Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://lloydjonesphotography.co.uk.

The personal data I collect

Your first point of contact with me is normally via the contact form on my website, via email, or a phone call. I collect your names, wedding date and venue, I also collect contact numbers fro you both. All of this is information is needed for me to perform my job.

If I collected your email address from a wedding fayre or were given your information by the wedding fayre organisers then I will probably send a couple of emails due to verbal permission being given at the time. If this turns into a booking then your data will be stored as described below. If it doesn’t then the information is deleted. You will not be contacted by me further as I do not send out any form of news letter or do I have a subscribers list.

Collection and storage of your personal data

The contact form on my website is provided by a company called Wufoo which is a GDPR compliant company. This provider holds your information and is only accessible via my secure username and password which only I have access to. The majority of our communicate will be via email and occasionally by mobile phone too. I use Google mail and currently with GiffGaff, both companies are also GDPR compliant.

If you make an initial enquiry with me and don’t go ahead with the booking, I will send one further email asking if I can be of any further assistance, If a reply is not received within 7 days of that email your information will be deleted.

My website has a blog which is open to the public to comment on, if you make a comment, you can choose what personal data is shown. You can also choose to delete the comment.

All payments to me are via bank transfer will show in my business bank account in the standard way. On the rare occasion I receive a cheque, this will be deposited as standard also.

Right of confirmation, access, rectification and erasure

You have the right to confirmation, access, rectification and erasure of all the above data that I hold on you. For example, if you wish to see the initial contact form you submitted and check it for accuracy, or perhaps following your wedding you’d like to have your details completely removed, then you have that right.

Use of your data

I will use the above mentioned data to communicate with you about your wedding or photo shoot, and to enable me to perform my job.

Your data is never shared with anyone else. On the occasion that you have booked a second photographer via myself to attend the wedding. I will discuss with them verbally the details in relation to the timings of your wedding, but they will not be provided with any of your personal data except your names.

On occasion I am contacted by other wedding suppliers requesting images of weddings that have taken place that they were involved in. If on these occasions your wedding is chosen to represent my work, your permission will be sought to use your photographs and a story of your day. Most often they will contact you directly and in this case you can choose whether to allow your photos to be used. Those companies will have their own privacy policy which you can request from them.

Photographs

Given the nature of my job you can expect me to ‘collect and store’ photographs on your wedding day or photo shoot. These photographs are stored on memory cards during the day and backed up to a password-encrypted external hard drive and an online cloud based drive called Backblaze.

I sometimes get asked for wedding photographs to be submitted and used for advertising purposes. This is extremely rare and if it happens you will be asked permission.

In order to run my business I share online, predominantly on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Google and on my websites own blog. I sometimes use photographs on my business cards, banners and brochures when attending wedding fayres. I often share weddings I shot many years ago, so if you have had a wedding shot by me in the past and no longer want me to share them for any reason, you can simply get in touch to withdraw your permission. When signing my usual contract you will be agreeing to opt-in to all of this. However, if you want to withdraw your consent to this you can simply do so via email, this email will be stored and adhered to. It is perfectly reasonable to want to keep your wedding photographs private.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments, 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

If you would like to ask any questions about any aspect of my privacy policy or the data I store on you then please email richard@lloydjonesphotography.co.uk