PRIVACY POLICY
At Thor's Eye your privacy and security of your personal date is extremely important to me. This policy sets out my privacy practices and explains how I hold and use the information that I collect when you visit and use my website, online galleries, services, products and content.
Site Activity Data
This privacy policy explains the types of personal date I, Thor's Eye Photography, may collect about you whilst you interact with my website. I collect and process data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act 2018. I do not disclose data to any third parties unless it is necessary for the fulfilment of a service, or you have specifically given consent for a particular service.
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Thor's Eye Photography website complies with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to all processing of personal data supplied to me by users and other personal data in my possession for any reason. It is the policy of Thor's Eye Photography to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of any personal information such as your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number that you provide to me. Because you privacy is important to me, I maintain this website privacy policy to protect your personal information. By using this site, you consent to the terms of this website privacy policy. I do not collect, use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than those identified below, except with your consent or as required by law.
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Each time you visit my website www.thorseyephotography.com the web server collects and logs certain information. I keep these access logs for a reasonable period of time. These logs include, but are not restricted to: your device's TCP/IP address, your username (if applicable), date, time and files accessed. These logs also contain information about referrer information if you clicked on an external link in order to access a webpage. I use these logs solely for performance, site administration and security reviews. I do not sell or share this information with any third party.
Personal Information
I collect only personal information about you, such as your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number that you voluntarily provide to me. For example, I may receive personal information about you when you fill in my enquiry form or send me an e-mail through my website. I will not forward the personal information that you provide me to any third parties.
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I do not sell any personal information I receive through my website to any third party, nor will I add such information to any bulk e-mail list I may prepare.
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Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Cookies
A "cookie" is a block of text placed in a file on your hard drive by a website you've visited. Portions of the website may use cookies for security and authentication purposes.
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I use cookies on this website for a number of reasons, including but not limited to tracking the number of people who read each article (via google Analytics), and serving advertisements. Our use of Google Analytics includes the service's Advertising Features in order to customise the advertising that you see on the site.
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If you do not wish to have cookies stored in your browser, you may instruct your web browser to reject them. Here are instructions for doing so in Google Chrome and Firefox, but the same result is possible in just about any browser.
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I do not share or sell information that I may learn about you through the my use of cookies to any third part or for any purpose.
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If you leave a comment on my 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.
Contact Forms
When using my contact form I collect the following information which is directly provided by the user, their name, e-mail address, telephone number. The information is only used to reply or for direct contact with the user. This information is never passed onto any third party services or sold.
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on this site may included embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitors had visited the other website.
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These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website.
How Long I Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
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For users that register on my website (if any), I also store the personal data they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Google Analytics (Google Inc.)
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of this application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
You can request at any time that I erase any personal data I hold about you. This does not include any data that I am obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Third Party Links
My website may contain links to other websites provided by third parties not under my control. When following a link and providing information to a third party website, please be aware that I am not responsible for the data provided to that third party. This privacy policy only applies to the website listed at the beginning of this document, so when you visit other websites, even when you clicked on a link posted on www.thorseyephotography.com, you should read their own privacy policies.
Online Store
The online store featured on Thor's Eye Photography is powered through Wix and during your visit the following information is captured;
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While you visit our site, we'll track;
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Products you've viewed: we'll use this to, for example, show you products, you've recently viewed.
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Location, IP address and browser type: we'll use this information for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping.
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Shipping address; we'll ask you to enter this so we can: for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order.
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We'll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you're browsing our site.
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When you purchase from us, we'll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We'll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
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Send you information about your account and order.
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Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints.
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Process payments and prevent fraud.
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Set up your account for our store.
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Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes.
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Improve our store offerings.
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Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them.
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If you create an account, we will store your name, address, e-mail and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
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We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to keep it. For example, we will store order information for five years for tac and accounting purposes, This includes your name, e-mail address and billing and shipping addresses.
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We will also store comments and reviews if you choose to leave them.
Payments
We accept payments through Wix Payments and Stripe. When processing your payments, some of your data will be passed to Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
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Please see the Stripe Privacy Policy for more details.
Policy Revisions
Any changes to this website will be promptly communicated on this website. Any such change will be prospective only and will not affect how we handle personal information submitted to us before the change occurs.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact me via the e-mail address below or using the contact form.
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