Privacy Information Notice:
At Marty Cohen Photography, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Our privacy policy is designed to meet the requirements of the State of California, United States federal regulations, and those of the European Union (GDPR.) This policy explains when and why we collect personal information, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and what choices you have. It relates to all our business activities, not just this website.
We may change this policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using our services, you’re agreeing to be bound by this policy. Any questions regarding this policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to marty@martycohenphotography.com, or via the other methods on our contact page.
Summary in Plain Language:
The new General Data Protection Rules (aka “GDPR”) is a law affecting businesses, including websites, worldwide. Effective May 25, 2018, it requires all organizations that store information about a person (which identifies that person specifically, or can be used to do that) to explicitly state how, where, why and so on. Further, that person can demand the information be removed.
That’s what all the legal information below points out. However, in plain terms, here it is: we need your information to stay in touch and to send you emails notifying you of new images or other new information posted on the website. If you ask us to delete your information, you are effectively saying that you no longer wish to be notified.
We use MailChimp (an email service) to send out our notifications, and to keep you informed of new images posted and other information regarding exhibits and opportunities for you to see my work or the work of others you might find interesting. We need to gather your name, email address and so on to keep you informed. (We do -not- collect or keep your credit card information.)
Therefore, we keep your email information on our server as does MailChimp. Google analyzes our website traffic, but keeps no personally identifying data. We make occasional use of PayPal. We use Sucuri, a security plugin to keep us from being hacked. We will never share your information with anyone, and it is our understanding the same applies for the others listed.
You can read the privacy policies of these organizations by clicking on the following links:
Here is the full text of our privacy statement:
1. Who are we?
We are Marty Cohen Photography, a photographer who loves to share his work with others.
Our mailing address is
Marty Cohen Photography
27435 Loma Del Rey
Carmel, CA, 939213
To contact us by email, address your email to marty@martycohenphotography.com
2. How do we collect information from you?
We obtain information about you when you contact us to subscribe to our newsletter.
What information do we collect & how is it used?
We collect information to allow us to inform you of new images posted, information requests and other enquiries.
We keep your membership information until you delete it yourself, or instruct us to remove it.
Some information, such as your email address, is also shared with MailChimp, our email processor. That is a separate list maintained by them, although we do have control over individual entries. You may remove yourself from this mailing list by clicking the “unsubscribe/remove” link at the bottom of every email sent by Mailchip. You may also email us and have us remove you from the list. Removal from this list will prevent you from receiving most emails updating you about events.
3.0. Sensitive Data
We do not gather sensitive personal data (e.g. health, genetic, biometric data; racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, sexual orientation, and criminal convictions). We expressly request that you do not provide any such sensitive data to us.
3.1. Children’s information
Our services are not directed to children under 13. If you learn that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without consent, please contact us.
3.2. Third Parties
We will not give, sell or rent your information to third parties.
We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
We may pass your information to third party service providers who we have engaged for the purpose of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf, such as sending our monthly newsletter or processing credit cards (if we ever needed to obtain that information). We disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service.
We also use a number of 3rd party services to help us fulfil our contractual obligations – for example, our computers are backed up to various locations, as described below.
3.3. Data Retention Details
The following outlines the personal data we collect and for what purpose. The table also outlines the 3rd parties the data is processed by or shared with, and how long the data is stored for:
Email: contact information; To allow initial and ongoing contact with prospects, clients, suppliers, etc. Kept by WordPress engine and MailChimp. Shipping labels are kept in an Excel spreadsheet for office use. Kept until request for deletion.
Passwords: Currently, we do not have a login or membership system.
Backup: Our entire site, including all user information, is backed up daily. Backups of our website, in full, are stored on Sucuri.net and are duplicated on the website host drive at Bluehost. Kept on a rotating basis in perpetuity.
We also use Google Analytics: Website visitor behavior (anonymized – full IP address is NOT stored) NO personal data is stored. No user identifiable information is stored. Google’s “user-id” is not used. All Google Ad-tracking is disabled. Session information is deleted automatically after 14 months.
Sucuri: this security software reads IP addresses to generate security warnings and prevent hacking. Entries are kept for 30 days, and are automatically pruned (deleted) by the system.
Security Audit Log: tracks IP address to provide an audit trail in case of hacking. Entries are kept for 30 days, and are automatically pruned by the system.
4. Controlling your information
You have certain rights concerning the information we hold about you. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us, including your email address in the first instance (your email address is the unique identifier we use to identify you).
4.0. Requesting a copy of your information
You may request a copy of any data we hold about you. Upon request, we will provide a CSV file (which you may open in a program such as Microsoft Excel or any text editor) containing the personal data we hold on record about you.
4.1. Updating or correcting your information
The accuracy of your information is important to us. If you change email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please notify us to make the necessary corrections; or you may contact us so we can correct our records.
4.2. Deleting your information
You have the right to request erasure of your personal information. Unless there is a compelling reason for the data not to be erased (for example, if we need to use that data to fulfil our contractual or legal obligations), your personal data will be deleted on request.
4.3. Automated decision making
We do not use any personal information for automated decision making or profiling; your data is not subject to automated decision making or profiling.
5. Use of ‘cookies’
Like many other websites, the Marty Cohen Photography website uses cookies. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on -your- computer or mobile device when you visit a website.
The cookies we use are ‘1st party’ cookies. We don’t use any ’3rd party’ cookies (these are often used to track behaviour across a range of websites, so targeted advertising can then be applied. We don’t do this!!) The following list outlines what we use cookies for:
Google Analytics: Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and what content is most popular. This helps to ensure that our website is responding to your needs in the best way possible.
WordPress Comments: When you leave a comment on our blog, three cookies are set to store your name, email address and website. This is so that if you wish to leave another comment, you won’t have to re-type this information. (Comments are currently disabled, so this does not apply.)
Temporary cookies: infrequently used to track action from one page to the next. No personal information is involved.
By using and browsing the Marty Cohen Photography website, you consent to cookies being used in accordance with this policy.
If you do not consent, you must turn off cookies in your browser or refrain from using the site. Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies. To do this, look at the ‘help’ menu on your browser. Switching off cookies should not noticeably restrict your use of this website, although it may preclude you from some services which require online payments.
6. Security
Marty Cohen Photography takes security seriously. In order to protect your information from loss, misuse or unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. These steps include the following:
Data minimisation
Password best practice: We currently do not have user passwords
Security best practice concerning devices (PCs, laptops, mobile devices), online accounts, website hosting, physical access and storage
Staff training and accountability on data protection
Two-factor authentication for site administrators.
This website runs on a dedicated server with extremely limited access. The server is located in a highly secure facility in Virginia, USA.
7. Data Breaches
Where appropriate, Marty Cohen Photography will promptly notify you of any unauthorized access to your personal information.
8. Complaints
If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal information, you can contact us directly and we will investigate the matter. Email us at admin@martycohenphotography.com .
Personal Data Export Example
This is a sample privacy report of data stored by MailChimp which is used by them to maintain our mail list.
