Privacy policy and Data usage
We care deeply about privacy and we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users.
This policy applies where we, Mariella Amitai Photography are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors and service users; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
For any changes to your consent to your data usage please get in touch at mariella@mariellaamitai.com
How we use your personal data
We may process data about your use of our website and services (“usage data“). 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]. We use third party applications such as Google analytics to analyze these datas. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. These datas are kept by google only and are not used for advertising purposes.
We may process your personal data that are provided in the course of the use of our services (“service data“). The service data may include name, email address, phone number. The service data may be processed and stored in our system with the purpose of keeping track of communication in relations to services offered by myself and purchased by you, the client.
We may process information that you post for publication on our website (such as comments on blog posts) or through our services (“publication data“). The publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such publication and administering our website and services.
We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services (“enquiry data“). 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 consent or the necessity for us to deliver a service to you (such as provide you with a quote for our services).
We may process information relating to our customer relationships, including customer contact information (“customer relationship data“). The customer relationship data may include your name, your job title or role, your contact details, and information contained in communications between us and you or your employer. The customer relationship data may be processed for the purposes of managing our relationships with customers, communicating with customers, keeping records of those communications and promoting our products and services to customers.
We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (“notification data“). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters.
We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us (“correspondence data“). 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.
We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining professional advice.
- Providing your personal data to others
When you submit an inquiry on our website through our contact form, this data is handled also by a third party booking and ordering system called Tave’. (www.tave.com) . Tave allows us to turn your inquiries into leads and eventually into booked orders. To know more about Tave privacy policy please refer to this document .
Financial transactions relating to our website and services are handled by our payment services providers (in our case stripe.com). We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers’ privacy policies and practices at www.stripe.com.
Your data resulting from the navigation on our website might be shared with third social media parties such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest.
- International transfers of your personal data
You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
- Retaining and deleting personal data
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.
We will retain your personal data as follows:
Information you share with us via our contact form will be retained with the purpose to create a database of clients and or for email marketing purposes ad won’t be shared with third parties unless circumstance specified in section 3. You are free to let us know at any time wether you want us to erase your data from our system.
Mailing list
We use a third party application called Mailchimp to send our quarterly newsletter. We use mail chimp via a wordpress plug in called Mailchimp for wordpress. Mailchimp stores the information you give to subscribe to our newsletter (name, email address on their own servers and their are not shared.
Please also note that the data transmission on our website is encrypted using the https protocol which gives an extra security step to the data that pass through the website.
If you want to opt out from our mailing list you can do it any time by emailing us at mariella@mariellaamitai.com or through your latest received newsletter.
- Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
- Your rights
you have right to access your data anytime, you can ask us to erase your data from our systems and third party application, you can object us handling or processing your data, and you have right to withdraw consent for data usage. You can do so by sending an email to mariella@mariellaamitai.com
Cookies Policy
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
- Email newsletters related cookiesThis site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- Forms related cookiesWhen you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
- From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
- As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
- We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated with your site?:12}, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
- Email: mariella@mariellaamitai.com
