PRIVACY POLICY

M. Laine Photography takes your privacy seriously and has created the following Privacy Policy to explain to you M. Laine Photography’s information collection and use practices associated with mlainephotography.com (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy sets forth the privacy policies and practices of M. Laine Photography and their affiliates as they relate to the collection, use and disclosure of information in connection with your use of the Site. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and completely before using this Site.

By accessing and using this Site, you expressly agree to this Privacy Policy and consent to the collection and use of your information as set forth herein. Should you not acknowledge and agree to this Privacy Policy, you must immediately discontinue use of this Site. The terms “their”, “theirs”, “them”, or “they” refer to M. Laine Photography, and the terms “you” or “yours” refers to you, as the user of this Site. By accessing and using this Site, you also agree to the Terms of Use.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

M. Laine Photography may update and modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time, and such updates and modifications will be effective immediately upon posting the updated/modified Privacy Policy. You agree to review this Privacy Policy periodically to be aware of such updates and modifications and your continued access or use of this Web Site after any updates and modifications will be deemed your conclusive acceptance of the updated/modified Privacy Policy.

WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED?

M. Laine Photography may collect two types of information from you: (i) personally identifiable information, and (ii) anonymous information.

Anonymous Information. Anonymous information refers to information that cannot be tied back to a specific individual. Each time a visitor comes to the Site, M. Laine Photography collects some information to improve the overall quality of the visitor’s online experience. M. Laine Photography collects the visitor’s IP address (a number assigned to your computer when you use the Internet) referral data (e.g., the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking a link to the Site), browser and platform type (e.g., Internet Explorer on a Windows 7 platform) and your activity while using the Site. Additionally, in order to personalize and enhance your experience on the Site, M. Laine Photography may also collect information through “cookies.” Cookies are small strings of text that are sent by the Site to your browser and then stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. They use cookies to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer the Site. They may also use cookies to gather broad demographic information and to help identify you in respect to visits to the Site so that they may improve your user experience, as well as to determine whether you visited the Site from a particular internet link or advertisement. A code in the cookie file may enable the Site to label you as a particular user, including identifying you by name, address, or other personally identifiable information. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but it is possible to change your browser setup so that it does not accept cookies.

Personally Identifiable Information. The Site permits you to contact M. Laine Photography and submit information via various means, including e-mail. Whenever you send an e-mail via a link on the Site, you will be providing us with your e-mail address and any information you choose to include in the text of your message. “Personally Identifiable Information” or “PII” refers to information that tells specifically who you are, such as your name, e-mail address, street mailing address, curriculum vitae and other biographical information, specialty, or other place of business. You may also provide M. Laine Photography with Personally Identifiable Information through your voluntary completion of registration forms and surveys on the Site.

HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION USED?

Their use. Personally Identifiable Information will only be collected to the extent that M. Laine Photography deems it reasonably necessary to serve legitimate business purposes, including, but not limited to, the following: (i) to correspond with you regarding the Site; (ii) to provide you with requested information about M. Laine Photography, M. Laine Photography’s services, or the services of their affiliates and/or partners; (iii) to inform you of developments from M. Laine Photography, M. Laine Photography’s services, or the services of their affiliates and/or partners that they believes may be of interest to you; (iv) to monitor Site visitor traffic patterns and Site usage; (v) to comply with applicable laws; (vi) to enforce my Terms of Use; and (vii) to protect the rights, property, or safety of M. Laine Photography, their users, and others.

Sharing information. M. Laine Photography shares your information only with our affiliates and partners to provide you with information about their services. Also, M. Laine Photography may share in aggregate, statistical form, non-personal information regarding the visitors to the Site, traffic patterns, and Site usage with our partners, affiliates or advertisers. In addition, they will disclose information they obtain, including Personally Identifiable Information, when required to do so by law, in response to a request from a law enforcement agency or authority, to comply with applicable laws, to enforce his Terms of Use, and to protect the rights, property, or safety of M. Laine Photography, their users, and others.

SHARING OF INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES

When you provide Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) to M. Laine Photography, they may make it accessible to certain third party service providers to perform a variety of services on our behalf. These service providers include business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract they enter into with them or you; advertisers and advertising networks for selecting and serving relevant advertisements to you and others; and analytics and search engine providers for assisting them in the administration and improvement of the Site. Please note that they provide our service providers with only PII necessary for them to perform services and only for use for such purposes.

PII collected from you may also be transferred to a third party in the event that the business of this Site or a part of it is sold, assigned or transferred, or as part of the process of considering such a transaction, in which case they would use reasonable endeavors to ensure the actual or proposed buyer, assignee or transferee treat your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

IS MY PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE?

M. Laine Photography is committed to the use of industry-standard security and data protection products to protect the privacy of your Personally Identifiable Information from unauthorized third parties. Appropriate safeguards have been implemented to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of Personally Identifiable Information. However, transmissions over the Internet are not always secure, and M. Laine Photography cannot guarantee that information you transmit utilizing the Site is secure; nor can they guarantee the performance or adequacy of any other security measures they employs.

ARE CHILDREN PERMITTED TO USE THE SITE?

This Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, M. Laine Photography does not intentionally collect or use any Personal Information from children who identify themselves as being under the age of 13. By using the Site, you represent that you are not under 13 years of age.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Please note that the Site may contain links to other websites. M. Laine Photography is not responsible for such linked websites nor the content of any of the linked websites, nor can M. Laine Photography guarantee that such other websites’ privacy policies conform to their own. In addition, websites that are linked to the Site may have privacy policies that differ from that of M. Laine Photography’s. M. Laine Photography is not responsible for the individual privacy practices of third party websites. For more information about links to third party websites, please refer to the Terms of Use.

USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS

To better serve you and other potential customers, M. Laine Photography has implemented Google Analytics Advertising features such as, but not limited to, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Using the Google Ad settings, you can opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising.

M. Laine Photography will not facilitate the merging of Personally Identifiable Information with non-Personally Identifiable Information collected through any Google Analytics Advertising features unless they provides you notice of, and obtains your prior affirmative (i.e., opt-in) consent, to that merger. They and third party vendors, including Google, may use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to their Site.

M. Laine Photography and third party vendors, including Google, may use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to report how their ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to your visits to their Site.

They may use data from Google’s Interest-based advertising or third-party audience data (such as age, gender and interests) with Google Analytics primarily to improve their marketing campaigns and this Site’s content.

For more details on how M. Laine Photography uses Google Analytics to collect and process data, please visit the Google Privacy Policy.

USE OF GOOGLE MAPS API

To the extent M. Laine Photography develops and implements Google Maps API (“Google Maps”) in connection with this Site, and such implementation of Google Maps enables M. Laine Photography to gain access to your information in connection with your use of Google Maps, including PII or non-PII usage information (such as location), M. Laine Photography will use and retain such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy constitutes M. Laine Photography’s notification to you of the type(s) of data that it intends to collect from you or your device when you use Google Maps. M. Laine Photography’s implementation of Google Maps in connection with this Site will not obtain or cache your location in any manner unless they obtains your prior consent, which you may revoke at any time.

If M. Laine Photography provides Google with geolocation data, that geolocation data will not enable Google to identify you or your unique device identifier.

For more information regarding Google’s privacy policies in connection with Google Maps, please visit Google’s Privacy Policy by clicking here.

NO ERROR-FREE PERFORMANCE

M. Laine Photography does not guarantee error-free performance under this Privacy Policy. M. Laine Photography may not always catch an unintended privacy issue, despite M. Laine Photography’s efforts to do so. M. Laine Photography will use reasonable efforts to comply with this Privacy Policy and will take prompt corrective action when they learn of any failure to comply with it. Accordingly, M. Laine Photography welcomes your feedback regarding any privacy concerns that you may have.

CONTACT M. LAINE PHOTOGRAPHY

If you have any concerns or questions about this Privacy Policy, and the privacy practices set forth herein, including your dealings with this Site, please contact M. Laine Photography by clicking here.

This policy was last updated on April, 18th 2023. @M. Laine Photography