Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority

This privacy policy will help you understand how Melissa Landres Photography uses and protects the data you provide to us when you visit and use https://melissalandres.com/

This Statement of Privacy applies to https://melissalandres.com/, and Melissa Landres Photography, LLC and governs data collection and usage.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Melissa Landres Photography, LLC include https://melissalandres.com/ and Melissa Landres Photography. The Melissa Landres Photography website is a digital portfolio, informational, and service booking site. By using the Melissa Landres Photography website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

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Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, Melissa Landres Photography may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

First and Last Name
Mailing Address
E-mail Address
Phone Number
Interests and preferences

If you purchase Melissa Landres Photography’s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is only used to complete the purchase transaction.

If you have opted into our SMS service, you agree to receive text messages that may be for customer service, marketing or receiving relevant information via SMS and MMS messages from Melissa Landres Photography, including text messages that may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system. These messages will be sent to the mobile number you provided when signing up or any other number that you designate. Please note Msg & Data rates may apply. If you do not wish to continue participating in any service utilizing SMS text or no longer agree to these Terms, you may text the applicable Short Code STOP, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE, or QUIT (or regular long code phone number where applicable) or directly reply to any mobile message received from Melissa Landres Photography to opt-out. You understand that this may impact the services you can receive. You may receive an additional mobile message confirming your decision to opt out. We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Melissa Landres Photography’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) filling out a contact form; (b) registering for an account; (c) leaving a comment on our site; (d) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (e) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (f) sending us an email message; (g) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To which, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. Personal data is also generated from technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party apps, embeds, and plug-ins used on this site. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Comments

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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Our website uses Akismet anti-spam service plug-in. We collect information about visitors who leave comments on our site. The information we collect typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Analytics

Melissa Landres Photography uses Google Analytics to analyze web traffic, web pages you spend the most time on, and websites you visit. After we use the data for statistical analysis, the data is completely removed from our systems. The Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Use of your Personal Information

Melissa Landres Photography collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.

Melissa Landres Photography may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Melissa Landres Photography and its affiliates.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Melissa Landres Photography does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Melissa Landres Photography may share data with trusted partners to help 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 Melissa Landres Photography, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Melissa Landres Photography may disclose your personal information, without notice, 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 Melissa Landres Photography or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Melissa Landres Photography; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Melissa Landres Photography, or the public.

Tracking User Behavior

Melissa Landres Photography may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Melissa Landres Photography, in order to determine what Melissa Landres Photography services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Melissa Landres Photography to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Melissa Landres Photography. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Melissa Landres Photography website.

Use of Cookies

The Melissa Landres Photography website may 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 Melissa Landres Photography pages, or register with Melissa Landres Photography site or services, a cookie helps Melissa Landres Photography 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 Melissa Landres Photography website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Melissa Landres Photography features that you customized.

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.

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 Melissa Landres Photography services or websites you visit.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security of your Personal Information

Melissa Landres Photography secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Melissa Landres Photography uses the following methods for this purpose:

– SSL Protocol

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 Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

Melissa Landres Photography is committed to securing your data and keeping it confidential. Melissa Landres Photography has done all in its power to prevent data theft, unauthorized access, and disclosure by implementing the latest technologies and software, which help us safeguard all the information we collect online.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

How long we retain your data

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.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

Delete your personal information from our records; and
Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Thirteen

Protecting the privacy of the very young is particularly important to Melissa Landres Photography. We never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under the age of 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13 to provide information to us. Melissa Landres Photography does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, Melissa Landres Photography may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Melissa Landres Photography or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Melissa Landres Photography, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button within the email message.

Changes to this Statement

Melissa Landres Photography reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

Melissa Landres Photography welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Melissa Landres Photography has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Melissa Landres Photography at:

Melissa Landres Photography, LLC
53520 Avenida Mendoza
La Quinta, California 92253

Email Address:
info@melissalandres.com

Telephone number:
760-774-7767

Date Effective: January 01, 2023