Privacy Statement

Legal Disclaimer

Jim Scott Photography has taken all reasonable care to ensure that the information contained in this website is accurate on the stated date of publication or last modification. It is possible that the information may be out of date, incomplete or the opinion of the author. Jim Scott Photography accepts no responsibility for the consequences of error or for any loss or damage suffered by users of any of the information and material contained on this website or any site you may access through this site.

Copyright Statement

All images contained on this website remain the property of Jim Scott Photography. Images may not be downloaded, reproduced, copied, projected, or used in any way without express written permission.

Privacy Policy

This web page describes Jim Scott Photography’s privacy policy guidelines regarding the collection and use of personal or corporate information that you provide as a resulting of accessing this website.

Jim Scott Photography is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should you be asked to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information you may provide to Jim Scott Photography 

You may provide information about you by filling in the contact form on the Jim Scott Photography website https://www.jimscottphotography.co.uk (the website), comments in blog posts or by correspondence by e-mail.

What information may be collected

The Jim Scott Photography website may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

  • technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;

  • information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from the Jim Scott Photography website (including date and time); pages you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page

Cookie Policy

The Jim Scott Photography website uses 'Cookies' in order to personalise your visit to the web site and help the website owner understand how you use the site. A cookie is a message given to a web browser by a web server and which is then stored by the browser in a text file. Each time the browser requests a page from the server this message is sent back which enables the user to be identified.

No information which personally identifies you will be collected through the cookies. You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie so you have the chance to accept it and can set your browser to turn off cookies. No personally identifying information from you will be collected as part of these cookies. For more details about cookies and details of how to delete and disable cookies you can visit www.aboutcookies.org

The Jim Scott Photography website is hosted by Squarespace whose Cookie Policy can be found here: https://www.squarespace.com/cookie-policy

Using your information

Jim Scott Photography may use your personal information to:

a)    respond to your requests or questions,

b)    administer the website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, analyse trends, statistical and survey purposes;

c)    improve the website to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer

Jim Scott Photography Will Not

Share or sell your information to third-party marketing or advertising companies or any personal data with/to others.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases Jim Scott Photography rely on for processing this information are:

When you use the website, you consent to the collection, storage, use, disclosure and other uses of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or would like to access, update or delete any personal data that may be held about you, please contact Jim Scott Photography via the Contact Page.

We encourage Users to carefully read the Privacy Policy and use it to make informed decisions as to accessing this website.

How do is your information safeguarded?

Great care will be taken in implementing and maintaining the security of the website and your information. Although reasonable steps will be taken to safeguard information, Jim Scott Photography cannot be responsible for the acts of those who gain unauthorised access or abuse this website, and no warranty is made, expressed, implied or otherwise, that Jim Scott Photography will prevent such access.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although every effort will be made to protect your personal data, Jim Scott Photography cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to this website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once your information has been received, Jim Scott Photography will seek to prevent unauthorised access.

The Jim Scott Photography website may contain links to other websites or social media platforms and as such is not responsible for the privacy policy or practices of these third party websites or social media platforms

Data Controller

The data controller responsible in respect of the information collected on this website is Jim Scott owner of Jim Scott Photography

Accessing information stored about you

You may request details of the personal information held about you. If you would like a copy of the information held, please contact Jim Scott Photography via the Contact Page on the website.

Minors:

Jim Scott Photography understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment. The website is not designed for or directed at children and will not knowingly collect personal information from minors. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided Jim Scott Photography with personal information without their consent, he or she should contact Jim Scott Photography via the Contact Page where upon such information shall be deleted at the parent or guardian's request.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access: You have the right to ask for copies of your personal information. 

Your right to rectification: You have the right to ask to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask Jim Scott Photography to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure: You have the right to ask Jim Scott Photography to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing: You have the right to ask to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability: You have the right to ask that Jim Scott Photography transfers the information you provided to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

Please note that these rights are not absolute and may be subject to regulatory requirement.

Jim Scott Photography website

All effort will be made to keep the Jim Scott Photography website secure. However, you recognise when providing your information through the Jim Scott Photography website or when you send or ask Jim Scott Photography to send you any of your confidential information by email, that the internet and email communications over the internet may not be secure. Jim Scott Photography cannot be responsible for any loss or unauthorised interception of information transmitted via the internet which is beyond the control of Jim Scott Photography.

This privacy policy only applies to the Jim Scott Photography website where it is located and is not responsible for the content, privacy or security of other websites or social media platforms linked to the Jim Scott Photography website.

Changes to Jim Scott Photography privacy policy

This privacy policy was last updated January 2024 and Jim Scott Photography may modify the provisions of this privacy policy from time to time. The new provisions will be effective as soon as they are posted. Please check this page periodically to ensure that you are aware of any change.