What Personal Data do I Collect
When you first contact me, it’s usually using the contact form on my website, by email or mobile phone. I collect your names, email address, and contact phone number, I will also collect the wedding details and venue.
During subsequent conversations, I will take further information. For weddings this will include names of other guests and family members.
All this information is required for me to contact you, and my own planning to deliver my service.
How Will YOur Data be Used
In the capacity of your wedding photographer, it is imperative to outline the protocols concerning the handling and dissemination of your wedding photographs. Throughout your wedding day, I capture and safeguard each image, storing them securely on memory cards and duplicating them on two password-protected disk drives. The raw unedited images remain stored for a period ranging from 1-2 years before removal.
Upon completion, edited wedding photographs are archived on Zenfolio, an online gallery service. Access to this gallery is granted exclusively via a personalised PIN, shared with you for sharing with family and friends. These galleries are retained for a minimum of 10 years.
It is not uncommon for affiliated vendors, including florists, venues, and stylists, to request access to these images for promotional purposes. However, such access is dependent upon the consent of both parties, namely yourself and myself, and the adherence to privacy protocols.
In the interest of transparency, it is appropriate to disclose my use of various online platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Google listings, and my official website, to showcase my previous weddings. Should you wish for your photographs not to be used, your preferences will be accommodated upon notification.
Your privacy is of paramount importance, and by entering into our contractual agreement, you implicitly authorise the above use. Should you wish to modify or rescind permission, a formal notification via email serves to enact the desired changes.
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Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site and to distinguish which webpages are being used. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. we only use information collected from cookies for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us to provide you with a better site by enabling us to monitor which webpages you find useful and which you do not. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site.
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