harleyjaffarphotography.com Privacy Policy
Introduction
This Privacy Policy outlines Harley Jaffar Photography practices with respect to information collected from users who access our website at harleyjaffarphotography.com or otherwise share personal information with us
Grounds for data collection
Processing of your personal information (i.e. any information which may potentially allow your identification through reasonable means; hereinafter " Personal Information ") is necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations towards you and providing you with our services, to protect our legitimate interests and for compliance with legal and financial regulatory obligations to which we are subject.
When you use the Site, you consent to the collection, storage, use, disclosure and other uses of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
We encourage our Users to carefully read the Privacy Policy and use it to make informed decisions.
What information do we collect?
a. Personal Data: This includes your name, address, email address, phone number, and any other details you provide when communicating with us, booking our services, or interacting with our website. b. Photographic Images: We collect and store images captured during your wedding and related events. c. Website Usage Data: We collect information about your interaction with our website using Plausible Analytics a privacy-focused analytics tool. Unlike traditional analytics platforms, Plausible Analytics doesn’t track or store your personal data. We monitor general trends such as page views and website navigation patterns to improve our website’s user experience. No IP addresses or personal identifiers are recorded.
3. How We Use Your Information Your personal data is used to provide and manage our services, communicate with you, enhance your experience with us, and comply with legal obligations.
4. Sharing of Your Information
We highly value your privacy and handle your personal data with the utmost confidentiality. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise disclose your personal data to third parties for their marketing purposes. Sharing of your data is strictly limited and occurs only in the following instances:
With Service Providers: We may share your information with trusted service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as our booking software and album and print order processing. These service providers are bound by confidentiality agreements and are only allowed to use your personal data as necessary to perform these specific services.
For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if we are legally required to do so, for instance in response to a court order or a legitimate request from a law enforcement agency.
5. Data Security
We implement reasonable measures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, alteration, or destruction.
6. Your Rights
Right of Access: You can request access to your personal data that we hold, commonly known as a “data subject access request”. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to verify the lawfulness of the processing. Right to Rectification: If any personal data we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to have it corrected or completed.
Right to Erasure: Often referred to as the “right to be forgotten”, this allows you to request the deletion or removal of your personal data where there’s no compelling reason for its continued processing.
Right to Restrict Processing: Under certain conditions, you have the right to ‘block’ or suppress further use of your personal data.
Right to Data Portability: This right allows you to request the transfer of your personal data to another party, under certain conditions.
Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data based on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party), especially if your particular situation makes you want to object to processing on this ground.
Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
7. Information Retention We retain personal data and photographs for the duration necessary to provide our services and as required by law, ensuring secure storage and protection against unauthorised access.
8. Exercising Your Rights To exercise your data protection rights, please contact us using the provided contact details. We will respond within one month of your request.
9. Complaints If you have any concerns or complaints about how we handle your personal data, we strongly encourage you to address these issues directly with us first. According to the UK’s data protection regulations, you should submit your complaint to us in writing and we can be contacted at the following address:
Harley Jaffar Photography
3 Withalls Gardens
Greenhill Avenue
Lympstone
EX8 5JH We commit to responding to all complaints within a reasonable timeframe, typically within 30 days.
Should you not be satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights. To lodge a complaint with the ICO, you can follow the steps outlined on their website at Data protection and personal information complaints tool | ICO
We take your privacy and data protection rights very seriously and will do our utmost to resolve any issues you may have.
10. Changes to Our Privacy Policy We may update this policy to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will notify you of significant changes and encourage regular review of this policy.
11. Questions and Feedback We welcome your questions and feedback regarding this policy. Please contact us at harleyjaffar@hotmail.com
12. Contact Information For any inquiries regarding this privacy policy or your personal data, please contact us at harleyjaffar@hotmail.com
Cookies
We and our trusted partners use cookies and other technologies in our related services, including when you visit our Site or access our services.
A "cookie" is a small piece of information that a website assigns to your device while you are viewing a website. Cookies are very helpful and can be used for various different purposes. These purposes include allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, enabling automatic activation of certain features, remembering your preferences and making the interaction between you and our Services quicker and easier. Cookies are also used to help ensure that the advertisements you see are relevant to you and your interests and to compile statistical data on your use of our Services.
The Site uses the following types of cookies:
a. 'session cookies' which are stored only temporarily during a browsing session in order to allow normal use of the system and are deleted from your device when the browser is closed;
b. 'persistent cookies ' which are read only by the Site, saved on your computer for a fixed period and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Such cookies are used where we need to know who you are for repeat visits, for example to allow us to store your preferences for the next sign-in;
c. 'third-party cookies' which are set by other online services who run content on the page you are viewing, for example by third-party analytics companies who monitor and analyse our web access.
Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but Personal Information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. You may remove the cookies by following the instructions of your device preferences; however, if you choose to disable cookies, some features of our Site may not operate properly and your online experience may be limited.
We also use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about your use of the Site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users access the Site, which pages they visit, when they do so, etc. We use the information we obtain from Google Analytics only to improve our Site and services. Google Analytics collects the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit sites, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
Third-party collection of information
Our policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent you disclose your information to other parties or sites throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. Accordingly, we encourage you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of each third party that you choose to disclose information to.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, nor to individuals whom we do not employ or manage, including any of the third parties which we may disclose information to as set out in this Privacy Policy.
How do we safeguard your information?
We take great care in implementing and maintaining the security of the Site and your information. We employ industry standard procedures and policies to ensure the safety of the information we collect and retain, and prevent unauthorised use of any such information, and we require any third party to comply with similar security requirements, in accordance with this Privacy Policy] . Although we take reasonable steps to safeguard information, we cannot be responsible for the acts of those who gain unauthorised access or abuse our Site, and we make no warranty, express, implied or otherwise, that we will prevent such access.
Transfer of data outside the EEA
Please note that some data recipients may be located outside the EEA. In such cases we will transfer your data only to such countries as approved by the European Commission as providing adequate level of data protection, or enter into legal agreements ensuring an adequate level of data protection.
Updates or amendments to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to periodically amend or revise the Privacy Policy; material changes will be effective immediately upon the display of the revised Privacy policy. The last revision will be reflected in the "Last modified" section. Your continued use of the Platform, following the notification of such amendments on our website, constitutes your acknowledgment and consent of such amendments to the Privacy Policy and your agreement to be bound by the terms of such amendments.
How to contact us
If you have any general questions about the Site or the information we collect about you and how we use it, you can contact us at harleyjaffar@hotmail.com
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