This privacy policy was last updated on: December 02, 2022
Who we are
All Things Foto is a company dedicated to providing our clients with all facets of photography. These include but not limited to: articles, product reviews, tips, tutorials and videos. Our website address is: https://www.allthingsfoto.com.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.).
This Privacy Policy applies to all All Things Foto websites (both mobile and browser based), applications, and services. This includes all information gathered from websites, applications, and services owned and operated by All Things Foto, including information provided to All Things Foto in the course of exercising your privacy rights or submitting a privacy related request.
Prior to using or operating All Things Foto services, or the submission of a privacy related request, please review the following policy to ensure you are informed of your rights, our policies and standards, and relevant regulations that govern your privacy operations.
All Things Foto’s Commitment to Data Privacy
At All Things Foto, the privacy of your data and your privacy rights are our top priority. All Things Foto takes extreme care with any data it identifies as “personal data” regardless of where you reside. Any data that directly identifies you, such as your name or address, or any data that can be reasonably used to identify you, is treated with the utmost care and standard of security.
This privacy notice outlines the ways in which All Things Foto, or its subsidiaries handle your personal data. This includes instances where you interact with our websites, products or our personnel in any capacity.
It is important to note that this notice does not apply to any third parties or affiliates or how they may use your personal data. For information regarding the way third parties and affiliates handle your data, please review the privacy policies or notices provided by each specific third party.
Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
What is Personal Data?
During the course of our business operations, All Things Foto collects data and/or personal information such as your name, other contact information, shipping information and your billing information. All Things Foto does not collect credit card data as that is handled by the payment processor(s) we use for all of our transactions. All Things Foto collects these data types when it is provided to us through the use of our services. This includes interacting with our websites, placing an order through various methods or signing up for our marketing lists. In some instances, All Things Foto may combine your provided information with additional information provided to us by third-party services and external sources.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
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 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. See section below and the cookies section for more information.
Your Privacy Rights and Choices with All Things Foto
All Things Foto believes in transparency throughout our data collection and processing operations, consequently, at any time you are entitled to information regarding what data All Things Foto retains about you, including:
With your Personal Information collected by All Things Foto, you have the freedom to change or correct your information at any time. All Things Foto respects your data privacy rights and allows all our users to exercise their right to know, access, correct, transfer, restrict the processing of, and delete your Personal Information. Please reference the “Contact us about data privacy at All Things Foto” section of this policy for contact information to exercise the aforementioned rights.
Additionally, you have the choice to cease communications with All Things Foto entirely, if desired. At any time, you may request to be removed from our lists and have your Personal Information scrubbed from our systems, you can request to cease all email communications and you may also request that information like geographic location and cookie/beacon information be removed from our databases and systems. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. You will not be a subject of discriminatory treatment as a result of your choice to exercise your privacy rights.
Verification of Personal Information Requests
For some personal information requests, All Things Foto is required to verify your identity before completing your request. In order to verify your identity, All Things Foto may ask you to provide your full name, other contact information and your relationship with All Things Foto. In some instances, All Things Foto may require additional information to complete your request. Once this information has been received by All Things Foto, we will verify it against the information currently held by All Things Foto in relation to the information provided and verify your identity. In the event that your identity cannot be verified, All Things Foto will contact you for further information or provide a rationale for denying your request.
Authorized Delegate
In some instances, you may designate an authorized delegate on your behalf to make a data request. An authorized delegate will also be subject to verification procedures, which may require additional information for All Things Foto to ensure that your authorized agent is legitimate and acting on your behalf.
Personal Data All Things Foto Collects About You
All Things Foto holds personal privacy as one of its core tenets, consequently, we strive to only collect and retain information that is necessary for our business processes and that there is a present need for.
All Things Foto collects the following types of information during the course of our regular business operations:
Information provided to All Things Foto by you, the customer:
Information we collect from our websites, applications, or services.
Information collected from third parties.
Personal Data All Things Foto Receives Externally
All Things Foto may receive data about you from external sources, like individuals, business, third parties, partners or other lawful sources.
All Things Foto may collect data from other individuals in instances in which others purchase a gift card or product on your behalf, invite you to participate in a marketing event or share content from our websites with you. All Things Foto may also collect data when expressly directed to do so by you. This includes rewards programs, sweepstakes and instances in which partners or affiliates send us your data. All Things Foto may also receive information about you from third parties. This includes credit and background checks during purchases, fraud prevention mechanisms and partners, and security services.
How All Things Foto Uses Your Personal Data
At All Things Foto, we use Personal Information collected about you to provide you services, to improve our services, to analyze our business and its processes, to conduct marketing processes, process your transactions and to comply with any applicable legal requirements. All Things Foto only uses personal data that it has the express legal basis to do so. The following bases are ways in which All Things Foto uses your data for its business:
How All Things Foto Shares Your Personal Data
All Things Foto may provide your Personal Information with partners, service providers, marketing services, or other external parties at your request. Any information All Things Foto shares with external parties must be handled in compliance with this Privacy Policy, and with All Things Foto’s privacy requirements and requests.
How All Things Foto Protects Your Personal Data
All Things Foto employs reasonable and appropriate electronic, physical and operational measures to ensure that your Personal Information is secure and is not subject to unauthorized use, disclosure, modification or loss.
All relevant All Things Foto systems employ industry-standard encryption and security standards and all transactions that flow through our systems do so on a PCI compliant payment processor system. If you have any additional questions regarding security of Personal Information at All Things Foto, please contact us.
How All Things Foto Interacts with Children’s Data
All Things Foto does not knowingly allow any persons under the age of 16 to register or use its services. At no time does All Things Foto permit the collection of information through our systems or websites of individuals under the age of 16.
How All Things Foto Advertises
All Things Foto may work with external advertising companies in which we provide information about your actions on our sites over time. These partnerships allow us to deliver a tailored user and advertising experience across our websites.
You may also decide to opt-out of receiving this type of advertising. In order to opt-out of some interest-based advertising, please visit https://youradchoices.com or https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. Please note that electing to opt-out from the aforementioned manners of advertising does not mean that you will not receive advertising on your browser or applications, it simply means that the advertising that is pushed to you may not be targeted to your interests or behavior. Please also be aware that deleting browser cookies can remove the cookie configuration you have created and that you may need to complete the op-out process again in the future.
Cookies, Beacons and Other Technologies
In the course of All Things Foto business processes, All Things Foto’s websites, services, applications or advertisements may collect your information from cookies and beacons. Cookies and beacons help All Things Foto ensure a secure and safe user experience and provide us with information regarding what websites or pages you have visited, your behavior on All Things Foto websites and environments and help us gauge the efficacy of our advertising campaigns and search optimization processes.
A cookie is a piece of information sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies can help a website like ours recognize repeat users and allow a website to track web usage behavior. Cookies work by assigning a number to the user that has no meaning outside of the assigning website.
Cookies can be stored on your computer for different periods of time. “Session cookies” only last for as long as the browser session and are deleted automatically once you close your browser. “Persistent cookies” cookies survive after your browser is closed until a defined expiration date set in the cookie (as determined by the third party placing it), and help recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again. The Site uses first party cookies (cookies set directly by (“All Things Foto”)) as well as third-party cookies, as described below.
We also use pixel tags (usually in combination with cookies), from the third parties described below, to get information about your usage of the Site and the Services and your interaction with email or other communications. Pixel tags are a technology similar to cookies that can be embedded in online content or within the body of an email for the purpose of tracking activity on websites (for example, to know when content has been shown to you), or to know when you have viewed particular content or a particular email message.
These cookies are essential for using the Site. Without these cookies, basic functions of our Site would not work.
Analytics/Performance
To better understand the behavior of the users on our Site, tracks bots and improve our services accordingly:
Google Analytics – To learn how Google, Inc. uses data collected on our Site, visit How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. Learn more on expiration of these cookies here.
To collect information about browsing habits in order to make advertising more relevant:
- Google AdServices – Learn more about Google’s privacy practices at the following link: Google Privacy Policy.
- Facebook – (a conversion pixel tracking that we use for retargeting campaigns). Learn more here.
The providers listed below also offer direct opt-out functionalities:
- You can download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your current web browser at the following link: Opt-out Browser Add-on.
- Google AdServices – You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings at the following link: Ads Settings.
- Facebook – To opt out, please visit About Facebook Ads.
All Things Foto uses cookies to allow for persistent experiences on our websites. For example, we may use cookies to provide tailored product suggestions or to keep your shopping cart persistent as you go through different pages on our website.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
For more information on cookies and how they work visit All About Cookies
How All Things Foto Transfers Your Data
All Things Foto is a multifaceted organization that connects businesses and people from across the globe, consequently, your personal data may be transferred or accessed by entities around the world. All Things Foto has a firm commitment to adhere to any applicable laws relating to the transfer of data between countries to ensure that your data is protected.
Unidentifiable Information at All Things Foto
If, in the process of requesting data actions related to your Personal Information, All Things Foto is unable to adequately identify you in relation to your data, we will respond with a notification that your data is not identifiable and that we are not able to provide information from our systems.
Contact Us About Data Privacy at All Things Foto
If you have any questions regarding All Things Foto’s Privacy Policy, privacy standards and practices, or would like to submit a data request or complaint, contact us at:
Because data privacy and security are of the utmost importance to All Things Foto, our team will review your inquiry and respond in a manner that meets your needs, and our legal and contractual requirements. All Things Foto is committed to responding to all inquiries within 15 business days, however, in some cases we may require additional time to adequately respond to your request. In these instances, we will communicate to you about any delay and request any additional information that may be needed to fulfil your request.
Updates to All Things Foto’s Privacy Policy
If, at any time All Things Foto decides to revise this Privacy Policy, an updated version of the policy will be made available online. If the contents of the update to the Privacy Policy are substantial, All Things Foto may contact you at your provided email address and will display a notice of the update on our website(s).
Please reference this policy regularly to ensure that you understand the breadth of All Things Foto’s privacy policy, and to ensure that you understand any changes made to it.
Privacy Regulations
All Things Foto is constantly vigilant of changes to regulatory standards and industry best practices related to data privacy and work to continually verify that our policies, procedures and activities are compliant with data privacy regulations around the globe.
The following list details some of the major privacy regulations recognized by All Things Foto. It is important to note that the following list in not exhaustive or complete list, but is a summary of some of the primary regulations recognized by All Things Foto:
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA): The California Consumer Privacy Act is a California law charged with defining the extent of data protection and privacy for Californian consumers.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): The General Data Protection Regulation is a European Union (EU) regulation charged with defining the extent of data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Economic Area (EEA).
Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA): The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act is a Canadian federal privacy law charged with regulating private-sector organizations to promote consumer trust in electronic commerce.
Australian Privacy Act (AU Privacy Act): The Australian Privacy Act of 1988 is the principal piece of Australian legislation protecting the handling of the personal information of Australian individuals.
Indian Information Technology Act (IT Act): The Information Technology Act, 2000 is the principal piece of Indian legislation protecting the handling of personal information by corporate entities.
Japanese Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI): The APPI is the central piece of Japanese legislation that mandates the protection of personal information for Japanese individuals, including extraterritorial businesses that, in relation to supplying a good or service to a person residing in Japan, have collected personal information.
United Kingdom Data Protection Act (UK DPA): The United Kingdom Data Protection Act is a General Data Protection Regulation. UK DPA sets out the key principles, rights, and obligations for most processing of personal data in the UK.
All Things Foto reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time. We will promptly reflect any such modifications on this privacy policy.