Privacy
This site collects as little as possible. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics and tracks nobody. The contact form is the only place where you are asked for information, and it is used only to reply to you.
Who is responsible
Lesley Wingfield, an artist based in Athlone, Ireland, is responsible for the personal information described here. Under data protection law she is the data controller for this site.
If you have a question about privacy, or you want to make any of the requests described below, please use the contact form.
What the site collects
Browsing this site sets no cookies. There is no analytics, no advertising, no social media tracking and no third party script of any kind. Nothing is stored on your device and you are not profiled or followed between visits.
Like any website, the service that delivers these pages records basic technical information when a page is requested, including the IP address the request came from, the page asked for, and the browser used. This happens automatically, is used to deliver the site securely and to block abuse, and is not used to identify individual visitors.
The contact form
If you send a message using the contact form, you provide your name, your email address and whatever you write in the message. Nothing else is collected, and no field is optional padding: all three are needed to read your message and reply to it.
That information is used for one purpose only, which is to read your enquiry and respond to it. It is never sold, never shared for marketing and never added to a mailing list. There is no mailing list.
The legal basis for handling it is legitimate interests: you contacted Lesley expecting a reply, and keeping your message long enough to answer it is the obvious consequence of that. You can object to this at any time, although doing so usually means the enquiry cannot be answered.
Who else handles it
Two services are involved in running this site. Both act on Lesley's instructions and neither is permitted to use your information for its own purposes.
- Web3Forms delivers the contact form. When you press send, your name, email address and message pass through their service and are emailed to Lesley.
- Cloudflare hosts and serves these pages, and handles the technical request information described above.
Both are based outside Ireland, so your information may be processed outside the European Economic Area. Where that happens it is covered by the data protection terms each service provides.
How long it is kept
Messages sent through the contact form are held by Web3Forms for 30 days and then deleted from their system.
Your message also arrives in Lesley's email inbox, and a copy stays there for as long as it is useful, for example while a commission or an enquiry about a painting is still live. If you would like your message deleted sooner, ask and it will be.
Your rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have the right to ask for a copy of the personal information held about you, to have it corrected if it is wrong, to have it deleted, to restrict or object to how it is used, and to receive it in a portable form. There is no charge for any of these, and a request will be answered within one month.
To make a request, use the contact form.
If you are unhappy with the response, you can complain to the Data Protection Commission, which is the supervisory authority in Ireland. They can be reached at dataprotection.ie, by email at info@dataprotection.ie, or by post at 6 Pembroke Row, Dublin 2, D02 X963.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will appear on this page and the date below will change with it.
Last updated: 14 November 2026