Privacy Policy

Our website address is: https://www.adamhollingworth.co.uk

Overview

My aim is to provide exceptional images, not bombard you with marketing emails. At Adam Hollingworth Photography, I treat your personal data with the respect and care it deserves. It is never sold to third parties, ever.

As a commercial photographer, it is important that clients can get in touch to discuss potential photographic assignments. In order to communicate effectively about such assignments, it is necessary to collect a client’s email address and telephone number so that I may respond to enquiries via email or discuss details via the telephone. Once a client has confirmed a booking, it is necessary to collect address details in order to attend the shoot or visit the client and send in the post items purchased via my online store or ordered in person.

Contact Form

The Contact Form on my website is usually the first stop for my clients and asks for a potential client’s name, email address and telephone number. Most communication is carried out via email but sometimes it is necessary to either discuss the finer detail over the telephone or follow up an email conversation that has ceased, in case my emails have unintentionally reached the potential client’s spam or junk folders.

The information collected from the Contact Form on my website is stored both in my website’s database (hosted by a third party who complies with GDPR and does not use or sell that information) and is sent to my email address.

Corporate Clients

Corporate clients will provide their business email address, telephone number and address in order to discuss the booking and for me to be able to attend the shoot to complete the assignment. In some cases this may include providing a third party’s address, email address and telephone number e.g. a hotel or conference venue hosting the client’s event but would never include the personal details of an individual.

Web Hosting

The website for Adam Hollingworth Photography is hosted by Bluehost.com. The data collected from the Contact form is stored in the database associated with my website. Their privacy policy can be found here: https://my.bluehost.com/hosting/help/gdpr.

Images

The copyright of all images rests with the photographer who produced them and this applies to Adam Hollingworth Photography. When employed as a photographer to produce images for clients, it is stipulated in the contract agreed upon that the copyright of the images rests with Adam Hollingworth Photography and that the client has a ‘license to use’ the images for the purpose intended.

The images produced will be archived to promote and advertise my photography business and may be used on my website, in print and on social media. The images will be stored locally on external hard drives and accessed only by me.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics are used to enable Adam Hollingworth Photography to monitor and analyse web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behaviour.

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilises the Data collected to track and examine the use of the website of Adam Hollingworth Photography, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.

Google may use the Data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Google’s privacy policy can be found here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Comments

When visitors leave comments on this site the data shown in the comments form is collected, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on this 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.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, several cookies will be set up to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long your data is kept

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so any follow-up comments can be recognised and approved automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), the personal information they provide in their user profile is also stored. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data held about you, including any data you have provided to this site. You can also request that any personal data we hold about you is erased. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.