Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: http://lindahermansphotography.com

All photography and information found on Linda Hermans Photography (LHP) are personal opinions, advice and gathered information compiled for entertainment and informational purposes only. LHP is not liable for any errors or omissions in this information.

You are reading this page at your own free will, and are obliged to take the information how you wish.

Privacy Policy

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information LHP collects, uses and maintains from users of the website. This document applies to the website and all products and services offered by LHP.

We will not collect any data or share it with any third parties without your consent.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Details you voluntarily submit to the site: We may collect personal information such as your name, email address or website URL. This generally occurs by voluntarily submitting the information through a comment, subscribing to a mailing list subscription or filling out an email form.

Automatically Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the website. For example, when you visit Linda's Healthy Life, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.  Your information has been anonymized and is viewed aggregately.

Embedded Content from Other Websites: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc from social platforms.). 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How your information may be used

• To operate and maintain the LHP website;
• To send you emails and newsletters. Each email will provide an easy opt-out button;
• To respond to your comments or inquiries;
• To track and measure statistics/advertising on the LHP website;
• To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

GDPR Compliance

LHP strives to take data protection very seriously. All information you provide on this site is only to add a personalised experience.

• We use Mailchimp for our emails and newsletter, which you can always unsubscribe from by following the link in email or by emailing us.
• We use Google Analytics for analysing website data. This service tracks things such as user actions, referring websites and may capture your IP address, however, no further personal information is taken.
  • This data is kept for 26 months for the purpose of analysing the growth and progress of this website.
  • If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.
• If you gave us your name, it will only be used to personalise the newsletters.
• We have never sold, we are not selling, and we will not sell any of your personal data provided to us.
• All of our affiliates are GDPR compliant.

You have the right to:

• Be informed regarding how the data is collected and used.
• Have access to the data about you.
• Ask us to change the data about you.
• Ask us to delete the data about you.
• Ask us to stop sending your newsletters.
• If there is a breach of data, you will be informed within 72 hours.

If there is a breach of data, you will be informed within 72 hours.

LHP abides by GDPR regulations.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Sensitive information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the website. This includes your ID or social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or any offensive, personal and discriminative information.

If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Affiliate disclaimer

Some of the links on this blog/website are affiliate links, and if you purchase products or services through these links, we may get paid a small commission, the amount of which varies from product to product. This costs you absolutely nothing, but helps in the running costs of this blog so that we can keep putting out free content for you. We will only ever recommend products and services that we feel are of high quality and helpful to our readers. If we don’t love it, we won’t recommend it.

Copyright

The content of this blog is covered by copyright and all words and photographs are the copyright of LHP unless otherwise stated. We put a lot of time and effort into crafting well-written articles and beautiful imagery, and it's not cool for your take it without permission. If you would like to use any of our photography or republish our articles, please do get in touch and we'd be delighted to forward you our rates.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using the LHP website you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this website. Your continued use of this website following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Reserve rights

The owner of LHP has the right to shut down, change policies, delete comments and edit content on this blog at any time without notice.

Contact information

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please get in touch with us at hello@lindahermansphotography.com

Privacy Policy last updated November 03 2022.