Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://www.lizwestergaardphotography.com/ (the “Site”). In this Privacy Policy, when we mention "Personal Information," we are referring to both Device Information and Order Information.

Personal Information We Collect

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

When you visit the Site, we automatically gather certain details about your device, such as your web browser, IP address, time zone, and the cookies stored on your device. As you navigate the Site, we also collect information about the specific pages or products you view, the websites or search terms that led you to the Site, and how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically collected data as "Device Information."

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. . Cookies help this site run effectively while optimizing user experience by allowing this site to remember preferences. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

  • These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

    Analytics:

    This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

    • Information about your browser, network, and device

    • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

    • Your IP address

    This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

    • Clicks

    • Internal links

    • Pages visited

    • Scrolling

    • Searches

    • Timestamps

    We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Purchasing:

When you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order, such as your name, billing address, shipping address, details relating to your purchase (for example, print size preference), payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this as "Order Information."

We share this information with third parties as necessary to fulfill your order, for example, Squarespace, our online store hosting provider and, so that they can provide website services to us. When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. You can read their privacy policy here. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

Block Form Submissions:

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

Fonts:

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

How Do We Use Your Personal Information?

We use the Order Information we collect primarily to process and fulfill orders placed through the Site. This includes handling your payment details, arranging shipping, and sending you invoices or order confirmations. Additionally, we may use your Order Information to:

  • Communicate with you;

  • Screen orders for potential risks or fraud; and

  • Provide you with information or advertisements related to our products or services, based on your preferences.

We use the Device Information we collect to help detect potential risks or fraud (especially your IP address). More broadly, we use this information to improve and optimize the Site, such as by analyzing how customers interact with it and assessing the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising campaigns, including retargeting efforts.

We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Emails:

Order & Account Emails:

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

  • You’ve created a customer account

  • Your customer account password has been reset or updated

  • You’ve made a purchase

  • Your order has shipped

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Abandoned Cart Emails:

You’ll receive an automated email within 24 hours after you abandon your shopping cart, if all of the following occur:

  1. You enter your email address at checkout, or are logged into your customer account.

  2. You add a product which is in stock to your shopping cart.

  3. You close your browser or leave this website without completing your purchase.

You can unsubscribe from these messages at the bottom of the email.

The email will link back to this website, where you can pick up where you left off and complete your purchase.

Marketing Emails:

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Lastly, we may share your Personal Information to comply with relevant laws and regulations, respond to subpoenas, search warrants, or other legal requests for information, or to protect our legal rights.

Behavioral Advertising

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.  For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

  • Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

  • Google - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

  • Bing - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at:  http://optout.aboutads.info/.

Do Not Track

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

Data Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

Changes

We may update this privacy policy to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at lizwestergaard@gmail.com