Privacy Policy

Theresa Pelser Photography, LLC (“Theresa Pelser Photography,” “Company,” “We,” or “Us”) respects our user’s (“You” or “Your”) privacy and is committed to protecting it.

This “Privacy Policy,” along with the Terms of Service, govern the use of information gathered or used on or by https://www.theresapelserphotography.com, https://clients.theresapelserphotography.com/, https://proofs.theresapelserphotography.com/, https://theresapelserphotography.com/blog/, or any other associated domains and/or subdomains owned by Us now or in the future (the “Website”), whether as a guest or a registered user.

When accessing the Website, the Company will learn certain information about You, both automatically and through voluntary actions You may take, during Your visit. This Privacy Policy applies to information We collect on the Website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between You and Theresa Pelser Photography.

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before You start to use the Website. By using the Website, or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to You, You accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If You do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, You must not access or use the Website.

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 14

Our Website is not intended for children under 14 years of age. No one under age 14 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 14. If You are under 14, do not use or provide any information on these Website or on or through any of the features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of the Website or provide any information about Yourself to us, including Your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name You may use.

If We learn We have collected or received personal information from a child under 14 without verification of parental consent, We will delete that information. If You believe We might have any information from or about a child under 14, please contact Us at theresa@theresapelserphotography.com.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT THAT YOU DISCLOSE

When You access the Website, the Company will learn certain information about You during Your visit. The Website provides various places for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Website, registering for a webinar/free class, communicating with Us via contact forms, responding to surveys, search queries on our search feature, providing comments or other feedback, and providing information when ordering a product, download or service via the Website.

We use information You provide to Us to deliver the requested product and/or service, to improve our overall performance, and to provide You with offers, promotions, and information.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT PROACTIVELY

We only collect information that is provided with 1) consent, or 2) a legal basis, namely, a legitimate interest. Personal information collected may include:
• Name, postal address, phone number, social media account links, and e-mail address.
• Financial account information, such as credit card number and other payment information. Please note, We do not retain credit card information, as it is processed through a third-party server, [SQUARE, PAYPAL]

INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGY

As You navigate through our Website, We may use automatic data collection technologies including Google Analytics to collect certain information about Your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about Your location, Your traffic pattern through our Website, and any communications between Your computer and our Website. We collect:

• If You create an account – Your username, password, and other demographic information that You provide.
• If You purchase from us– what You buy, how frequently You buy, and other products You look at.
• If You opt-in for an email freebie our sign up for mailing list – Your email address, interests as indicated by “checking the box,” Your email opening rate, and Your “click through” rate.
• If You connect Your account to another service such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter, or Kajabi, the other service may send Us Your registration or profile information on that service that You authorize. This information enables cross-platform data sharing to improve Your user experience.
• Any of Your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure, namely for the protection and assertion of our legal rights, Your legal rights and the legal rights of others.

We use this data to improve our Website and our service offerings. To the extent that You voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with Your personal information.

USE OF COOKIES AND PIXELS

Similar to other commercial Websites, our Website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how our Website is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the Websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as Your IP address.

A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When You visit a Website, that site’s computer asks Your computer for permission to store this file in a part of Your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Website can send its own cookie to Your browser if Your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect Your privacy) Your browser only permits a Website to access the cookies it has already sent to You, not the cookies sent to You by other sites.

Most browsers feature an “opt out” of cookie collection, and You can choose to have Your computer warn You each time a cookie is being sent, or You can choose to turn off all cookies. The methods for doing so change from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

• https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
• http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
• https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
• https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and
• https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

In addition, to identify Local Shared Objects on Your computer and adjust Your settings, visit: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html. The information We gather may include information about Your Internet service provider, Your operating system, browser type, domain name, Internet protocol (IP) address, Your access times, the website that referred You to us, the Web pages You request, and the date and time of those requests.

THIRD PARTY USE OF COOKIES

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about You when You use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with Your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about Your online activities over time and across different Websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide You with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside Websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media Website. We reserve the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.

Users can opt out of interest-based advertising through:
• Facebook at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
• LinkedIn via the privacy control setting within their LinkedIn account, or,
• For all targeted interest-based advertising information, by using a tool like http://optout.aboutads.info

DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS

We honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

EMAIL INFORMATION

If You choose to correspond with Us through email, We may retain the content of Your email messages together with Your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that We employ in the maintenance of information received online, mail, and telephone. This also applies when You register for our Website, sign up through any of our forms using Your email address or make a purchase on this Website.

EMAIL POLICIES

We are committed to keeping Your e-mail address secure. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose Your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information.

We will maintain the information You send via e-mail in accordance with applicable federal law.

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from our organization will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove Yourself from our mailing list so that You receive no further e-mail communication from Us.

Our emails provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from Us by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any e-mail they receive from Us at anytime.

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the e-mail.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE TO US

We use and processes information which We have either 1) consent, or 2) a legal basis to process, namely a legitimate interest. We may use the information We gather to:

• Administer our website and business, provide our services, ensure the security of our website and services, and maintain back-ups of our databases;
• Enable and monitor Your use of the website;
• Communicate with You about Your orders, purchases, accounts, and requests for information;
• Allow Us to process orders, registrations, and customer service inquiries;
• Provide You with information about content, products, and services We offer, and advertise/ market relevant content, products, or services to You;
• Allow Us to better service You in responding to Your customer service requests;
• Administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature;
• Quickly process Your transactions;
• Keep proper records of transactions;
• Send periodic emails regarding Your order or other products and services; or to
• Comply with, enforce, defend, or indemnify our or any other party’s legitimate legal interest.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

As a general rule, We do not disclose Your personal information except in the limited circumstances described here. We may share information with any Company subsidiary or holding company, insurers, professional advisors, website hosting partners and other parties who assist Us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

We retain the email addresses of those who send Us email, who purchase goods and services via our website, who register for access to our site, and who subscribe to our email newsletters. We retain these email addresses, along with other information You provide, in our mail list service. We do not disclose these email addresses to third parties by “list sharing” or selling Your information.

We sometimes work with third parties to analyze user’s preferences, provide content, products, or services of interest to that user, or to collect data for conversion tracking (that is, what actions You take after You click on an ad). Third Party Services used on this website include: [GOOGLE ANALYTICS, META PIXEL, TAVE, WORDPRESS]

We may disclose Your personal information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing our services to You.

We may disclose Your personal information to a third party, including law enforcement, a lawyer or collection agency, when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety, and for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or an administrative out-of-court procedure.

We may provide Your information to any successor in interest in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s asserts and/or business.

We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so, or for any other legitimate legal interest.

HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION AND SECURE INFORMATION TRANSMISSIONS?

Your Personal Information and its security are important to Us. Thus, We take commercially reasonable steps to ensure the security of the information You provide to Us and the information We collect automatically. Please note, however, that no internet transmission method or manner of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, We cannot guarantee the security of the Personal Information We have collected from You.

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, We request that You do not send private information to Us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at Your own risk. Some of the information You may enter on our Website may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. Credit Card information and other sensitive information is never transmitted via email.

The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

For Website security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the Company uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

DATA BREACHES

If there is a data breach, We will notify You by email within seventy two (72) hours.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER

The Website and the servers that make the Website available throughout the world are located in the United States. If You are located outside of the United States, please note that any personal information You provide to Us will be transferred to and processed in the United States. By purchasing from the Website, You agree to our Privacy Policy and, therefore, consent to the transfer and processing of that information.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES

Our Website and/or the services We provide to You may contain links to third party sites not owned or operated by Us. We have no official affiliation with them and, therefore, have no control over the privacy policies that apply to their sites. It is Your responsibility to review their privacy policies before using their sites. Additionally, We do not endorse or take any responsibility for the content, products or services provided on any third party sites, and You agree to hold Us harmless with respect to Your use of them despite any links on our Website directed to them.

POLICY CHANGES

It is our policy to post any changes We make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If We make material changes to how We treat our users’ personal information, We will update this Privacy Policy. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring We have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for You, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

VISITORS’ RIGHTS

If You are within the European Union, You are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:

We will retain any information You choose to provide to Us until the earlier of: (a) You asking Us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.
You have the right to request access to Your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase Your personal data.
You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of Your data.
You have the right to object to the processing of Your data and the right to the portability of Your data.
To the extent that You provided consent to the Company’s processing of Your personal data, You have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to Your withdrawal of consent.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.

We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with You and in which We have a legitimate legal interest. We will not require You to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with Us.

The Company welcomes Your questions or comments regarding the Privacy Policy:

Theresa Pelser Photography, LLC
Email Address: theresa@theresapelserphotography.com

Effective as of November 14, 2023