Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy & Use of Cookies

Richard Fox Photography’s privacy policy provides guidance regarding the collection and use of personal or corporate information that you provide.

Richard Fox Photography is committed to the principles of the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) introduced in May 2018, which require personal data must be obtained, processed and protected fairly and lawfully.

Information we may collect

This site may collect information such as your IP address, your computers operating system, your browser type and the path you take through our website. We will not disclose personal information to third-party service providers or share or sell personal information to others. When you complete and submit your details via our contact form (for example, name, telephone number and email) data is delivered securely through SSL via this website to the domain’s email system.

When you place an order through this website (For example, purchase a print  the site we collect the necessary financial information to fulfill, confirm and deliver your order. However, all online transactions are made securely via payment platform PayPal. Please read their Privacy Policy prior to placing orders via this site.

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions

More about our Cookies

Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Making our shopping basket and checkout work
  • Remembering your search settings
  • Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
  • Allowing you to add comments to our site

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video.

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

Below is a list of cookies used on my website by category, along with a brief overview of their function

 

Strictly Necessary Cookies: The ‘DYNSRV’ cookie is added by our load balancer to track which web server to send you to. The purpose of this cookie is to improve the performance of the site. The ‘Paypal’ cookies are required to complete transactions/orders via the website.

Preference Cookies: The ‘accept_cookie’ cookie simply stores ‘hide_cookie_alert’ when you accept our cookie notice. 

Benign Cookies: Any cookies beginning with ‘exp_’. These cookies are set by our content management system and contain data such as the last time you visited my website and previous pages of my website that you have viewed. The site does not store or utilise this information in any way. ‘exp_csrf_token’ is a unique and random sequence of numbers and letters which protects any forms on our website from spam.

Performance Cookies: Various third party cookies for Google Analytics. 

 

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.

Links

This website contains links to partners, clients, and other sites of interest to our users. Richard Fox Photography does not control the privacy practices of these other sites. You should make sure that you know when you have left our website and, if the website you visit collects personal information, that you have read that site’s privacy policy.

Privacy Complaints

If you have any questions regarding this policy, believe that Richard Fox Photography has not complied with the provisions of this privacy policy or you wish to remove your personal data from our records, please contact us.

Richard Fox Photography reserves the right to modify the provisions of this privacy policy. The new provisions will be effective as soon as they are posted. Please check this page periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes.