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Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 2025

Continuous technological development, changes in our services or the legal situation, and other reasons may require adjustments to our privacy policy notice. We therefore reserve the right to change this privacy statement at any time and ask that you regularly keep yourself informed of the current state.

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1. Party responsible for data processing

The responsible party, according to Article 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is Stanbridge Business Photography, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom,

email: stanbridgebusinessphotography@gmail.com

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2. Your rights

2.1 You have the right to information, correction, deletion, limitation of processing, opposition to processing, and data portability. If processing is based on your consent, you have the right to revoke it with effect for the future.

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2.2 According to Article 21 (1) of the GDPR, you have the right to file an objection at any time for reasons arising out of your particular situation against the processing of personally identifiable information relating to you, pursuant to Article 6 (1) of the GDPR (data processing in the public interest) or Article 6 par. 1 f GDPR (data processing for the protection of a legitimate interest); this also applies to a profiling based on this provision. In the event of your objection, we will no longer process your personally identifiable information.

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2.3 You also have the right to complain to a relevant data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personally identifiable information.

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3. The collection of personally identifiable information  

If you are only using the website for informational purposes, i.e., if you do not provide us with information, we will only collect the personally identifiable information that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data that is technically necessary for us to display our website and ensure its stability and security:

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4. Contacting Me or Booking form

When you contact us through a Contact Me Form or fill a Booking form, we will store the data you provide so we can answer your questions or confirm your booking. In the case of the Contact Me and Booking forms, information that is required for contacting you or for facilitating your booking will show a ‘*’ symbol and if the field is not filled in it will appear red, those fields that don’t need filling out will not change colour if not filled out.

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5. Use of social plug-ins

Stanbridge Business Photography uses the following social plug-ins:

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  • Facebook (operator: Meta Platforms, Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA)

  • Instagram (operator: Meta Platforms, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA)

  • Twitter (operator: Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103 USA)

  • Pinterest (operator: Pinterest, Inc., 505 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA)

  • TikTok (Operator: TikTok, Inc., 5800 Bristol Parkway C3 Culver City, Los Angeles, CA 90230, USA)

  • Youtube (Operator: Google LLC., 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA)

  • WhatsApp: (Operator: Meta Platforms, Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA)

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These plug-ins typically collect data from you as standard, and transmit it to the respective vendor’s server. These will initially be deactivated when you visit a site connected to the plug-ins. The plug-ins will not be activated until you click on the respective symbol, and by doing so, you give your consent to have your data transmitted to the respective vendor. The legal basis for plug-in use is article 6, par. 1 a and f of the GDPR.

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Once activated, the plug-ins also collect personally identifiable information, such as your IP address, and send it to the respective vendor’s server, where it is saved. Activated social plug-ins also set a cookie with a unique identifier when you visit the respective website. This allows the vendor to generate profiles of your user behaviour as well. This occurs even if you are not a member of the respective vendor’s social network. We do not have any influence over the exact extent to which your data is collected by the respective vendor. For more information about the extent, nature, and purpose of data processing and about the rights and setting options for protecting your privacy, please see the data protection notices for the respective social network vendor. These can be found at the following addresses:

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6. Use of cookies

Cookies will be stored on your device during the use of our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive assigned to the browser you use, and through which the place where the cookie is set accrues certain information. Cookies cannot run any programs or transmit any viruses to your device. They serve to make the website more user-friendly and efficient overall.

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This website uses the following types of cookies, whose extent and function are explained in the following:

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8.1 Essential cookies - These cookies enable core functionality such as security, verification of identity and network management. These cookies can’t be disabled.

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8.2 Functional cookies - These cookies collect data to remember choices users make to improve and give a more personalised experience.

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8.3 Analytics cookies - These cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with our website, discover errors and provide a better overall analytics.​

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You can configure your browser and App settings as you wish and, for example, decline to accept third-party or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all of the website’s functions in this case.

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The legal bases for possible processing of personally identifiable information and its storage period vary and are described in the following sections.

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7. Analysis

Stanbridge Business Photography uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). This use covers the Universal Analytics operating mode. This makes it possible to assign data, sessions, and interactions across multiple devices to a pseudonymous user ID and thus analyze a user’s activities across devices.

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Google Analytics uses cookies that allow your use of the website to be analysed. The information generated by the cookie through your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website however, your IP address will be truncated in advance within the member states of the European Union or other contracting states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional circumstances will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP address transmitted from your browser in the context of Google Analytics will not be conflated with other Google data. Google will use this information in this website operator’s order to evaluate your use of the website so that reports about website activity can be compiled and other services connected to website and internet use can be rendered for the website operator. Our legitimate interest in data processing is also for these purposes. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is article 6, par. 1 f of the GDPR. The data sent by us and connected to cookies, user information (such as user ID), and promotional IDs are deleted after 14 months after the last use of our services. Data whose storage period has expired is automatically deleted once a month. More information on the terms and conditions of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

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You can prevent cookies from being stored through the relevant setting in your browser software; however, please note that if you do so, not all functions of the website may be able to be used to their full extent. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) from being collected and processed by Google by downloading and installing https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when visiting this website. To prevent Universal Analytics collection across various devices, you must perform the opt-out on all systems in use.​​

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8. Marketing

When you contact us through a Contact Me form or fill a Booking form, you will be asked if you 'would like to receive email newsletters for all the latest business photography updates and offers'. By ticking this field, you agree to us storing your personal information for marketing purposes. You can of course opt-out from this at the footer of all email communications, or by contacting us, and your data will be removed.

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9. Data transmission

Your data will not be transmitted to third parties as a general rule unless we are legally obligated to do so or the transfer of data is necessary for implementing the contractual relationship or you have given prior express consent to have your data transferred.​

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10. Data security

‘Wix.com' provides the data security for the Stanbridge Business Photography website, storing all data collected in their personally protected online facilities.

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