Privacy Policy

This Website Privacy Policy applies to: www.donnahywardphotography.com

Last update: October 1, 2022

The respect of your private life is of the utmost importance for Donna Hayward Photography, who is responsible for this website.

This Privacy Policy aims to lay out:

  • the way your personal information is collected and processed. "Personal information" means any information that could identify you, such as your name, your mailing address, your email address, your location and your IP address;

  • your rights regarding your personal information;

  • who is responsible for the processing of the collected information;

  • to whom the information is transmitted;

  • if applicable, the website's policy regarding cookies.

This Privacy Policy complements the Terms and Conditions that you may find at the following address:

www.donnahaywardphotography.com/terms-and-conditions

1. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

When you visit the Website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

  • This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

  • “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

  • “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking about Device Information.

2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

3. FORMS AND METHODS OF COLLECTION

Your personal information is collected through the following methods:

  • Website registration form

We use the collected data for the following purposes:

  • Order tracking

  • Contact

  • Managing the website

4. INTERACTIVITY

Your personal information is also collected through the interactivity between you and the website. This personal information is collected through the following methods:

  • Comments

  • Information for promotional offers

We use the personal information thus collected for the following purposes:

  • Contact

  • Website management


5. SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Squarespace to power our online store--you can read more about how Squarespace uses your Personal Information here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

6. ANALYTICS

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

7. EMAIL MARKETING

If you choose to opt in to our email newsletter, you will occasionally receive emails regarding updates to this website, free resources, paid products, other content related to the business. You may opt out of our email newsletter at any time. Our email newsletter is managed through an email list management provider and opting out of one of our email lists may not necessarily remove you from all emails. Should you have any issues or problems unsubscribing, please contact us.

If you correspond with us via email, we may retain the email messages and correspondence, but will not share this information with any third party.

8. DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.


9. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Our Privacy Policy may be viewed at all times at the following address:

www.donnahaywardphotography/privacy-policy

We reserve the right to modify our Privacy Policy in order to guarantee its compliance with the applicable law.

You are therefore invited to regularly consult our Privacy Policy to be informed of the latest changes.

10. ACCEPTANCE OF OUR PRIVACY POLICY

By using our Website, you certify that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and accept its conditions, more specifically conditions relating to the collection and processing of personal information.

11. APPLICABLE LAW

We are committed to ensuring compliance with all applicable legislation, including, but not limited to:

  • the Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46);

  • Canada's anti-spam legislation (CASL);

  • the National Security Act, 2017 (S.C. 2019, c. 13);

  • the Communications Security Establishment Act (S.C. 2019, c. 13, s. 76);

  • the Security of Information Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. O-5);

  • the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (S.C. 2000, c. 5) or Provincial counterparts in jurisdictions that have their own privacy laws.