Privacy Policy
Ensuring the privacy and security of your personal information is very important to us. Our Privacy Policy outlines the information we collect about you, how we use, disclose and otherwise manage this information and the choices you have to restrict our usage of this information.
What Personal Data We Collect And Why We Collect It
We collect personal information when you sign up for a Parallax Photographic Coop account, sign up to our email mailing list, or contact us with a comment, question or complaint. This may include, for example, your name, date of birth, email address, postal address, telephone number, gender, and your product preferences.
Our Email List
When you sign up to receive our mailing list, we may also collect optional information such as your name, postcode, and product interests. If you have chosen to receive emails from Parallax Photographic Coop, we will offer you advanced notice of sales, new merchandise, store openings and other Parallax Photographic Coop news. Email addresses provided to Parallax Photographic Coop are only used internally for the purpose of sending you a communication from Parallax Photographic Coop. We respect your privacy rights and will never sell or rent your email address to other companies. If you would like to unsubscribe from our email mailing list, please email us. You may also click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. We will remove your name from our email list as soon as possible. You may receive another email before we are able to remove you.
Customer Service
When you contact us with a question, feedback or other comments, you may be asked for information that identifies you, such as your name, address and telephone number. We collect this information to verify your identity and to help us promptly answer your question or respond to your comment or feedback. We may retain this information to assist you in the future. We also may use your feedback, suggestions and comments to monitor and/or improve our products or website.
Website Information Collected
You can visit this site www.parallaxphotographic.coop without telling us who you are or providing us with any personal information. However, we collect the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of all our website visitors and other related information such as page requests, browser type, operating system and average time spent on our website. We use this information to monitor and improve our website.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about the pages you access or visit. Cookies are bits of information that are automatically stored on your computer so we can recognise you when you return. We use cookies to better understand your use of the Parallax Photographic Coop website so that we may continue to refine and improve the website. If you do not wish to have cookies on your system, you can set your browser preferences to disable them. However, if you decide not to accept cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the features on the Parallax Photographic Coop website. The information collected through cookies may be combined with other identifiable personal information (such as demographic information) from our records and other sources. We may use this combined information for future marketing initiatives and help us improve our website presentation.
Contact Forms
We collect personal information when you fill in a Parallax Photographic Coop form. This may include, for example, your name, date of birth, email address, postal address, telephone number, gender, and your product preferences. This information is for internal use only, such as confirming eligibility for discounts. We will never share your information outside of Parallax Photographic Coop.
Information We Share
We may use service providers to process data, host our website, and send emails, in order to help us better understand your use of our website and refine and improve the website. These companies may store and process this information. All of our service providers are required to maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal information and to use it only in compliance with applicable privacy laws. These companies are not authorised to use your information in any manner, other than in helping us to provide you with products and services or as otherwise required by applicable law. We will never share your information outside of Parallax Photographic Coop.
We may disclose specific personal information about you if required by law, governmental request or court order if, based on our good faith belief, it is necessary to conform or comply with such law, request or court order.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics on our website. This is used for internal reporting only. You can read their Privacy Policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy√
Sale Of Business
Parallax Photographic Coop may transfer any information we have about you in the event of a merger with a third party or upon a sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party acquirer. You will be given the option to delete your information in this event.
Retention Of Personal Information
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
How We Protect Your Data
Your privacy is very important to us. We maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against the loss, theft, unauthorised access, use, modification and disclosure of personal information in our custody and control. We have implemented measures in an effort to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control, including only providing access to personal information to employees and authorised service providers who require such information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. To provide you with an increased level of security, online access to certain personal information may be protected with a password you select. We strongly recommend that you do not disclose your password to anyone. We will never ask you for your password in any unsolicited communication.
Policy Changes
We may periodically update this Privacy Policy for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed. Any changes made will be posted here. We will treat your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Policy in place at the time your information was collected. This Privacy Policy was updated on 23 May 2018.
Contact Us
Feel free to contact us with any questions about our Privacy Policy or the manner in which we treat your personal information or to withdraw your name from an email or other marketing lists. If you wish to access, update or to correct factual errors in the personal information we have about you, please contact us as set out below. To protect your privacy, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
Email us at info@parallaxphotographic.coop
Parallax Photographic Coop Ltd is a UK registered company. Our company number is 10326924 and our VAT number is 255935377. Our registered office address