Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Sunshinevision Photography complies with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). This Policy states how Sunshinevision Photography; collects, processes, manages and stores your personal details and what your rights are under GDPR and how they are adhered to.
SITE ACTIVITY DATA – (www.sunshinevisionphotography.com)
Your privacy and security of your personal data is extremely important to us which is why sunshinevision photography is committed to safeguarding the privacy of its website users and its customers.
The Site-www.sunshinevisionphotography.com uses a Pixieset hosting platform. Your data may be stored through Go Pixieset's data storage, databases and it’s general applications. Pixieset stores your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
The site utilizes systems that are designed to prevent unauthorized access to any personal data you may submit on the Site. The Site maintains data accuracy and guarantees the correct use of the information under this statement. The systems used at The Site comply with the latest security standards and include necessary electronic, physical, and managerial procedures, which help to protect the information collected online and to ensure and guarantee its correct and safe use. Nevertheless, due to the fact that no data can be 100% free on the Internet, we cannot guarantee that any information submitted to us will be totally secure and safe. Users provide the information at their own risk. The Site constantly assesses and evaluates the abilities of new technologies in providing the additional protection of the information where possible.
Each time you visit our website www.sunshinevisionphotography.com the web server collects and logs certain information. We keep these access logs for a reasonable period of time. These logs include, but are not restricted to: your computer’s TCP/IP address, your username (if applicable), date, time and files accessed. We use these logs solely for performance, site administration and security reviews. We do not sell or share this information with any third party.
The use of the site www.sunshinevisionphotography.com does not require any personal information when you visit us. Should you wish to provide your personal details on the course of creating an account with us, product related inquiry or in transacting to receive additional information – any information you provide to us will be protected from unauthorized access and you will be informed of exactly how your information is to be used. We do not collect, use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than those identified below, except with your consent or as required by law.
Personal Information
By Personal Information we are referring to a visitor’s name, address, phone number, e-mail address and any other information they deem fit to provide. Personal Information can be gathered via an online contact form, by signing up for our newsletter, by the posting of a comment in relation to content on the site, or by interacting with one of sunshinevision Photography’s Social Media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter).
Under no circumstances will any Personal Information be used for anything other than the reason it has been submitted for. We do not sell any personal information we receive through our website to any third party, nor will we add such information to any bulk email list we may prepare.
All electronic devices where your Personal Information is stored, for example, mobile phone, tablet and desktop, all contain passwords. Images are stored on external hard drives which are password protected. Any paper documents where your Personal Information can be accessed are stored in a secure, private location only accessible by Sunshinevision Photography.
Sunshinevision Photography may at times use a second shooter, under these circumstances they will have access to your name and telephone number for the duration of the event. All paperwork with this Personal Information on will be destroyed after the event has been carried out.
Personal information shall not be shared with Third Party operators or websites, unless considered necessary when completing your transaction. For example, Sunshinevision Photography uses Pixieset.com as a means to distribute final photographs to clients; Sunshinevision Photography will use your name and images to complete this order. This Site holds no responsibility for privacy policies on other sites, but endeavours to only work with GDPR compliant companies.
Sunshinevision Photography may need to disclose Personal Information, when necessary, in the instance of insurance claim, or legal reason that may occur. Wherever possible Sunshinevision Photography will inform those affected prior to the release of Personal Information.
Cookies
A “cookie” is a block of text placed in a file on your hard drive by a website you’ve visited. Portions of the website may use cookies for security and authentication purposes.
We use cookies on this website for a number of reasons, including but not limited to tracking the number of people who visit our site, their activities on our site and how long they stay on our site all of which are to improve the user interface.
A pop up window will appear when you visit our website informing you that we use cookies . If you do not wish to have cookies stored in your browser, you may instruct your web browser to reject them. Here are instructions for doing so in Google Chrome, for example, and Firefox, but the same result is possible in just about any browser.
We do not share or sell information we may learn about you through our use of cookies to any third party or for any purpose.
Contact Us
When using our contact form we collect the following information which is directly provided by the user, their name, email address and message itself. The information provided is only used to reply or for direct contact with the user. This information is never used by third-party services or sold.
Communication
Sunshinevision Photography will contact you regarding your inquiry, booking, to collect fees or monies owed, or as otherwise necessary. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text message, messenger and / or postal mail.
Your Photographs
GDPR legislation states that a photograph may contain some form of personal data where they can be processed to allow “the unique identification or authentication of a natural person”. Sunshinevision Photography will never photograph an individual as a means of unique identification or authentication unless contracted to do so. Guests at events, where Sunshinevision Photography has been contracted to capture images, appear in photos taken by Sunshinevision Photography as a part of the documentation of the event. Guests captured in portraits or in group photos do so as part of the event and their rights are protected by Sunshinevision Photography as detailed in this Privacy Policy.
We may display any photographs to promote Sunshinevision Photography on our website, blog, on social media, on photography related websites, in advertising, magazine articles and other such material, providing that the images used are used lawfully and without damage to Sunshinevision Photography’s client(s). The rights of the people captured in these photographs are protected by Sunshinevision Photography as detailed in this Privacy Policy. Booking clients are therefore requested in their contract to direct their guests to read this Privacy Policy in advance of the event and to advise them to contact us in advance with any concerns around the processing of their personal data, namely being photographed.
Sunshinevision Photography retains the full copyright of any photographs produced. Images captured at events will be retained for a minimum of three (3) years after the date of the event.
Your Right to Access information or Withdraw your Data
If you have an account on this site 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.
Anyone photographed by Sunshinevision Photography, whether a client or guest, and whether past or current may withdraw consent for a photograph in which they appear to be displayed. All you need to do is to email us specifying the photo in question. After the request has been made, Sunshinevision Photography will take the necessary step to remove the image online.
External Website Links and Third Parties
Links located at the Site may be to and from other internet sites, including but not limited to the sites affiliated to the Site. The Site does not hold any responsibility for the privacy policies or content of all the other websites that it may link to though we only deal with GDPR compliant websites. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of any Third Party company we may link to – prior to deciding to submit your personal information on other such sites.
Payments
PayPal
We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Square
We accept payments through Square. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Online Bookings
Each online booking processed on this website, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password.
Policy Revisions
Any changes to this website privacy policy will be promptly communicated on this website. Any such change will be prospective only and will not affect how we handle personal information submitted to us before the change occurs.
Questions
If you have any questions or concerns about this Statement, you are invited to contact us at email: admin@sunshinevisionphotography.com
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