Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.shaby.ie

Last updated: 18th October 2024

1. Introduction

Welcome to Shaby Photography’s Privacy Policy. Your privacy is of utmost importance to us. This policy outlines how we collect, use, protect, and disclose your personal information. It also provides guidance on how you can access and update this information.

2. Information We Collect

When you visit our website or engage our services, we may collect the following data:

  • Information related to your usage of our website, such as IP address and browsing behaviour.
  • Any other information you choose to send us, such as through contact forms or direct emails.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

  • Process and manage bookings for our photography services.
  • Communicate with you, answer inquiries, and provide customer support.
  • Improve our website and services based on feedback and usage patterns.
  • Send newsletters or promotional materials, only if you’ve opted in.

4. Data Protection and Storage

Your data is securely stored on our servers with industry-standard protection measures. We retain your data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned above.

5. Data Sharing

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal data to external parties, other than the use of your images for promotion purposes, if you have given consent for this. This excludes website hosting partners and other parties who assist in operating our website or serving our users, and those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

6. Third-party links

Our website may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. We have no control over the content and practices of these sites and cannot accept responsibility for their respective privacy policies.

7. Your Data Rights

  • Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
  • Rectification: You have the right to request corrections to any data we hold that’s inaccurate.
  • Erasure: You have the right to request we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us through the provided contact details.

8. Updates to This Policy

We may update our privacy policy occasionally. We’ll notify you of significant changes by posting a prominent notice on our website.

9. Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

10. 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.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

11. Contact Us

For any questions about this privacy policy or the data we hold on you, please contact us at: