JENNIFER ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY PRIVACY POLICY
I understand the importance of your privacy and respect the privacy of my clients, prospective clients and anyone who visits my website. It is important to me that you know exactly how and why I collect, process and store your personal data.
I have kept my privacy policy as short and straightforward as possible, so if there is anything that you don’t understand, or if you have any questions, please contact me using the contact form at the bottom of this page.
Your personal data I collect
When you first get in touch with me, it’s usually via the contact form on my website, via email, or mobile phone. I collect your name, the names of your family members involved in the photo session, contact number and email address. Sometimes we might also connect via FaceTime or Zoom for meetings, in which case we have access to each other via webcam and will share our Skype names too.
Collection and storage of your personal data
The initial contact form is on my website. The data from your form is sent to my Gmail email account. I communicate with you via email and occasionally by mobile phone too. I use Google mail, which is also GDPR compliant. If you make an initial enquiry with me and don’t go ahead with booking me, your email address will be deleted from my computer within two months.
Payments to me are made through bank transfer and will show in my business bank account in the normal way.
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 photo session 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 photo session. Sometimes I also like to inform you of any discounts I may have for albums and for future photo sessions.
Sometimes I enter photographs into competitions. This is usually without any input being needed from yourself, but if I win it means your photographs will be shared across various online platforms. I will always ask your permission to enter your photographs into competitions and your acceptance of this would indicate you are also happy for it to be shared in this way.
I send out monthly newsletters to my mailing list. You will only be added to this list if you explicitly sign up. You will always be able to unsubscribe from this mailing list and if you do you will no longer receive my newsletter. I use Mailchimp (a GDPR compliant company) for my mailing list.
Photographs
As photography is my work you can expect me to ‘collect’ photographs on the day of your photo session. These photographs are stored on memory cards during the day and backed up on an external hard drive. I typically store your photographs for 1-2 years before removing them. Your finished photographs are stored on an online gallery provider called Shootproof and protected by a password which you are given when you receive the photographs. You can choose who has access to your gallery via this password.
In order to run my business, I share my photographs online, predominantly on Instagram, Facebook and on my website’s own blog. I use a social media management software called Later.com for this which allows me to share photographs or blog posts simultaneously. I sometimes use photographs on my business cards, mini-posters and brochures. After your photo session, I will ask your permission to share all or some of the photographs from the session. I also share family photo sessions I shot many years ago, so if you have had a photo session with 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. 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 family photographs private.
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