GDPR Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to me
At William Bazlinton Photography we have a few fundamental principles that we follow: We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our services, or protect our rights. We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of William Bazlinton Photography’s website visitors.
Who We Are:
Our website address is: https://williambazlintonphotography.co.uk. We can be contacted via email at: will@williambazlintonphotography.co.uk. We can be contacted via post at the address below. This website is owned and operated by William Bazlinton Photography. Our registered office is at: Flat 3, 35 Windsor Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom, BH5 1DT.
What personal data we collect & why we collect it:
This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of William Bazlinton Photography’s website visitors and customers. We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of William Bazlinton Photography’s website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website. For further information, see the section ‘Cookies’ below.
Website Visitors:
Like most website operators, William Bazlinton Photography collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. William Bazlinton Photography’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how William Bazlinton Photography’s visitors use its website. From time to time, William Bazlinton Photography may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. William Bazlinton Photography also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. William Bazlinton Photography only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information:
Certain visitors to William Bazlinton Photography’s website choose to interact with William Bazlinton Photography in ways that require William Bazlinton Photography to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that William Bazlinton Photography gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive William Bazlinton Photography updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, William Bazlinton Photography collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with William Bazlinton Photography. William Bazlinton Photography does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics:
William Bazlinton Photography collects information about visitors who comment on blog posts using our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect typically includes the commenter's IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself). William Bazlinton Photography may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, William Bazlinton Photography may monitor the most popular pages on William Bazlinton Photography via Google Analytics or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. William Bazlinton Photography may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, William Bazlinton Photography does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information:
William Bazlinton Photography discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on William Bazlinton Photography’s behalf or to provide services available at William Bazlinton Photography’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using William Bazlinton Photography’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. William Bazlinton Photography will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, William Bazlinton Photography discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when William Bazlinton Photography believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of William Bazlinton Photography, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of William Bazlinton Photography and have supplied your email address and have opted in to receive such information, William Bazlinton Photography may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with William Bazlinton Photography and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. William Bazlinton Photography takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Business Transfers:
If William Bazlinton Photography, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that William Bazlinton Photography goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of William Bazlinton Photography may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads:
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by William Bazlinton Photography and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments:
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your e-mail address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies:
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. William Bazlinton Photography uses cookies to help William Bazlinton Photography identify and track visitors, their usage William Bazlinton Photography’s website, and their website access preferences. William Bazlinton Photography visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using William Bazlinton Photography’s website, with the drawback that certain features of William Bazlinton Photography website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, e-mail 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, 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.
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. We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy
How long we retain your data:
We keep contact form entries for six months and analytics records for a year. We do not use the information submitted through contact forms for marketing purposes. 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.
Where we send your data:
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
What rights you have over your data:
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.
Privacy Policy Changes:
Although most changes are likely to be minor, William Bazlinton Photography may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in William Bazlinton Photography’s sole discretion. William Bazlinton Photography encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Caching:
This site utilises caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.
Anti-Spam:
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter's IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
YouTube:
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. If you're logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behaviour directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
Vimeo:
Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behaviour directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.
Google Web Fonts:
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer. Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
SoundCloud:
On our pages, plugins of the SoundCloud social network (SoundCloud Limited, Berners House, 47-48 Berners Street, London W1T 3NF, UK) may be integrated. The SoundCloud plugins can be recognized by the SoundCloud logo on our site. When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the SoundCloud server is established via the plugin. This enables SoundCloud to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the “Like” or “Share” buttons while you are logged into your SoundCloud account, you can link the content of our pages to your SoundCloud profile. This means that SoundCloud can associate visits to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by SoundCloud. For more information on SoundCloud’s privacy policy, please go to https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.If you do not want SoundCloud to associate your visit to our site with your SoundCloud account, please log out of your SoundCloud account. If you have any questions or concerns about your data handling, privacy, or anything else to do with the website, please contact me: will@williambazlintonphotography.co.uk