Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is for this website, https://risingtide.photo/, and governs the privacy of its visitors.
It explains how we comply with the EU’s GDPR (General Data ProtectionRegulation) legislation and the DPA (Data Protection Act).
This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR and DPA are adhered to.

THE DPA & GDPR MAY 2018

This website complies with the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and the GDPR (General Data ProtectionRegulation), effective from May 2018.

Contacting us

This website collects private user data using the "Contact" form which generates emails sent to: carl@risingtide.photo.
The data from this form is emailed to the address listed above and also stored on the website server.
The website server is accessible only by the sole-director & website administrator for Rising Tide Photography Limited.

Email Marketing

Rising Tide Photography Limited does not engage in email marketing specific to our services.
Your personal details will not be used for such marketing purposes nor will they be passed onto any third parties.

Client Galleries

Rising Tide Photography Limited creates a client gallery for each client to whom photos are delivered as part of the services contracted.
Rising Tide Photography Limited's client galleries are presently hosted by Pic-Time.
To visit a Rising Tide Photography Limited client gallery you will be required to enter a password.
No entry of personal data is needed.

EXTERNAL WEBSITE LINKS & THIRD PARTIES

Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.
We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts.
Users should therefore note that they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

CLIENT DATA HELD ON FILE

We take care over the processes around looking after personal data stored on our physical systems. Rising Tide Photography Limited holds the following personal data of clients:

  1. names

  2. addresses

  3. phone numbers

  4. email addresses within soft copy as well as soft copy event plan documents.

Soft copy contracts and event plans are safely stored within my password protected home office PC and backed up to encrypted external hard drives.
Client photos are also safely stored within my password protected home office PC and backed up to encrypted external hard drives and encrypted cloud storage via Amazon Web Services for security and redundancy.

CLIENTS AND GUESTS CAPTURED IN PHOTOS

Under GDPR legislation, a photograph may in some instances constitute a form of personal data where they can be processed to allow “the unique identification or authentication of a natural person”.
Rising Tide Photography Limited will never photograph an individual as a means of unique identification or authentication unless consensually contracted to do so.
Guests at events appear in photos taken by Rising Tide Photography Limited as a part of the visual recording of the event in photos.
Guests captured in portraits or in group photos do so as part of the event and their rights are protected by Rising Tide Photography Limited as detailed in this privacy policy.
In terms of explicit GDPR compliance, event clients and guests are photographed within the parameters of GDPR legislation on the basis of ‘legitimate interests’.

The taking of photographs of event guests when viewed as a form of processing personal data is necessary for the legitimate interests of Rising Tide Photography Limited as a photography business unless there is a good reason to protect a given individual's personal data which overrides those legitimate interests.
Operating within the parameters of legitimate interests as laid out in GDPR legislation, the disproportionate effort involved in providing privacy policy information to all event guests at the event and the degree to which it would distract us from performing our job renders it infeasible to do.
Event clients are therefore requested in their contract to direct their guests to read this privacy policy in advance of the event and to advise them to contact us in advance with any concerns around the processing of their personal data, namely being photographed.

SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY & USAGE

We adopt a safe and responsible Social Media Policy.
While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify the authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles.
We will never ask for personal details on social media platforms.
Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.

PROMOTIONAL USE OF IMAGES

To enable the continued work of Rising Tide Photography Limited, I reserve the right, with your consent, to select photographs to be used for promotional purposes.
To promote Rising Tide Photography Limited, photographs may be displayed on the Rising Tide Photography Limited website, blog posts, social media accounts, and on brochures/flyers that promote the services of Rising Tide Photography Limited.
The rights of the people captured in these photographs are protected by Rising Tide Photography Limited as detailed in this privacy policy.
Rising Tide Photography Limited respects the privacy of every client and therefore every client photographed by Rising Tide Photography Limited, must consent for photographs of themselves to be displayed, these terms are written in our service agreement.

Withdrawal of consent

Anyone photographed by Rising Tide Photography Limited, whether a client or event guest, and whether past or current may withdraw consent for a photograph in which they appear to be displayed.
The process for this is to email Rising Tide Photography Limited at carl@risingtide.photo specifying the photo in question.
With that request Rising Tide Photography Limited will then remove the photo from online and printed display wherever it appears.

By clicking 'submit' on our contact form, you hereby are consenting to Rising Tide Photography Limited contacting your selected email address to respond to your enquiry within 48 hours.
Clients are reminded that if you do not wish for your email to be kept on the system then please state so.