Photo Forum Privacy Policy

This page describes what happens to information when you visit Photo Forum or write to us. It describes what this site actually does, not what a generic policy template would cover.

The short version

Photo Forum is a set of static pages. There are no accounts, no contact forms, no comment threads, no newsletter and no advertising. We do not ask you for personal information, and there is nowhere on this site to give us any.

When you read a page

Loading a page on this site works the way loading any web page works. Your browser asks our server for the page, and to do that it has to tell the server your IP address, which browser you are using and which page you asked for. The server and the network provider in front of it keep short-term records of those requests. Those records exist so that the site can be kept running and protected against attacks and abuse, and they are not used to build a profile of you or combined with anything else.

We do not run analytics on this site. There is no tracking script, no advertising pixel and no third-party measurement service. We do not know who you are, which pages you read or where you came from.

Typefaces and stylesheets load from this site's own domain rather than from an external font service, so reading a page does not involve a request to another company.

When you email us

If you write to the editorial address, we receive your email address, your name if you include it and whatever you put in the message. That sits in an ordinary email mailbox. We use it to answer you and, where you have sent a correction, to fix the page.

We do not add correspondents to a mailing list, because there is no mailing list. We do not pass your message to anyone else. We keep correspondence while it is useful for the editorial record, typically where it relates to a correction we have made, and delete the rest.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask what information we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, and ask for it to be deleted. In practice, for almost everyone reading this, the answer is that we hold nothing, because we only hold something if you have emailed us.

To make any of those requests, email the editorial address on our contact page. If you are not satisfied with how we have handled a request, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection, at ico.org.uk.

Links to other sites

Our pages link out to photographers' own websites, publishers, galleries and official guidance. Once you follow one of those links you are on someone else's site, under their privacy policy, not ours.

Changes

If what this site does changes, this page changes with it. We will not quietly add tracking and leave an old policy in place saying there is none.

See also our cookies policy.