Privacy Policy

Our website address is: https://paulupward.co.uk

Paul Upward Photography are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide information by which you can be identified when using our website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Paul Upward Photography may change this policy from time to time by updating this page.

We only ask you information when is relevant to enable us to respond to a query (raised on our Contact form) or to provide a service which has been requested (i.e. placement of a photo order).

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

When you use the website to order a product or to contact us using our Contact form or by social media, we will collect and process the data you provide us in order to answer any of your queries or to complete a transaction. We may also retain your details to periodically send out newsletters or promotional emails to you; i.e. about new promotions, or any other information related to Paul Upward photography; which we think you may find interesting using the email address, which you provide us. From time to time we may contact you by email for market research purposes only.

We will not use your data for any other purpose, so please be assured that we will never provide or sell your personal information onto others – EVER.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We receive data from Google Analytics

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data with anyone or any organisation.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact information

Paul Upward Photography

Additional information

How we protect your data

Our website is on a secure server based in the United Kingdom.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Please contact us regarding our data breach procedures including access to forms.

What third parties we receive data from

We receive data from Google Analytics

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We use data from Google Analytics to see how many visitors visit this website.