Privacy

At AWL Images Limited we appreciate your business and fully respect your right to privacy. We are committed to protecting your personal privacy and, in accordance with UK Data Protection law and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we maintain strict security procedures for the storage, use and disclosure of your personal information. We outline below the personal information we may gather about you, the purposes we hold it for and the tightly controlled categories of people to whom we may disclose it.

Cookies

Our web site uses cookies to automatically link our customers to their personalised accounts and to keep track of your orders. Cookies also enable us to keep track of which images you have selected to put in your Lightbox during each session. Cookies are small text files placed on your hard drive by web page servers and are commonly used by web sites to provide identification. The cookie your computer accepts from us is uniquely yours and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. When you access your AWL Images Limited account you will need to use a browser that supports cookies. We recommend that you use Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator versions 4.0 or higher. Cookies pose no hazard to your computer. You can set your browser's options so that it will not accept cookies, but then you will have to register each time you wish to use this web site. We do not use cookies to examine in any way your other Internet activities, either before or after you leave our web site.

Contact details and Financial Information

Our web site's Registration form requires you to give us certain contact information such as your name, e-mail and postal address. We use this information from the Registration form to confirm orders and ship the material that you have requested to you. When you place orders with us, we need to know your name, mail address, invoice address, delivery address and telephone number. This enables us to process your orders and to notify you of your order status. We may provide some or all of this information to our partners or advisors for the purposes of completing a transaction or conducting credit enquiries. We may refer your details to our appropriate sub-agent in your territory for them to service your request.

Mailings

If you give us your permission by ticking the box on the Registration Form to Opt-in, we may use the contact details supplied by you for marketing purposes to send you e-mail updates or mailshots outlining products we think may be of interest to you, new services and recent additions to the library. If you do not wish to receive e-mails, newsletters and other information please e-mail us at info@awl-images.com at any time.  All our e-mail Newsletters have an Unsubscribe option should you wish to stop receiving them.

Security

Our web site includes security features that are designed to protect the accuracy and confidentiality of the information under our control. Your username and password will remain confidential to you and the system administrators. This information is stored on a separate secure database and is not accessible via the Internet. We undertake a regular review of our security measures in order that our web site remains safe for your privacy and protection.

The Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

As a UK business, AWL Images Limited complies with the Data Protection Act 1998 and as from May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As stated above, any information that you supply to AWL Images Limited via this web site will be used only for our administrative, marketing and accounts purposes. We update our database records on a regular basis and are committed to keeping all client information confidential, current and accurate.

Lawful Basis for Processing Data

Client Data is processed by Consent
Supplier's Data is processed by Contract

Links

Please be aware that the AWL Images Limited web site may contain links to other sites that are covered by their own privacy policies. AWL Images Limited is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites and we encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site. We recommend that our users read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

Lightboxes

As lightboxes can be e-mailed out and viewed by clicking on the URL link, the information contained in them could be viewed, but not altered by someone other than you or an intended recipient.

Changes to AWL Images Limited's Privacy Policy

AWL Images Limited reserves the right to change our on-line privacy policy. However, we shall not do so without posting these changes on the AWL Images Limited web site.

Enquiries about our Privacy Policy & Security measures

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or Security measures, or have concerns about the personal information you have supplied to AWL Images Limited, please contact us at info@awl-images.com. We will investigate your enquiry and respond as soon as possible.

Right to Complain to ICO

Individuals have the right to complain to the ICO if they think there is a problem with the way that AWL Images Limited stores their data