Ian Phelps Photography

PRIVACY

THE SHORT AND SWEET VERSION

We respect you and your privacy. Ian Phelps Photography only collects personal information necessary to fulfill your order, communicate with you, and provide better service to you. We will never sell, rent or trade any of your personal information. This website is hosted by Squarespace. Click here for more information on Squarespace's privacy policy.

THE LONG AND DETAILED VERSION

HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

When ordering on our site, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, credit card information or other details to help you with your experience. When browsing our website, we receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address which provides information about your browser and operating system. With your consent, we may send you emails about our store including new products, promotions, and other updates.

  • To improve our website in order to better serve you
  • To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests
  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
  • To quickly process your transactions
  • To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services

CONSENT

By providing personal information to reply to a message sent via our contact from, place an order, respond to a survey, arrange for a delivery or exchange/return a purchase, we imply that you consent to us collecting this information and using it for only that specific purpose. Should we request your personal information for a secondary reason, such as marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no. If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at info@ianphelpsphotography.com

THIRD PARTY SERVICES AND PAYMENT PROCESSING

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Squarespace

Ian Phelps Photography is hosted by Squarespace, Inc., providing us with the e-commerce platform to sell our products and services.  Squarespace stores your data on secure databases protected via a variety of industry-standard access controls including secure passwords, SSL encryption, disk-based encryption, firewalls, and other measures are in place that helps them to protect your information. However, no company, including Squarespace, can fully eliminate security risks associated with the transmission of personal information through online transactions, and you do so at your own risk.

Squarespace uses the third party payment processor Stripe to assist it in processing payment securely. You can read their privacy policy here. 

Squarespace uses the services of Peer1 Hosting for their website and for Squarespace managed websites. Personal information hosted by or through Squarespace is subject to Peer1 Hosting’s privacy policy available here.

You can read Squarespace's Terms of Service here or Privacy Statement here for further information.

Links
When you click on links on our website, they may direct you away from our site. Ian Phelps Photography is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other websites. For specific information pertaining to the use of your personal information, please read their privacy statements.

Google Analytics
Ian Phelps Photography uses Google Analytics to gather information pertaining to site visitors. 

Comments and User Content Posted to the Website
Comments you choose to post may be read, collected, or used by other users of the website, as well as other third parties. We are not responsible for the information you choose to provide.

WE USE COOKIES

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. In addition, cookies are used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. If you disable cookies, it may disrupt some of the features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services may not function properly.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Ian Phelps Photography provides users the opportunity to post content through various social media websites including, but not limited to, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Your interactions with such social media tools, and any information you provide, are publicly viewable outside of this website. Please review the privacy policies pertaining to each of these sites for information regarding the use of your personal information. If you do not wish for the information you provide through these social media websites to be disclosed, then you should not use these tools. Ian Phelps Photography is not responsible for information you choose to disclose using these social media tools.

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children's privacy and safety online.

We do not specifically market to children under 13.

CAN SPAM ACT

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at info@ianphelpsphotography.com and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Ian Phelps Photography reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time. Modifications will take effect immediately upon being posted here. Upon modification of this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated.

If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new company so that we may continue to provide products to you.

CONTACTING US

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may email us at info@ianphelpsphotography.com or use our contact page.