Privacy policy.

THE POLICY

This privacy policy is for this website, which is administered by David Clarke Photography.

EXTERNAL WEBSITE LINKS

This website contains links which may interest you.  When you click through to those sites, you leave David Clarke Photography and our Privacy Policy has no jurisdiction on the third party site you visit.  You will need to check their Privacy Notice if you wish to find out how they handle any information collected during your visit.

DOWNLOADS & MEDIA FILES

Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party anti virus software or similar applications.

CONTACT & COMMUNICATION WITH US

Users contacting this us through this website do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use.

COOKIES

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store on a device. Cookies can improve your visitors’ browsing experience because they help websites remember preferences and understand how people use different features.

Cookies on this website

We use both Session Cookie and Persistent Cookies on this website.

Generally, we use cookies to help us administer this website, to improve the website’s usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to user needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

David Clarke Photography uses the following cookies.

_acloggedin

  • Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account

  • Cookie

  • January 1, 2025

_client_acloggedin

  • Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account

  • Cookie

  • January 1, 2025

_dd_cookie_test

  • Tests if cookies are supported

  • Cookie

  • Expires instantly

_dd_s

  • Tracks browser errors

  • Cookie

  • Four hours

_dd_site_test

  • Tests if cookies are supported

  • Cookie

  • Expires instantly

_grecaptcha

  • Helps reduce spam

  • Local storage

  • No expiry

CART

  • Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart

  • Cookie

  • Two weeks

CHECKOUT_WEBSITE

client_username

  • Remembers a logged in Scheduling client's username between visits

  • Cookie

  • One year

Commerce-checkout-state

  • Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal

  • sessionstorage

  • Session

Crumb

hasCart

  • Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart

  • Cookie

  • Two weeks

Locked

  • Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.

  • Cookie

  • Session

orderStatusSessionToken

  • Authenticates a visitor who logs into an order status page.

  • Cookie

  • One year

PHPSESSID

  • Securely authenticates a visitor during their checkout in Scheduling

  • Cookie

  • One month

RecentRedirect

  • Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.

  • Cookie

  • 30 minutes

remember_client

  • Remembers Scheduling client’s login details if they have an account

  • Cookie

  • 365 days

siteUserCrumb

SiteUserInfo

SiteUserSecureAuthToken

  • Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account

  • Cookie

  • Three years

squarespace-announcement-bar

  • Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

squarespace-likes

  • Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

squarespace-popup-overlay

  • Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

squarespace-video-player-options

ss_cookieAllowed

  • Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies

  • Cookie

  • 30 days

ss_sd

Test

  • Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors

  • Cookie

  • Session

TZ

  • Enables a Scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences.

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

 Analytics cookies

ss_cid

  • Duration of two years

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cpvisit

  • Duration of two years

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cvisit

  • Duration of 30 minutes

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cvr

  • Duration of two years

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cvt

  • Duration of 30 minutes

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site