At Martin Lawrence Photography, we care deeply about privacy. We believe in transparency, and we’re committed to being upfront about our privacy practices, including how we treat your personal information.

This policy explains Martin Lawrence Photography’s privacy practices, which comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduced in May 2018. We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please check this page regularly to make sure that you are aware of these changes.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

We collect personal information so that we can deliver the products and service you want, administer our business and provide customer service.

Contact Form

When you contact us via the Contact form and submit your details we may collect the following personal information: -

• Name
• E-mail address
• Telephone number

This data is delivered to us securely using third party e-mail provider Mailgun. For more information, please read their Privacy Policy.

Order Checkout

When you place an order for goods or services we may collect the following personal information: -

• Name
• Billing address
• Delivery address
• E-mail address
• Telephone number

We may also collect transaction data such as order number, date you placed your order and the amount that you have paid.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

• Browser and device data such as your IP address, your computer’s operating system, your browser type and the path you take through our website
• Transaction data such as order number, date you placed your order and the amount of your payment

PAYMENT GATEWAY

Your payment will be processed securely through Stripe payment gateway. For each transaction, the following data is passed directly and securely to Stripe and is not recorded or visible in any way to Martin Lawrence Photography: -

• IP Address
• Card number
• Card CVC
• Card expiry month and year

For information, about Stripe’s Privacy Policy please visit: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy

WHAT WE USE THIS DATA FOR

• To confirm your order
• To process your purchase and arrange delivery
• To communicate with you as part of the order process
• To deliver your purchases to you
• To reply to any enquiries received via the Contact form
• Prevent fraud

WE DO NOT

• Sell, rent or disclose personal information to others
• Disclose personal information to Third Party Service providers
• Share or sell your personal information to others

COOKIE POLICY

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer or device when you visit a website. Cookies are used by all websites, and have several different functions.

At a basic level cookies will: -

• Allow the website to work correctly

• Help us to understand how people use the website

• Make the site easier to use by remembering information that you've entered

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Just keep in mind that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our website will issue cookies as soon you visit the site. No personally identifying information from you will be collected as part of these cookies.

A list of cookies used by Martin Lawrence Photography can be found below together with their function.

STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES

When you place an order through our website your payment is channelled through our preferred Payment Gateway (Stripe).  As part of this process Stripe adds the ‘__stripe’ cookie

PREFERENCE COOKIES

The ‘accept_cookie’ cookie simply stores ‘hide_cookie_alert’ when you accept our cookie notice. If you clear your browser cache you will have to accept the cookie policy again.

BENIGN COOKIES

These are any cookies beginning with ‘exp_’. These cookies are set by our content management system and contain data such as the last time you visited our website and previous pages of our website that you have viewed. We do not store or utilise this information in any way. ‘exp_csrf_token’ is a unique and random sequence of numbers and letters which protects any forms on our website from spam.

PERFORMANCE COOKIES

Various third party cookies for Google Analytics. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.