Privacy policy.
This privacy policy describes how Dick Polak Photography uses personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Act of 2018.
MANAGING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
This privacy policy applies to all persons whose personal information we collect and use. The types of personal information we collect are; names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers, information on goods and services sold and purchased. This includes individuals in the categories below:
(a) visitors to our website
(b) subscribers to our newsletter
(c) print enquirers and general prospects
(d) business contacts and service providers
PROVISION OF SERVICES
In order to personalise your visit to our sites and customise our pages for you, we use cookies to understand your use of our services. We use cookies to analyze where people are going on the sites, which, in turn, allows us to provide a better experience for you.
We use these tools to recognise new or past users, improve our website, collect information about your browsing history, better understand the interests of our users and website visitors and serve them with the most relevant content. In addition, we may use 3rd party vendors (such as Google) and 3rd party cookies (such as Google Analytics) to report on your use of our services.
By using our websites, you are indicating your agreement to the terms of this policy. If you disagree with any of the terms, then please do not use our sites. We reserve the right to alter the terms of this policy at any time. Changes will be notified to you using the email address you provide to us or by an announcement on our site. Your continued use of our services indicates your agreement to such changes.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may collect, use and disclose your personal information in order for us to operate our business. This includes:
(a) processing is to enable us to sell and advertise our products
(b) carrying out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us
(c) maintaining our own accounts and records
(d) providing marketing and other information, products, or services to you that you request from us or which we feel may interest you
USE AND STORAGE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may share your personal information with our employees where needed to process orders. We also provide access to user information to Google to support our web services and analytics (privacy policy is available here https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and Squarespace for delivery of our newsletters and marketing services (privacy policy is available here https://www.squarespace.com/privacy)
HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we hold about you is reliable for its intended use and is as accurate and complete as is necessary to carry out the relevant purposes described in this privacy policy. We will retain your personal information for so long as is reasonably necessary for us to fulfill the relevant purposes described in this privacy policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We are strongly committed to data security and we take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or corruption. However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, therefore, although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of any data transmitted to our site, and any such transmission is at your own risk.
ACCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you, to have any inaccuracies corrected, or request removal from our databases by contacting us here.
If you are a subscriber to our newsletters you can also unsubscribe or change your preferences directly from us via email correspondence.