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This privacy statement was last changed on August 17, 2025, last checked on August 17, 2025, and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United States.
In this privacy statement, we explain what we do with the data we obtain about you via https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com. We recommend you carefully read this statement. In our processing we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:
If you have any questions, or want to know exactly what data we keep of you, please contact us.
We may collect or receive personal information for a number of purposes connected with our business operations which may include the following: (click to expand)
The following categories of data are collected
Retention period
We determine the retention period according to fixed objective criteria: Copies of your webform/email messages will be retained to aid future communications. My contact forms only collect name and email address in the user-completed fields upon form submission.
The following categories of data are collected
Retention period
We retain this data until the service is terminated.
The following categories of data are collected
Retention period
Upon termination of the service we retain this data for the following period: 14 months.
The following categories of data are collected
Retention period
We determine the retention period according to fixed objective criteria: When you place an order on my website, the name/address/email and (optional) phone number you supply will be collected to enable fulfilment of your order. You order will remain within my eCommerce system to allow me to better serve future orders, unless a request for deletion is received
We only share or disclose this data to other recipients for the following purposes:
Purpose of the data transfer: Data is only shared with this processor when users sign-up to my newsletter
Country or state in which this service provider is located: USA
We disclose personal information if we are required by law or by a court order, in response to a law enforcement agency, to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information, or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety.
If our website or organisation is taken over, sold, or involved in a merger or acquisition, your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and will be passed on to the new owners.
Our website does not respond to and does not support the Do Not Track (DNT) header request field.
Our website uses cookies. For more information about cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy on our Opt-out preferences webpage.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google.
Google may not use the data for any other Google services.
The inclusion of full IP addresses is blocked by us.
We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.
This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these websites.
We reserve the right to make amendments to this privacy statement. It is recommended that you consult this privacy statement regularly in order to be aware of any changes. In addition, we will actively inform you wherever possible.
If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. Please make sure to always clearly state who you are, so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data of the wrong person. We shall provide the requested information only upon receipt of a verifiable consumer request. You can contact us by using the information below. You have the following rights:
9.1 You have the following rights with respect to your personal data
9.2 Supplements
This section, which supplements the rest of this Privacy Statement, applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of California (CPRA), Colorado (CPA), Connecticut (CTDPA), Nevada (NRS 603A), Utah (UCPA) and Virginia (CDPA)
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer the following:
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that sells the consumer’s personal information, or that discloses it for a business purpose, disclose to that consumer:
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business delete any personal information about the consumer which the business has collected from the consumer.
A business that receives a verifiable request from a consumer to delete the consumer’s personal information pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall delete the consumer’s personal information from its records and direct any service providers to delete the consumer’s personal information from their records.
A business or a service provider shall not be required to comply with a consumer’s request to delete the consumer’s personal information if it is necessary for the business or service provider to maintain the consumer’s personal information in order to:
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you. For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
We have not sold consumers’ personal data in the preceding 12 months
We have not disclosed consumers’ personal information for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months.
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right no more than two times per calendar year.
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under Colorado law this concerns the following purposes:
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
We are not required to reveal any trade secret.
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the CTDPA this concerns the following purposes:
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the Nevada Privacy Law, this concerns the sale of personal data.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
When exercising the right to Access personal data, you have the right to obtain the personal data that you previously provided to us as a controller in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the UCPA this concerns the following purposes:
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right no more than two times per calendar year.
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the CDPA this concerns the following purposes:
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Our website is not designed to attract children and it is not our intent to collect personal data from children under the age of consent in their country of residence. We therefore request that children under the age of consent do not submit any personal data to us.
Obsidian Urbex Photography
[Redacted Address]
United Kingdom
Website: https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com
Email: obsidian@ex.comobsidianurbexphotography.com
For the most frequently submitted requests, we also offer you the possibility to use our data request form
What we collect and store
When you subscribe to my newsletter, you share your email address with me via the sign up form.
How we will use your information
To deliver my weekly or monthly newsletter to your email, as per your preference. My newsletter is delivered by MailChimp, you can read their privacy policy here. You can unsubscribe at anytime, using the link provided in the footer of every newsletter email.
What we collect and store
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number (optional), credit card/payment details. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
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 5 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
Payments
We accept payments through PayPal and Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to these companies, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information. Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy and Stripe Privacy Policy for more details.
Shipping Partners
Your name and shipping address will be shared with selected shipping partners, who will ship your physical order to you. The selected partner will depend on the items you order, as well as your shipping country.
This website uses the Privacy Suite for WordPress from Complianz to collect records of consent. For this functionality your IP address is anonymised and stored in our database. For more information, see the Complianz Privacy Statement.
We collect information about visitors who comment on sites that use our Akismet Anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the user sets up Akismet for the site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
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