What this website collects, why, who processes it, and how to change your cookie choice. Last updated 12 October 2026.
This website is run by Pine Wind Studio (松风). We are responsible for the personal data described on this page. For any question about your data, including a request to see or delete it, write to [email protected].
If you leave your email address in the “Letters from the studio” form, we store it together with the time and your IP address in a file on our web server, which is in the United States (Los Angeles, California), and use it only to write to you before new pieces reach the shelf. A copy of the sign-up, with the source information described under “Cookies and how you found us”, also goes to our account on the AiExport platform (haizhituo.cn), which we use to see where interest comes from. You can unsubscribe at any time by writing to us; we then delete your address.
If you write to us by email (for example with the “Enquire” button on a product), we receive what you send and use it to answer you.
Items you add to the cart are remembered in your own browser (local-storage entry pinewind_cart_v1) so the cart survives a page reload. It is not sent to us.
With your consent, our website stores a small amount of data in your browser to remember how you arrived at our site — for example a search engine, an online ad, an AI assistant, social media or a link on another website. We use this only to understand which channels bring people to us.
What is stored in your browser (only after you click “Accept”): first-party cookies _axv (random visitor ID, 90 days), _axf (first visit source: referring site, campaign (utm) parameters, ad click identifiers such as gclid, landing page, time; 90 days), _axs, _axl, _axp (session ID, session source and the last 10 pages viewed; 30 minutes), and a local-storage entry ax_attr (first and most recent source, landing page, number of pages viewed; renewed after 90 days, removed when you clear your browser data or withdraw consent). Your choice itself is stored in the cookie ax_consent for 180 days so that we do not ask again; this cookie is strictly necessary.
What is sent: on each page view after consent, the visitor ID, session ID, source information and page paths are sent to our service provider AiExport (haizhituo.cn), which processes them on our behalf in our account. AiExport does not store your full IP address or browser user-agent string. AiExport’s service runs on a server in the United States (Los Angeles, California), so this data is transferred outside the UK and the EEA. Records in our AiExport account are kept for as long as needed to manage enquiries, at most 24 months.
Sign-up form: when you sign up for letters, the form includes the source information described above (if you have not consented, only the source of the current page visit, held in memory and never stored in your browser).
Legal basis: your consent for storing and reading data in your browser and for the page-view reports (Art. 6(1)(a) UK GDPR / GDPR, and the UK PECR or the ePrivacy rules of your country).
Withdrawing consent: you can change your choice at any time via Cookie settings, also at the bottom of every page. If you decline, the cookies and local-storage entry listed above are deleted immediately; only ax_consent remains to remember your choice. To have data already sent deleted, write to [email protected].
Google Ads tag: the site loads Google’s tag for Google Ads conversion measurement and remarketing (showing our ads to people who have visited this site), delivered through our network provider Cloudflare. It sets the cookie _gcl_au and the local-storage entry _gcl_ls and sends information about your visit (page, device, approximate location) to Google, which may process it outside the UK and the EEA. The choice in our cookie banner covers the storage described above; it does not currently switch the Google tag off.
Cloudflare delivers and protects this website and processes technical data such as your IP address and the page requested to do so; its Web Analytics measures page loads (page address, referring page, browser and performance data) without setting cookies.
Google Fonts: our pages load fonts from Google (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com), so your browser connects to Google’s servers, which receive your IP address.
Depending on the law that applies to you, you can ask us for access to your data, a copy, correction or deletion, ask us to restrict or stop using it, and withdraw consent at any time. Write to [email protected]. You can also complain to your data protection authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office).
If what we do changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. Last updated 12 October 2026.