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Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. That's why we have included this legal verbage so you know how we: collect information, use that information, + take your privacy seriously.


Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to http://www.betsysphotography.com and Betsy's Photography, LLC and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Betsy's Photography, LLC include http://www.betsysphotography.com and Betsy's Photography. The Betsy's Photography website is a information site. By using the Betsy's Photography website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.


Collection of your Personal Information

Betsy's Photography may collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:

- demographic information as collected by Google Analytics (e.g. age, gender)

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Betsy's Photography does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Betsy's Photography may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Betsy's Photography, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Betsy's Photography may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Betsy's Photography or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Betsy's Photography; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Betsy's Photography, or the public.

Tracking User Behavior

Betsy's Photography may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Betsy's Photography, in order to determine what Betsy's Photography services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Betsy's Photography to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.


Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Betsy's Photography. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Betsy's Photography website.

Analytics

Like most websites, Betsy's Photography uses Google Analytics to record tracking data, such as what website referred you to this site, how long you stay on the site, the computer type you’re using, etc. This is done by use of cookies that collect data. This site does not compile any personally identifying data. The information collected by Google Analytics helps Betsy's Photography understand our visitors so that web content can be adjusted according to the needs and interests of site visitors. For more information, read: How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps.

Google Analytics has several currently available opt-outs for the web, if you’re interested.

Use of Cookies

The Betsy's Photography website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Betsy's Photography pages, or register with Betsy's Photography site or services, a cookie helps Betsy's Photography to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Betsy's Photography website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Betsy's Photography features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Betsy's Photography services or websites you visit.

Links

This site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

  • Amazon Affiliate Information - This site participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Regardless, we only recommend products or services we use personally and believe you will enjoy too.

Compensation Disclosure

This site does not accept any form of cash advertising, sponsorship, or paid topic insertions. However, we will and do accept and keep free products, services, travel, event tickets, and other forms of compensation from companies and organizations.

The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made on this site. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.

The owner of this site may be compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner of this site receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This site does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

Security of your Personal Information

Betsy's Photography secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Betsy's Photography uses the following methods for this purpose:

- SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Children Under Thirteen

Betsy's Photography does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, Betsy's Photography may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Betsy's Photography or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Betsy's Photography, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the unsubscribe button..

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Credit Card Processing + PCI Compliance

We may use our credit card processing terminal to receive payments. Your cardholder data is not saved or stored, and we take care to maintain our PCI Compliance status as required.

We may use PayPal to receive payments via credit card online, as well as our PayPal terminal to receive payments in person. Your cardholder data is not saved or stored using this method either. In fact, when you use our online PayPal interface to make a payment, your cardholder data is processed directly by PayPal -- we only receive the payment and never have access to your cardholder data.

Changes to this Statement

Betsy's Photography reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

Betsy's Photography welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Betsy's Photography has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Betsy's Photography via our website or via phone (734-424-0472).

Effective as of April 14, 2019