Privacy Policy
Oran Power Photography
Last updated: 9 August 2026
Oran Power Photography (“we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect your personal information when you contact us, book our photography services, visit our website, receive your photographs, or otherwise interact with us.
We are based in Northern Ireland and process personal information in accordance with applicable UK data protection legislation, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
1. Who We Are
The data controller responsible for your personal information is:
Oran Power Photography
Northern Ireland
Email: info@oranpowerphotography.com
If you have any questions about how we use your personal information, please contact us using the email address above.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following types of personal information:
Identity Data
This may include your name and, where relevant, the names of other people participating in a photography session, wedding or event.
Contact Data
This may include your email address, telephone number, postal address and other contact details you provide to us.
Booking and Service Data
This may include information relating to your photography booking, wedding or session, including dates, venues, timings, preferences, requirements and other information necessary for us to provide our services.
Financial Data
This may include billing information and records of payments made to us.
Where payments are made online, payment details may be processed securely by third-party payment providers such as Stripe or PayPal. We do not store or have access to your full payment card details.
Visual Data
As a photography business, we create photographs and, where applicable, video recordings as part of our services.
Photographs and other visual material may constitute personal data where individuals can be identified from them.
Website and Technical Data
When you visit our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically. Depending on the cookies and technologies in use, this may include your IP address, browser type, device information and information about how you interact with our website.
3. How We Collect Your Information
We may collect personal information when you:
Contact us by email, telephone, social media or through our website;
Make an enquiry about our photography services;
Complete a booking or contract;
Provide information during the planning of your photography session or wedding;
Make a payment;
Purchase photographs, prints, albums or other products;
Access or receive photographs through your online gallery;
Visit or interact with our website; or
Otherwise voluntarily provide information to us.
We may also receive limited information from third-party services that help us operate our business, including our website, online gallery, cloud storage and payment providers.
4. How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your personal information only where we have a lawful basis to do so.
We may use your information to:
Respond to enquiries and requests;
Manage your booking;
Provide our photography services;
Communicate with you about your booking or photography session;
Arrange and carry out photography sessions;
Edit, store, back up and deliver your photographs;
Provide photographs through our online gallery;
Process payments and issue invoices;
Provide prints, albums, canvases and other products you have ordered;
Maintain appropriate business, financial and accounting records;
Comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including tax requirements;
Manage and improve our website and services;
Protect our business, systems and clients from fraud, misuse or security threats; and
Promote our photography business through our website, social media and other marketing materials where we have an appropriate lawful basis to do so.
5. Our Lawful Bases for Processing
Under the UK GDPR, we must have a lawful basis for processing your personal information.
Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on the following lawful bases:
Contract
We may process your information where this is necessary to enter into or perform our contract with you.
This includes managing your booking, communicating with you, carrying out your photography session and delivering your photographs.
Legal Obligation
We may process certain information where this is necessary to comply with legal obligations, including accounting, taxation and record-keeping requirements.
Legitimate Interests
We may process information where it is necessary for our legitimate business interests, provided that these interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.
This may include operating and improving our business, maintaining appropriate business records, protecting our services and systems, and communicating with existing clients where permitted by law.
Consent
Where appropriate or required, we may ask for your consent before using your personal information for a particular purpose.
For example, we may seek consent for the use of identifiable photographs for promotional purposes where appropriate.
You can withdraw consent at any time by contacting us at:
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
6. Photographs and Promotional Use
Photography is the core of our business, and photographs may contain identifiable individuals.
Photographs taken as part of your booking may be used to provide the photography services you have purchased. This includes editing, processing, storing, backing up and delivering your photographs.
We may also wish to use selected photographs for promotional purposes, including:
Our website portfolio;
Social media;
Advertising;
Printed brochures and marketing materials;
Photography competitions and awards;
Publications; and
Other promotional activities relating to Oran Power Photography.
Where required, we will obtain appropriate consent or other permission for the promotional use of identifiable photographs through our booking agreement, model release or another appropriate method.
If you have given permission for an image to be used for promotional purposes, you may subsequently request that a particular photograph is not used for future promotional purposes by contacting:
Where reasonably possible, we will stop using the requested image for future promotional activity.
Please note that this may not allow us to remove material that has already been printed, published or distributed, or material that has subsequently been shared by third parties.
7. Who We Share Your Information With
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share personal information with trusted third-party service providers where this is necessary to operate our business and provide our services.
These include:
Squarespace
Our website is hosted and operated using Squarespace. Information submitted through our website may therefore be processed by Squarespace on our behalf.
Pic-Time
We use Pic-Time to provide online galleries and deliver photographs to clients. Relevant client information, including names, email addresses and photographs, may be processed through Pic-Time to provide this service.
Dropbox
We use Dropbox for secure cloud storage, file management and backup of business and photography-related files. Photographs and associated information may therefore be stored using Dropbox.
Stripe and PayPal
We use payment providers including Stripe and PayPal to securely process payments.
Your payment information is processed by the relevant payment provider in accordance with their own privacy policies and security procedures. We do not store your full payment card details.
Printing and Album Suppliers
If you purchase prints, albums, canvases or other physical products through us, we may provide relevant information and photographs to professional printing or album suppliers where necessary to fulfil your order.
Professional and Business Services
Where necessary, we may also share relevant information with professional advisers, accountants, insurers, IT providers or other service providers where this is necessary to operate our business, protect our legitimate interests or comply with our legal obligations.
We expect third-party service providers that process personal information on our behalf to handle that information securely and in accordance with applicable data protection law.
Some of these providers may process or store personal information outside the UK. Where this occurs, appropriate safeguards will be used where required under applicable data protection legislation.
8. How Long We Keep Your Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
Different types of information may be retained for different periods.
For example:
Client and booking information may be retained for as long as necessary to manage our relationship with you and protect our legitimate business interests.
Financial and accounting records will be retained for the periods required by applicable tax and accounting legislation.
Photographs and completed galleries may be retained for an extended period where this is necessary to provide ongoing access to purchased images, fulfil contractual obligations, maintain backups or protect our legitimate business interests.
Marketing permissions and consent records may be retained so that we can accurately record and respect your preferences.
When information is no longer required, we will take reasonable steps to securely delete or anonymise it.
9. Keeping Your Information Secure
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information against accidental loss, unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction.
We use reputable third-party services and appropriate security measures to help protect client information and photography files.
However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
10. Cookies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device which can help a website function correctly, remember preferences and, where applicable, provide information about how the website is being used.
We may use:
Strictly necessary cookies, which are required for the website to function correctly; and
Non-essential cookies, such as analytics or similar technologies, where applicable.
Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before using non-essential cookies.
You can manage your cookie preferences through our website's cookie consent mechanism where available. You can also change your browser settings to block or delete cookies.
Please note that blocking certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website.
11. Your Data Protection Rights
Under applicable UK data protection law, you may have the right to:
Access the personal information we hold about you;
Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information;
Request deletion of your personal information in certain circumstances;
Request restriction of processing in certain circumstances;
Object to certain types of processing;
Request data portability in certain circumstances; and
Withdraw consent where we rely on consent as our lawful basis for processing.
These rights are subject to certain legal conditions and exemptions.
For example, we may be required to retain certain financial, accounting or tax records even where you request that your personal information is deleted.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact:
We may need to verify your identity before responding to a request.
12. Marketing Communications
If we send you marketing communications, we will do so in accordance with applicable UK privacy and electronic marketing legislation.
You can ask us to stop sending marketing communications at any time by contacting us at:
Where an unsubscribe option is provided, you may also use this to stop receiving future communications.
13. Children
Our photography services may involve weddings, family photography and other events where children may appear in photographs.
We do not knowingly collect children's personal information for purposes unrelated to providing our photography services.
Where appropriate, consent or other necessary permissions for photographing children will be obtained from a parent, guardian or another person with appropriate authority.
14. Third-Party Websites
Our website or communications may contain links to third-party websites, including social media platforms, online galleries and other services.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content or security of third-party websites.
We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any third-party services you visit.
15. Complaints
If you have a concern about the way we have handled your personal information, please contact us first so that we have the opportunity to resolve the issue.
Email: info@oranpowerphotography.com
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if you believe your personal information has been handled unlawfully.
Further information about making a complaint is available from the ICO's website.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our business, services, technology or applicable data protection legislation.
The latest version will always be published on this page, with the date of the most recent update shown at the top.
Last updated: 9 August 2026
Oran Power Photography
Northern Ireland
Email: info@oranpowerphotography.com