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 was 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 families 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 we collect and why 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 includes:

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.

You can modify your browser setting to choose to have your browser disable cookies or to alert you when cookies are used.

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

Disqus
Purpose: Commenting, allowing users to share in discussion and to participate in the site’s content by offering new information.
Personal Data: Cookies, Usage Data, and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

Facebook Like button, Google+ button, Twitter Tweet button, Pinterest Button
Purpose: External social networks and platforms interaction services
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data

OneSignal
Purpose: Managing contacts and sending push notifications to notify users of updates.
Personal Data: Cookies, email address, geographic position, language, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example), Usage Data, and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

KeyCDN, WordPress Photon CDN, 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

Amazon Affiliation, BHphotovideo Affiliation, Adorama
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

The length of time we retain your personal data depends on what that data is and how we use it.

Sendy
Sendy data is deleted as soon as you opt out.

MailChimp

Mailchimp data is deleted as soon as you opt out.

Google Analytics 
Google Analytics data is retained for 26 months.

Disqus
If you leave a comment, information is kept indefinitely or until you choose to delete your own content.

Cookie Acceptance
Cookies are stored on your computer and are deleted when you clear your cookies in your browser settings.

What rights you have over your data

You have rights relating to your data.

If you 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 request a copy of your personal data.

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.