Privacy Policy — Steven Vance Photography

Steven Vance Photography Privacy policy

Thank you for visiting the websites of Steven Vance Photography. Your privacy is important and to better protect it, this page explains how our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected on this website.

This Privacy Policy explains Steven Vance Photography’s data practices regarding Personal Data (as defined below) and other information that we collect in connection with:

Contact Form
Information exchanged via social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)

By using this websites you consent to policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, you should not use this website.

Please take the time to read this Privacy Policy as it is important for you to understand how we collect and use your data when you visit Steven Vance Photography’s website. This policy explains how we collect, use and store the personal information you provide to us.

This policy may change from time to time and, if it does, the up-to-date version will always be available on this page. We are proud to give you access to this website and, in return, provide a safe and secure connection while you’re visiting. We will only use personal information for our purposes in a manner permitted by relevant data protection legislation.

If you hear from us, we will always aim to be respectful, relevant and appropriate. If at any time you don't feel we've lived up to our philosophy, please let us know right away.

The Information we collect

Steven Vance Photography primarily collects Personal Data provided to us by individuals when they interact with our products, services, and customer service. There are three main ways we can collect your data:

For example, you may voluntarily provide us with Personal Data when you fill out a form and make contact with Steven Vance Photography.
The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected when you take any of these actions on Steven Vance Photography’s website may vary based on the services offered and may include: your name, address, email address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, services, and other information that you voluntarily submit to us.
Finally, Steven Vance Photography may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Microsoft Windows or Mac OS), the type of viewing device you are using (e.g. phone, tablet, or desktop), and your IP address. The types of automatically collected data collected on our websites through the use of these and other tools that we may add from time to time may include: the search terms you used, new or returning user information, browser information, computer or device type, operating system, internet service provider, website usage, referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, number of clicks, and ads viewed. Please see the “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” section below to learn more about how we use Tracking Technologies. These data points help us provide a better user experience and more relevant content on your dashboard.

How / Why Steven Vance Photography Uses the Information

Steven Vance Photography may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests to provide services and recommendations to have the best experience possible.

We may also use your information for the following purposes:

Availability: To help us make the website and other related content available to you (see the "Will we share your information with anyone else?" section below for more information).
Relevance: To make the website more relevant for you and our other visitors. This includes sometimes requesting personal information from you to help us run and develop our website and associated functions.
Fulfillment: To send you our newsletters if you have signed up to receive them.
Survey: To carry out occasional surveys to analyze our user base — ultimately we want to ensure that we provide everything that you — our audience — is looking for
Connect: To check whether you are eligible for a competition or a giveaway and to contact you if you win.
Legalese: To comply with the law and/or as we feel is necessary to prevent illegal activity or to protect our interests.
Membership: To contact you about your account with us.

We may use the information we collect for the following primary reasons:

Product & Service Fulfillment
Marketing, Promotions & Advertising
Internal Operations
Fraud Prevention, Security & Compliance

MARKETING:

We may display offers, promotions, products or services on our websites which we think will interest you based on the information we collect from your cookies. You may withdraw your consent to direct marketing at any time by managing your cookies.

Where required by the applicable law (for example, if you are an EU Data Subject), we will send you marketing information or notifications only with your consent, which was given at the time you provided us with the Personal Data. In such case, if you do not provide us with your consent to the processing of your Personal Data for this purpose, we will not send you this information.

With your permission, we may also use information you provide to us as a testimonial posted on our websites.

CORRESPONDENCE:

If you correspond with Steven Vance Photography and its companies via e-mail, the postal service, our web forms, or other forms of communication, we may retain the correspondence and the information it contains. We may use the information for business purposes, including responding to your inquiry, notifying you of related opportunities, and other marketing purposes (please read the Marketing section above for more information on our marketing practices and how to opt out or unsubscribe).

URL AND IP ADDRESS:

Steven Vance Photography collects information about users’ IP addresses, including users’ utilization of our website, to help us design our websites to better suit our users’ needs. We may use information about your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our websites, analyze trends, track visitor movements, and gather information that assists us in identifying visitor preferences. We also may use your IP address to enhance our security and investigate an actual or potential security incident.

AGGREGATED DATA:

We may also compile, anonymize and/or aggregate Personal Data and other information collected about Websites’ visitors, as described in this Privacy Policy, and use such anonymized and/or aggregated data for our business purposes, including disclosing such data to our partners, service providers, advertisers and/or other third parties for marketing or promotional purposes. This aggregate information does not identify you.

TRANSACTION INFORMATION:

Steven Vance Photography does not collect any information pertaining to personal financial records and/or other methods of payment on this website at this time. If you have any questions, please fill out the contact form.

Will we share your information with anyone else?

Steven Vance Photography will not share information collected through the website unless permission is given for a referral or to better assist what you are looking for regarding photography services.

We do this in order to:

Personalize your Internet experience. We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience.
Compile website analytics. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services.
Produce more relevant content for you. We may on occasion combine information we receive online with outside records to enhance our ability to present to you those products or services that may be of interest to you. If you have signed up to receive one or more of our newsletters and prefer not to receive marketing information from us, simply click the "unsubscribe" link provided at the bottom of any marketing email you receive from this us.

Additionally, we would share your personal information if, and only if we felt it was reasonably necessary to prevent illegal activity or to protect our interests. Likewise, we may disclose personally identifiable information in response to a legal process (for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena) to comply with the law or with the directions of the courts or other authorities.

Steven Vance Photography will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.

Please read our Terms and Conditions to understand more your options especially as by using our websites and apps, you agree to comply with our Terms and Conditions of use.

Cookies and other tracking technologies

Steven Vance Photography use cookies and other technologies to analyze trends, administer our websites, track users’ movements around our websites, to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole and to collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests, as described below.

When you first visit our website, you will be asked to consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies on the websites in accordance with this Policy, and if you accept we will store cookies and similar technologies on your computer.

It is worth noting that as per outlined in our Terms and Conditions, by using Steven Vance Photography’s website, you consent to the use of cookies. However, as your privacy is important and because you should have control over how your data is collected and used, you may choose at any time to disable all or part of these cookies, with the exception of those which are necessary for the operation of our websites.

Steven Vance Photography may use Google DoubleClick for Publishers to present or serve the advertisements that you may see on Steven Vance Photography Web pages. However, at this time, marketing and advertising tools such as this have not been implemented. This third-party ad server may use cookies, Web beacons, clear .gifs or similar technologies to help present such advertisements, and to help measure and research the advertisements' effectiveness.

Consult Google’s comprehensive page on Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to learn, in plain English, how:

cookies benefit you
to control third-party cookies
to turn cookies off

Steven Vance Photography’s Commitment to Security

We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.

We are committed to taking reasonable efforts to secure the information that you choose to provide us, and we use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect against unauthorized access to or alteration, disclosure, or destruction of Personal Data. We restrict access to Personal Data to our employees, contractors and service providers (described in the “Disclosure of Information” section above) who need to know the information in order to operate, develop, or improve our services.

Unfortunately, no transmission of Personal Data over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, and despite our efforts, Steven Vance Photography cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, or to or from our online products or services. Steven Vance Photography has no responsibility or liability for the security of information transmitted via the Internet. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or the security of your Personal Data, please contact us.

We retain your Personal Data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. We retain Personal Data collected through the Platforms we process on behalf of our Clients for as long as needed to provide services to our Client and pursuant to our contract with that Client.

We are regularly updating our systems with the latest online protection methods, and put in place data privacy protection protocols compliant with the European Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation), aka GDPR.

How you can access or correct information

Access to personally identifiable information that is collected from our sites may be accessible for a limited period of time from the point of collection. For example, if you created a password-protected account within our site, you can access that account to review the information you provided.

You may also send an email or letter to the following email or street address requesting access to or correction of your personally identifiable information. For verification purposes please include your first name, last name, email address and the password you use for said service.

Steven Vance Photography

How to contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about the online privacy statement for this site or its implementation you may contact us via the contact form. In order to proceed with further concerns and affiliation, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we show you this personal information - so we can prevent unauthorized access.

Updates and Effective date

From time to time, we may update this privacy statement. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.

For general information regarding privacy you can visit TRUSTe, BBB Online, or the Federal Trade Commission:

https://www.truste.org/ivalidate.php?url=www.netscape.com
http://www.bbbonline.org/
http://www.ftc.gov/