Privacy Policy
1. SUMMARY
Cremonaphoto operates various photography related services, referred to in this document as “Services”. This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Services.
If you choose to use our Services, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Services.
Cremonaphoto fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect or publish any personal information about you through this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality.
2. THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND USE
For a better experience while using our Services, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and email address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you. This data solely exists in order to provide the services. For example, this data is gathered so that we can call you back if you get in touch, so we can find out where your wedding is, or schedule a photography project. It is, of course, there to so we can send you an invoice and a receipt.
Your personal data is not shared with any third parties without specific consent. See the paragraph below relating to sharing on our website/social media.
As part of our business, we will need to share our photography services on our website and social media channels. We may require specific information relating to an event for publication in an article to be posted alongside images of the event. The details we will share will be agreed with with you before publication and we will look for specific consent to publish said data. For example, we may post a blog post about a wedding which will include the couples first names, location and general details. Surnames and sensitive personal data will not be published. When publishing online, this website data may be re-posted or shared. This consent will be in the form of a contract/questionnaire and specifically list consent as ‘opt-in’. At any time, you may request for the post to be removed, but please understand that we cannot be responsible for re-posts/shares.
3. HOW WE COLLECT AND KEEP DATA
Data is submitted to us by email, phone or online contact form.
From our end, we will only be storing data relating to providing the service is kept.
A copy of this data is held on a secure server at the business premises.
3.1 Where data is submitted via an online form, a contract, a blog post or social media channel we may log the following:
3.1.1 Log Data: We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
3.1.2 Cookies: Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive. Our website uses these “cookies” to collection information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. No cookie data is shared with third parties and we do not employ the use of third party cookies.
3.1.3 Google Analytics: Google Analytics is used to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website.
4. DATA RETENTION
Our business involves the taking of photographs and video. As such, we intend to archive such works for the lifetime of the business. This is ensure that clients may retrieve past projects/images, should they need further copies/prints/albums etc. In order to maintain an effective archive, the basic personal data is also retained for the lifetime of the archive. For accounting purposes we are required to hold business accounts for a period of 2 years after filing.
Any information which relates to enquiries and does not result in a contract/service, will be removed after 2 years or sooner on request. For example, if someone enquiries about our services but doesn’t to go any further, then we will remove their personal data after 2 years or on request.
5. ACCESS TO THE DATA WE HOLD AND RIGHTS TO REMOVE
At any time, you may request via our contact us page, to see what data we hold. We aim to retrieve this data in a timely and efficient manner.
Any data held, provided it is not needed on a legitimate legal basis (e.g. invoicing/contractual), may be removed on request.
6. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
7. FACEBOOK COMMENT POLICY
We fully subscribe Facebook’s Comment Policy. On our Facebook page (fb.com/cremonaphoto) one cannot:
Talk about subjects which will spark controversy such as political and religious opinions.
Sell or promote products.
Criticize, bully, harass and/or offend other people/groups.
8. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
9. CONTACT US
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.