Your privacy is very important to us. Therefore, Photo Oxfordshire has developed this policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and make use of personal information.
When accessing the http://photooxfordshire.com website, we will gather certain information about you.
Cookies
As per other commercial websites, our website utilises ‘cookies’ which analyses how customers use our site. These cookies are a text file that is placed on your computer and collects standard log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. This information is anonymous and includes date and time of visits, time spent on our site and IP address.
What cookies do we use?
Google Analytics / Facebook Pixel / performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors, to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it, provides us with information about the type of browser they are using, device and remembers if users have closed our pop-up information. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
We use this information to improve our website offering to yourself by compiling statistical reports of traffic. We will not associate any data gathered in this method with any personally identifying information from any source. And we cannot access the cookies that have been set by other sites.
You can change your browser settings in order to restrict cookie usage within your browser.
Email Information
If you correspond with us via email then we may retain the content of your email message together with your email address and our responses. We do not sell or give away to other companies any of the information supplied to us via email. Your data is kept safely within our database.
We will maintain any information supplied to us via email in compliance with UK law and the data protection act.
How Do We Use Your Information?
Photo Oxfordshire uses an externally hosted third party to manage and administer your account.
We use the information that you supply us in order to provide you with the best customer service and in the process of administering our business activities. By signing up to our mailing list we will make you aware of other items and services that we offer to our customers.
Photo Oxfordshire will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site unless you choose to provide such information to us. We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so. Either if the law requires it or for our own legal protection.
Where we store and transfer your data
As part of the services offered to you, for example through our Website, the information you provide to us may be transferred to and stored in countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) as we use remote website server hosts to provide the website and some aspects of our service, which may be based outside of the EEA, or use servers based outside of the EEA – this is generally the nature of data stored in the Cloud. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for one of our suppliers, e.g. our website server host, or work for us when temporarily outside of the EEA. A transfer of your personal data may happen if any of our servers are located in a country outside of the EEA or one of our service providers is located in a country outside of the EEA. If we transfer or store your personal data outside the EEA in this way, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected, as outlined in this privacy policy and in accordance with the DPA and GDPR. If you use our service while you are outside the EEA, your personal data may be transferred outside the EEA in order to provide you with these services. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal data, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Security
The transmission of information via the Internet or email is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of data while you are transmitting it to our site; any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so that you can access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You should choose a password it is not easy for someone to guess.