Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement

Powder Hill Photography LLC (https://powderhillphotography.com) values and respects your personal privacy.

  • I do not ask for any personal information unless needed. There are a couple of times on this site you may be asked to provide limited personal data (ie. order processing, newsletter mailing). Providing this is your option.

  • I do not share nor sell personal information with anyone or any business entity, except in cases where we need to comply with the law enforcement. (Thus far, that circumstance has never occurred).

  • I do not store personal information on my computers unless required for on-going business, such as financial record retention, licensing, and/or purchases. (See below).

To provide this website with full functionality, Powder Hill Photography LLC uses the services of Squarespace to provide website hosting and domain registration, and PayPal and Square to provide secure financial transactions.

Security

Data security is of paramount importance, and I take it very seriously. I’ve been adopting all reasonable action to protect data from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access or disclosure.

This includes:

  • Using secure protocol (SSL) across the entire site (note the https in the URL) so that all interactions and viewing with the Powder Hill Photography LLC website are secure.

  • Restricting access to personal information to Powder Hill Photography LLC employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.

  • Not storing sensitive data (such as credit card details) on my computers, but instead relying on trusted third parties (PayPal , Square and Stripe) to secure this data.

  • Doing due diligence with third party providers to ensure they have a secure environment.

Given the nature of communications and information processing technology, Powder Hill Photography LLC is unable to guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely 100% safe from intrusion by others.

Powder Hill Photography Website Configuration

The website of Powder Hill Photography LLC is hosted entirely on one website hosting company:

  • Squarespace - Website hosting - All pages, blog and product stores of Powder Hill Photography website is hosted by Squarespace

  • Squarespace - Domain name - My domain name (powderhillphotography.com) is registered and maintained with Squarespace

Squarespace is a New York company, specializing in hosting professional photography web sites.

Squarespace uses multiple servers to provide the user fast delivery of the content. I do not know the specifics of the cloud’s infrastructure or system.

To the best of my knowledge, Squarespace collects the following personal data when you visit the Powder Hill Photography website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visit on the site

  • IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website and to protect and improve their platform and services.  Analysis of the data is in a de-personalized form. (See additional information below).

Analytics - General Statement

In addition to that which is already mentioned above, information collected may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

This collection is gathered both by Google Analytics and Squarespace, each with their own respective analytics reporting. The information is relevant to the Powder Hill Photography site usage statistics.

Analytics helps me understand what content and images are most important to the visitors of this site. No personal data (ie, house address, your name, etc.) is collected. (Exception to this - see below for On-line Orders).

Cookies - General Statement

The website (like so many other websites) uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.

  • These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow my website hosting platform to securely serve this website to you.

  • The analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Fonts - General Statement

The website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts to properly display this site to you. Servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

Google Analytics Information

Like many other websites, the Powder Hill Photography LLC website uses Google Analytics to help assess and analyze website usage. This is a tracking code, specific to this site, that identifies which pages (and photos) viewers are reading and viewing.

Google Analytics uses cookies to collect standard internet logging information and visitor behavior information (ie, page views, time on page, etc.) in an anonymous way. No personal information is collected when you visit this website, browse the articles, and view the images.

The anonymous information generated by Google Analytics about your use of this website is transmitted to Google Analytics and is not stored on my computers. This information is processed to compile statistical reports on website activity.

I never know who the visitor is. Google Analytics data that is provided via reports includes, as an example, numbers of visitors over a predetermined timeframe, page views, time on site, content viewed, general geographic area. This information is used by me to provide content that makes Powder Hill Photography pages more engaging for visitors.

The information provided by Google Analytics within this report is never shared or sold to anyone or any entity. It is never downloaded. Google deletes this information after a period of time. If interested, Google Analytics has its own privacy page.

Facebook Pixel and Ads

Powder Hill Photography LLC advertises on Facebook, and thus use of the Meta pixel on this website. This little code allows me to know how often an event has occurred on my page (ex. View Content, Start Checkout, etc).

No Advertising

You will notice that Powder Hill Photography website is “ad free”. Visitor information is not provided, nor shared, with any advertiser or vendor.

On-Line Orders - Squarespace Payments Financial Information

When checking out on-line, your actual credit card financial transaction takes place via Squarespace Payments which utilizes Plaid to complete the financial transaction. I never see your financial transaction data, only the amount paid, item purchased, date, method of payment, and shipping address.

Your financial information is kept strictly with Squarespace Payments. Please see Squarespace Payments for their privacy statement.

On-Line Orders - Data Collected

When you purchase a print on this Powder Hill Photography website, limited personal information is collected to fulfill the order. This can include:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your print purchase (ex. print file #, size, etc.)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

Once you input your data on my website, it is auto forwarded to me. (That’s how I know to start your print order). I retain this information (see below) for order processing and fulfillment. Squarespace retains the information for order tracking and order history.

Post-Order

After placing your order, you will receive email messages about its status. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

  • You’ve made a purchase, confirming the selected image and pricing.

  • Your order has shipped, confirming shipping method and tracking number.

Data Retention

If you contact me using the contact form, your note is retained only as long as necessary. Until deletion, it is held in my Outlook folder.

The monthly email sign-up addresses are retained as long as the email continues to be sent, or until the recipient ops-out. At that time, all contact information is removed from the active email list. Squarespace retains the information in the “opted out” section, thus preventing any future emails being sent to the opted-out individual.

All print and licensing purchase information is retained for the life of Powder Hill Photography LLC. This information is retained in QuickBooks (on my computer). Print purchases made at art fairs where no contact information was provided are listed as only sales at the fairs.

For image financial tracking (to determine how anyone image is selling), I track the person’s name (if provided at time of purchase), the print size, the art fair, and the image number, all in the software program fotoBiz X, self-contained on my computer. For those who left no contact info, the same information is retained for each image, minus the purchaser’s name. This information is retained for the life of Powder Hill Photography LLC.

If an image is licensed (ex. for publication), the above is equally true regarding data retention.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have signed up for the newsletter email (and still receiving the it), purchased a print, or licensed an image, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data that Powder Hill Photography LLC holds about you, including any data you have provided to us. See above for what that might be.

If you no longer receive the newsletter email, your data has been removed from the email mailing list, and notated that you have opted out of anything future.

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. Data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes is not included. You would need to contact third party vendors for their data deletion guidelines.

Questions?

I hope I’ve covered it all for you. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Have a great week,

Drake Fleege

Powder Hill Photography