Cookies and Privacy Policy

This is the Cookie Policy for PhotosByNikkiAlexandra.com, and applies to the presence of cookies on this website.

1) What Are Cookies?

Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer to track particular aspects of your activity online to help us learn certain things about our website, as well as help improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality. You may see a list of all cookies used on this site at the bottom of the page.

2) Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. 

3) Our Website Cookies

a. Forms related cookies

When you submit data through a form for contact, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. This website is powered by Adobe Portfolio. More information on Adobe’s Cookie Policy can be found here.

4) Third Party Cookies

a. Google Analytics related cookies

Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience.

Some cookies help sites understand how their visitors engage with their properties. For example, Google Analytics, a Google product that helps site and app owners understand how people engage with a service, uses a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. ‘_ga’ is the main cookie used by Google Analytics. ‘_ga’ enables a service to distinguish one user from another and lasts for 2 years. It’s used by any site that implements Google Analytics, including Google services. More information can be found on Google’s page here.

This is the Privacy Policy for PhotosByNikkiAlexandra.com, and applies to the privacy of visitors on https://www.photosbynikkialexandra.com. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Photos by Nikki Alexandra, and how it is used. 

1) This website is powered by Adobe Portfolio. More information on Adobe’s Privacy Policy can be found here.

2) More information on Google Analytics Privacy Policy can be found here: 
How Google Retains Data
Google Product Privacy Guide

3) If you have additional questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at photosbynikkialexandra@yahoo.com. 

4) This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Photos by Nikki Alexandra. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

5) Consent

By using this website, you hereby consent to the Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

6) Information We Collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

7) How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

Provide, operate, and maintain our website
Improve, personalize, and expand our website
Understand and analyze how you use our website
Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
Send you emails
Find and prevent fraud

8) Log Files

Photos by Nikki Alexandra (via Adobe Portfolio as the web hosting service) follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as part of web hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

9) Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Photos by Nikki Alexandra uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

For more general information on cookies, please refer to the Cookie Policy at the top of this page. 

10) Advertising Partners/Third Party Privacy Policies

Please note that Photos by Nikki Alexandra does not accept advertisements on their website. If/when applicable, third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Photos by Nikki Alexandra, which are sent directly to visitors’ browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Photos by Nikki Alexandra has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Photos by Nikki Alexandra's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

11) CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Photos by Nikki Alexandra does not sell personal information to third parties. 

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you make a request to photosbynikkialexandra@yahoo.com or via contact form, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

12) GDPR Data Protection Rights

While these do not all apply to content and interactions with Photos by Nikki Alexandra, nor to off-site photography storage data, these are the basic GDPR Data Protection Rights that visitors to all websites across the web hold in terms of personal data collected (such as, but not limited to: name, email, phone number). More information on GDPR can be found here: https://gdpr-info.eu/  

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

In the event that your personal data is collected, you have the right to access. You have the right to request copies of your personal data if applicable. We may charge you a small fee for this service if requested. 

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions. 

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request to photosbynikkialexandra@yahoo.com or via contact form, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

13) Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Photos by Nikki Alexandra does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

14) Location

Photos by Nikki Alexandra is located in Milton, Ontario, Canada. 

15) Legal Disclosures of Personal Information.

We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us, (2) protect and defend our rights or property or (3) act under exigent circumstances to protect the safety of the public or users of the site.

16) What Legal Basis Do We Have For Collecting and Processing Your Information?

Our legal basis for each of the ways we collect information such as name, phone number, email, and photo session specific information (such as location, names of group members) from you is as follows. Please note where consent forms the basis, you can withdraw consent at any time by contacting us at foodphotographyblog@gmail.com or opting out of any email message using the “unsubscribe” link.

Questions and Inquiries: Submitting emails to us: We have a legitimate interest in collecting your information so we can respond to you. When you submit a question to us, you are seeking answers and have a reasonable expectation that we will provide them to you.

“Legitimate interests” for processing your personal information exist where you submit the information with an expectation that it will be processed and there is no undue impact on you.

17) Sale of Business

Should we sell this site or our business, your personal information will not be provided as an asset transferred to the new owner.

18) Third Party Websites.

In the event that Photos by Nikki Alexandra links to other sites via blog posts or formal documents, please keep in mind that we do not control the privacy policies of those sites. Make sure to review the policies of any such sites before providing your personal information.

19) Who Has Access To The Data We Collect?

We process and have access to the data we collect from you. However, we use third parties to provide us with a variety of services so the website functions including the following categories of recipients: content management system, cookie consent programs, analytics providers, and services to send our email messages. These third parties are prohibited from utilizing, sharing or retaining your personal data for any purpose other than providing us services we have contracted for unless any alternative use is first approved by you. 

20) Privacy Concerns, Contacting Us, Complaints.

You can contact us with any questions or requests you have about these policies or your personal data by contacting us photosbynikkialexandra@yahoo.com.