MY COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
I’m committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. I’ll ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when you complete my contact form. This is only really so I know your name and can email you back. I ask for your phone number too, so that I can text you to let you know the email from me is likely hiding in the junk or spam mail folder. I will not to sell it for cold hard cash if you decide not to book me.

WHAT INFORMATION I HOLD
I may collect and process information you supply in email correspondence. I may collect the following information:
- name
- email address
- mobile number
- your home address (this is for the contract)
- the address where you’re getting ready at on the morning of the wedding.
- whether you’re having flying saucers on your sweet cart or not.
- names of key family members (I use this for group photos)
- whether your dog will be attending and details of his / her outfit

WHAT I DO WITH THIS INFORMATION
If you go ahead and book me to photograph your awesome wedding or elopement, this data is also added to a studio management software called Studio Ninja.

Studio Ninja is an Australian company, so the data that I collect from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. I will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

PRIVACY & INDIVIDUALS RIGHTS
The UK GDPR provides the following rights for individuals:
- The right to be informed
- The right of access
- The right to rectification
- The right to erasure (If you ask me to delete every copy of your wedding photos, I will need to receive this request from both parties and there’s a cooling off period of three months)
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to object
- Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

LAWFUL PROCESSING OF DATA
I only process data in relation to enquiries and booking conversations with clients. The processes and systems I have in place are designed with your privacy in mind.

ACCESS REQUESTS
If you would like to access the data I have on you, you can request this in writing via email, or pop into the studio at a pre-agreed time. I won’t charge you for it, even though I print everything out on a luxurious and surprisingly tactile 120 gsm paper.

CONSENT
GDPR definition: “any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her”.

When you book me to photograph your wedding, you’ll receive a few emails between the booking date and the wedding date. The purpose of these emails is to gather information to help me provide you with the best service. One of these emails will be about consent, and this will give you the opportunity to select how your photos are used by me after the wedding date.

CONSENT & GUEST PHOTOS
Throughout the wedding day, I will aim to get photos of all of your guests. During the main family and friends photos, I will work on the assumption that everyone is happy for me to photograph them. I verbally seek permission of the parents/guardians of any children I’m photographing on the wedding day about photo use.

When it comes to other guests, for example, evening reception guests, I work on the basis of ‘assumed consent’ for documentary coverage. I will verbally ask for consent from the people I intend to photograph in any organised or posed photograph. If they decline, I will take steps to omit them from the backgrounds of other photos where possible. As a result, you may notice one or two people missing from the final photo selection. If they say yes, I will take this as ‘express consent’. Even if the guest in question just downed a load of shots and is blatantly drunk. With GDPR, consent can be withdrawn later without reason. So, if a guest recovers from a hangover and remembers they pulled a sickie at work to attend your wedding day, then they can rest assured I will not post a photo on Facebook of them throwing shapes on the dance floor with their tie around their head. They just need to get in touch and let me know.

PHOTO REMOVAL
You and your guests do have a right NOT to be featured on my website. I will work on the assumption that your guests are ok with me featuring photos. If any of your guests contact me and request that their photo is removed, I will remove the photo.

PROMOTIONAL EMAILS & MAILING LISTS 
I do not have a mailing list so I do not send out any emails requesting permission to keep emailing. I will only email you in relation to an enquiry, or a question you have asked me.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
If you decide to stop looking at the collection of photos that I have selected for your viewing pleasure and head off to another site via a link, I cannot be held responsible for either any disappointment in how the photography over there compares to my own or that website breaking your computer. I periodically do check that any links do work properly, but I don’t check them for malware.

SECURITY
Precautions are taken on my website to ensure it is as secure as possible. This reduces the chance of data being robbed via hacking or malware. I delete old emails and mobile numbers when everything has been delivered and we’ve not been in touch for 12 months or longer. If you do text me out of the blue, please keep this in mind. Remember to mention who you are along with your wedding date.

GDPR COMPLIANCE
I keep up to date with changes in legislation, and I’m working on ensuring that I’m fully GDPR compliant. The Information Commissioner’s Office explains that the new GDPR is currently a working document and therefore subject to change, so I commit to doing my best to keep up.