Privacy Policy | Darren Weston Photography

Effective Date: July 12, 2026

Welcome to Darren Weston Photography. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your data when you visit our website, book a photography session, or interact with us.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Darren Weston Photography is the data controller responsible for your personal data.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or wish to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details below:

  • Full Name: Darren Weston

  • Business Name: Darren Weston Photography

  • Email Address: djwphotographyuk@gmail.com

  • Mailing Address: The Studio - 26 The Field Dry Sandford Abingdon Oxon OX13 6ED

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data means any information that can identify an individual. We may collect, use, and store different kinds of personal data about you, categorised as follows:

  • Identity Data: First name, last name, and title.

  • Contact Data: Billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.

  • Image Data: Digital photographs capturing your likeness, taken during scheduled photography sessions.

  • Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, and platform via Squarespace cookies.

  • Transaction Data: Details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.

3. How We Collect Your Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:

  • Direct Interactions: You provide your Identity and Contact data by filling out forms on our website (such as contact forms or booking requests) or by corresponding with us by post, phone, or email.

  • In-Person/On Location: We collect Image Data during our contracted photography sessions.

  • Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website, Squarespace automatically collects Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns.

4. How and Why We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your data under the following legal bases:

Performance of a Contract

We process your Identity, Contact, and Image data to deliver the photography services you hire us for, including managing bookings, coordinating sessions, and delivering final image galleries.

Legitimate Interests

We retain a secure, password-protected digital archive of your images to provide replacement copies if you lose your files. We also process Technical Data to maintain a secure, fast-loading website.

Consent

We will only use your images in our public portfolio, website, blog, or social media channels if you have given us explicit, written consent to do so. You can withdraw this consent at any time.

5. Cookies and Third-Party Tracking

Our website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace uses cookies to help our site run effectively, provide a secure experience, and gather analytics data to improve our search visibility.

When you first visit our site, you will see a cookie consent banner. You can choose to accept or decline non-essential cookies. You can also configure your web browser to refuse all or some cookies.

6. How We Store and Protect Your Images

Your privacy and the security of your images are a priority:

  • Digital Galleries: We deliver images using secure, password-protected online galleries.

  • Archival Storage: Your image files are backed up on secure, password-protected external hard drives and encrypted cloud storage systems.

  • Access Control: Only Darren Weston Photography has physical or digital access to your raw and edited files.

We retain your personal contact data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Image files are kept in our archive unless you explicitly request their deletion.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under the GDPR, you have rights in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.

  • Request correction or erasure of your personal data.

  • Object to or restrict the processing of your personal data.

  • Request the transfer of your personal data.

  • Withdraw consent at any time (such as removing an image from our portfolio).

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please email us directly at [Your Email Address].

You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us first.