Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name, email, and at times their postal address), demographic information (like zip/postal code). The customer's contact information is used to get in touch with the customer when necessary, your information is never shared or sold. Unique identifiers may be collected from Web site visitors for use in our record system.

Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. This data is not available for sale to any outside entity.

Additionally, users should be aware that when they voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) on non-secure areas of Barn Door Photography’s site, that information, along with any substantive information disclosed in the user's communication, can be collected and correlated and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Barn Door Photography.

We work closely with our affiliates, and in some cases we offer services or sell items jointly with these affiliates. If you purchase items or services that are provided jointly by Barn Door Photography and one of its affiliates, we share our customer information with that affiliate with respect to your purchase.

We also employ agents to fulfill other functions on our behalf, such as printing of photos, preparing and maintaining site content, processing credit card payments and providing customer service. These agents have access to customer information as required in order to help them perform their functions on our behalf, but they are not allowed to use that information for any other purpose.
 

We receive and store certain information whenever you visit our website. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site, and to help identify you. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information. Any information you voluntarily provide to us is used for such purposes as customizing your shopping experience, allowing us to respond to your requests and comments, and improving our website.

Barn Door Photography reserves the right to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of our site. Barn Door Photography is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties and you should check the applicable privacy policy of such third party when providing personally identifiable information.

We encourage children visiting our site to ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to us or to anyone else over the Internet. Any such information collected by Barn Door Photography from children will be used for participation and feedback purposes, together with any other purposes that will be described where the information is collected, and will not be transferred to any third party. Customers purchasing goods or services on Barn Door Photography’s site(s) must be at least 18 years of age.

Barn Door Photography uses your email address to send you news about or updates to Barn Door Photography’s site(s). If you do not wish to receive notification of special offers, newly posted photos or news and/or updates to our site(s), please email Barn Door Photography.

Credit card or other financial information that is collected is used for billing and payment purposes for products and services you have ordered through Barn Door Photography’s site(s), and is submitted to the appropriate financial institution in order to process your credit card transaction, and will not be provided to any other person or party. All other private information submitted by you is confidential. You can update or delete your private information at any time by emailing Barn Door Photography. However, it may be impossible to delete a user’s information without some residual information being left in our customer database due to backups and records of deletions.

Information submitted by our affiliates is used for the purposes of maintaining the business relationship between Barn Door Photography and its affiliates and will not be provided to any third party. Our affiliates are not provided with any access to private information you have provided to us, whether or not such information was provided in connection with the purchase of goods or services from an affiliate’s site.

You should be aware that non-personal information and data may be automatically collected through the standard operation of Barn Door Photography’s internet servers or through the use of “cookies.” “Cookies” are small text files a web site can use to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user’s ongoing access to and use of the site and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements. Cookies are not programs that come onto a user’s system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the user that has no meaning outside the assigning site.

Users should be aware that Barn Door Photography cannot control the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers or third parties hosting data for Barn Door Photography. If a user does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the user to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, users should note that cookies may be necessary to provide the user with certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information) available on the Barn Door Photography Site.

Customer information is a valuable business asset. If for any reason Barn Door Photography transfers or divests itself of its business assets, our customer information will (not) be transferred as one of the business assets unless the customer is contacted for permission.

Barn Door Photography will release customer information to the appropriate authorities if we are required to do so by law. Barn Door Photography will also release such information if we feel it is necessary in order to protect our rights or the rights of our customers, affiliates, partners, or any other party, and for purposes of protection from fraud and credit risk.

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us at Barn Door Photography. Any dispute arising between you and Barn Door Photography with respect to privacy is subject to the terms and conditions of use and this privacy statement, including limitations on damages, arbitration, and application of the laws.

The foregoing policies are effective as of November 29, 2006. Barn Door Photography reserves the right to change this policy at any time without notification to users. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.