WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

The policy: This privacy policy is for this website – www.stewalkerphotography.com – and governs the privacy of its visitors. It explains how we comply with the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) legislation and the DPA (Data Protection Act). This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR and DPA are adhered to.

THE DPA & GDPR MAY 2018

This website belonging to Stephen Walker of Stephen Walker Photography complies with the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), effective from 25th May 2018.

CONTACTING US

This website, www.stewalkerphotography.com collects private user data using the following contact form – www.stewalkerphotography.com/contact/- which generates emails sent to ste@stewalkerphotography.co.uk. The data from these forms is emailed to the address listed above and also stored on the website server, in most cases dating back to when each form was created. The website server is accessible by the website administrators for www.stewalkerphotography.com at Grizzly Bear Design (www.grizzlybeardesign.co.uk). Grizzy Bear Design never accesses or shares this data other than by request from Stephen Walker.
By completing this contact form you agree to Stephen Walker contacting you about Stephen Walker Photography’s photography services. Your contact information will be recorded and retained in a customer management system (CMS) and kept securely online in accordance with their privacy policy. You will not be added to any mailing lists and will only be contacted by Stephen Walker personally in relation to your enquiry. Your personal details will not be used for any marketing purposes nor will they be passed onto any third parties. They will be stored in the email generated by this contact form which will be filed in the email account for Anna Hardy Photography which is hosted by Gmail and which can only be accessed by Stephen Walker. If you wish to request for any email(s) containing your personal information to be deleted, please email ste@stewalkerphotography.co.uk.

CLIENT GALLERIES

Stephen Walker Photography creates a client gallery for each client to whom photos are delivered as part of the services contracted. Stephen Walker Photography’s client galleries are externally hosted by Shootproof. Their privacy policy can be found here. To visit an Stephen Walker Photography client gallery you will be required to enter your email address. This personal data (email address) will be stored within Shootproof’s database on their servers and will be used to email you only with information relevant to the client gallery you have accessed.

Only Stephen Walker will have access to your personal data (email address) stored on Shootproof’s system on behalf of Stephen Walker Photography. It will only be used as detailed above, will not be used for any other marketing purposes and will not be passed onto any third parties. Shootproof’s technical support team will have the means to access to your personal data (email address) but will never access or share this data other than by request from Stephen Walker. If you wish to request for your personal data (email address) to be deleted from Shootproof’s servers, please email support@shootproof.com

EXTERNAL WEBSITE LINKS & THIRD PARTIES

Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note that they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

CLIENT DATA HELD ON FILE

We take care over the processes around looking after personal data stored on our physical systems. Stephen Walker Photography holds the following personal data of clients:

i) Names
ii) Addresses (including email addresses)
iii) Phone numbers

All client data collected or given to Stephen Walker Photography is safely stored within my password protected home office iMac and MacBook Pro and backed up to encrypted and password protected external hard drives. Client photos are safely stored within my password protected home office iMac and MacBook Pro and backed up to encrypted and password protected external hard drives. Occasionally I will send files to clients via WeTrasner of www.wetransfer.com and files will be help by them for a maximum of 7 days to allow for the client to download their images. The privacy policy for WE Transfer can be found here. Shoots that take place under the Pre Wedding and Wedding shoots will occasionally be turned into slideshows that are created and stored via Pixellu. These slide shows will be available for viewers to download and you can read more about that and their privacy policy here.

These slideshows may also be downloaded by Stephen Walker Photography and shared on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. The slideshows will be stored within my password protected home office iMac and MacBook Pro and backed up to encrypted and password protected external hard drives. As Facebook and Instagram will hold images that Stephen Walker Photogrpahy and Stephen Walker may share I must advise you to read their privacy policies here for Facebook and here for Instagram.

CLIENTS CAPTURED IN PHOTOS

Under GDPR legislation, a photograph may in some instances constitute a form of personal data where they can be processed to allow “the unique identification or authentication of a natural person”. Stephen Walker Photography will never photograph an individual as a means of unique identification or authentication unless consensually contracted to do so. Guests/attendees at events appear in photos taken by Stephen Walker Photography as a part of the visual recording of the event in photos. Guests/attendees captured in photographs or in group photos do so as part of the event and their rights are protected by Stephen Walker Photography as detailed in this privacy policy.

In terms of explicit GDPR compliance, clients and guests/attendees are photographed within the parameters of GDPR legislation on the basis of ‘legitimate interests’. The taking of photographs of guests/attendees when viewed as a form of processing personal data is necessary for the legitimate interests of Stephen Walker Photography as a photography business unless there is a good reason to protect a given individual’s personal data which overrides those legitimate interests.

Operating within the parameters of legitimate interests as laid out in GDPR legislation, the disproportionate effort involved in providing privacy policy information to all event guests at the event and the degree to which it would distract us from performing our job renders it infeasible to do. Clients are therefore requested to direct their guests/attendees to read this privacy policy in advance of the event and to advise them to contact us in advance with any concerns around the processing of their personal data, namely being photographed.

SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY & USAGE

We adopt a safe and responsible social media policy. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms, users are advised to verify the authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with, such profiles. We will never ask for personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.

DISPLAY OF IMAGES

We may display any photographs to promote Stephen Walker Photography on the Stephen Walker Photography website and blog, on social media, on 3rd party blogs, on photography related websites, in exhibitions, in advertising, brochures, magazine articles and other such material, providing that the images used are used lawfully and without damage to Stephen Walker Photography’s client(s). The rights of the people captured in these photographs are protected by Stephen Walker Photography as detailed in this privacy policy.