Privacy policy
Effective Date: 05 September 2021
Introduction
Nick Joubert Photography (hereafter referred to as “we”, “our”, “us”) owns https://nickjoubert.com/ (hereafter referred to as “our website”, “this website”, “this site”).
POPIA Compliance
In compliance with The Protection of Personal Information Act, we have detailed what type of information we collect, why, and how it is used.
Types of Information We Collect
Some services on this website require us to collect personal information from you. We will not sell or rent this information to a third party.
We receive, collect, and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. 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.
We may also collect personally identifiable information as provided by yourself at any point during your interaction with our website—such as when you submit a contact form, or sign up for our newsletter, or make a purchase—including, but not limited to, your name, email, address, phone number, medical information, communications, comments, feedback, and recommendations.
We may collect photographs and video footage of you with or without your name for any lawful purpose, including such purposes as publicity, illustration, advertising, social media, marketing materials and web content.
How we collect this information
When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address, telephone number and email address. Your personal information will only be used for the specific reasons stated below.
Why we collect such information
We collect such non-personal and personal information for the following purposes:
- To streamline our purchase and delivery process;
- To provide and operate services;
- To provide our users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
- To be able to contact our visitors and users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
- To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred non-personal information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
- To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
- To share medical information in a medical emergency with emergency response personnel.
How we use, share and disclose your information
We request information on our order form that is used for billing purposes and to complete your orders. We will only use the information to respond to you regarding the purpose you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party, except where necessary to fulfill your request (for instance a logistics company).
Our website is hosted on the WordPress.com platform. WordPress.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through WordPress.com’s data storage, databases and the general WordPress.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
Except as stated already, we will make no attempt to identify individual users.
You should be aware, however, that access to web pages will generally create log entries in the systems of your ISP or network service provider. These entities may be able to identify the client computer equipment used to access a page. Such monitoring would be done by the provider of network services and is beyond our responsibility or control.
Cookies
We use cookies on this site. Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a site visitor's browser. They are typically used to keep track of the settings users have selected and actions they have taken on a site. You can find out more about cookies here: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies on this site for a variety of reasons detailed below.
- When you submit data through a form (such as those found on contact pages) or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your details for future correspondence.
- To provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties:
- Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic, search queries and visits to this website. Google Analytics stores IP address anonymously on its servers in the US and does not associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information.
This website uses Google Analytics to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies enable Google to determine whether you are a return visitor to the site, and to track the pages that you visit during your session. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit.
- Google Ads
We may use Google Ads service for advertising purposes. It uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
- WordPress
WordPress uses cookies for important reasons, such as: to provide a great experience for our visitors and customers; to identify registered members (users who registered to our site); to monitor and analyse the performance, operation, and effectiveness of WordPress' platform; to ensure that their platform is secure and safe to use.
Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not.
If you’re looking for additional information on cookies, you can contact us through the form on the contact page.
Links to other websites
Our Service may contain links to other 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 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 or services.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analysing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but 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.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our servers immediately.
How we communicate with you
We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to clarify submitted information, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone or text messages, and postal mail.
How you can withdraw your consent
If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, or would like us to delete your data, please contact us via the form on our contact page. This excludes any information we have to keep for legal, financial, insurance or security purposes. Record Retention is necessary to be stored securely for a period of six years for Claims-made Policies. We will only keep your personal and medical information as long as is lawfully and commercially required for a specific transaction or service or ongoing service.
Privacy policy updates
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will update the date of the most recent published changes.
Get in touch
If you would like to: access, correct, amend, or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us via the form on our contact page.