Privacy

What this site does
with your information.

Short version: almost nothing. There are no accounts, no tracking, no advertising, and nothing here is sold or shared. This page explains the detail anyway, because the parts that do touch your information deserve to be spelled out rather than assumed.

Last updated 31 October 2026

Whose site this is. This is the website of Patrick Walsh Hair Design, 14 Rapson Road, Hillcrest. It was built and is looked after by Arkatype Studios, who can answer anything about how it works.

What we never do

Stated first, because it covers most of what people actually worry about.

  • No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for and no password to lose.
  • No cookies from us. This site sets no cookies of its own, and stores nothing in your browser.
  • No analytics and no tracking. There is no Google Analytics, no advertising pixel, and no third-party tracking script anywhere on this site.
  • Nothing sold or shared. Your information is not sold, rented, traded, or handed to anyone for marketing.
  • No profiles. Nothing here builds a picture of you across visits.

Photos in the Style Studio

The Style Studio lets you put a photo of yourself against a hair colour, or next to a cut you like.

Your photo is read inside your own browser and is not uploaded. The page opens the file locally to draw it on screen. It is not sent to us, not saved on any server, and disappears the moment you close or reload the page. Nobody at the salon or at Arkatype can see it.

To try a colour, the Studio works out which parts of your photo are hair and recolours them, all on your own phone or computer, using a small model that runs inside your browser. The finished picture is made on your device and stays there unless you choose to save it. The cut tool shows your photo side by side with the cut you saved. Neither sends your photo to any image service, and if that ever changes this page will say so plainly before it does.

The cut reference finder

The finder shows hairstyle photographs you can filter and browse. They are the salon's own selected set, served from this site, and your filter choices are not sent anywhere. The link to Pinterest opens Pinterest in a new tab, where their own privacy terms apply.

Reserving products and sending a colour to Patrick

The Shelf and the Studio both let you send something to the salon: a list of products to set aside, or the colour you liked. Neither collects your details itself.

How it works. Pressing "Send on WhatsApp" opens WhatsApp with a message to the salon already written, containing what you chose and the name you typed, if any. Nothing is sent until you press send in WhatsApp yourself, and from then on it is an ordinary WhatsApp conversation with the salon.

No card or banking details are asked for anywhere on this site, and no payment is taken online, so there are none to lose.

Things loaded from other companies

A few parts of this site are fetched from other companies. In each case your browser fetches them directly, so that company receives your IP address and the usual technical details any web request carries. We receive nothing from this and set nothing ourselves.

  • Typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts on every page.
  • The map on the home page is an embedded Google Map. Google may set its own cookies inside that map.
  • The colour try-on's engine, Google's open-source MediaPipe library, is loaded from jsDelivr, a public code delivery network, the first time you pick a shade in the Studio. Only the engine is downloaded. Your photo is never sent to jsDelivr or to Google.

If you would rather not load the map, it only appears on the home page and nothing else on the site depends on it.

Links that leave this site

Buttons for WhatsApp, Facebook and directions hand you over to those companies, and their own privacy terms take over at that point. The WhatsApp button simply opens WhatsApp with the salon's number and a message already typed. Nothing is sent until you press send yourself.

Hosting

This site is hosted by Vercel. Like any web host, their servers keep routine request records so the site can be served and kept secure. The site itself has no server code of its own: it is plain pages and pictures, so there is nothing else to log.

Your rights

Under South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act you may ask what personal information is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted. In practice this site holds none, so in most cases there will be nothing to show you. Ask anyway if you want it confirmed.

Contact

For anything on this page, write to Arkatype Studios at info@arkatypestudios.com. For anything about the salon itself, an appointment or a product, phone 079 037 5424.

Changes

If what this site does with information changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves.