Privacy Policy - Eternal Tides Photography

DATA PROTECTION

1. Data protection at a glance

General Information
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that allows you to be personally identified. Detailed information on data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data collection on our website: Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the legal notice of this website.

How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected partly by you providing it to us. This could be, for example, data that you enter into a contact form.

Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure that the website is deployed without errors. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right at any time to receive free information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For this and other questions regarding data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.

Analysis tools and third-party tools
When you visit our website, your browsing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is done primarily with cookies and so-called analytics programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually done anonymously; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you. You can disagree with this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information can be found in the following privacy policy. You can disagree with this analysis. We will inform you about possible objections in this privacy policy.

2. General information and mandatory information

Data protection
The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with legal data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data will be collected. Personal data is data that allows you to be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

Please note that data transmission on the internet (e.g. when communicating via email) may have security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible.

Note regarding the responsible body
The responsible body for data processing on this website is:

Eternal Tides Photography
Kansankatu 54 A9
Oulu, Finland 90100
Phone: +3580465914342
Email: kelsi@eternaltides.com

Revocation of your consent to data processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time. For this, an informal notification via email to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carrie

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
In the event of data protection violations, the person concerned has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in data protection matters is the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman of Finland (Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto). Their contact details can be found at the following link: https://tietosuoja.fi/en/contact-information

Right to data portability
You have the right to have data that we process automatically based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser’s address bar changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock icon in your browser bar. If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you submit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, blocking, deletion
Within the framework of applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient, and the purpose of the data processing, and if applicable, a right to rectification, blocking or deletion of this data. For this and other questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice.

Objection to advertising emails
The use of contact details published under the legal notice requirement for sending advertising and information materials not expressly requested is hereby objected to. The operators of the sites expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited sending of advertising information, for example through spam emails.

3. Data collection on our website

Cookies
Some websites use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They will be automatically deleted after your visit ends. Other cookies will remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and to enable the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. The functionality of this website may be limited when cookies are deactivated.

Server log files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

Browser type and browser version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Hostname of the accessing computer
Time of server request
IP address

This data will not be merged with other data sources.

Data transfer at the time of contract conclusion for services and digital content
We only transfer personal data to third parties if this is necessary in the context of contract processing, for example to the credit institution commissioned with payment processing.

The data will not be transmitted further, only if you have expressly consented to the transmission. Your data will not be shared with third parties without explicit consent, for example for advertising purposes.

4. Social media

Facebook Plugins (Like & Share Button)
Our pages integrate plugins from the social network Facebook Inc., USA – within the EU – Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, D2 Dublin, Ireland. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like button” (“Like”) on our page. An overview of Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook receives information that you visited our site using your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like button” while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate visits to our pages with your user account. Please note that as the provider of the pages, we do not receive any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. Further information can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy at: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate visits to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Instagram Plugin
Features of the Instagram service are integrated into our pages. These features are offered and integrated by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate visits to our pages with your user account. Please note that as the provider of the sites, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram.

Further information can be found in Instagram’s privacy policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

Pinterest Plugin
On our site we use social plugins from the social network Pinterest, which is operated by Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA (“Pinterest”).

When you access a page that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Pinterest’s servers. The plugin transmits log data to Pinterest’s server in the USA. This log data may include your IP address, the address of the visited websites that also contain Pinterest features, browser type and settings, date and time of the request, your use of Pinterest, and cookies.

Further information regarding the purpose, scope, and further processing and use of the data by Pinterest, as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy, can be found in Pinterest’s Privacy Policy: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

5. Analysis tools and advertising

Google Analytics
This website uses features of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow you to analyze how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA.

Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its web offering and its advertising.

IP Anonymization
We have enabled the IP anonymization function on this website. This will shorten your IP address from Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before it is transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to website and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Browser Plugin
You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; however, please note that in this case you may not be able to fully use all the functions of this website. In addition, you can collect the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and prevent Google from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Objection to data collection
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this website: Disable Google Analytics.

For more information on how to handle user data in Google Analytics, see Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Demographic characteristics in Google Analytics
This website uses the “demographic characteristics” function of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be created that contain statements about the age, gender, and interests of page visitors. This data comes from Google’s interest-based advertising as well as third-party visitor data. This data cannot be attributed to any specific person. You can disable this feature at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as shown in the section “Objection to data collection”.

Google Analytics Remarketing
Our websites use the features of Google Analytics Remarketing in conjunction with the cross-device features of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

This feature allows advertising audiences created with Google Analytics Remarketing to be linked with the cross-device features of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. In this way, interest-based, personalized advertising messages can be used, depending on your previous usage and browsing behavior on a device (e.g. mobile phones) have also been adapted for you on another of your devices (e.g. tablet or PC) will be displayed.

Once you have given your consent, Google will link your web and app browser history to your Google account for this purpose. This way, the same personalized advertising messages can be displayed on any device where you log in with your Google account.

To support this feature, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated user IDs, which are temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data to define and create audiences for cross-device ad advertising.

You can permanently opt out of cross-device remarketing/targeting by disabling personalized advertising in your Google account; follow this link to do so: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.

The summary of the collected data in your Google account is based solely on your consent, which you can give or withdraw from Google (Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a GDPR). For data collection processes that are not merged into your Google account (e.g. because you do not have a Google account or have objected to the merger) the collection of the data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest arises from the fact that the website operator has an interest in the anonymized analysis of website visitors for advertising purposes.

Further information and privacy policies can be found in Google’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.

Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking
This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”).

As part of Google AdWords, we use so-called conversion tracking. When you click on an ad placed by Google, a cookie is set for conversion tracking. Cookies are small text files that the internet browser places on the user’s computer. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for the personal identification of users. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can see that the user has clicked on the ad and been redirected to this page.

Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers can find out the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, you will not receive any information that allows users to be personally identified. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can object to this use by easily disabling the Google Conversion Tracking cookie via your internet browser under User Settings. They will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

The storage of “conversion cookies” is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its web offering and its advertising.

For more information about Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking, please see Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.

Facebook Pixel
Our website uses the visitor action pixel from Facebook, Facebook Inc., 1601 California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”).

This allows the behavior of page visitors to be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook advertisement. This allows the effectiveness of Facebook’s advertising ads to be evaluated for statistical and market research purposes and future advertising measures to be optimized.

The data collected is anonymous to us as the operator of this website; we cannot draw any conclusions about the identity of the users. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook, so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s data usage policy. This allows Facebook to place advertisements on Facebook pages as well as outside of Facebook. This use of the data cannot be influenced by us as the website operator.

Facebook’s privacy policy provides further guidance on protecting your privacy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

You can also disable the remarketing function “Custom Audiences” in the ad settings section under https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. You need to be logged into Facebook for this.

If you do not have a Facebook account, you can disable Facebook’s usage-based advertising on the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance website: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/.

Facebook Custom Audiences
(1) The website also uses the remarketing function “Custom Audiences” of Facebook Inc. (“Facebook”). This allows users of the website to be shown interest-related advertisements (“Facebook ads”) when visiting the social network Facebook or other websites that also use the procedure. We are therefore interested in showing you advertisements that are of interest to you, in order to make our website more interesting for you.

(2) Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection to Facebook’s server. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected through Facebook’s use of this tool and therefore inform you according to our level of knowledge: By including Facebook Custom Audiences, Facebook receives information that you have visited the relevant website of our website or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with a Facebook service, Facebook can associate the visit with your account. Even if you are not registered with Facebook or are not logged in, there is a possibility that the provider finds out about and stores your IP address and other identifying characteristics.

(3) Disabling the “Facebook Custom Audiences” function is possible for logged-in users at https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads#_.

(4) The legal basis for processing your data is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DS-GVO. For more information about data processing by Facebook, please visit https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.

6. Plugins and tools

YouTube
Our website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The website is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established. The YouTube server will be informed which of our pages you have visited.

When you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to directly associate your browsing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offerings. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Further information on handling user data can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Google Web Fonts
This page uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you access a page, your browser loads the necessary web fonts into its browser cache to display text and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. This informs Google that our website was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offerings. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

If your browser does not support web fonts, your computer will use a standard font.

For more information about Google Web Fonts, see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps
This page uses the Google Maps map service via an API. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

To use Google Maps’ features, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA. The provider of this page has no influence on this data transfer.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offerings and easy discoverability of the places we specify on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

For more information on handling user data, see Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.