Cristina Arce Photography, doing business as Cristina Photography, we or us) is sensitive to concerns that personal information collected from its customers (you or your) be handled respectfully and appropriately.  This Privacy Policy (the Policy) discloses the privacy practices for Cristina Photography and applies solely to information collected by the website  www.cristinaphotography.com  including any related domains and subdomains (the Site).  This Policy is intended to notify you of the following:

What personally identifiable information Cristina Photography collects from you through the Site, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

You can use http://www.cristinaphotography.com or our affiliates websites, (collectively, the “Website”, the “Blog”, the “Store”) without having an account. You can visit the Website, read articles on our blog, browse merchandise, and check on offerings without giving us any personally identifiable information.

Certain other activities on the Website, such as posting comments or product reviews and signing up to receive e-mail updates from Cristina Photography and our affiliates and partners, do not require you to register for an account, but may require that you provide certain personal information such as your name and e-mail address. However other activities, like purchasing products through the Store, require you to register for a user account. To register, you must create a user account, which requires you to provide your e-mail address and select a password. The password you select is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.

Whether or not you register, in order to provide users and subscribers with the most efficient and enhanced personalized service and attention, we may request information about you in certain circumstances and collect certain information automatically.

Internet traffic data includes but is not limited to internet service provider information, collection of IP addresses, entry and exit pages, various operating systems and other such information.  We collect no personally identifying information through this process, and it is used to help analyze user traffic with respect to various services available through Cristina Photography to allow for a more customizable and enjoyable user experience.

We use cookies on this Site.  A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitors hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site.  Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.  Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our Site.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Cristina Photography must collect some information from you (Identifier Information) to allow you to use and access services, products and materials.  Identifier Information is only collected by your personally providing such information to Cristina Photography via e-mail, by phone, or otherwise through the Cristina Photography website pursuant to requesting service.

We collect personally identifiable information that you volunteer to us (such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, and/or similar demographic information), when you subscribe to, or create an account with, the Website, place an order through the Store (see the section below for more information on subscriptions, account management and orders), enter a contest or sweepstakes through the Website, request a catalog or voluntarily register on the Website. Often this additional information is optional or requested anonymously in connection with a survey. Website visitors may register to receive our e-mail updates, participate in surveys, or enter online contests and sweepstakes. Registration may also be required to purchase products through the Website and participate in certain other features made available on our Website. Sometimes registration can be accomplished by submitting only an e-mail address and password. Other offerings may require the submission of additional information. Registration forms will indicate what information is required and what information (if any) is optional.

The name you provide (not your e-mail address) is displayed to other users when you post a comment or product review via our Website. Remember that any comments, product reviews or other information you post is publicly available. Any comments, product reviews or other information that you post or submit to the Website may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cristina Photography may display personal testimonials of yours from time received via email or as otherwise received from you by Cristina Photography.  By accepting the Terms of Use which incorporate this Privacy Policy that you may access here, you give Cristina Photography specific consent to use such personal testimonials.  If you would like Cristina Photography to remove your testimonial or customer review at any time, please simply contact us at our Contact Page and we will promptly do so.

As in any transaction, your credit card company will have all relevant information about the name of the vendor, item(s) purchased, date, total cost and other information necessary to process the transaction. Cristina Photography or our affiliates websites, (collectively, the “Website”, the “Blog”, the “Store”) will not otherwise provide any personal data to your credit card company without your permission.

We are the sole owners of the information collected on the Site.  We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you.  We will not sell, rent or otherwise share this information with any other individual or business entity, except as reasonably necessary to provide products, materials, or services to you.

We will use your information to respond to you, and will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order.

Articles and blog posts on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

The images used on the Biographies section, the photographs are own and copyrighted by each photographer.  –  None of these images are property of Cristina, and they are used just to illustrate each biography.  Every biography contains the official link of the photographer.  All visitors and students of photography are welcome and encourage to visit the official website to see even more information about the master of photography.

Artworks protected by copyright are supposed to be used only for contemplation.  Images of that type of artworks are prohibited for printing, or any kind of reproducing and communicating to public since these activities may be considered copyright infringement.  At all points, it requires crediting the artists, and keeping copy right notices intact on all copies of the work.  If you are a copyright owner of the artwork, or his/her legal representative, and you do not want this artwork in our education section, please contact us.

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. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

The information, made available from the visitor’s browser, is collected and sent to Automattic’s Demand Partners: IP address, geographical data (derived from the IP address), user agent, operating system, device type, unique user ID (randomly generated identifier), current URL, and IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) interest category. Log data (IP address, geographical data, user agent, operating system, device type) is stored for 30 days. The unique user ID is stored in cookies and is retained for 1 year.

Ad impressions, video-related events (i.e. pause, mute, 100% plays, etc.) or errors, and ad click events. Various cookies are used for the following purposes: delivering targeted advertisements to specific visitors, storing user identifiers, and collecting anonymous ad platform stats.

We reserve the right to use or disclose any information without notice or consent for the following purposes: as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request; to conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible breaches of law; to protect the integrity of our Website and our property; to protect the safety of our visitors or others; to fulfill your requests; or to cooperate in any legal investigation.