Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
PRIVACY
ONLINE PURCHASES
When you order a product from the John Steele Photography, we need to know your name, billing and shipping addresses, telephone number, email address, and credit card information to process your order. Your credit card information will be stored temporarily on a secured payment gateway server and used only as needed to process your transaction. Transactions are only processed through our third party payment gateway provider, Stripe. We never see, nor do we have access to, your credit card details.
We will retain your personally identifiable information (name, email address, phone number and address) for our records in order to facilitate customer service.
Third-party sites you may access through John Steele Photography are not subject to this privacy policy.
Data Security Precautions
John Steele Photography uses a variety of data security practices to help ensure as much security as possible. While there is no such thing as perfect data security, John Steele Photography takes reasonable precautions to encrypt and secure its Website and secure information from users and customers. To the best of John Steele Photography’s knowledge, any third-party data hosting we use also employs reasonable data security protocols and encryption.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
When a User fills out and submits any form on this website, such as a contact form or a damage form, subscribes to our newsletter, and/or makes a payment, we may collect and retain the information you enter.
Except as provided below, all information John Steele Photography may ask you to input or provide through its website will be kept confidential. John Steele Photography takes reasonable steps to protect your privacy, including information you are asked to provide through its website.
Additionally, when you visit John Steele Photography some information about your computer and about how you use the site may be automatically collected. This may include your computer’s IP address, information about your web browser and operating system, and if you arrived atJohn Steele Photography by clicking on a link on another Website, we may get the URL of the linking page.
Information that is automatically collected will be presented as anonymous or aggregated information and will not reveal any personal facts about individual users.
We may use information automatically gathered from visiting the website to help improve our services and offerings to users, including by:
- personalizing content you see;
- inform our strategic development for expanding services or improving the services we provide;
- ensure our site is compatible with the technology used by visitors;
- notify you of relevant news, services, or other alerts John Steele Photography may provide from time-to-time (unless you opt out of receiving such information); and
- improve our understanding of user’s needs.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact John Steele Photography.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small file that is placed on a User’s computer during a visit to most websites. This file allows the User to move quickly and easily around our site. And it is used to identify returning users. You can delete cookies from your browser or hard drive at any time.
John Steele Photography, may, from time-to-time, use cookies to track users’ sessions. We will only use this information to help improve Website features.
Use of Email
John Steele Photography uses reputable third parties to deliver the emails we send. You will only get emails from us if you subscribe to our alerts or newsletters or have purchased a product. These emails may use unique identifiers or invisible code (often called “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) to determine who has opened or clicked on a message and to deliver messages formatted for the User’s device and software. Content in these emails is provided by John Steele Photography.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Due to changes in legislation and best practices or enhancements to functionality and content on John Steele Photography, we may change this privacy policy. We will try to update you when such changes happen but will not always be able to do so. Accordingly, you should review John Steele Photography policy from time-to-time if you are concerned about any changes to the policy.
TERMS OF USE
We grant you a limited, revocable license to access and make personal use of the website as our visitor or customer.
However, you are not permitted to:
- reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell or otherwise exploit any website image other Website Content for any commercial purpose, except as expressly provided
- use a robot, spider or data mining or extraction tool or process to monitor, extract or copy Website Content (except in the operation or use of internet search engines)
- use any meta tags, search terms, key terms, or the like that contain the website’s name or trademarks used on the website
- engage in any activity that interferes with the website or another user’s ability to use the website
- modify, create derivative works from, reverse engineer, de-compile or disassemble any technology used to provide the website and the services offered on the website; or assist or encourage any third party in engaging in any activity prohibited by these Terms of Use
COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The Site is owned by John Steele Photography. All of the content featured or displayed on the Site, including, but not limited to, still images, text, pictorial works, graphic designs, including web-based programs (“Content”) is owned or licensed by John Steele Photography, unless otherwise noted, and is protected by international copyright laws. The purchase of any product does not provide the purchaser with any copyright interest or other intellectual property right in the product. All Website Content that is not our property is used with permission. The arrangement and compilation of all Website Content is our exclusive property and is protected by international copyright laws. All software used on the website is our property or the property of our software suppliers and is protected by international copyright laws.