If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at Contact.
At alikgriffin.com, the privacy of our visitors is extremely important to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information received and collected by AlikGriffin.com and how it is used.
Japanese Privacy And Tort Laws
If you or your family are citizens or residents of Japan and appear in any of the photography or street photography shown at AlikGriffin.com, you have a right to privacy and we will delete or remove any photos that involve the use of you or your family members upon request.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on May 25, 2018.
We are committed to protecting your data. If you have an account on AlikGriffin.com/Store, this Privacy Policy explains how we use and store your data.
What personal data do we collect and why do we collect it?
Customers of Alikgriffin.com/Store will be required to fill out personal information when ordering products. Types of data that is collected include:
Your name or username.
Your email address.
Further data may be collected if you choose to share it.
We collect some or all of this information in the following cases:
You browse this site. See “Cookie Policy” below.
You order a product.
You fill out your customer profile.
Customer profiles will be stored until the user deletes their account or requests that it is removed.
How your personal information is used.
We may use your personal information in the following ways:
For the purposes of making you a registered member of our site, in order to contribute as a content creator or editor.
We may use your email address to inform you of activity on our site.
Cookie Policy of AlikGriffin.com
Cookies are small files installed in your browser (if allowed) that a site or its services use to recognize your browser and capture certain information. For example, we use cookies to help us aggregate data about site traffic and user behavior so that we can enhance the overall user experience with content and tools in the future.
Cookies are also used to:
Keep track of advertisements and affiliate information
Aggregate data about site traffic using third-party services.
When commenting on our site, you can choose to save your name, email, and website in cookies. This makes it easier for you to comment again without typing your details. These cookies will stay for a year.
We will use a temporary cookie to check if your browser can use cookies when you go to our login page. This cookie has no personal data and it goes away when you close your browser.
We will also use some cookies to keep your login and screen settings when you log in. Login cookies are good for two days, and screen cookies are good for a year. If you pick “Remember Me”, your login will last for two weeks. If you log out, the login cookies will go away.
We will use another cookie in your browser when you edit or publish an article. This cookie has no personal data and it just shows the post ID of the article you changed. It goes away after 1 day.
You can modify your browser setting to choose to have your browser disable cookies or to alert you when cookies are used.
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.
Information that is collected:
Email address, geographic position, language, unique device identifiers for advertising, usage data, and various types of usage data.
When do we collect this information?
We collect cookies when users visit our site.
If you sign up for our newsletter, you opt-in to have your name and email saved so that we may send updates, notifications, or messages regarding site activity or information, such as new blog posts or updates.
Customers of AlikGriffin.com/Store will be required to provide a name and email address and any information required for billing depending on the services used.
Services that use cookies and personal data
When your information is collected, it may be shared with third-party services for the purpose of advertising, analytics, commercial affiliate programs, user contact, content commenting, external social networks and platforms interaction services, managing contacts and sending push notifications, traffic optimization, and distribution.
These cookies are generally set by the third-party independently, so we will have no ability to access them.
These services include . . .
Google Analytics with anonymized IP
Purpose: Analytics, allows us to see how people are using the site so we may improve on it.
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data
Google Fonts
Purpose: Load Google fonts.
Newsletter
Purpose: User Contact, allows us to contact users when updates are made to site content.
Personal Data: email address and first name
Contact Form
Purpose: User Contact.
Personal Data: email address and name
Facebook Like button, Google+ button, Twitter Tweet button, Pinterest Button
Purpose: External social networks and platforms interaction services
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data
Cloudflare
Purpose: Traffic optimization, distribution & security.
Personal Data: Various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service
PayPal, Stripe
Purpose: Ordering products and payment processing
Personal Data: Various types of user data are required for identity verification and for payment processing.
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include . . .
Google AdSense
Purpose: Advertising. These cookies are set by a third party and this site has no ability to access them.
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data
CompliantZ
This website uses the Privacy Suite for WordPress by Complianz to collect and record Browser and Device-based Consent. For this functionality, your IP address is anonymized and stored in our database. This service does not process any personally identifiable information and does not share any data with the service provider. For more information, see the Complianz Privacy Statement.
GeniusLink:
We use GeniusLink, a service provided by GeoRiot Networks Inc., to create and manage smart links that direct you to the best place to buy the products we promote. GeniusLink collects some information about your device, location, language, and other factors when you click on a GeniusLink link. This information is used to optimize the link and provide analytics to us. GeniusLink does not collect any personal information that can identify you as an individual. GeniusLink complies with the Standard Contractual Clauses and the GDPR for data protection and privacy.
Amazon Affiliation
Purpose: Commercial affiliate programs
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. When you click on an Amazon link on our website, Amazon may collect some information about your device, location, language, and other factors to optimize the link and provide analytics to us. Amazon does not collect any personal information that can identify you as an individual. Amazon complies with the relevant laws and regulations for data protection and privacy.
BHphoto, Adorama, ShopMoment Affiliation
Purpose: Commercial affiliate programs
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on alikgriffin.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
Alikgriffin.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers or services.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt out of certain practices. alikgriffin.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or websites.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When collecting and retaining personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control.
We do not target directly or market to children under the age of 13 years old.
Third parties, including ad networks, comment networks, analytics, or content delivery networks collect data from children under the age of 13 if their parents comply with this site’s privacy policy and cookie use.
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.
For users who register on our website (if any), we 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.
The length of time we retain your personal data depends on what that data is and how we use it.
MailChimp
Mailchimp data is deleted as soon as you opt out.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics data is retained for 26 months.
Cookie Acceptance
Cookies are stored on your computer and are deleted when you clear your cookies in your browser settings.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet Anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but 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).
What rights do 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 we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
How we protect your data
Your data is stored on secured servers, is password-protected, and is accessible by only a limited number of people who treat the data with strict confidentiality.
What data breach procedures we have in place
In compliance with Fair Information Practices we will take the following action if a data breach occurs:
If a data breach occurs, you will be notified via email within 1 business day.
Acceptance of this policy
Continued use of this means you accept this policy. If you do not accept the policy then please stop using this site. When registering or ordering products, we will further request your explicit acceptance of the privacy policy.
Rights
You have the right to access any personal data we have collected about you.
Please contact Alik Griffin by email at Contact to process any GDPR or CCPA data access requests.
You have the right to request any erasure of your personal data. Contact Alik Griffin for more information.