1. Introduction Welcome to CLP Advertising & Photography Services. Our privacy policy explains how we handle your personal data when you visit our website at http://www.clpadvertising.com.au. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency in our data practices.
2. Personal Data Collection and Use
- Comments: When you leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help detect spam. An anonymized string (hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it; your profile picture becomes visible to the public in your comment after approval.
- Media: If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
- Contact Forms: Information submitted through contact forms is used for customer service purposes and is not used for marketing unless explicitly stated.
3. Cookies
- Comments: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience, so you don’t need to fill in your details again. These cookies last for one year.
- Login Information: Cookies are set when you log in to save your login information and display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login persists for two weeks.
4. Embedded Content
- Content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions with embedded content.
5. Data Sharing and Retention
- Comments: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
- Registered Users: For users that register on our site, we store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (username cannot be changed). Administrators can see and edit that information.
- Data Sharing: We only share your data with third parties like spam detection services as necessary for our operations.
6. Your Rights
- You can request 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, except for data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
7. Data Protection
- We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal data.
8. Data Breach Procedures
- In the event of a data breach, we will take all necessary steps to mitigate the breach as per regulatory requirements and will notify you where applicable.
9. Contact Information For more information about our privacy practices, or if you have questions, please contact us via email at [Insert Contact Email].
This policy is effective as of 3rd May 2024.