Privacy statement (Current version =Latest update: 2023 Jan 17th) This privacy statement covers our handling of member, client and visitor data concerning any of our websites, i.c https://besttopphotographer.com, further on mentioned as "our website" CONTENT: *Section A (Information for guests (site visitors) and members alike) 1) Personal data: 2) Anonimous data: *Section B (Information for members) *Section C (Information for customers) *Section D (Information regarding email) *Section E (Information regarding integrated thirth party functionallity on our sites) -Share buttons on our pages *Section F (Communication between you and besttopphotographer.com about privacy and data) *Section G (You control your own data) *Section H (Photos and text you upload) ___________________________________________________ *Section A (Information for guests (site visitors) and members alike) 1) Personal data: we do not place any other than functional cookies on your device and we are not interested in and do not collect your personal data such as: Age Gender Occupation address phone number etc etc The placement of Coockies to make the website function and to remember your identity during website processes are inherent to the use of the website and thus accepted by using the website. 2) Anonymous data: Our system registers the visit, the time and date of your visit, the pages you visit, and the IP your visit came from. All this data is anonymous and unrelated to you as a person. The only thing we try to find out is the country your IP address belongs to. You can prevent so by using a VPN. All this data might be or not be used for statistical purposes. All this data will never be lend to or shared with anyone unless we are forced to hand it over to the authorities in case of a legal investigation. ___________________________________________________ *Section B (Information for members) We store all the data you provide during the join process on our website, this is your name, your country and the links your provide to your social media and other websites, blogs etc. The information you provide during a donation is not stored on our website but in the PayPal systems. Whenever you have provided your address to send an order to you, this address has been shared with the courier, and might be stored on a local and encrypted system for tax reasons. Your address is never stored on our website and hence can never become exposed to anyone. For administrative purposes, (where does the money come from, where does it go and the payment of VAT and income taxes) data from PayPal is extracted and stored on an encrypted local machine, The security level of our website is very high, should still someone succeed to hack into the system, no info about you can be stolen, no addresses and no financial info are stored on the website. ___________________________________________________ *Section C (Information for customers) Whenever your order something, magazine, book, print or whatever from 7starphoto.com The information you provide during the order or payment is not stored on our website but in the Paypal systems. Whenever you have provided your address to send an ordered object to you, this address has been shared with the courier. Your address is in their systems but not stored on the our website. For administrative purposes, data from Paypal or Bank is extracted and stored on an encrypted local machine, it is supposed to be very well secured and not linked in any way to data on the our website. The security level of our website is very high, should still someone succeed to hack into the system, no info about you can be stolen, no addresses and no financial info are stored on the website. ___________________________________________________ *Section D (Information regarding email) All communication between you and (the admins of) besttopphotographer.com via various mail addresses such as admin@besttopphotographer.com and aliases etc etc might be archived on an encrypted server and our local encrypted system. ___________________________________________________ *Section E (Information regarding integrated third party functionality on our sites) Share buttons on our pages It is very likely that social media sites you share content with, from our website, by clicking one of the share buttons, are registering this activity and/or use cookies for this functionality. You may assume it is better to avoid the share buttons if you prefer not to share this info with the social media involved in the share action. ___________________________________________________ *Section F (Communication between you and besttopphotographer.com about privacy and data) Please be so kind to inform us if you are of opinion that anything is not in compliance with any applicable law. Any question or request related to your data can be send to admin@besttopphotographer.com and will be processed with care. ___________________________________________________ *Section G (You control your own data) At all times you are entitled to get full info about what data belonging to you is on our systems. At all times you are entitled to make us remove all data belonging to you is on our systems. ___________________________________________________ *Section H (Photos and text you upload) Photos and text you upload are published publicly on our website and visible to anyone.