Privacy Policy

I am William Burrard-Lucas. I can be contacted here.

My websites are: https://willbl.com, https://burrard-lucas.com and https://wildlifephoto.com.

What personal data I collect and why I collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on my sites, I collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Contact forms

When visitors complete a contact form on my sites, I collect the data shown in the contact form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. I keep contact form submissions for an indefinite period of time for customer service purposes, but I do not use the information submitted for marketing purposes.

Media

If you upload images to my 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.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on my 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.

If you have an account and you log in to one of my sites, I will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, I will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

Pages 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.

If you subscribe to my newsletter, your data will be shared with MailChimp. MailChimp has its own privacy policy.

Store

If you purchase an item from my store, the information you submit on check out will be used to process your order. For this purpose I store your contact details and billing/shipping address as well as your order history. If you have purchased an item that needs to be shipped then your details will be shared with our shipping provider.

I do not store your payment information. Payments are processed via our specialist payment providers: Stripe or PayPal. These services have their own privacy policies.

How long I retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on my website, I also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data I am obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where I send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Anonymous traffic data is shared with Google Analytics for the purpose of monitoring website statistics.

Contact information

Contact me here: https://willbl.com/contact/