Effective date: April 2025
At Laura Griffin Photography, I am committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal data. This Privacy Policy outlines how I collect, use, and safeguard your personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable data protection laws.
My Website
My website address is: www.lauragriffinphotography.com
1. Information I Collect
I may collect the following types of personal data from you when you interact with my website or use my services:
Contact information: Name, email address, phone number, and postal address.
Payment Information: Credit card details or other payment information for purchasing services.
Photographic Data: Images and videos captured during photography sessions.
Usage Data: Information about how you use my website, including your IP address, browser type, and pages visited.
2. How I Use Your Information
I use the collected information for the following purposes:
Providing Services: To deliver the photography services you have requested.
Communication: To respond to your inquiries and provide customer support.
Marketing: To send you newsletters, promotions, and updates about my services, with your consent.
Improving My Website: To analyze usage data to enhance the functionality and user experience of my website.
Legal Compliance: To comply with legal obligations and protect my rights and interests.
3. Legal Basis for Processing
I process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
- Consent: When you have given us clear consent to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
- Contract: When processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party.
- Legitimate Interests: When processing is necessary for my legitimate interests or those of a third party, unless overridden by your interests or fundamental rights.
- Legal Obligation: When processing is required to comply with the law.
4. Sharing Your Information
I may share your personal data with:
- Service Providers: Third-party vendors who assist me in providing my services, such as website hosting providers and payment processors.
- Legal Authorities: Government agencies or other authorized bodies when required by law.
- Pic-Time: I use Pic-Time to deliver digital products to my clients. By using Pic-Time, you acknowledge that your personal data will be processed in accordance with Pic-Time’s privacy policy, which can be found at Pic-Time Privacy Policy.
5. Data Retention
I will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
6. Your Rights
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access: Request access to your personal data.
- Correction: Request correction of inaccurate personal data.
- Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data.
- Restriction: Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Objection: Object to the processing of your personal data.
- Portability: Request transfer of your personal data to another party.
7. Security Measures
I implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
I use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience and analyze website usage. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
Comment Cookies
If you leave a comment on my 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.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
How I Use Cookies
I use cookies to enhance your browsing experience and to better understand how you interact with my website. The cookies I use are categorized as follows:
- Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the basic functionalities of the website and are enabled at all times. They include cookies that allow you to be remembered as you explore the site within a single session or, if you request, from session to session.
- Analytical Cookies: These cookies help me understand how visitors interact with my website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
- Functional Cookies: These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by me or by third-party providers whose services I have added to my pages.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.
Managing Cookies
You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
Please note that blocking all cookies may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites, including mine.
Third-Party Cookies
In some special cases, I also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- Google Analytics: This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping me to understand how you use the site and ways that I can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so I can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
- Google AdSense: The Google AdSense service I use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on my website (if any), I 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.
Your Rights 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 I hold about you, including any data you have provided to me. You can also request that I erase any personal data I hold about you. This does not include any data I am obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
I may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. I will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the effective date.
Contact Me
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or my data practices, please contact me at:
Laura Griffin Photography hello@lauragriffinphotography.com | 085 160 3685