The privacy and security of your personal data is extremely important to us. This privacy policy explains the types of personal data Steve Biltcliffe Photography, may collect about you whilst you interact with us. We collect and process data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act 2018. We do not disclose data to any third parties unless it is necessary for the fulfilment of a service, you have specifically given consent for a particular service, or we have a legitimate interest in disclosing data. Instances in which we do disclose data to third parties are outlined below
Site Activity Data
Steve Biltcliffe Photography considers Internet user privacy and data protection to be of paramount importance.
Steve Biltcliffe Photography website complies with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to all processing of personal data supplied to us by users and other personal data in our possession for any reason. It is the policy of Steve Biltcliffe Photography to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of any personal information, such as your name, address, email address, or telephone number that you provide to us. Because your privacy is important to us, we maintain this website privacy policy to protect your personal information. By using this site, you consent to the terms of this website privacy policy. 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.
Each time you visit our website www.stevebiltcliffephotography.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. These logs also contain information about referrer information if you clicked on an external link in order to access a webpage. We use these logs solely for performance, site administration and security reviews. We do not sell or share this information with any third party.
Personal Information
We collect only personal information about you, such as your name, address, email address, or telephone number that you voluntarily provide to us. For example, we may receive personal information about you when you send us an email either directly or through our website or complete a registration form. We will store this personal information you provide to us for use within our company to handle your request or respond to your inquiry.
We do not sell any personal information we receive through our website to any third party.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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 read each article (via Google Analytics), and serving advertisements. Our use of Google Analytics includes the service’s Advertising Features in order to customise the advertising that you see on the site.
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.
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.
Contact Forms
When using our contact form we collect the following information which is directly provided by the user, their name, email address and message itself. A contact number is an optional field. 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.
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 customers contact us via email or social media, we also store the personal information they provide in our costomer profiles. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time via contacting us at sbiltcliffe@outlook.com. Website administrator can also see and edit that information.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you contact us via email, social media, registration form, or 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.
Photographs
Our photographs of events organised through WSSN and other U16s events are available to view via a password protected one drive link. All personal photographys are taken with parental consent via registration forms before the event.
To view these photographs an access code must be requested via text or email from the website administrator (details attached to the photo page of this website)
Whilst every effect is undertaken to uphold this sometimes mistake do happen. If for any reason a photography is unfortunately shown please contact the website administrator and it will be removed.
use of photographs
We will use photographs to published and promote activities and events organised by Steve Biltcliffe Photography on our website and social media platforms.
We never give permission for photographs to be used by a third party.
Purchasing photographs
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
Send you information about your order
Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
Process payments and prevent fraud
Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
Improve our purchasing offerings
Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 5 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
Payments (Not Available yet)
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.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
Stripe
We accept payments through Stripe. 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.
Please see the Stripe Privacy Policy for more details.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them
Online Purchases (Not Available yet)
Each online booking processed on this website, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password.
Who on our team has access
Only the Website & Social Media Administrators can access:
Editing rights to photographs
Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
What we share with others
We share information with third parties who help us provide our services to you;
Google Analytics (Google Inc.)
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network
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.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact me via email: sbiltcliffe@outlook.com or using the contact form.
Resources and Further Information
EU GDPRData Protection Act 1998