Privacy policy.
Privacy Policy
Mark Hughes Photography Ltd. (and Mark Hughes) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This policy outlines how we handle the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. Our policy is guided by the provincial and federal privacy laws applicable in Canada.
We highly respect your privacy. All data we collect is used for internal purposes only. We will never sell, rent, or share your personal information to 3rd parties.
Overview & Scope
Overview
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.markhughesphotography and www.markchughesphotography.com. This Privacy Policy has been updated to include the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Scope
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to https://markhughesphotography.ca , https://markchughesphotography.com , and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Business of Creativity includes markhughesphotography.ca, markchughesphotography.com, fureverphotos.ca and focusonphotography.ca. The Mark Hughes Photography website is an photography, photography services and photography training platform. By using the Mark Hughes Photography websites, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
What information do we collect?
In the course of conducting business with you, Mark Hughes Photography will collect information from you, such as your name, title, company or organization, address, telephone number, fax number, email address and images. If you participate in our surveys or contests, your survey responses and submissions for our contests will be collected.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Mark Hughes photography’s blog, posts, comments or our discussion forums, this information may be collected and used by others.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. We will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
On our website, we may collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address and cookies. Your “IP address” is a unique 32-bit numeric address that distinguishes your computer from another computer. “Cookies” are small text files that contain information about you, such as your user name and password, which are stored on the web browser of your computer. Business of Creativity uses a high encryption algorithm on its cookies so that only our server can read and decrypt the contents within it and other parties will not be able to access such information.
What privacy principles are followed by Mark Hughes Photography?
Accountability
Mark Hughes Photography is responsible for ensuring the protection of the information you have provided to us.
Why do we collect your information?
We collect information from you for the following reasons:
To provide information on our products and services that may be of interest to you
To contact you, when necessary, regarding issues concerning your use of our products and services
To obtain information about your use of our products and services, potentially through a survey
To better understand your needs, as input to future product and service development plans
To obtain information about your qualifications and skills if you submit your resume to us for the purposes of applying for a position with Mark Hughes Photography and the information may be legally required.
Obtaining your consent
We will obtain your consent prior to the collection, use or disclosure of your information. Consent may be expressed or implied. Implied consent means that you provide the information to us and the purpose of providing such information would be clear to you, even if we did not state it. Our privacy policy, however, does not limit Mark Hughes Photography from collecting and using information that is publicly available. This means, for instance, your name and email address could be added to our email and/or postal communication list so that we can provide further information to you on our products and services.
We will, however, respect your choice not to be contacted. All our marketing email messages contain an option to automatically “opt-out” of receiving messages from us. You may also elect not to receive communication from us by sending an email to mchughes.photography@gmail.com with your name, email address and (if applicable) your postal address to request that we remove your email, address and name from our mailing lists.
Limiting collection
Mark Hughes Photography will only collect information about you that is necessary to achieve the purposes identified in this policy.
Automatically Collected Information
Mark Hughes Photography uses Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site – you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
If desired, you can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Tracking User Behaviour
Mark Hughes Photography may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit from Mark Hughes Photography, in order to determine what Mark Hughes Photography services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Mark Hughes Photography to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Use of Cookies
The Mark Hughes Photography websites may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Mark Hughes Photography pages, or register with Mark Hughes Photography services, a cookie helps Mark Hughes Photography to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Business of Creativity website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Mark Hughes Photography features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Mark Hughes Photography services or websites you visit.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security of your Personal Information
Mark Hughes Photography secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Mark Hughes Photography uses the following methods to achieve this:
SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or the alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Children Under Thirteen
Mark Hughes Photography does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, Mark Hughes Photography may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Mark Hughes Photography or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Mark Hughes Photography, you may opt out of such communications by click on the unsubscribe link in the email message.
External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted. You can find links to privacy policies for these hosting vendors below. This list may include any or all of these vendors (but not limited to):
Acuity (Scheduler) Privacy Policy
Sprout Studio Privacy Policy
Stripe (Payment Processor) Privacy Policy
PayPal Canada Privacy Policy
Pixieset Privacy Policy
Data Retention
When you place an order or create an account on any of our sites, we will maintain your order information and account information for our records unless and until you contact us and ask us to delete this information.
Limiting use, disclosure and retention
Mark Hughes Photography will use the information you provide only for the purposes identified in this policy. We will not use this information for any other purpose unless we have obtained your consent.
Mark Hughes Photography will only disclose information about you to its affiliated companies, distributors, and to authorized agents that assist us in performing our functions for the limited purposes listed above. Our agents may include companies and individuals that deliver packages, provide marketing assistance and process credit card transactions.
We will not sell or otherwise disclose the information collected from you to other third parties, except in those limited cases where we are legally required to do so (such as in response to a court order, or disclosure to a public body to assist in an investigation).
We will retain the information that we have collected from you only so long as it is necessary to achieve our stated purposes or if it is legally required that we retain such information.
Ensuring accuracy
Mark Hughes Photography will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the information we collect from you is accurate and complete. If you notice any errors in the information that we have collected from you or wish to update your information, please notify your Mark Hughes Photography contact or email mchughes.photography@gmail.com. You can advise us as to where you saw the incorrect information so that we can then correct or update such information.
Safeguards
Mark Hughes Photography will protect personal information with security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
Changes to this Statement
Mark Hughes Photography reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Individual access to information
If you require access to your own information, please write to us by fax, email or post, with your request. We will respond to you within thirty (30) days of receiving your request.
Contact Information
Mark Hughes Photography welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Mark Hughes Photography has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Mark Hughes Photography at: mchughes.photography@gmail.com
Terms of Use, Disclaimers, and Forward-Looking Statements
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Under no circumstances will Mark Hughes Photography be held liable to any party for any direct, indirect, punitive, special, incidental or other consequential damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of these services or material. We are not responsible for your actions or the information or actions of any third party that may be part of the contents or promotions of this program.