Effective Date: [current_date]
Our website address is: https://cswphotography.com.
At Carline Schmitz Williams Photography, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This privacy policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your data when you visit our portfolio website.
1. Information We Collect:
Personal Information: We may collect personal information such as your name, email address, and phone number when you voluntarily provide it, for purposes like inquiries and communication.
Usage Data: We may collect non-personal data, including your IP address, browser type, and device information, to analyze how you interact with our website.
2. How We Use Your Information:
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you.
To improve our website and services based on usage data.
3. Data Sharing:
We do not sell or share your personal information with third parties without your explicit consent. However, we may share non-personal data for analytical purposes.
4. Cookies and Tracking:
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your website experience. You can adjust your browser settings to manage or disable cookies.
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 visit our login page, 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.
5. Security:
We employ security measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, disclosure, and misuse. However, no online transmission or storage is 100% secure.
6. Third-Party Links:
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these external sites.
7. Your Choices:
You can contact us to review, update, or delete your personal information. You can also unsubscribe from our communications at any time.
8. Updates to this Policy:
We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will post any updates on our website.
9. Contact Us:
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us at [Insert Contact Information].
By using our website, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy.
Comments
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 email 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.
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.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize 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.
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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.