PRIVACY POLICY
Updated 25 May 2018
About Us
Photos by Yvonne (“we,” “us,”) is a media, membership, and Professional Photographer. Photos by Yvonne is located on the web at photosbyyvonne.net, weddingphotosbyyvonne.com, and boudiorphotosbyyvonne.com This privacy policy provides details about how your personal information is collected, shared, and used by us.
Information We Collect From You
When accessing our website, Photos by Yvonne will learn certain information about you during your visit. How we will handle information we learn about you depends upon what you do when visiting our site.
Account Registrations, Purchases, Submissions, Mailing List Signups, and Other Transactions
When you sign up for a membership or subscription, purchase a product, register for a course, enter a contest, claim a prize, participate in a poll, register for a mailing list or digital download, comment on an article, or otherwise engage in a transaction or website activity or event, we may collect a variety of information, including but not limited to:
- Name
- Company name
- Website
- Mailing address
- Time zone
- Phone number
- Email address
Credit card transactions and Paypal purchases do not result in the transmission of your financial data to us.
Use of Services, Website Visits, Downloads, and Support
If you visit our site to read or download information on our pages, we collect and store only the following information about you:
1. The date and time you access our site.
2. The name of the domain from which you access the Internet.
3. The Internet Protocol Address used to access our site, often referred to as IP Address.
4. Geographic location as indicated by your IP Address
5. Browser type and language.
6. Operating system.
7. Referring, visited, and exit pages.
8. If using a proxy, the name of the proxy in case of improper use.
Other Sources and Interactions
We may also obtain information about you, individually or in aggregate form, from other sources and interactions, such as: information you provide to us in surveys; information that is publicly available; information that you provide to us at events; information that you provide to us conversationally as part of forum threads, class discussions, focus groups, or otherwise as written or spoken feedback.
How We Use the Collected Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- To provide the requested products and services to you.
- To remember personal information for your convenience when you use our website, online services, and applications.
- To provide you with engaging, high-quality content.
- To ensure the proper functioning of our site and services.
- To provide you with technical and account support.
- To improve our products, services, and content.
- To keep you apprised of our products, events, contests, education, services, special offers, partner promos, opportunities, important notices, and more.
- For statistical purposes, including the assessment of visitor volume and frequency to the different areas of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
- To improve site speed, security, and to improve the user experience for all customers and other visitors.
- To offer you targeted offers and content.
- To inform, optimize, and serve advertisements based on your engagement and activity on our site.
- In connection with our security and compliance programs, including recording opt-ins and consent.
If you identify yourself by sending us an e-mail containing personal information, then the information collected will be solely used to respond to your message.
Disclosure to Third Parties
Photos by Yvonne may share your personal information with our vendors and other carefully selected third parties for the purpose of fulfilling customer orders, processing payments, detecting fraud, delivering products to you, facilitating prize claims, managing and enhancing customer data, and providing customer service.
Photos by Yvonne uses services for site hosting, monitoring, and security. These services may access our website’s components, database, files, and similar so that the site performance, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting can be protected and improved. The data shared and processed depends on the characteristics and implementation of the services rendered.
We may disclose your personal information to courts of law, law enforcement authorities and other relevant third parties when we have a good faith belief that law or public policy reasonably requires us to do so. Such disclosure may be required when you or a third party are or may be causing injury to Photos by Yvonne or third parties; violating the property or other legal rights of Photos by Yvonne or third parties; or otherwise violating federal, state, local, or other applicable law.
We may disclose personal information about you if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users.
Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale, we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the relevant third party.
Photos by Yvonne will not sell or otherwise transfer your personal information, including email or address information, to unaffiliated third parties without your express consent at the time of collection.
Cookies & Pixel Tags
Photos by Yvonne may use cookies and other technologies to evaluate user behavior, tell us which parts of our website people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of targeted advertisements and web searches. We also use these technologies to remember personal information for your convenience when you use our website, online services, and applications.
Photos by Yvonne uses third-party service providers to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. These advertising service providers use cookies and pixel tags to gather information about your interactions with our website, as well as to inform, optimize and serve targeted advertising based on those interactions.
You can learn more information about the cookies we and our partners use, as well as how to manage or opt out from cookies, in our Cookie Information & Consent Policy.
Data Collection & Use Preferences and Opt-Out
Email
You may manage your email preferences or opt out of our marketing communications at any time by following the manage or unsubscribe link in the footer of all non-transactional email messages that we send. Some communications from us are considered transactional or service communications (such as receipts, password/account information, shipping notifications, digital downloads, accessibility information for purchased products, service/maintenance updates, legal notices, and similar) and are not subject to opt-in or opt-out requests or requirements.
Cookies
You can learn more information about the cookies we and our partners use, as well as how to manage or opt out from cookies, in our Cookie Information & Consent Policy.
Protection of Personal Information
Photos by Yvonne takes precautions including but not limited to administrative and technical measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Please bear in mind that the personal information you share in your public user profile, within the Photos by Yvonne forums, as part of a guest contributor profile, as part of a blog comment profile, and similar is visible to other users and can be read, collected, or used by them. Although our Terms of Service prohibit the copying or publication of any content posted within the Photos by Yvonne forums by third parties, Photos by Yvonne cannot safeguard any information you disclose in these locations, and you are responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these circumstances. If you voluntarily offer any feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, or ideas, Photos by Yvonne will treat such information as non-confidential and non-proprietary.
Children
Our websites, products, and services are not directed to children, and we do not intentionally or knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. We request that individuals under the age of 13 not submit any personal information on the site.
Data Retention
Photos by Yvonne may retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Access, Correction, & Erasure
Upon request and when required by law (such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, or GDPR), we will provide you with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of your personally identifiable information. To request this information, or to request revision or removal of personal attribution or other personally identifiable information from our site, please contact us at support@clickandcompany.com. Please note that we will require you to verify your identity before responding to any requests to exercise your rights by providing details only known to the account holder. Where you request correction, please explain in detail why you believe the personal information we hold about you to be inaccurate or incomplete so that we can assess whether a correction is required. We will respond to these requests within a reasonable timeframe, and we will remove, revise, or anonymize this information on your behalf as may be required by law.
COOKIE INFORMATION & CONSENT POLICY
Updated 24 May 2018
Cookies and Consent
Cookies consist of small snippets of text installed in the browser, and the cookies used on this site assist Photos by Yvonne in providing content and services as described herein. If the settings in the browser that you are viewing to view this website are configured to accept cookies, we take this, together with your continued use of our website, to imply consent to the installation of these cookies. Some of the purposes for which cookies are installed may require the user’s affirmative consent, and we will request, obtain, and record that consent prior to installing such cookies where required under applicable law.
Where the installation of Cookies is based on consent, such consent can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions herein. Additionally, you may at any time delete or disable cookies with your individual browser settings. However, please bear in mind that some cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of this site, and by disabling cookies, this Site may not function as expected.
How We Use Cookies
Photos by Yvonne may use cookies and other technologies to evaluate user behavior, tell us which parts of our website people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of targeted advertisements and web searches. We also use these technologies to remember personal information for your convenience when you use our website, online services, and applications.
Our cookies help us to make our website work as you’d expect, save you having to log in every time you visit the site, remember your settings during and between visits, offer you targeted offers and content, improve site speed & security, allow you to share pages with social networks (such as Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest), personalize the site for you, and make our marketing more efficient (which allows us to offer the products & services we do at a reduced price point). We do not use cookies to collect any sensitive or personally identifiable information without your express permission or pass personally identifiable data to third parties.
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings in the browser that you are viewing to view this website are configured to accept cookies, we take this, together with your continued use of our website, to imply consent except in those circumstances in which 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.
More about our Cookies
Website Function Cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
Making our shopping basket and checkout work;
Determining if you are logged in or not;
Remembering your search settings;
Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions;
Showing you which pages you have recently visited;
Allowing you to add comments to our site; and
Tailoring content to your needs.
Displaying content from external platforms
These services allow you to view and/or interact with content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of our website. These services may collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed. Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
We use:
YouTube video embed widget (Google Inc.) – Privacy Policy
Vimeo video embed widget – Privacy Policy
Iconosquare Instagram embed widget – Privacy Policy
SnapWidget Instagram embed widget – Privacy Policy
Instagram post embed widget (Facebook Inc.) – Data Policy
Sched schedule embed widget – Privacy Policy
Wufoo online forms (Survey Monkey, Inc.) – Privacy Policy
Google Maps embed widget (Google Inc.) – Privacy Policy
Social Website Cookies
Social website cookies allow you to interact with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of our website, as by “liking” or “sharing” our content. These interactions and information obtained by these sites are subject to the user privacy settings you have chosen for each of these social networks. We use social buttons, widgets, and other related functionality from the following services:
Twitter Tweet button and social widgets – Privacy Policy
Facebook Like button and social widgets – Privacy Policy
Instagram social widgets (Facebook Inc.) – Data Policy
Pinterest Pin button and social widgets – Privacy Policy
Google+ +1 button and social widgets (Google Inc.) – Privacy Policy
Site Improvement Cookies
We regularly test new designs or site features on our site. We do this by showing slightly different versions of our website to different people and anonymously monitoring how our site visitors respond to these different versions. Ultimately this helps us to offer you a better website.
We use:
VWO Visual Website Optimizer – Privacy Policy
Analytics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of device/OS your are using, the site that referred you to our site (such as a search engine or social media network), how long you spend on the site, what pages you view, etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website.
We use:
Heap Analytics (Heap Inc.) – Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Google Inc.) – Privacy Policy / Opt Out
We use Google Analytics with User ID feature enabled. This functionality associates each visitor with the same User ID over various sessions and devices, but it does not allow Google to personally identify an individual or permanently identify a particular device.
Advertising & Remarketing Cookies
Advertising & Remarketing cookies allow Photos by Yvonne to inform, optimize, and serve advertisements based on your engagement and activity on our site. These cookies may also collect anonymous data about your activity so we can better personalize offers and information that you find engaging, as well as to help us report to advertisers which of their advertisements you respond to best.
OptinMonster – Privacy Policy
AdRoll – Privacy Policy / Opt Out
AdWords Remarketing (Google Inc.) – Privacy Policy / Opt Out
Google Analytics for Display Advertising (Google Inc.) – Privacy Policy / Opt Out
Facebook (Facebook, Inc.) – Privacy Policy / Opt Out
Includes Facebook custom audience, conversion tracking, and remarketing.
Affiliate Cookies
We have a number of partners who promote our service on a success-only basis (i.e. instead of paying for advertising, we pay them commissions on sales). Cookies are required to allow us to reward these partners and these cookies are usually provided by specialist companies (known as affiliate networks). Neither us, the networks, or the partner advertising or recommending our services are able to identify you personally. We ask you to support us by allowing these cookies which ultimately help us to offer you the service we do at the price we do.
Cookie Opt-Out and Management
You can also manage many companies’ cookies used for online advertising via the consumer choice tools created under self-regulation programs in many countries, such as the US-based aboutads.info choices page or the EU-based Your Online Choices. Please note that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won’t see advertisements; it simply means these advertisements will no longer be tailored to you.
You can also manage preferences for Cookies directly from within your own browser to prevent the installation of Cookies or to delete previously installed Cookies installed in the past.