1. Introduction

1.1  This is the Privacy and Cookies Policy for www.agaphotographer.com, operated by Aga Photographer Ltd. and registered at 6 Baker Grove, MK17 8WS, Milton Keynes, UK. Like most website operators, agaphotographer.com, collects personally and non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, the date and time of each visitor request and a variation of device and demographic information available.

1.2    We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.

1.3    We may process data about your use of our website. The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency, and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.

1.4    We may process information that you post for publication on our website or through our services such as our Facebook page. The publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such publication and administering our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.

1.5    We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding our services. The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing, and selling relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for this processing is your consent by submitting an enquiry form or contacting us via our social media channels. The legal basis for this processing is consent.

1.6    We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us. The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business and communications with users.

1.7    We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights, and the legal rights of others.

2. Providing your personal data to others

2.1    We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

2.2    We may disclose your personal data to our website management company insofar as reasonably necessary for providing the maintenance and servicing of our website and any incoming enquiries.

3. Retaining and deleting personal data

3.1    This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.

3.2    Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

3.3    The personal information will be deleted as soon as the purpose of storage ceases.

4. Security of personal data

4.1    We will take appropriate technical and organisational precautions to secure your personal data and to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal data.

4.2    We will store all your personal data on secure servers, personal computers, and mobile devices, and in secure manual record-keeping systems.

4.3    Data relating to your enquiries that is sent from your web browser to our web server, or from our web server to your web browser, will be protected using encryption technology.

4.4    You acknowledge that the transmission of unencrypted (or inadequately encrypted) data over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

4.5 Images taken by Aga Photographer Ltd may. Be stored for 7 years. Occasionally, images may be stored indefinitely, if needed to prove copyright of if shot for portfolio purposes.

4.6 We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or to prevent fraud or cybercrime, protect the Site or the rights, property, or personal safety of any person.

5. About cookies

5.1    A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

5.2    Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

5.3    Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.