This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how www.photophilosophies.com in United States ("Company", "we" and "our") processes, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this site (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and the way we'll process data.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal information. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in combination with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, for example, your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We want certain personal data in order to provide you with access to the Site. If you registered with us, you would have been asked to tick to agree to offer this information so as to access our services, purchase our products, or view our content. This consent provides us with the legal foundation we need under applicable law to process your data. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you don't agree to our use of your personal data in line with this Policy, please do not use our Site.
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Our Site includes interfaces that permit you to connect with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS through our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us according to your preferences on this SNS. We'll access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You may revoke our access to the information that you supply in this manner at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
We automatically log information about you and your personal computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For instance, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and version, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the site you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you've viewed, how long you spent on a webpage, access times and information about your use of and actions on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.
We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making. However, we may do so in order to satisfy obligations imposed by law, in which case we will notify you of any such processing and offer you a chance to object.
We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your personal computer or mobile device by a site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your internet browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to supply you with a more interactive and personal experience on our Site.
We use two broad classes of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which can be used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third-party cookies, which can be served by service providers on our Site, and can be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites.
Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
| Type of cookie | Purpose |
Essential Cookies |
These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Site and to let you use some of its attributes. By way of example, they allow you to log into secure areas of our Site and assist the content of the pages you request load fast. With no cookies, the services you have asked for can't be provided, and we just use these cookies to supply you with those services. |
Functionality Cookies |
These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, like remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and recalling the modifications you make to other sections of our Site that you can customize. The objective of these cookies is to give you a more personal experience and also to avoid you having to reevaluate your tastes each time you visit our Site. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to collect information regarding traffic to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered doesn't identify any individual visitor. It includes the number of visitors to our Site, the sites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, if they have visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Site. We use Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It's only used to improve how our Site works. You can discover more about how Matomo protects your data here: https://matomo.org/privacy/. |
Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your surfing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information regarding your surfing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our permission, third party advertisers can set cookies to enable them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests while you're on third party websites. You can disable cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertisements at you by seeing http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you decide to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see ads, but they may not be applicable to you. Even in case you do choose to remove cookies by the firms listed in the above link, not all companies that serve online behavioral advertisements are included in this listing, which means you may still receive some cookies and tailored ads from companies which are not listed. |
Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social networking sharing button or"like" button on our Site or you link your account or participate with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. |
You may typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your preferences.
If you don't accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience on your use of our Site. By way of example, we might not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you might need to log in each time you visit our Site.
We may use other companies to serve third-party advertisements when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, date and time, subject of ads clicked or scrolled over during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These firms typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.
We may use your personal data as follows:
We may share your personal data as follows:
You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated content to our Site, including via our rewards program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please be aware that any information you post or disclose on our Site will become public information, and will be available to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal information, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information will not be private or confidential once it's printed on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on the Site, provided we don't associate such feedback with your personal information. If you have given your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name along with your feedback on our Site. We'll collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.
Your information, including personal data that we gather from you, could be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other areas of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to make certain that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We attempt to use reasonable organizational, administrative and technical measures to safeguard personal data within our organization. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you believe that the security of any accounts you could have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the issue by contacting us.
We will only retain your personal data as long reasonably required that you use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law (such as for regulatory purposes).
Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We'll delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. On your request, please be clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the above rights you'd like to enforce. For your protection, we might only implement requests regarding the personal data related to the specific email address which you use to send us your request, and we may have to verify your identity before implementing your request. We'll try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we may have to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to finish any transactions that you began before requesting such alteration or deletion.
We are dedicated to resolving any complaints regarding our collection or use of your personal information. If you want to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in regard to your personal information, please contact us via the information listed on our site. We will reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any case, within 30 days. We expect to solve any complaint brought to our attention, but if you feel that your complaint hasn't been satisfactorily resolved, you reserve the right to contact the local data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or queries concerning this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our site.