This Privacy Policy describes how Bethany West Photography, LLC (“we” or “us”) collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you use our website www.bethanywestphotography.com and any of our subdomains (the “Website”).
Personal information we collect
How we use your personal information
How we share your personal information
How we store your data
Email marketing
Behavioral advertising
Your data collection rights
Third party websites
Changes
Contact us
When you visit the Website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Website, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Website, and information about how you interact with the Website. We refer to this automatically collected information as “Device Information.”
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- Cookies: Data files placed on your device or computer, often including an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
- Log Files: Track actions occurring on the Website, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- Web Beacons, Tags, and Pixels: Electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Website.
We use Device Information for:
- Functionality: To recognize you on our website and recognize your previously selected preferences, including your preferred language and location.
- Advertising: To collect information about your visit, the content you viewed, the links you followed, and information about your web browser, device, and IP address. We share limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the website above tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. Please note that some features of the Website may not function if you disable cookies.
We also collect data you provide to us directly. We refer to the data you provide as “Provided Information.” We collect and process data you provide when you:
- Register online or place an order for any of our products or services.
- Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback via our contact form or email.
- Provide your email address in exchange for access to a free resource.
- Sign up for our email newsletter or subscribe to regular content.
The Provided Information we collect may include:
- Personal identification information (name, email address, phone number, etc.)
- Billing information (billing address, shipping address, payment information, including credit card numbers, etc.)
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are referring to both Device Information and Provided Information.
We use the Provided Information to fulfill any orders placed through the Website (including processing your payment information, delivering products, and providing invoices or order confirmations). Additionally, we use Provided Information to:
- Communicate with you.
- Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud.
- Provide you with information or advertising related to our products or services based on your preferences.
We use Device Information to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and to improve and optimize our Website. We also use Device Information to assess the success of our marketing campaigns and track affiliate referrals for commission purposes.
Pixieset (CRM and client galleries)
MailerLite (Email marketing)
Meta (Facebook and Instagram ads)
Stripe (Payment processing)
Showit (Contact form submission backup)
Please visit their individual websites for information on the physical location of their servers where your information is stored.
We use commercially reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of any information stored on our servers. However, no data transmission on the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
We will retain your Personal Information indefinitely unless you request its deletion.
By signing up for email marketing, you agree to receive occasional emails from us regarding promotions, updates, and other business-related communications. You are responsible for ensuring our email address is not blocked or forwarded to your spam folder.
You can unsubscribe from our emails at any time by following the unsubscribe link in the email.
We use commercially reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of any information stored on our servers. However, no data transmission on the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
We will retain your Personal Information indefinitely unless you request its deletion.
We use your Personal Information to provide targeted advertisements or marketing communications that may be of interest to you. You can opt out of targeted advertising through the following platforms:
Meta (Facebook and Instagram): https://accountscenter.facebook.com/ads
Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
You can also opt-out of targeted advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at http://optout.aboutads.info/.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the right to access, correct, update, or delete your Personal Information. You may also have the right to restrict or object to our processing of your data and to request that we transfer your Personal Information to another organization.
If you are a European resident, please note that your information may be transferred outside of Europe, including to the United States.
Our Privacy Policy applies only to our Website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or policies of third-party websites that may be linked to from our Website. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of other websites.
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices or for operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Any updates will take effect immediately upon publication on our Website.
If you have any complaints about how we use your Personal Information, please contact us. Residents of the European Union also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection regulator.
For more information about our privacy practices, or if you would like to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us at: Bethanywestphotography@gmail.com