Privacy Policy
Introduction
This privacy policy provides you with details of how Tammie Louise trading as Tammie Louise Photography (‘I’/’Me’/’My’) collect, process and store your personal data through your use of the site www.tammielouisephotography.co.uk and as an enquirer or client (both, ‘You’/’Your’). Tammie Louise Photography is committed to ensuring the privacy and protection of your information, and I will not sell, trade or share the information you provide me. Please read the following Privacy Policy to understand how I use and protect the information that you provide to me, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and GDPR 2018.
Contact Details
My full details are:
Full name of trader: Tammie Louise Photography
Email address: tammie@tammielouisephotography.co.uk
Telephone number: +44 (0)777125122
How your information is collected and stored
When you make an enquiry on www.tammielouisephotography.co.uk you will be asked to provide certain information about yourself including your name, contact details including email address and phone number (optional), as well as details of your wedding date and location (if applicable) as an act of necessity to fulfil your enquiry. This information will only be collected when voluntarily submitted by you as the User. I may also collect information about your usage of my website, as well as emails or letters you send to me and as messages you post to the website www.tammielouisephotography.co.uk on blog posts. Personal information may also be collected from wedding fairs, which will include the above noted information all voluntarily submitted by you, as well as via mailing lists collected by wedding fair organisers (collected with consent from you to wedding fair organisers).
When booking Tammie Louise Photography for services, I will also collect your address (home, and business if required) as well as phone number, which are needed to provide you with services booked, your photographs and to communicate about your wedding photography.
Your final photographs will be stored on a platform called Pixiset in (a) password-protected online gallery (or galleries). When viewing your images, you will be required to sign in to the gallery using your name, email address and the password provided by Tammie Louise Photography. Should you share the password with family, friends and guests they will also be required to sign in with their name, email address and the given password. This information will also be collected and stored by Pixiset. Pixiset is also GDPR compliant and will not share your personal data with anyone other than Tammie Louise Photography.
How I protect this information
I employ appropriate security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage. I will retain your information for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires.
The information voluntarily submitted by User to Tammie Louise Photography for both enquiry and booking, will be stored in a password-protected email account as well as password-protected folders as digital information. Final photographs will be stored in a password-protected online gallery, and digital copies kept as a back-up on a password-protected external hard-drive. Sensitive and private data exchange between www.tammielouisephotography.co.uk and User happens over SSL secured communication.
To reiterate, all personal information stored by Tammie Louise Photography is done so via password-protected means.
How I will use your information
I will contact you using your personal information provided to discuss with you services booked, to deliver your invoices and Photography Plan, and to deliver to you your final photographs. I may use your information to contact you for your views on my services and to notify you occasionally, where you have consented, by email about other products and services I offer which may be of interest to you.
I may use your final photographs for marketing use on (1)social media platforms, as well as (2)on www.tammielouisephotography.co.uk and (3)in printed marketing material.
Right of confirmation, rectification and erasure
You have the option to opt in or out of the above noted image usage methods (1), (2) and (3) on your contract and may change your mind at any time by contacting me to notify me of your wishes to opt out of any or all image usage. If you change your mind about being contacted in the future, or about me storing your personal information and final photographs, please contact me via my email.
It is important that the information I hold about you is accurate and up to date. If you believe that any information I am holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact me as soon as possible by emailing me. You have, at any time, the option to request me to erase all personal information stored about you.
How we use cookies on our website
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive or other data storage device. Once you agree, the file is added. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
Our websites use cookies which are essential to the operation of the site, and which store the basic preferences of the user (e.g. the user’s choice whether or not to accept cookies).
We may also use cookies to track the use of our websites (e.g. to identify which pages are being used). This can include the use of Google Analytics and other 3rd party services. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our websites in order to tailor them to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.
We may also use 3rd party cookies to help us present our visitors with more targeted information using services such as Facebook advertising.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website and service by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. 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.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies using the slide-up panel at the bottom of our website. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on the Cookies link in the footer which will redisplay the slide-up panel.
Links to other websites
This website may contain links to other third-party websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave my website, please note that I do not have any control over the content or links on other websites. Therefore, I cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such websites. In addition such sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.
You should look at the Privacy Policy statement applicable to the website(s) in question.
GDPR Compliance
According to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website, the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are currently a working document and therefore subject to change. Ensuring that my business is fully GDPR compliant, I promise to keep up to date as best I can with any changes the ICO adopt in legislation.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Any future changes to this Privacy Policy are at the discretion of Tammie Louise Photography and will be posted to www.tammielouisephotography.co.uk and, where appropriate, communicated through e-mail notification. You should acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy to note any changes.
Contacting me
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or any comments or requests regarding the use of your information or photographs, please contact me via my contact form