PRIVACY POLICY
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Your privacy is important to us. We provide this notice to explain our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Ksenia Photography website. 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.
Ksenia Photography 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.
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The Personal Data I Collect and use:
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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 postal address. Data is submitted by email, phone or online contact form. 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 event is, or schedule a photography project (portrait, family or any type of 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 along side images of the event. The details we will share will be agreed 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 Surnames and sensitive personal data will not be published.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.
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Cookies
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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.
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.
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Access to the Data we hold and rights to remove:
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At any time, you may request via email/post/phone, 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.
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Changes to This Privacy Policy
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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.
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Contact Us
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If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.