Privacy Policy

Sarah Plater Photography website Privacy Policy

Thank you for your interest in Sarah Plater Photography.  This Privacy Policy explains how I collect, process and use your data (such as your name, address, email address and/or telephone number) in order to run my business and deliver photographic services.

I will treat your data in the same way that I would wish my own personal information to be treated. This privacy policy explains how I use any personal information I collect from you through this website.

The processing of personal data is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

I have implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. However, internet-based data transmissions are not 100% risk-free, so unfortunately I cannot guarantee absolute protection. For this reason, you are welcome to request data transfer by alternative means if you wish (for example, via telephone).

Name and address of the data controller

Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Sarah Plater

9 Hexham Road, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 1AY, UK.

Website: sarahplater.com

What personal data I (Sarah Plater Photography) collect about you

I (Sarah Plater Photography) may collect the following types of data:

  • Name.
  • Address.
  • Business name (if appropriate, e.g. for commercial shoots).
  • Telephone number.
  • Photographs (if you commission me to carry out a photographic session).
  • Other information with which you may provide me either in email, telephone call or via the contact form on this website.
  • Data regarding how you use my website including your IP address, your browser, length of visit, pages visited, navigational paths, timezone settings and any other automatic technological data.

How I (Sarah Plater Photography) use your data

I may use your data in order to:

  • Enable me to enter into and perform a contract with you.
  • Send client communications relevant to your enquiry or booking with me.
  • Reply to any enquiry you make about my service or products.
  • Monitor the use of my website.
  • Keep records of all orders you have placed.
  • Bring a legal claim against you in the unlikely event of you breaching a contract or failing to make a payment.
  • Obtain professional advice if needed.
  • Comply with any legal obligations.
  • Manage my business effectively.

I may share your personal information with third parties where required by law, where it is necessary for our working relationship, or where I have another legitimate interest in doing so.

Transferring your data outside of the EEA

I may transfer your data to third parties operating or managing the website on my behalf, to third-party payment providers, third-party social media providers, and third-party mailing providers (including Amazon Web Services, Google, Mailchimp, Facebook, Stripe, and Paypal). Those third parties may be located in countries outside of the EU. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this notice.

By using my third-party providers, Mailchimp and Facebook, I transfer the personal information I collect about you to the USA in order to perform my contract with you. Mailchimp and Facebook are registered with the US Privacy Shield. This means that the USA has been deemed by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of protection for your personal information.

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.

Security of your data

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although I will do my best to protect your personal data, I cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to this site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once I have received your information, I will use strict procedures and security features to try to ensure it is not lost or accessed by an unauthorised person.

Retention of data

I (Sarah Plater Photography) only retain your data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. This includes the purpose of retention for legal purposes, such as tax.

Cookies

This site contains cookies (a small text-only file that is placed on your computer by another computer on the internet to enable that computer to know when you are visiting a particular site). They are widely used in order to make sites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to our site owners. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. Please be aware that if you decline to accept cookies, it may prevent you from taking full advantage of this site.

This site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the site and to distinguish which webpages are being used. A cookie does not gives me access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with me. I only use information collected from cookies for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help me to provide you with a better site by enabling me to monitor which webpages you find useful and which you do not. This helps me to provide you with a good experience when you browse my site and also allows me to improve the site.

The cookies used by this site may include:

  • functionality cookies. These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to my site. This enables me to personalise content for you and remember your preferences.
  • strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. 
  • Google Analytics / performance cookies. These allow me to recognise and count the number of visitors, to see how visitors move around my website when they are using it, provide me with information about the type of browser they are using, and whether users have closed pop-up information. This helps me to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Facebook analytics and advertising cookies. These allow me to recognise and count the number of visitors, to see how visitors move around the website when they are using it, and to use targeted adverts on Facebook (and other platforms owned by Facebook, e.g. Instagram).

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.

Your rights under this Privacy Policy

You have certain rights under data protection laws which means you’re entitled to know what personal information I hold about you and how that information is processed. Your rights include the following:

  1. The right to be informed
  2. The right of access
  3. The right to rectification
  4. The right to erasure
  5. The right to restrict processing
  6. The right to data portability
  7. The right to object
  8. Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights please contact me. I will aim to respond to you within 28 days.

If you’re unhappy with how I’ve dealt with your request, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner by calling their helpline: 0303 123 1113 or starting a live chat at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.

Want to know more about this Privacy Policy?

I welcome any queries or enquiries or requests in respect of this privacy policy. You can contact me here or by sending an email to [email protected].

Sarah Plater AMPA is a multi-award-winning qualified, certified professional portrait photographer based in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

She is the Master Photographers Association Newborn Photographer of the Year 2019 and Young Families Photographer of the Year 2022 for the Central Region (covering Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire).