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Privacy Policy

Lawes Photography Privacy Notice

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

  • Contact details
  • What information we collect, use, and why
  • Lawful bases and data protection rights
  • Where we get personal information from
  • How long we keep information
  • Who we share information with
  • How to complain

Contact details

Telephone

01202 896284

Email

info@lawesphotography.co.uk

What information we collect, use, and why
We collect or use the following information to provide services and goods, including dellvery:

  • Names and contact details
  • Addresses

Lawful bases and data protection rights
Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR.

You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.
Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

  • Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for coples of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not recelve all the information you ask for. You can read more about this right here.
  • Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. You can read more about this right here.
  • Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. You can read more about this right here
  • Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
  • Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. You can read more about this right here.
  • Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. You can read more about this right here.
  • Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can read more about this right here.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.
To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods are:

  • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
  • Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
  • To photograph wedding guests Lawes Photography will be operating within the parameters of legitimate interest as laid out in the GDPR legislation. Guests at weddings appear as part of the visual recording of the event, including those in formal group pictures. The reason for this is due to the disproportionate effort required to obtain consent from all wedding guests at the event and to do so would distract us from performing our job and therefore renders infeasible to do so. Our Wedding Clients are therefore requested to advise their guests before the day that they may be photographed on the basis of legitimate interest under the GDPR and if any of their guests do not wish to be photographed, to make themselves known to us on the day. Please be assured if any client or guest wishes us to remove a picture from our website, please contact us at info@lawesphotography.co.uk, stating which picture they would like to be removed and we will be happy to comply.

Where we get personal information from

• Directly from you

How long we keep information

  1. Where our services are NOT required, initial correspondence via our website and email will be held for 6 months.
  2. Planning information, wedding detalls, Invoices, contract and contract details or amendments will be kept for a minimum of 1 year and a maximum of 7 years following delivery of the final service/s

Who we share information with

  • Insurance companies If requested
  • Organisations we’re legally obliged to share personal information with

How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact detalls at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 SAF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
Last updated: 09/03/25