Colin Kirk Photographics is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Colin Kirk Photographics website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Colin Kirk Photographics website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Colin Kirk Photographics collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Colin Kirk Photographics also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Colin Kirk Photographics. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Colin Kirk Photographics for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Colin Kirk Photographics website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Colin Kirk Photographics public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Colin Kirk Photographics does not read any of your private online communications.

Colin Kirk Photographics encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Colin Kirk Photographics so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Colin Kirk Photographics is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Colin Kirk Photographics and Colin Kirk Photographics family of websites.

Use of your Personal Information

Colin Kirk Photographics collects and uses your personal information to operate the Colin Kirk Photographics website and deliver the services you have requested. Colin Kirk Photographics also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Colin Kirk Photographics and its affiliates. Colin Kirk Photographics may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Colin Kirk Photographics does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Colin Kirk Photographics may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Colin Kirk Photographics may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Colin Kirk Photographics, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Colin Kirk Photographics does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Colin Kirk Photographics keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Colin Kirk Photographics, in order to determine what Colin Kirk Photographics services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Colin Kirk Photographics to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Colin Kirk Photographics websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Colin Kirk Photographics or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Colin Kirk Photographics; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Colin Kirk Photographics, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Colin Kirk Photographics website use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Colin Kirk Photographics pages, or register with Colin Kirk Photographics site or services, a cookie helps Colin Kirk Photographics to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Colin Kirk Photographics website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Colin Kirk Photographics features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Colin Kirk Photographics services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Colin Kirk Photographics secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Colin Kirk Photographics secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Colin Kirk Photographics will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Colin Kirk Photographics encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Colin Kirk Photographics is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Colin Kirk Photographics welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Colin Kirk Photographics has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Colin Kirk Photographics at sales@colinkirkphotos.co.nz. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.