GFC Photography is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. GFC Photography may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 15th May 2012. We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. On the 26th May 2012 a new EU directive was imposed by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). There is an overview of this on the ICO website here: http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electronic_communications/the_guide/cookies.aspx The data we collect using cookies helps us understand our customers better so that we can provide a more focused user experience. Using the knowledge of your previous visits to our website we can enhance subsequent visits by tailoring our content to match your requirements. We use cookies principally because we want to make our websites user-friendly, and we are interested in anonymous user behaviour. Our cookies don't store sensitive or personally identifiable information such as your name and address or credit card details. Here's a list of the main types of cookies we use, and what we use them for. We've described them using the categories recommended by the International Chamber of Commerce in the ICC UK Cookie Guide. [b]Strictly Necessary Cookies:[/b] These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. [b]Performance Cookies:[/b] These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. Some of these are analytics cookies, set using third party web analytics software, which allow us to understand more about how our website is used. For example, like many companies we use Google Analytics to help us monitor our website traffic. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor as they are aggregated and therefore anonymous and they do not affect your privacy. [b]Functionality Cookies:[/b] These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, these cookies can be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. Our cookies typically contain: A unique name set by the site that generated it A value the information within it that recalls your previous activities An expiration date, which determines how long the cookie will remain active in your browser before being automatically deleted. [b]3rd Party Cookies and Social Networks[/b] If you click on a hyperlink from our websites to any third party websites (e.g. if you 'share' content from our websites with friends or colleagues through social networks), you may be sent cookies from these third party websites. Third party websites will have their own privacy and cookie policies which we cannot control. Please check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.