What is this Privacy Policy for?

Thank you for reading my data protection policy. You can visit this website without the need to provide any personal data. However, if you want to book my services or contact me by e mail, then the processing of some personal data will be necessary.

This policy explains how, what and why personal data is collected from visitors to this website.

This privacy policy is for the website www.louisekearphotography.com and governs the privacy of its users.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

GDPR Compliance

This policy sets out how and why we collect any of your personal information, how it is processed and how it is kept secure. By using this website or any of my photographic services, you are agreeing to this privacy policy.

Any and all personal data captured will be in line with the GDPR and any UK data protection regulations.

Data Collection and Processing

I, Louise Kear, am the controller of any data that passes through this website. This data is kept private between me and the few other carefully selected data processors, which I have set out below.

Data Which I Retain

When visitors make contact via my website to enquire about my services, I capture their names, phone numbers and email address to respond to the enquiry.

Once your event has passed, I take and store photographs from your event on encrypted hard drives, in order to provide the photographic services that you have hired me for.

I keep your photographs for as long as the hard disks that they are stored on are functional in order to provide copies should you ever lose your photographs. This service is provided as a legitimate interest.

If you would like me to remove your photographs from my hard disks and backups after I have delivered your full gallery, I will do so, if you send me an email confirming your request.

I also collect a small amount of personal details about you, your wedding party and the other wedding suppliers at your wedding, which may be:

• Names

• Phone numbers

• Email addresses

• Social media links

I may also post photos from your wedding in a variety of places, which is done for legitimate interest. Should you or any member of your wedding party not wish to be included in this, please let me know by email.

• On my website

• On social media

• To your other wedding suppliers

I never capture or hold credit or debit card numbers.

External Data Processors

In addition to my own data, I also use a variety of data processors, which are listed below:

Google Suite

Google Suite is a tool for providing services which are available over the internet. I use Google Calendar and Google Drive in order to store information relating to your wedding. Google are fully GDPR compliant. I retain calendar data for up to 7 years in order to be compliant with legal obligations.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information [ http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

That’s it! Please talk to me if you are concerned about anything. Please do go back and enjoy looking through my galleries.

August 2022 Edited & customised by Louise Kear, Devon, UK. louisekearphotos@gmail.com