Privacy Policy
The Lancaster Photography Association (LPA) has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site.
What We Collect and How We Use It
This site stores personal information about you, including your name, contact information (addresses, phone numbers, email), user name and password. The Lancaster Photography Association uses this information for association activities, including event registration, tracking member interests, discussion forums, committees, donations, member directory, etc. Within this web site, only authorized administrators have access to personal information on members.
This site also collects information as you navigate around the site, using standard Internet technologies (such as IP addresses and cookies, and reading your browser version, operating system and computer type, etc.) We use this information to help us improve our products and services and for security purposes, to detect and to block security breaches and to provide you with a safe online environment.
Data in your member profile, such as your name, email address, and avatar, may be made available to other site members. If you wish to opt out of this function, you may alter your personal information or contact the site administrator.
We will not sell or otherwise share your name or any contact information with any third parties, including partners, advertisers or service providers, except as necessary to fulfill your explicit requests. From time to time we may send you e-mail messages to provide information on upcoming club events and for other club-related purposes.
We will disclose information if required to do so by law or by order of a competent government authority (such as a court order) or to protect the Association in the event of a threat against the Association or a member or Association officer.
Social Site Login
If you utilize the Social Site login feature, allowing you to log into lpaphotography.org using an existing social site login such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. We will also capture and store the following information:
- Twitter username and website URL
- Facebook UID and website URL
- Google UID and website URL
- Microsoft UID and website URL
- LinkedIn UID and website URL
- GitHub UID and website URL
Publication of Your Information and Likeness
During LPA-sponsored and other events, photographs may be taken which will later be published on this site. If you would prefer that your photo not be used in this manner, contact the site administrator at the link below to opt out.
External Links
This site contains links to other sites. The Lancaster Photography Association is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Public Forums
This site makes message boards available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. While we do our best to ensure only appropriate information is posted, we cannot and do not assume responsibility for our users' postings. All postings are property of their respective author. Improper language is automatically censored by the system. All submissions are subject to our editorial control. Where appropriate, editorial changes will be indicated.
What Information Do We Share
The LPA does not share any information or provide any user information to any other sites or services. All personal information collected at this site is used strictly by the LPA and never provided to any other entity.
Cookie Policy
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you access most websites.
At lpaphotography.org we make use of cookies to improve your experience and to provide us with information about how the web site is being used. Our cookies do not store personal information such as your name or email address. Cookies are required to log into the site.
In addition to our own cookies which are essential to run our site, we also uses third party tools which also use cookies. Information about the third party tools can be found below.
Changing your browser settings to stop cookies
You can choose to manage the cookies used on this website through your internet browser settings at any time. For information on how to do this, follow the appropriate link below.
- Internet Explorer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/114836
- Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Clear%20Recent%20History
- Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042
- Opera: https://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/
Further information about cookies
If you wish to learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit http://www.aboutcookies.org.
Right to be Forgotten
The way to be forgotten is simply to delete your lpaphotography.org account. All your submitted content, such as Forum posts, comments, uploads, etc. will be anonymized so there will be no way to link anything back to you directly.
All user profile information such as username, email address and any other optional data such as location, bio, etc. will be deleted from our database immediately when the account is deleted.
Your right to extract your personal data
You can download all personal data stored by this site from the My Account page, then select the Privacy panel. An XML file of all personal data will be immediately available to you.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or anything else, please contact us.
