Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Dian McCreary’s Fine Art Photography sells original fine art silver gelatin prints by Dian McCreary.  Our website address is: https://blackwhitephotos.ca.  The store is based in Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada.

Analytics

Our web hosting provider may collect some anonymous analytics data.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Our website uses WooCommerce to power our online store.

We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store so we can fulfil your orders.  This includes your name, address, phone number and email address.  Your data is used purely for the purpose of fulfilling any orders placed.

We do not resell your information to any third parties.

What we collect and store

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

  • Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
  • Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
  • Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  • Send you information about your account and order
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 6 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

Who on our team has access

The store is managed by Dian McCreary and operated with support from the website administrator.  Both can access:

  • Order information such as what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
  • Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

What we share with others

We share your information with our payment processor, in order to take payments for our products.

Payments

When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to our payment processor, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Please see the privacy notice for Square payments for more details.