Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains the types of personal data we, McWhirter photography oy, may collect about you whilst you interact with us. We collect and process data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act 2018. We do not disclose data to any third parties unless it is necessary for the fulfilment of service, you have specifically given consent for a particular service, or we have a legitimate interest in disclosing data. Instances in which we do disclose data to third parties are outlined below

Site activity data.

McWhirter photography oy considers Internet user privacy and data protection to be of paramount importance.

McWhirter photography oy website (www.mcwhirterelopements.com) complies with the Data Protection Act 1998 to all processing of personal data supplied to us by users and other personal data in our possession for any reason. It is the policy of McWhirter photography oy to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of any personal information, such as your name, address, email address, or telephone number that you provide to us. Because your privacy is important to us, we maintain this website privacy policy to protect your personal information. By using this site, you consent to the terms of this website's privacy policy. We 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.

Each time you visit our website www.mcwhirterelopements.com the web server collects and logs certain information. We keep these access logs for a reasonable period. These logs include but are not restricted to your computer’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 to access a webpage. We use these logs solely for performance, site administration and security reviews. We do not sell or share this information with any third party.

Personal information.

We collect only personal information about you, such as your name, address, email address, or telephone number that you voluntarily provide to us. For example, we may receive personal information about you when you submit a form on our website or send a en email to us. We may forward the personal information you provide to us to the person or department (internally) equipped to handle your request or respond to your inquiry.

We do not sell any personal information we receive through our website to any third party, nor will we add such information to any bulk email list we may prepare.

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. We use cookies on this website for several 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 to customise the advertising that you see on the site. 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, for example, and Firefox, but the same result is possible in just about any browser. We do not share or sell information we may learn about you through our use of cookies to any third party or for any purpose.

Contact forms.

When using our contact form we collect the following information which is directly provided by the user, their name, email address and the message itself. A contact number is an optional field. The information provided is only used to reply or for direct contact with the user. This information is never used by third-party services or sold.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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.

Who on McWhirter photography oy has access.

As in McWhirter photography oy, the owner Lisa McWhirter has the access to your data.

Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.

What we share with others.

We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you;

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.

Payments.

We accept payments through Stripe. When processing 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.

Please see the Stripe Privacy Policy for more details.

Bookings.

For each online booking process on this website, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password.

Policy Revisions

Any changes to this website's privacy policy 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.

GDBR.

The Client's information is stored in the information directly received from the Clients (names, contact information, ordered services). The information is not used for direct marketing. The information will be treated confidentially and stored appropriately protected. The person in the register has the right to verify the data stored in the register. Keeping the register info ends two years after the wedding day unless the customer relationship continues. Eu-wide data protection regulation GDPR entered into force on 25 May 2018.

Contacting us.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact me via the email address lisa@mcwhirterelopements.com