privacy notice

This Privacy notice applies to Lana Dowling Photography, trading as “lanadowling.com”, “LD Photography” (“I”, “me”, "we"). LD Photography is committed to protecting your personal data and this privacy notice states how LD Photography collects your personal data. This Privacy notice will explain how LD Photography uses the personal data you provide to me when you use my website. I ensure that I use your information in accordance with applicable EU law.

Who we are?

Lana Dowling Photography, an auto-entrepreneur is registered and operating under the laws of the French Republic, SIREN N803.965.326. LD Photography is the “data controller” or “controller” in relation to any personal data provided to me via email, phone or via website. This means I am responsible for deciding what type of personal data is required and how I will hold and use it.

LD Photography is providing wedding and commercial photography services in Nouvelle Aquitaine.

By using or navigating website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by this Privacy note. You should not provide me with any information if you don’t agree with the terms of the Privacy note. I encourage you to review and check website for any updates to this Privacy notice. If you have any queries about this Privacy notice or your personal data, please contact: photo@lanadowling.com

Data Protection Principles

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, who can be identified, directly or indirectly, such as a full name, an IP address, email address and telephone number, which are indicated in the contact form of the website.

I ensure that your PII is used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way; collected only for valid purposes – to respond to your enquiries, to arrange a photo session time, to deliver your images on time and keep you updated about your order; limited only to those purposes; accurate and kept updated; kept only for a period of one year; kept in secure.

What data do I collect and why?

The main reason I use your information is to deal with your enquiries and requests about LD Photography services. When you use my website, I collect:

Name/email – to deal with your enquiries about LD Photography services and tariffs;
Cookies – to analyze the information about website pages you have visited, how long have you stayed and what devices (PC or mobile) you have used to access the website.

To process your information as described above, I rely on the following legal bases:

In response to your direct enquiry about LD Photography services when you contact me.

LD Photography use cookies to recognize you and your device(s).

How do I share your information?

You share your contact information with me by filling in the contact form on the website. I don't share your contact details with third parties apart those who help to maintain website services.

I use third parties to help me to operate and improve my website services. These third parties assist me with various tasks, including data hosting and maintenance, security operations.

I may also share information: (i) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect my legal rights and legal rights of other users, business partners or other interested parties; (iii) to enforce the agreements with you; and (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity or other wrongdoing.

How do we protect your information?

I adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal or transactional information stored on website.

Firewall is set up
Encryption software is used that enable encryption and decryption of a data stream during transmission and storage
Strong passwords / digital signatures are established.
I regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and regularly review our information collection, storage and processing practices to update our physical, technical and organizational security measures.

How long I retain your PII ?

I keep your personal information only as long as I need it for legitimate business purposes, but no longer then one year.

In practice, I delete your information after one year of continuous inactivity, unless:

I must keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law (for instance, records of consents to our Terms, Privacy Policy and other similar consents are kept for three years);
there is an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved;

Your rights

I want you to be aware of your privacy rights. Here are a few key points to remember:

Reviewing your information. Applicable privacy laws may give you the right to review the personal information we keep about you (depending on the jurisdiction, this may be called right of access, right of portability or variations of those terms).
Updating your information. If you believe that the information we hold about you is inaccurate or that we are no longer entitled to use it and want to request its rectification, deletion or object to its processing, please contact us.

For your protection and the protection of all of our users, I may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer the above requests.

Accountability. You have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how I process your personal information. The data protection authority you can lodge a complaint with notably may be that of your habitual residence, where you work or where I am established.

Privacy Policy changes

I reserves the right to make changes and update the terms of this notice. I will notify you before any material changes take place.

How to contact me

If you have any questions about this Privacy note, you can contact me via the following email photo@lanadowling.com