Privacy Policy - Family, Newborn, Maternity, Glamour & Wedding Photographer in Basildon, Essex.

Fatima Photography GDPR compliant privacy policy

This privacy policy sets out Fatima Photography uses and protects any information that you give Fatima Photography when you use this website.

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

Fatima Photography may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

What Information is being collected?

When you contact us we will collect your name, email address, telephone number, your wedding date estimated due date or date of birth of your little one, we will also collect demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests

other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What we do with the information we gather?

We require this information mostly to respond to your enquiry and to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

Internal record keeping.

All the personal data we hold is processed by myself -Fatima Said- in the UK. however, for the purposes of IT hosting and maintenance this information is located on servers within the USA with MailChimp. No 3rd parties have access to your personal data unless the law or our contract with you allow them to do so.

We have a Data Protection regime in place to oversee the effective and secure processing of your personal data.

We may use the information to improve our products and services.

We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.

From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests. We will only do so IF you opt in, and not unsolicited.

How long we keep your data.

We will keep your images for the length of time agreed upon with you, after which time they will be deleted. Your information we use for marketing purposes will be kept with us until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive this information.

Security

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

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that indicates you are happy for us to collect information for marketing, do not tick unless you are happy to do so. We will not use your details unless you have opted in.

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@fatimaphotography.co.uk. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Fatima Photography 70 Merricks Lane, SS164RT Basildon, Essex, UK.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

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 anonymised 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.

What are your rights?

If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you can request to see this information and have it corrected or deleted. If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact Fatima – info@fatimaphotography.co.uk who will investigate the matter.

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).