Privacy Policy & Cookie Notice


Last updated on May 24th, 2018.

This Privacy Statement describes how KGC Photo Agency LLP manages personal information and respects your privacy. This policy may be amended from time to time. We encourage visitors to and users of our site to regularly review our Privacy Policy.

All "Personal Information" (which is defined as any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains) that we collect and maintain will be subject to this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time. To update your information and preferences, see the section entitled "Updating Your Personal Information and Privacy Preferences."

When we refer to "Goff Photos", we mean the KGC Photo Agency LLP entity that acts as the controller or processor of your information, as explained in more detail in the "Entities Collecting Personal Information" section below.

ENTITIES COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal Information on this website is collected and controlled by Goff Photos, Hollyhocks, 54 High Street, Selsey, W. Sussex, PO20 ORD, United Kingdom.

We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) for Goff Photos who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions, concerns, or requests about this privacy notice, how we manage your Personal Information, or any other issue relating to your Personal Information, please contact our DPO:

Goff Photos
Attn: Data Protection Officer
privacy@goffphotos.com
Hollyhocks
54 High Street
Selsey
W. Sussex
PO20 0RD
United Kingdom
http://www.goffphotos.com/front/doc/cont.html

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

As a visitor to the Site, you can engage in many activities without providing any Personal Information.

However, when you register to use the Goff Photos site and as a Goff Photos subscriber in order to provide the services to you, we may collect the following Personal Information from you:

• Contact information such as your name, phone and fax numbers, address and email address
• Demographic information such as your job title, job description and company name and company type
• Profile data, including your username and password, details about your purchases and the Content that you license from us.

If you submit content to Goff Photos for licensing, you may be asked to provide the following information: Contact information such as your name, phone number, primary address, and email address.

Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you might not be able to engage in that activity.

As is true of most websites, when you use the Site, Goff Photos or third party subprocessors contracted by Goff Photos may also collect certain technical and routing information about your computer to facilitate your use of the Site and its services. For example, we may log environmental variables, such as browser type, operating system, CPU speed, and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer. We use these environmental variables to facilitate and track your use of the Site and its services. Goff Photos also uses such environmental variables to measure traffic patterns on the Site. To better understand the needs of our visitors to the Site we may occasionally match such information with your Personal Information.

You may find a list of any third-party subprocessors that we use to process information here.

UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND PRIVACY PREFERENCES

You have the right to access and correct, or delete your Personal Information and privacy preferences at any time. You may do so by contacting privacy@goffphotos.com Goff Photos collects your information in order to provide services to you, comply with our legal obligations, and to improve our products and services. We do not sell, rent or share your personally identifiable information to or with third parties in any way other than as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. Goff Photos may use this information to:

• Process your financial transactions.
• Register your rights, if any, to technical support or other benefits that may be made available to registered users.
• Respond to customer service requests, questions and concerns.
• Administer your account.
• Send you requested product or service information.
• Investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities and/or violations of our Terms of Service
• Meet our research and product/service development needs and to improve our Site, services and offerings
• Customize your experience, including targeting our services and offerings to you.

We store information that we collect through cookies and log files to improve the content of the site for you and/or to determine your preferences.

In certain situations, Goff Photos may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

Where required by law (e.g., to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or legal process served on Goff Photos), and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, avoid litigation, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, and/or respond to a government request. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that such disclosure should be made for reasons of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance.

INFORMATION SHARING WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS / AGENTS

We also share Personal Information with certain companies that perform services on our behalf. We only share the Personal Information which is necessary for them to perform those services. We require any company with which we may share Personal Information to protect that data in a manner consistent with this policy and to limit the use of such Personal Information to the performance of services for Goff Photos. You may find a list of these third-party subprocessors here. We do not sell or otherwise provide Personal Information to other companies for the marketing of their own products or services.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active, your information is needed to provide you services, or as required to fulfil our legal obligations. If you wish to delete your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at privacy@goffphotos.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

CHOICE TO OPT IN TO ELINK COMMUNICATIONS

You may "opt in" to receiving Goff Photos’s email elink updates during the sign up process or in the confirmation of your settings profile, You also have the option to later unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe button in the footer of the elink or by emailing privacy@goffphotos.com. We will still contact you when there are changes to the Terms of Service, as applicable.

PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The Personal Information that you provide in connection with the use of the Site is protected in several ways.

• Access by you to your account profile is available through a password and unique customer ID selected by you. This password is encrypted. You should strive to use a strong, alpha-numeric password which you should not divulge to anyone.
• Your Personal Information resides on secure servers that only selected Goff Photos personnel and contractors have access to via passwords.

We strive to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we take into account the sensitivity of the Personal Information we collect, process and store, and the current state of technology to use these measures protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web Sites, you can send email to us at privacy@goffphotos.com

COOKIE AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

The Site may automatically collect information as you browse, such as Internet Service Provider, browser type and version, operating system and device type, average time spent on our site(s), pages viewed, information accessed, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet and other relevant statistics. Such information is sometimes referred to as web analytics and/or clickstream data.

We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you, to improve marketing, analytics, and provide site functionality.

Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Goff Photos and our affiliates, analytics services and service to provide site features and functionality. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

• A cookie is a small, unique text file that a website can send to your computer when you visit a site. We may use session cookies, which terminate when a user closes his or her browser, and/or persistent cookies, which remain on the user's computer until manually deleted. Most web browsers can either alert you to the use of cookies or refuse to accept cookies entirely. If you do not want us to deploy cookies to your browser, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer. Rejecting cookies may affect your ability to use the Site.

CHANGES IN PRIVACY POLICY

Goff Photos reserves the right to amend the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion and will provide notice by email or on the home page of the Site when we make material changes to this Privacy Policy prior to the change becoming effective. If as the result of such changes, you want to alter the ways in which Goff Photos is allowed to use your Personal Information, you can do so by following the procedure described in the section entitled "Updating Your Personal Information and Privacy Preferences."

You will be deemed to have been made aware of, and will be subject to, any material changes to the Privacy Policy after such notice has been posted with the following exception: If at the time you provide Personal Information to Goff Photos you are given the opportunity (as you currently are) to limit how such information will be used to communicate with you, either by Goff Photos or by third parties, Goff Photos will not change your preference in this regard without your express consent. However, if Goff Photos is acquired by or merged with another entity, Goff Photos may provide to such entity customer information that is related to that part of our business that was sold to or merged with the other entity without your consent, but Goff Photos will provide notice of such asset sales, acquisitions, or mergers on this Site.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES

Our Site includes links to other Web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Goff Photos. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any Web site you visit.

CHILDREN

We do not intend to solicit or collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, do not enter information on this site or engage our services. If you believe a child of yours under the age of 18 has entered Personal Information please contact privacy@goffphotos.com to have the data removed and terminate the child’s account.

PRIVACY COMPLAINTS

Individuals located in certain countries, including the European Economic Area, have certain statutory rights in relation to their personal data. Subject to any exemptions provided by law, you may have the right to request access to Information, as well as to seek to update, delete or correct this Information. To the extent that Goff Photos’s processing of your Personal Data is subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Goff Photos relies on its legitimate interests, described above, to process your data. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact us by emailing privacy@goffphotos.com. Goff Photos takes its users' privacy concerns seriously. If you believe that Goff Photos has not complied with this Privacy Policy with respect to your Personal Information, you may contact the Data Protection Officer at Goff Photos, Hollyhocks, 54 High Street, Selsey, W. Sussex, PO20 ORD, United Kingdom. In your letter please describe in as much detail as possible the ways in which you believe that the Goff Photos Privacy Policy has not been complied with. We will investigate your complaint promptly. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy@goffphotos.com

Goff Photos
Attn: Data Protection Officer
privacy@goffphotos.com
Hollyhocks
54 High Street
Selsey
W. Sussex
PO20 0RD
United Kingdom
http://www.goffphotos.com/front/doc/cont.html

COOKIE NOTICE

Goff Photos employs cookies to provide users with tailored information. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access certain features or engage in certain activities on our site.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. You can find more about online behavioural advertising and opting-out from advertising and tracking cookies by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ or

If you have any other questions or concerns about our use of cookies, personalization and technologies, please contact us at privacy@goffphotos.com

The list below explains the cookies we use and why.

CookieNamePurposeMore Information
Auto LoginalThis cookie allows the user to auto login to the siteThis is linked to your user account
Secure KeysidThis cookie provides extra security when you loginThis is linked to your user account
Active LightboxelThis is used to store the ID of the active lightbox.This cookie has no personally identifiable information.
LightboxaiThis is used to store image IDs in your lightbox.This cookie has no personally identifiable information.

You may block or delete Goff Photos cookies from your hard drive or memory. However, by disabling cookies, certain site features and functionality may no longer work properly, or at all.
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