Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, You may provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personal Data may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Subject of Your inquiry
- Message content submitted through the contact form
- Any other information You choose to include in Your message to Us
Please do not submit sensitive Personal Data through the contact form unless it is necessary for Your inquiry.
The Website is an image portfolio and informational website. We do not conduct e-commerce through the Website, and We do not collect payment card information through the Website.
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address, or IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of Our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, referring pages, general location information, cookie identifiers, device and browser identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, device and browser identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit Our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar technologies to operate the Website, understand how visitors use the Website, protect the Website from misuse, and improve the Website.
Cookies are small files that a website places on Your computer, mobile device, or other device when You visit the website. Cookies may be “Session” Cookies, which are deleted when You close Your browser, or “Persistent” Cookies, which remain on Your device for a period of time or until You delete them.
We may also use similar technologies, such as tags or scripts, to collect information about Website usage, performance, security, and functionality.
You can instruct Your browser to refuse Cookies or to alert You when Cookies are being sent. However, if You refuse or disable Cookies, some parts of the Website may not function properly.
Where required by law, We use non-essential Cookies, such as analytics Cookies, only with Your consent. You may withdraw or change Your cookie consent at any time through Your browser settings or, if available, through any cookie preference tool We provide.
We use the following types of Cookies:
- Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us and/or Our Service Providers
Purpose: These Cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly and to support basic Website operations, security, and performance. They are used only to provide, maintain, secure, and operate the Website.
- Cookie Notice / Preference Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us and/or Our Service Providers
Purpose: These Cookies may be used to remember Your cookie preferences or whether You have acknowledged a cookie notice, so that We do not need to ask You the same question each time You visit the Website.
- Analytics Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third parties, including Google Analytics
Purpose: We use analytics Cookies to help Us understand how visitors use the Website, such as which pages are visited, how long visitors spend on pages, general location information, browser and device information, referring pages, and other Website traffic information. We use this information to operate, maintain, and improve the Website.
We use Google Analytics for basic website analytics. We do not use Google Analytics for advertising, remarketing, or personalized advertising.
You can learn more about how Google Analytics collects and processes data by reviewing Google’s privacy disclosures. You can also use the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on to prevent Google Analytics JavaScript from sharing information about Your visit activity with Google Analytics.
We do not use advertising or remarketing Cookies.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain Our Service, including to monitor the usage of Our Service.
- To operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Website.
- To respond to inquiries submitted through the contact form.
- To communicate with You regarding an inquiry, request, or message You submit to Us.
- To understand Website traffic and usage through analytics.
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues, security issues, spam, fraud, abuse, automated misuse, or other misuse of the Website.
- To comply with legal obligations and protect Our rights, property, users, Website, and the public.
- For business transfers: We may use Your Personal Data to evaluate or complete a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, sale, or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about users of Our Service may be among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, maintaining Website security, and evaluating and improving Our Service.
We do not use Personal Data collected through the Website for advertising, remarketing, personalized advertising, or cross-context behavioral advertising.
We may share Your Personal Data in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share Your Personal Data with Service Providers to operate, host, maintain, secure, analyze, and improve the Website, to respond to inquiries, and to protect the Website from spam, fraud, abuse, and automated misuse.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your Personal Data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of Company assets, or transfer of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
- For legal and safety reasons: We may share Your Personal Data where We believe disclosure is necessary to comply with legal obligations, protect and defend the rights or property of the Company, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service, protect the safety of users of the Service or the public, or protect against legal liability.
- With Your consent: We may disclose Your Personal Data for any other purpose with Your consent.
We do not sell Personal Data for money. We do not share Personal Data for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with Our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce Our legal agreements and policies, maintain security, and protect Our legal rights.
Where possible, We apply shorter retention periods and/or reduce identifiability by deleting, aggregating, or anonymizing data. Unless otherwise stated, the retention periods below are maximum periods and We may delete or anonymize data sooner when it is no longer needed for the relevant purpose. We apply different retention periods to different categories of Personal Data based on the purpose of processing and legal obligations:
- Contact form submissions
- Retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the inquiry, manage our relationship with the sender, maintain business records, and protect our legal rights.
- Website analytics data
- Retained according to Our Google Analytics settings and/or in aggregated or de-identified form for website measurement and improvement.
- Server and security logs
- Retained for a limited period for security, troubleshooting, fraud prevention, abuse prevention, and website maintenance, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.
- Usage Data
- Usage Data is retained in accordance with the retention periods described above and may be retained longer only where necessary for security, fraud prevention, abuse prevention, troubleshooting, or legal compliance.
We may retain Personal Data beyond the periods stated above for different reasons:
- Legal obligation: We are required by law to retain specific data (e.g., financial records for tax authorities).
- Legal claims: Data is necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
- Your explicit request: You ask Us to retain specific information.
- Technical limitations: Data exists in backup systems that are scheduled for routine deletion.
You may request information about how long We will retain Your Personal Data by contacting Us.
When retention periods expire, We securely delete or anonymize Personal Data according to the following procedures:
- Deletion: Personal Data is removed from Our systems and no longer actively processed.
- Backup retention: Residual copies may remain in backups for a limited period consistent with Our backup retention schedule and are not restored except where necessary for security, disaster recovery, or legal compliance.
- Anonymization: In some cases, We convert Personal Data into anonymous statistical data that cannot reasonably be linked back to You. This anonymized data may be retained indefinitely for analytics, research, and business purposes.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in Your jurisdiction.
Where required by applicable law, We will ensure that international transfers of Your Personal Data are subject to appropriate safeguards. The Company will take steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Delete Your Personal Data
You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.
You may contact Us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of Personal Data that You have provided to Us through the Website.
Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when We have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so, including for security, recordkeeping, dispute resolution, or legal compliance purposes.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, asset sale, or similar transaction, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy, where required by applicable law.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities, such as a court or a government agency.
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially reasonable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.