Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 16, 2024
Last Updated: October 16, 2024

At Lindsey White Photography, accessible from lindseywhitephoto.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy outlines how we collect, use, and share personal information in compliance with legal requirements in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

We may collect the following personal information: names, email addresses, IP addresses, payment details (if applicable), browser type and version, device information, browsing history, and website activity, as well as any other information you provide directly to us through forms or other means. We collect personal information through various channels, including newsletter sign-ups, contact forms, cookies and similar tracking technologies, purchases or payment processing (if applicable), and website analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics).

We use your personal information for several purposes, including marketing and sales communications, responding to inquiries and providing customer support, improving our services, website functionality, and user experience, processing payments and fulfilling orders (if applicable), and website analytics to track and measure visitor interactions. Additionally, we utilize your information for legal compliance and risk management.

To analyze how visitors use our website, we employ website analytics tools, such as Google Analytics. This data may include pages viewed, time spent on the website, referral sources, and clickstream data. These tools help us understand user behavior and improve our website. The data collected is aggregated and anonymized.

If you are in the European Union, we process your personal data based on specific legal grounds, including consent (when you provide us with consent), legitimate interests (when necessary for our legitimate interests, provided that your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests), contractual necessity (when processing is necessary to perform a contract with you), and legal obligation (when processing is required for compliance with a legal obligation).

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and to comply with our legal obligations. Specific retention periods include newsletter data, which is retained until you unsubscribe, contact form submissions, which are retained for six months, analytics data, which is retained for up to 26 months, and payment data, which is retained for a minimum of seven years to comply with financial regulations.

If you are in the European Union or California, you have the following rights regarding your personal information: the right to access your personal data, the right to request correction of inaccurate data, the right to request deletion of your personal data, the right to data portability, the right to restrict processing of your personal data, and the right to opt-out of the sale of personal information (for California residents). To exercise these rights, please contact us via email at lindseywhitephoto@gmail.com. You can also unsubscribe from our communications at any time.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our website. These may include essential cookies, which are necessary for the basic functionality of the site, performance cookies, which help us understand how visitors interact with the site, functional cookies, which personalize content and remember user preferences, and advertising cookies, which are used for targeted advertising and marketing purposes. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. For more information on how we use cookies, please see our [Cookie Policy] (if applicable).

We share personal information with the following third parties: client management systems, email marketing systems, payment processors (if applicable), and website analytics services (e.g., Google Analytics). These third parties are required to handle your personal data in accordance with our instructions and this privacy policy.

Your personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries outside your jurisdiction. We take appropriate safeguards to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy, regardless of where it is processed. This includes Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and Privacy Shield frameworks (where applicable).

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We do not control these sites and are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

We take reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. These measures include encryption of data in transit, regular security audits, and access controls to limit data access.

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the effective date. Please check this policy periodically for any updates.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at lindseywhitephoto@gmail.com.