Privacy Policy

Last updated on: 2020/02/14

This notice falls under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email or phone.

Photographer Mike Capson (ie. Mike Capson) is located at:

ICS Creative Agency
41 Princess Street Saint John
E2K2T1 - New Brunswick , Canada
5067216937

It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://mikecapson.com (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "https://mikecapson.com"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Photographer Mike Capson collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Photographer Mike Capson's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Photographer Mike Capson's visitors use its website. From time to time, Photographer Mike Capson may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Photographer Mike Capson also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://mikecapson.com blog posts. Photographer Mike Capson only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Photographer Mike Capson's websites choose to interact with Photographer Mike Capson in ways that require Photographer Mike Capson to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Photographer Mike Capson gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who download photographs at https://mikecapson.com to provide an email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Photographer Mike Capson and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

This website uses Google AdWords for remarketing

This website uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven't completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google's privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Photographer Mike Capson discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Photographer Mike Capson's behalf or to provide services available at Photographer Mike Capson's website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Photographer Mike Capson's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Photographer Mike Capson will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Photographer Mike Capson discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Photographer Mike Capson believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Photographer Mike Capson, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://mikecapson.com and have supplied your email address, Photographer Mike Capson may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Photographer Mike Capson and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Photographer Mike Capson takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

Photographer Mike Capson may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Photographer Mike Capson may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Photographer Mike Capson does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Photographer Mike Capson uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Photographer Mike Capson uses cookies to help Photographer Mike Capson identify and track visitors, their usage of https://mikecapson.com, and their website access preferences. Photographer Mike Capson visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Photographer Mike Capson's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Photographer Mike Capson's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Photographer Mike Capson's use of cookies.

E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with Photographer Mike Capson – by purchasing Photographer Mike Capson's services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Photographer Mike Capson collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Photographer Mike Capson. Photographer Mike Capson does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Business Transfers

If Photographer Mike Capson, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Photographer Mike Capson goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Photographer Mike Capson may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Photographer Mike Capson may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Photographer Mike Capson's sole discretion. Photographer Mike Capson encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Further Data Collection Information

If you have subscribed to our newsletter or if you are a member of our website (you can log in) or if you have purchased on our website, there is a good chance you will receive emails from us.

We will only send you emails which you have signed up to receive, or which pertain to the services we provided to you.
To send you emails, we use the name and email address you provide us. Our site also logs the IP address you used when you signed up for the service to prevent abuse of the system.

This website can send emails through the MailPoet sending service. This service allows us to track opens and clicks on our emails. We use this information to improve the content of our newsletters.

No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.
MailPoet creates and stores two cookies. Those cookies are:

Cookie name: mailpoet_revenue_tracking
Cookie expiry: 14 days.
Cookie description: The purpose of this cookie is to track which newsletter sent from your website has acquired a click-through and a subsequent purchase in your WooCommerce store.

Cookie name: mailpoet_abandoned_cart_tracking
Cookie expiry: 3,650 days.
Cookie description: The purpose of this cookie is to track a user that has abandoned their cart in your WooCommerce store to then be able to send them an abandoned cart newsletter from MailPoet.

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

  • Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
  • Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
  • Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
  • We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password.

We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  • Send you information about your account and order
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Set up your account for our store
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
  • Improve our store offerings
  • Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 10+ years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Visitor comments and reviews may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Embedded Content, iframes, and Advertisements

Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) or advertisements.This content behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited another website.

These may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have cookies or data connected to those sources. ie facebook, google adwords, google adsense, hubspot, instagram, etc. If you do not wish to see this content then please use a browser tool that blocks 3rd party scripts and sources.

Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Data Rights that you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email or phone.