Policy for this website – www.michaelwellsphotography.com privacy policy is set out to comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Mike Wells Photography is committed to safeguarding and preserving the privacy of our visitors.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION The following information is only collected upon completion of contact form: Name Telephone Number Email address Other information you submit to us . Additional Information will be collected upon completetion of your contract if you decide to book with MWP.
USE OF YOU INFORMATION We use the information that we collect from you to provide you with the relevant information/services including: Providing information to you that you request from us relating to our products and services. Providing information to you relating to other related products that may be of interest to you. Such additional information will only be provided where you have consented to receive such information. To inform you of any specific changes to our website, services or goods and products that affect you. Users contacting us through www.mikewellsphotography.com do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use. Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and where you have given your express permission, we may use your details to send you products/services information through a mailing list.
Upon enquiry your details will be retained in our CMS whether this be from an email / web enquiry or completeion of our info request form at a wedding fair or similar. If you do not proceed with a contract of any kind with MWP your personal information will be securely deleted after six months. When completing a contact form on this website, your contact information will be recorded and retained in a customer management system (CMS), and kept securely offline in accordance to the privacy policy of the CMS. Your details are not shared with any third parties without your consent. If you wish to remove your information at any time and receive no further contact please email info@michaelwellsphotography.com
EMAIL MAILING LIST & MARKETING MESSAGES Email marketing messages sent after a visitor has supplied their contact information and consented to being contacted may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track reader activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of subscriber data relating to engagement, geographic, demographics and already stored subscriber data. Our EMS (email marketing service) provider is Mailchimp and there privacy policy is available here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
EXTERNAL WEBSITE LINKS & THIRD PARTIES We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website. We cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links.
SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY & USAGE
We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. You may use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page.
DOWNLOADS & MEDIA FILES
Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third party websites.
USE OF COOKIES
Cookies are small pieces of text information sent to your browser when visiting a website. We use cookies to store information about your visit and enhance the functionality of your visit, no personal information or information that could be used to identify individuals is held in these cookies.
Google Analytics Addendum
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files saved on your computer, to help the website analyze how you use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. If this website anonymizes IP addresses, your IP address will be truncated by Google within a EU member state or other EEA state before being transmitted to the US. Only in exceptional situations will your full IP address be transmitted to Google servers in the United States and truncated there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. You can also prevent Google from collecting information (including your IP address) via cookies and processing this information by downloading this browser plugin and installing it: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout You can prevent data collection via Google Analytics by clicking here. An “Opt-out Cookie” shall then be applied to your website which shall prevent any future collection of your data when visiting this website. Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at the Google Analytics Terms of Service or at the Google Analytics Privacy Overview. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics is supplemented by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (IP masking).