Website Privacy Policy

This website is operated by Spoon and Fork Food Photography.

The privacy of out users is of the most importance to us and therefore we encourages all users to read this policy very carefully, it contains important information about:

Who we are
How and why we collect, store, use and share your personal information
How to contact us and other authorities in the event that you have concerns or wish to make a complaint.

Who we are

Spoon and Fork Food Photography collect, use and are responsible for storing the personal information about you, you have shared with them.

The personal information we collect and use

Personal information is defined as information that you can be identified from.

The types of personal information that we may process in relation to you are contact details such as your first name, surname, business name if applicable, location, email and telephone number.

How your personal information is collected

This section describes how your personal information is collected by us.

Your personal information will be collected as follows:

Personal information obtained from you directly

We will sometimes obtain information from you directly including when you:

Subscribe to offers, newsletters, blog posts
Contact Spoon and Fork Food Photography via the chat services
Purchasing a service or product via email, chat services or telephone call.

2. Personal information obtained by use of cookies or other automated means

We will sometimes obtain information via automated technology. This shall be by the use of cookies and other technology.

A cookie is a small text file that is placed onto your computer electronic device when you access our website. The cookies are used to track users actions and activities. You can consent to cookies not to be used by opting out on the cookies pop up banner. Please be aware that you may not be able to access some website features as a result.

The technology used is via the WIX website platform.

We use cookies to gather analytical information about site visits, popular pages, location of visitors, traffic data.

3) Additional sources

We may collect personal information in relation to you from the following sources:

Social media sign ups
Competition entries
Face to Face events

4) Changes to the way in which we collect your personal information

In the event we that we need to obtain personal information in relation to you from any other source than described above, we shall notify you of this via email.

How we use your personal information.

This section detail how your personal information is used with Spoon and Fork Food photography

General purposes

Your personal information will generally be processed for the following purposes:

To send marketing to yourself in the form of newsletters and blog posts
To enter into a contract of photography services with you and your business

2. Monitoring

We may monitor communications and in doing so we may obtain your personal information through this process.

We undertake monitoring for quality assurance and training purposes.

3. Use of your information for marketing purposes

When using your personal information for marketing purposes you do have the right to object or to opt out of receiving any direct marketing.

You have the right to opt out of any direct marketing through unsubscribing from receiving our emails using the link ‘unsubscribe’ on all emails.
You can email spoonandforkfoodphotography.com and request that all your personal information is deleted or you wish to unsubscribe from all marketing activities.

Lawful basis for processing of your personal information

Please see the UK data protection law to show the lawful basis we are able to process your personal information.

General lawful basis

Where we have your consent to use your data for a specific purpose
Where is it necessary to enter into a legal contract with you or to perform obligations under a legal contract with you.
Where it is necessary to enable us to comply with a legal obligation.
Where it is necessary to ensure our own legitimate interests.
Where we need to protect your own vital interests.
Where it is needed in the public interest, provided that the task or function has a clear basis in law.

2) Lawful basis specifically applicable to marketing

We will only ever use your personal information to send marketing directly where we have your consent.

Sharing of your personal information

On any occasion where any of your personal information is shared with any third party, we shall only permit them to process such information for our required purposes, under our specific instruction, and not for their own purpose.

We do not anticipate that we will need to share your personal information with any third party. We will notify via email should this position change.

How long your personal information will be kept

Your personal information will only be kept for the period of time which is necessary for us to fulfil the above purposes

We envisage that your personal information shall be retained until we are informed otherwise by yourself.

Keeping your information secure

We will ensure the safety and security of your personal information and there are measures inlace to do so.

These measures are:

Use of spyware to protect computer
The user account is password protected

Your rights

Under GDPR you have a number of rights to protect your personal information.

1) fair processing of your information and transparency on how we use your personal information

2) you are able to access your personal information

3) we have a responsibility to amend any mistakes in your personal information we hold

4) we will remove your personal information from our database when requested

5) you can object to your personal information being used for marketing purposes

Further Information

For further information regarding your rights on GDPR you are able to contact the UK’s Information Commissioners Office (ICO).

You are also able to contact Spoon and Fork food photography through the contact form or by emailing spoonandforkfoodphotography.com

Policy to be reviewed September 2025