PRIVACY STATEMENT

NATURE OF WORK

lauracurrie.com is the website of Laura Currie, who is the principal photographer of Andeye Photography. Andeye Photography is a husband and wife photography business based in Galston, East Ayrshire, Scotland. You can read more about Andeye Photography here. You can read more about Laura Currie here.

Andeye and Andeye Photography are trading names of Aqueum Ltd.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

PHOTOGRAPHS

As photographers we take photographs of various subjects, including our clients, their guests, and members of the public. These photographs are used for various purposes by our clients. We also use them to promote our work.

In delivering these services, we need to process personal information.

COMMENTS

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

DESCRIPTION OF PROCESSING

The following is a broad description of the way Aqueum Ltd process personal information. To understand how your own personal information is processed you may need to refer to any personal communications you have received, or contact us to ask about your personal circumstances.

REASONS/PURPOSES FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION

We process personal information to enable us to provide photographic services, to promote our services, to maintain our own accounts and records and to support and manage our employees.

TYPE/CLASSES OF INFORMATION PROCESSED

We process information relating to the above reasons/purposes. This information may include:

  • personal details
  • family, lifestyle and social circumstances
  • business activities of the person whose personal information we are processing
  • goods and services provided
  • financial details
  • education details
  • employment details
  • photographs and digital images

We also process sensitive classes of information that may include:

  • physical or mental health details
  • offences and alleged offences
  • racial or ethnic origin
  • religious or other beliefs of a similar nature

WHO THE INFORMATION IS PROCESSED ABOUT

We process personal information about our customers, clients and employees, complainants and enquirers, suppliers, advisers and other professional experts.

WHO THE INFORMATION MAY BE SHARED WITH

We sometimes need to share the personal information we process with the individual themself and also with other organisations. Where this is necessary we are required to comply with all aspects of the Data Protection Act (DPA) and GDPR. What follows is a description of the types of organisations we may need to share some of the personal information we process with for one or more reasons.

Where necessary or required we share information with:

  • business associates and other professional advisers
  • family, associates and representatives of the person whose personal data we are processing
  • financial organisations
  • current, past or prospective employers
  • educators and examining bodies
  • suppliers and services providers
  • traders in personal data

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR DATA

LEGITIMATE INTERESTS:

We process the majority of your data on the basis of our legitimate interests. This means that we:

  • use people’s data in ways they would reasonably expect and which have a minimal privacy impact; or
  • if there is a compelling justification for the processing.

So for example, if you send us an email, we would process that email and may:

  • reply to you
  • forward all or part of your email to others who may help with your enquiry
  • forward it to the police if your email was for example to ask for a quote to photograph something heinously illegal
  • store the email for future reference, with secure cloud and physical backups
  • pass the contact details from your email into our contacts database so we can contact you in the future

We also use Google Analytics to see how our website is used, in order that we can focus improvements on areas where they are most needed.

CONTRACT:

If we negotiate or enter into a contract, we will process this data on the legal basis of contract. We will consult any contractual documents and communications during the project and store them with secure cloud and physical backups for insurance, accountancy & other legal purposes.

CONSENT:

If we start a newsletter we would send this to people who have provided explicit consent on a sign up form. We don’t currently have a newsletter, but feel free to contact us if you think we should…

COOKIES

We also use cookies on this website, for more information, please see our Cookies Policy

YOUR RIGHTS

Unless subject to an exemption under data protection legislation, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • The right to request a copy of your personal data which we hold about you;
  • The right to request that we correct any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
  • The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for us to retain such data;
  • The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time;
  • The right to request that we provide you with your personal data and, where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, where applicable (known as the right to data portability);
  • The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
  • The right to object to the processing of personal data, where applicable;
  • The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or have any questions please contact us.

AQUEUM LTD

Laura Currie Photography, Andeye and Andeye Photography are trading names of Aqueum Ltd, a Private Limited Company registered in Scotland as company number SC572318 with registered office at 44 Bank Street, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, United Kingdom, KA1 1HA and VAT registration number 285694448. Please contact us.