PRIVACY POLICY

At Maurizio Cecchini Photography I take your privacy and the handling of your data very seriously.

I have created this Privacy Policy to make sure Maurizio Cecchini Photography is compliant with the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) to be able to reassure you as a client or potential client that safeguarding your privacy is extremely important to me.

 

I MAY COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA VIA YOUR USE OF MY:

• Website

•  Contact Form

• Newsletter signup for

• Comment function on website blog

• Booking form and questionaires

• Direct enquiries via email client, social media channels and telephone calls

• Payment and invoicing systems

 

WHAT DATA DO I COLLECT AND HOW DO I USE IT?

Maurizio Cecchini is the data controller, and I collect your info, store and delete it when it’s no longer needed. If you would like to hire me or enquire about hiring me I will need to be able to contact you to find out what you need, decide if I can do it for you and then actually provide it. For that I’ll need:

• your name (so I know who you are)

• your email address (so I can email you to find out what you need and ask you any questions I may have about your event or shoot)

• your phone number (so I can call you if we need to talk something through or if I need to contact you on the day of your event)

• your address (so I can invoice you, and send you prints or a USB stick containing your images to you in the post)

After I’ve provided you with great photography and you’ve received your images I may contact you again with a relevant offer on services or a newsletter. If at any time you want me to stop contact just let me know.

 

HOW DO I STORE YOUR DATA?

As well as storing your details in my password protected email inbox I use a client management system to keep things organised. All contracts and invoices are stored in this system. Your completed images and the information I ask for about your event in a day in detail form and this is stored on my password-protected external harddrives. No one can access it. Your complete gallery is also stored in a password protected online gallery with a company called Pixieset. They have no access to your data and are GDPR compliant.

 

WHY AND HOW DO I SHARE IMAGES?

When deciding on a photographer it’s important look at examples of past work so you know they are up to the job. For me to continue to attract new clients and grow my business I may want to share some of the images I take for you in the ways below. As per our contract, I own the copyright for the images I take of your event. However, you’re my client and your happiness is more important to me than a blog post so if you don’t want any images of your event shared in one or more of the following ways, just let me know and I will keep them private. If you have any questions at all on this please do get in touch with me

I may share images:

• on my website in a gallery or blog post

• on a third party blog (you would be contacted before this happened)

• on my social media channels (facebook, instagram, twitter, linkedin)

• in marketing materials (brochures, banners or private online galleries I may share with prospective clients)

 

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to ask for confirmation, access, rectification and erasure of your data at any time. Just let me know.

 

ABOUT COOKIES

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Cookies that we use
We use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services. 

Cookies used by our service providers
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. 

Managing cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website. 

 

IN A NUTSHELL

I only collect and store the data necessary or beneficial for me to carry out the job you have employed me to do and if at any point in our working relationship you have concerns over that data just get in touch and I’m happy to take whatever steps necessary to put you at ease.