• PRIVACY POLICY

    Your privacy and security of your personal data is extremely important to us

    This privacy policy explains the types of personal data we, Ray Schram Photography, may collect about you whilst you interact with us. We collect and process data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act 2018. We do not disclose data to any third parties unless it is necessary for the fulfilment of a service, you have specifically given consent for a particular service, or we have a legitimate interest in disclosing data. Instances in which we do disclose data to third parties are outlined below



    SITE ACTIVITY DATA

    Ray Schram Photography considers Internet user privacy and data protection to be of paramount importance.
    The Ray Schram Photography website complies with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to all processing of personal data supplied to us by users and other personal data in our possession for any reason. It is the policy of Ray Schram Photography to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of any personal information, such as your name, address, email address, or telephone number that you provide to us. Because your privacy is important to us, we maintain this website privacy policy to protect your personal information. By using this site, you consent to the terms of this website privacy policy. We do not collect, use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than those identified below, except with your consent or as required by law.
    Each time you visit our website
    www.rayschram-photo.co.uk the web server collects and logs certain information. We keep these access logs for a reasonable period of time. These logs include, but are not restricted too: your computer’s TCP/IP address, you're username (if applicable), date, time and files accessed. These logs also contain information about referrer information if you clicked on an external link in order to access a webpage. We use these logs solely for performance, site administration and security reviews. We do not sell or share this information with any third party.



    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 we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.



    OUR ONLINE STORE

    The online store featured on Ray Schram Photography is powered through Ecwid and during your visit the following information captured.

    While you visit our site, we’ll track:

    Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed.
    Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping.
    Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!



    We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

    When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

    Send you information about your account and order.
    Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints.
    Process payments and prevent fraud.
    Set up your account for our store.
    Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes.
    Improve our store offerings.
    Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.



    We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 5 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
    We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.



    ONLINE BOOKINGS

    Each online booking processed on this website, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password.



    PERSONAL INFORMATION

    We collect only personal information about you, such as your name, address, email address, or telephone number that you voluntarily provide to us. For example, we may receive personal information about you when you send us an email through our website or sign up for our newsletter (where applicable). We may forward the personal information you provide to us to the person or department (internally) equipped to handle your request or respond to your inquiry.
    We
    do not sell any personal information we receive through our website to any third party, nor will we add such information to any bulk email list we may prepare.
    Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.



    COOKIES

    A “cookie” is a block of text placed in a file on your hard drive by a website you’ve visited. Portions of the website may use cookies for security and authentication purposes.
    We use
    cookies on this website for a number of reasons, including but not limited to tracking the number of people who read each article (via Google Analytics), and serving advertisements. Our use of Google Analytics includes the service’s Advertising Features in order to customise the advertising that you see on the site.
    If you do not wish to have cookies stored in your browser, you may instruct your web browser to reject them. Here are instructions for doing so in 
    Google Chrome, for example, and Firefox, but the same result is possible in just about any browser.
    We
    do not share or sell information we may learn about you through our use of cookies to any third party or for any purpose.
    If you leave a comment on our 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, we will set a temporary cookie 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, we will also set up several cookies 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 or comment, 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.



    WHO ON OUR TEAM HAS ACCESS

    Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
    Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
    Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

    Our team members have access to this information to help fulfil orders, process refunds and support you.



    WHAT WE SHARE WITH OTHERS

    We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you

    Google Analyics



    Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilises the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, 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.



    MEDIA

    If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.



    CONTACT FORMS

    When using our contact form we collect the following information which is directly provided by the user, their name, email address and message itself. A contact number is an optional field. The information provided is only used to reply or for direct contact with the user. This information is never used by third-party services or sold.



    CONTACTING US

    If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact me via the email address below or using the 
    contact form.
    [email protected]



    HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

    If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
    For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. 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.