Sam Derbyshire and samderbyshirephotography.com (this website) take the privacy of your information very seriously.
This privacy policy provides details of the personal data collected from you, what is done with it and how you might access it.
Your personal information is treated with the utmost respect and in accordance with EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the protection of individuals with regard to processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.
Data protection
Sam Derbyshire and this website will:
Security
Technical and organisational measures are used to safeguard your data and data is stored on secure servers.
Retention
Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, your data will only be held for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy policy or until you request that the data be deleted.
Your rights
You have the following rights in relation to your data:
To make an enquiry about any personal information that may be held, please use the contact form.
Disclosure of personal information
Generally your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties without your consent. However there may be circumstances where personal data can be passed on without consent, for example to prevent and detect crime and to produce anonymised statistics.
Complaints or queries
Sam Derbyshire and this website try to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information. For this reason, any complaints received will be taken very seriously. You are encouraged to bring it to our attention if you think that the collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate.
If you want to make a complaint about the way your personal information has been processed, you can contact the ICO (the statutory body which oversees data protection law) at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
Links to other websites
This Privacy Policy does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
Visitors to this website
When someone visits this website standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns are collected. This is done to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting the website.
By continued use of this website, you consent to the collecting of analytical and professional information about you and your organisation in accordance with the terms set out in this policy.
Cookies
The Internet browser that you use may make use of a feature called a ‘cookie’ to assign identification to your computer. On this website, we do not use cookies to store personal data or to link personal data to non-personal data. No personal information will be stored in this cookie.
Cookies in use on this website
We use a number of different cookies on this site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit All About Cookies for detailed guidance.
The following table describes the cookies in use on the site and what they are used for. Currently an ‘implied consent’ policy is in operation which means it is assumed that you are happy with this usage. If you are not happy, then you should either not use the site, or you should delete the cookies having visited the site.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to help provide anonymous web analytics for this website.
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use the site. The information is used to compile reports and to help improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
__utma
Used to distinguish users and sessions.
The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Expiry: 2 years.
__utmt
Used to throttle request rate.
Expiry: 10 minutes.
__utmb
Used to determine new sessions/visits.
The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Expiry: 30 minutes.
__utmc
Operates in conjunction with the __utmb cookie.
Expiry: end of browser session.
__utmz
Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the visitor reached the site.
The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Expiry: 6 months.
_ga
Used in the delivery of Google Analytics to distinguish visitors. Expiry: 2 years.
_gid
Used in the delivery of Google Analytics to distinguish visitors. Expiry: 24 hours.
_gat
Used to throttle request rate. 1 minute
seen-cookie-message
Used in delivering cookie message. Expiry: 1 month.