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Privacy Policy

PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR PRIVACY POLICY HAS CHANGED EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 1, 2019.

Thank you for visiting All-about-photo.com's website (referred to in this policy as "the Website", "we", "us" or "our") and for reviewing this privacy policy. The intention of the Website is to provide you with information regarding fine art photography. We recognize that visitors may be concerned about the information they provide to us and how we treat that information. This Privacy Policy covers the personal information that we collect from you or about you when you visit the Website.


Cookie Policy

By using or accessing the Website, you are consenting to All-About-Photo.com's use of Cookies as follows:

Cookies allow the Website to remember important information that will make your use of the site more convenient. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a randomly generated unique number or other value. Certain cookies will be used on the Website regardless of whether you are logged in to your account or not.

We use Cookies on the Website for the following purposes:
- Determining if you are logged in or not, so you have not to login every time you visit the site.
- Remembering some of your settings and improve your online experience.
- Allowing you to edit your profile, add comments and title to your photos.
- Tailoring content to your needs.

We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information.
- Collect any sensitive information.
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties.
- Pay sales commissions.

Session Cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the Website.

Persistent Cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). We may employ persistent cookies so that we remember your computer when it is used to return to the Website to help customize your All About Photo web experience. Use the options in your web browser if you do not wish to receive a cookie or if you wish to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. You can easily delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser.

If you disable all cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of the Website.


Server Logs

The Website is not set up to track, collect or distribute any of your personal information unless you have knowingly provided it. Our site server logs do generate certain kinds on non-identifying site usage data, such as the number of hits and visits to our web pages, plus your IP Address and the type of web browser you use. This information is used for internal purposes so that we can improve site content, services and product offerings. The statistics that are collected do not contain any personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.


Information Regarding Third Party Cookies

The Website uses Google AdWords and Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

The Website may use third parties such as network advertisers to serve advertisements on the Website and may use traffic measurement services to analyze traffic on the Website. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to the Website and other websites you have visited. Third-party ad serving enables us to target advertisements to you for products and services in which you might be interested. The Website' third party ad network providers, the advertisers, the sponsors and/or traffic measurement services may themselves set and access their own cookies and other technologies on your Computer and track certain behavioral information regarding users of your Computer via a Device Identifier. These third party cookies and other technologies are set to, among other things: (a) help deliver advertisements to you that you might be interested in; (b) prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times; and (c) understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements that have been delivered to you. Note that any images (or any other parts of a web page) served by third parties in association with third party cookies may serve as web beacons, which enable third parties to carry out the previously described activities. Third party cookies, web beacons, and other third party technologies are governed by each third party's specific privacy policy, not this one. You may wish to visit www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp, which provides information regarding the practice of behavioral tracking by Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") members, and your choices regarding having this information used by these companies, including the "opt-out" procedures of NAI members. Opting out of one or more NAI members only means that those NAI members will no longer be able to deliver targeted content and/or ads to you, which will affect this and other web sites, but does not mean you will no longer receive any targeted content and/or ads. In addition, opting out may still allow the collection of usage data for certain purposes (e.g., research, analytics and for internal online services operation purposes). Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit this opt-out page, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different computer or change web browsers, your NAI opt-out may not, or may no longer, be effective. Additional information is available on the NAI's web site accessible by the above link.


Sharing and Protecting Information

When you sign up for or use our services, you voluntarily give us certain information. This can include your name, profile photo, posts, comments, email address you used to sign up, and any other information you provide us. All-About-Photo.com does not sell, rent or license your personal information but we may disclose anonymous aggregate information (example the number of visitors to our site or to a certain pages) to third parties such as our advertisers or business partners. In the event that All-About-Photo.com merges with or is acquired by another business entity we may share some or all of your information with the new entity in order to continue to provide you with our products and services.

If you send us an e-mail with questions or comments, we may use your personally identifiable information to respond to your questions or comments, and we may save your questions or comments for future reference. For security reasons, we do not recommend that you send non-public personally identifiable information, such as passwords, social security numbers or bank account information, to us by e-mail. Further, we may send you e-mail under the following circumstances: (a) if you request a particular service or sign up for a feature that involves e-mail communications; (b) if it relates to purchases you have made with us (e.g., product updates, customer support, etc.); (c) if we are sending you information about our other products and services; (d) if you consented to being contacted by e-mail for a particular purpose; (e) if you send us an e-mail, post information on the Website (i.e., a blog) or otherwise submit information to us electronically, we may e-mail you to follow-up or otherwise communicate with you with respect thereto; (f) to provide you legal notices or notices with respect to your use of the Website; or (g) to otherwise facilitate a transaction between us. In certain instances, we may provide you with tools on the Website that will allow you to set your preferences for receiving e-mail communications from us; that is, agree to some communications but not others. You may "opt out" of receiving future commercial e-mail communications from us by clicking the "unsubscribe" link or following the other instructions included at the bottom of most e-mails we send, or as provided below in Section I; provided, however, we reserve the right to send you transactional e-mails such as customer service communications.

We have implemented security measures we consider reasonable and appropriate to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Please be advised, however, that while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and are not responsible for the theft, destruction or inadvertent disclosure of your personally identifiable information. In the unfortunate event that your "personally identifiable information" (as the term or similar terms are defined by any applicable law requiring notice upon a security breach) is compromised, we may notify you by e-mail (at our sole and absolute discretion) to the last e-mail address you have provided us in the most expedient time reasonable under the circumstances; provided, however, delays in notification may occur while we take necessary measures to determine the scope of the breach and restore reasonable integrity to the system as well as for the legitimate needs of law enforcement if notification would impede a criminal investigation. From time to time we evaluate new technology for protecting information, and when appropriate, we upgrade our information security systems.


Children

The features, promotions and other aspects of the Website requiring personally identifiable information are not intended for children. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen (13). If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of thirteen (13) and believe he or she has disclosed personally identifiable information to us, please contact us at privacy [at] all-about-photo.com. A parent or guardian of a child under the age of thirteen (13) may review and request deletion of such child's personally identifiable information as well as prohibit the use thereof.


Links to Other Sites

The Website has links to other websites whose privacy policies may differ from ours. All-About-Photo.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other websites. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.


Changes to this Privacy Policy

All-About-Photo.com may change how we collect, use or treat your personal information. Please check back periodically to review any changes that we have made to the Privacy Policy. If we make any major changes in the way we use your personal information, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our homepage.


Problems Concerns

Your privacy is very important to us. If you have questions about your privacy, feel that your privacy has been violated, or that All-About-Photo.com has misused your information in any way, please let us know by sending an email to privacy [at] all-about-photo.com.