I am 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 so I know your name and I can email you back. 

I may collect and process information you provide by completing forms on my website and information you supply in email correspondence.

I may collect the following information:

• Name
• Email address
• Mobile number
• Your home address (This is so I can post your photographs to you after the wedding)
• The address where you’re getting ready at on the morning of the wedding.
• Names of key family members (I use this for group photos)

If you go ahead and book me to photograph your wedding, event or elopement, this data is also added to my booking folder.

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.

The GDPR includes the following rights for individuals:

• The right to be informed
• The right of access 
• A 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 3 months)
• Right to restrict processing
• The right to data portability
• A right to object
• The right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling. 
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With GDPR, everyone has the right to Erasure.

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.

If you would like to access the data I have on you, you can request this in writing via email.

The GDPR definition of consent is: “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 a service. 

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. 

When it comes to other guests e.g. evening reception guests, I work on the basis of ‘assumed consent’ for documentary coverage. If guests 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 do not, I will take this as ‘express consent’.  With GDPR, consent can be withdrawn later without reason. Anyone wishing this just needs to get in touch and let me know.

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 of them.

If any of your guests contact me and request that their photo is removed, I will remove the whole photo. I feel adding a blur effect or putting a black box over their face may deter from the overall aesthetic.

Clients may have noticed I have not sent out any emails requesting permission to keep emailing them. This is because I do not have an email list.

I will only email you in relation to an enquiry, or a question you have asked me or for other important reasons relating to your enquiry or wedding booking.

I periodically do check that any links do work properly, but I don’t check them for malware.

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.

I keep up to date with changes in legislation, and I amm working on ensuring that I’m fully GDPR compliant.

On the Information Commissioner’s Office website, they explain that the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are currently a working document and therefore subject to change, so I commit to doing my best to keep up, but if they  make changes just before the wedding season, I will not be able to change my GDPR policy until October.