Privacy Policy

Photo Tours Adventures collects data from visitors throughout the website experience to provide interactive functionality that would otherwise be impossible without collecting the minimum amount of data. Some data is also used to analyse your experience anonymously to improve the website experience.

Photo Tours Adventures respects your privacy. We will not sell your data to third parties, allow access to the data that isn’t necessary to honour any contracts we have in place, or store excessive amounts of data we no longer need.

Photo Tours Adventures complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU May 25th 2018).

Definitions

Data Subject – any living person.

Third-Party – another company that Photo Tours Adventures works with to provide services to the Data Subject.

Personally Identifiable Information – data belonging to the Data Subject that can be used to identify them uniquely.

Data Controller – any organisation that stores personally identifiable information, e.g., Photo Tours Adventures.

Data Processor – any organisation that works on (processes) Personally Identifiable Information.

How We Obtain Your Data

Photo Tours Adventures collects data from the Data Subject while using this website. Some of that data may be personally identifiable information, such as information entered into web forms or data provided by the browser (such as IP address).

Photo Tours Adventures may also obtain personally identifiable information about the Data Subject from a third party as part of a contract to work with that data.

How We Use Your Data

Photo Tours Adventures primarily uses data from the Data Subject to serve a contract between Photo Tours Adventures and the Data Subject or to provide necessary functionality on this website.

Photo Tours Adventures may also collect additional data to satisfy other legal requirements, such as those required for e-commerce.

Third Parties with Access to the Data Collected

Photo Tours Adventures works with several third parties to provide the services the Data Subject receives. In all cases, there is either an explicit contract between Photo Tours Adventures and the third party, terms and conditions, or another legally binding relationship.

Data may be shared with:

Alphabet Inc (Google) – Photo Tours Adventures uses a suite of Google tools. The data may also be shared with other third parties for:

Customer relationship management (CRM)

Email newsletters

Course delivery

Promotion of our tours and workshops

Marketing

Photo Tours Adventures does not share your data with third parties for marketing unless the Data Subject explicitly opts in. If you opt-in, you can change your preferences or opt-out anytime by contacting us or using the unsubscribe link in marketing emails.

Third-Party Cookies

Photo Tours Adventures can primarily operate without third-party cookies. However, in many cases, third party cookies improve the website experience.

Photo Tours Adventures will not add social sharing buttons unless the Data Subject explicitly opts into social cookies.

Photo Tours Adventures will only include tracking systems if the Data Subject explicitly opts in to tracking cookies.
Photo Tours Adventures uses Google Analytics to provide necessary anonymous analytical data.

You can manage cookies or change your preferences using the cookie management tool on our website.

Data Security and Storage

Photo Tours Adventures will store data for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was obtained. Some data may be held longer if stored on other systems, backup data that has not expired, or due to another lawful basis.

Photo Tours Adventures takes security seriously and uses appropriate technologies to safeguard data and prevent breaches. We employ methods such as encryption and secure storage practices to protect personal data where feasible.

Personal Data Protection Principles

We adhere to the principles relating to the processing of personal data set out in the GDPR, which require personal data to be:

Processed lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner (Lawfulness, Fairness and Transparency)

Collected only for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes (Purpose Limitation)

Adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary (Data Minimisation)

Accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date (Accuracy)

Not kept longer than necessary (Storage Limitation)

Processed securely to prevent unauthorised or unlawful processing and accidental loss or damage (Security, Integrity and Confidentiality)

Not transferred to another country without appropriate safeguards (Transfer Limitation)

Made available to Data Subjects, who can exercise specific rights regarding their data.

Data Subject Rights

Data Subjects have rights regarding how Photo Tours Adventures handles their personal data. These include the right to:

Withdraw consent to processing at any time.
Receive specific information about the Data Controller’s processing activities.

Request access to the personal data that we hold.

Prevent our use of their personal data for direct marketing purposes.

Request the erasure of personal data if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed, or request rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data.

Restrict processing in specific circumstances.

Object to processing based on legitimate interests or in the public interest.

Object to decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling (ADM).

Prevent processing that is likely to cause damage or distress.

Be notified of a personal data breach likely to result in a high risk to their rights and freedoms.

Make a complaint to the supervisory authority.

Receive or request that their personal data be transferred to a third party in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.

If you want to exercise these rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO).

Updates to Our Privacy Notice

This privacy notice will be reviewed regularly, and this page will be updated with any changes. We will notify you of any significant changes via email or through notices on our website.

Contacting the Data Protection Officer (DPO)

If you have concerns about how Photo Tours Adventures uses your personally identifiable information, please get in touch with our Data Protection Officer (DPO), James Brown, at

Photo Tours Adventures

Email: info@phototoursadventures.com

Phone: +44 (0) 800 860 6282 / +44 (0) 776 259 7942