Privacy Policy
What is a privacy policy?
A privacy policy is a statement that discloses some or all of the ways a website collects, uses, discloses, and manages the data of its visitors and customers.
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Small World Photography is committed to providing a transparent service and best possible customer service experience. We adhere, therefore, to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of 2018.
What type of information do we collect?
Small World Photography may receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page.
How information is collected?
When you conduct a transaction (such as sending a message, completing a contact form, making a booking or purchasing a product, leaving feedback or comments) on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.
Why we collect personal information?
We collect Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:
1. To provide and operate the Services;
2. To be be to contact our Visitors or Clients with general or personalised service-related notices and promotional messages* (*if this is a service they have opted for);
3. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners (i.e Wix.com, PayPal, selected printing labs) may use to provide and improve our respective services;
4. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
How do we store, use, share and disclose personal information?
Small World Photography is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored by Small World Photography only for the purposes of providing you the products and services you have requested. It will remain on file for up to 2 years. unless you use our services or purchase our products again, or if you have opted to subscribe to our mailing list; then this data will be stored until you send notice to unsubscribe (which you can do so by sending 'Unsubscribe' to smallworldstudio@icloud.com). Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
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How do we communicate with site visitors?
Small World Photography may contact you to notify you regarding your enquiry, booking, purchases, to resolve queries, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys, questionnaires or reviews, to send updates about our company* (*only when permitted), or as otherwise necessary to contact you to fulfil our Terms & Conditions, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, or text messages.
How do we use Cookies and other tracking tools?
Small World Photography website tracks personal information through the use of essential cookies.
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A list of these are as follows:
First Party Cookies (Strictly Necessary)
ForceFlashSite - Used for the duration of the session with the purpose of forcing the server to display the non-mobile version when viewing a mobile site (old mobile under m.domain.com). This will avoid redirecting to the mobile site.
hs - Used for the duration of the session for security purposes.
smSession - Duration used is persistent (two days or two weeks). The purpose of this is to identify logged in site members.
XSRF-TOKEN - Used for the duration of the session for security purposes.
(Functionality)
svSession - Duration used is persistent (two years). The purpose of this is to identify unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site.
SSR-caching - Used for the duration of the session with the purpose of indicating how a site was rendered.
smSession - Duration used is persistent (two weeks). The purpose of this is to identify logged in site members.
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Third Party Cookies (Functionality)
TS* - Used for the duration of the session for security purposes.
TS01******* - Used for the duration of the session for security purposes.
TSxxxxxxxx (where x is replaced with a random series of numbers and letters) - Used for the duration of the session for security purposes.
TSxxxxxxxx_d (where x is replaced with a random series of numbers and letters) - Used for the duration of the session for security purposes.
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You can control the cookies your browser accepts by changing your browser settings.
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