PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated 29/10/2023
This privacy notice for Diane Gollowitzer(doing business as Dogs in Focus Photography) (‘we’, ‘us’, or ‘our’), describes how and why we might collect, store, use and/or share (‘process’) your information when you use our services (‘Services’), such as when you:
- Visit our website at https://www.dogsinfocusphotography.com/, or any website of ours that link to this privacy policy
- Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events
Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy policy will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at diane@dogsinfocusphotography.com
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
This summary provides key points from our privacy policy. For more details, scroll down.
What personal information do we process?
When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.
Do we process any sensitive personal information?
We do not process sensitive personal information.
Do we receive any information from third parties? We do not receive any information from third parties.
How do we process your information?
We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with the law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
In what situations and with which parties do we share personal information?
We may share information in specific situations and with specific third parties.
How do we keep your information safe?
We have organisational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.
What are your rights?
Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.
How do you exercise your rights?
The easiest way to exercise your rights is to send an email to diane@dogsinfocusphotography.com. We will consider and act upon your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
- What information do we collect?
Personal information you disclose to us
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.
The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Servies, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include names, phone numbers, and email addresses.
We do not process sensitive information.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
Information automatically collected
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate our website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language, preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
The information we collect includes:
- Log and usage data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services and which we record in log files. depending on how you interact with us, this log data my include your IP address, device information, browser type, and settings and information about your activity in the Services (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files views, searches, and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports, and hardware settings).
- Device data. We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other device you use to access the Services. depending on the device used, this device data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model, Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system, and system configuration information.
- Location data. We collect location data such as information about your device’s location, which can be either precis or imprecise. How much information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the Services. For example we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location (based on your IP address). You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information either by refusing access to the information or by disabling your location setting on your device.
- How do we process your information?
We process your information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
- To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the users. We may process your information to provide you with the requested services.
- To respond to user enquiries/offer support to users. We may process your information to respond to your enquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested services.
- To deliver targeted advertising to you. We may process your information to develop and display personalised content and advertising tailored to your interests, location, and more.
- To administer prize draws and competitions. We may process your personal information to administer prize draws and competitions.
- To identify usage trends. We may process your information about how you use our Services to better understand how they are being used so we can improve them.
- To determine the effectiveness of our marketing and promotional campaigns. We may process your information to better understand how to provide marketing and promotional campaigns that are most relevant to you.
- To comply with our legal obligations. We may process your information to comply with our legal obligations, respond to legal requests, and exercise, establish, or defend our legal rights.
- Whan and with whom do we share your personal information?
We may need to share your personal information in the following situation:
- Business transfer. We may share your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Do we use cookies and other tracking technology?
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information.
- How long do we keep your information?
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information, or, if this is not possible, then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from further processing until deletion is possible.
- How do we keep your information safe?
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorised third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.
- Do we collect information from minors?
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using our Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at diane@dogsinfocusphotography.com
- What are your privacy rights?
Withdrawing your consent. If we are relying on your conste to prcess personal information, which may be expressed and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us.
However, please not that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Cookies and similar technologies: most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features of our Services.
- Controls for do-not-track features
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a do-not-track (‘DNT’) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognising and implementing DNT signals has been finalised. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy policy.
- Do we make updates to this notice?
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated ‘revised’ date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you wither by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
- How can you contact us about this notice?
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at diane@dogsinfocusphotography.com or contact us by post at:
23 St. Annes Cl
Winchester
SO22 4LQ