Privacy Policy

This is my site’s data protection and privacy policy that explains who I am, why and how I may process personal data and, if you are the subject of any of the personal data concerned, what rights you have and how to get in touch with me if you need to.

Please email me here if you have any questions/concerns about this Privacy Policy.

From a GDPR perspective I’m a data controller which means I decide how your personal data is processed and for what purposes (in relation to my services).

I offer:

  • Photographic services

I’m NOT in the business of selling your information.

Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession.

The processing and protection of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection (GDPR).

I comply with my obligations under the GDPR by taking all reasonable measures to:

  • keep personal data up to date
  • store and destroy it securely
  • avoid collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data
  • protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure
  • ensure that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

I only collect personal information if you email me or use the site’s contact form.

The information collected varies (depending on what you are doing), but could include things like:

  • your name,
  • e-mail address
  • phone number
  • postal address
  • Comments you may leave on our blog posts
  • IP address
  • Credit Card information (via a third party)

Information we collect from you may be used in one or more of the following ways:

  • To personalise your experience – your information helps me to better respond to your individual needs.
  • To improve the website – I continually strive to improve the website based on the information and feedback I receive from you.
  • To validate you are a real person.
  • To improve my customer service – your information helps me to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.
  • To notify you of services you may be interested in.
  • Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the services to you. The email address you provide for any order processing will be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order and our services.

There are a variety of security measures in place to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.

  • We make use of a secure and resilient hosting platform.
  • All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorised with special access rights to such systems, and who are required to keep the information confidential.

I do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

I may also release your information when I believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce this site’s policies, or protect my or others rights, property, or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

I currently use (at various times) the following trusted third parties (click on the link to their privacy policy for details of how they protect your data):

Sometimes this website may provide links to third party pages. These sites are not owned, operated or controlled by me and therefore I accept no responsibility for these sites and their content. The usage of these links is entirely at your own risk.

You are not allowed to link to this website on your own website, or any other website, without the prior written approval from me.

Yes, this site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience.

In my case, all of the cookies used are strictly essential for the operation of the website, and none of them are used to store your personal information.

As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

Any of your information that we use for marketing purposes will be kept with us indefinitely until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive this information. At that point it will usually be deleted within 2 working days.

Under the GDPR, unless subject to an exemption, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • The right to request a copy of personal data which the we hold about you.
  • The right to request that we correct any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date.
  • The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for us to retain such data.
  • The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing.
  • The right to object to the processing of personal data, e.g. marketing, profiling etc.
  • The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO).

If you wish to discuss or exercise any of these rights, please contact me here.

When using this site, if at any point you are asked for personal information, you will have the opportunity to provide your consent (or not) in line with this privacy policy.

Exceptions to this are when such information is necessary, for example, as part of a sales order transaction.

If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and update the “updated” date below.

Last updated: 23 May 2022