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Privacy Policy & Cookies

This privacy policy sets out how DSLR Photography Courses Ltd uses and protects any information that you give DSLR Photography Courses Ltd when you use this website.

DSLR Photography Courses Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

DSLR Photography Courses Ltd may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 20 September 2012.

Booking a course and making payment

Please note that you don’t need to create an account to book a course on our website. We only ask to fill in necessary details like: your name, email address and telephone number.

Booking a course is straightforward, secure and only takes a second. After clicking ‘Sign up’ you will be taken to Order Summary page where you can choose to pay by debit or credit card, bank money transfer, cheque or gift voucher.

All card transactions are processed securely by PayPal.

During and after the transaction we don’t store customers bank account details or credit card numbers. Our customers don’t need to worry that any of their financial information could be exposed online or in public. If you have any questions please email us at info [at] dslrphotographycourses [dot] com or call our office on 020 8947 8118.

What we collect

We may collect the following information – from the course booking form, a gift voucher purchase, a follow up emails, course evaluation feedback form, your photo competition entry, or other means

  • your first and last name,
  • contact information including telephone number and email address,
  • demographic information such as address, postcode, preferences and interests,
  • your camera make and model, links to your website or photo gallery, social media profiles
  • other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers,
  • course testimonials and customers feedback,
  • photographs and video of course attendees, and photographs taken by course attendees.

Please note that we do not collect or store customers bank account details or credit card numbers.

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • internal record keeping,
  • we may use the information to improve our courses, web pages, products and services,
  • we may periodically send promotional emails about new courses, products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided,
  • from time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone or mail. We may use this information to customise the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

In order to help us improve and to analyse data, we use Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps us understand how visitors engage with our website. Thanks to Google Analytics we can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with our website and they help us to improve it. Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports our website trends without identifying individual visitors. For more information please visit Google’s privacy policy page at: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

On our website, we also publish Google AdSense advertisements. These are special ads provided by Google, that may reflect your interests. In order to display relevant ads, Google uses DART cookie – a cookie that enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to www.DSLR Photography Courses Ltd.com and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

DSLR Photography Courses Ltd acts as an affiliate to many outside companies and some of their banners and advertisements may also contain cookies. While we use cookies in various parts of our website to help analyse web traffic or improve its functionality, cookies received with banners and text link ads are collected by our advertisers/service providers and these companies may use the information they obtain from your use of their cookies. We do not have access to this information.

One of Google’s goals is to give users meaningful choices to protect their privacy. Some of their most popular tools that help you control your information can be found at: http://www.google.com/privacy/tools.html

You can choose 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. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, you can also indicate in the message box that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes.

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info [at] dslrphotographycourses [dot] com .

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email us at info [at] dslrphotographycourses [dot] com .

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.