GDPR

Hi welcome, welcome. Iif you’ve clicked here it must means you care a lot about your data privacy and GDPR. If you’re here by accident and you don’t know what GDPR is, GDPR means Get Dozens of Photographers Raging and was designed to cause mass hysteria within an entire industry of small businesses who happen to work with people’s faces. Are faces personal data? This has yet to be confirmed. In the meantime, what we do need to do is be complient in handling written information you give us, so here is Love with Light Portraits GDPR updated privacy policy.

Personal Data I Collect

I collect your name so I don’t have to call you Sir/Madam. Your email address so I can communicate with you. Your mobile numbers so I can call you to find you and your address so I can if I need to, post your images to you. I also take the ages of children so that if you are a repeat customer I can help find images that we save (more on that later). All of this is necessary for me to do my job.

If you have come to Love with Light Portraits to have a lifestory created for you child or children, I also keep this information for an agreed period of time so that you can find it through me if your Mom loved it so much she wants a copy too or it ends up in the bathtub and you need a replacement. 

How I Collect and Keep Your Personal Data

I suck out souls through the web cam, but that’s quite effortful so I’d rather prefer if you used my contact form on my website which is also the same contact form on my Facebook. This arrives in an email inbox which is tightly passworded with something that doesn’t contain my birthday date. When you go ahead with booking me as your photographer, I will store your information and images on my one computer and back up external drive in my google and acruity calendars (GDPR compliant companies) which again is passworded with something that isn’t my dog’s name. If you enquire and don’t book me (pffft as if that’ll happen), I will delete all your personal data from my client database after the appropriate mourning period has ended, 3 months. If you do book with me (a much more happy prospect) we can tell each other sweet nothings and promises, I use sign request (a GDPR compliant company) for my contracts rather than writing them in blood.

Blog Commenting

I have a blog on my website where I showcase breathtaking family connection. If you comment on it, it’s super public so everyone can see it, so don’t write down your personal credit card details there, you can send that directly to me.

Right of Confirmation, Access, Rectification and Erasure

In all seriousness, if you have questions about how your personal data is handled, you can drop me an email and I will quickly respond. I’m happy to show you the information I have on you, and unsurprisingly it’ll probably be exactly the things you told me because sadly I am neither a spy nor a mind reader. If some of the information is wrong, you have the right to correct it, and I definitely recommend this so I don’t end up calling your son Brutus for the whole session.  If you’d like me to delete your personal data, you have the right to request it, but I wouldn’t recommend asking for that before you session, otherwise I will end up shouting hey you a lot to get your attention. I definitely need to know stuff to work with you and your family. When you’re done with me you can totally dump and delete. I do tend to keep email addresses of my clients in the database for the duration of our relationship but only with your consent so you can be updated on deals or offered incentives. If you would fully like me to close your account with me in a manner of speaking, just let me know and I can totally wipe it.

Use of Your Data

The summary of this is that I was and continue to be a social worker and part of my registration is about confidentiality. In other words I am not going to be a jerk about your information or your children’s. I will 100% use your email to discuss your photo session. If there’s something related to your images like a discount for prints, I’ll possibly email you about this too. If there’s something unrelated to your session but something we had a human conversation about like a really cool resource about adoption or a fun new toy, I might email you about that too. I wouldn’t give your email out to anyone else. I will not be sending you newsletters or marketing material unless you have said you want it because frankly I don’t have time.

I have a questionnaire that asks you and if relevant the social worker involved with your family about our service. if we are talking about adoption and fostering life story. This doesn’t go anywhere except my computer and if relevant grant providers anonymously. Sometimes I submit photos to competitions because it’s how I collect my shiny preciousesssss, but I would only use photos you have already given permission for through your consent form.

Use of Your Face-Based Data

When it comes to your images, the EU hasn’t gotten too specific about what that means for working photographers but that we need to demonstrate reasonable and legitimate use. I can tell you that I won’t be selling your images to be used in a butt cream commercial. I won’t be selling them at all.

There’s a couple of things I do to run my business, like show my work on Facebook, Instagram and my own website. If you have booked me, you probably have already looked at images of real families and children. I do ask families to opt into this in my contract, but you can always choose to keep your session private. I respect that some people and in particular children’s circumstances would mean they do not want to be on the internet.

I store images of your lovely faces on my computer and password encrypted hard drives in my house that is behind a double locked door. It’s a really good quality lock because I like my dog, kid, and stuff (not necessarily in that order, you decide). I generally keep these for 5 years so that you can have access at a later date.

GDPR Compliancy (is that a word?) Achieved

The EU regulations require me to just do stuff that’s fairly within the realms of my job role, I guess all you really need to know is I’m a nice human being who wants to be able to do my job but won’t use your information or images for purposes you did not agree to.