do Not Track signal doesn’t change anything here: visits are still counted, and Automattic’s privacy policy (automattic.com/privacy) says it does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
How long I keep it
I keep order records (your name, address, what you bought and what you paid), and the emails about each order, for at least six years, because Maine’s sales tax rules require it. Other emails stay in my inbox until I delete them.
Your choices
You can ask me what I have about you, ask me to correct it, or ask me to delete anything the law doesn’t require me to keep. I can delete my own copies; Stripe, the payment services, Pictorem and WordPress.com keep theirs under their own policies, and I’ll tell you how to ask them. Email alexceturanski@gmail.com and I’ll answer within 30 days.
Children
This site isn’t meant for children under 13, and I don’t knowingly collect information from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, I’ll post the new version on this page and change the date at the top.
Contact
Alexander Turanski Art
Penobscot, Maine 04476, USA
alexceturanski@gmail.com