RYAN MARAIS PHOTOGRAPHY // TERMS AND CONDITIONS // PRIVACY POLICY

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The following Terms of Use govern your use of the website www.ryanmarais.com, including any associated social media channels, as well as the services and products offered by Ryan Marais Photography. By accessing and using our Site or engaging with our Services, you enter into an agreement with Ryan Marais ABN 25 481 697 034 ("RYAN MARAIS PHOTOGRAPHY," "us," "we," or "our"), the owner and operator of the Site and Services, and you ("you," "your," or "user(s)"), as a user of our Site and/or Services.

It is important to note that by using our Site or Services, you acknowledge and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, as well as our Privacy Policy. We may revise these Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy at any time, and we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of any updates. If you do not agree with these Terms of Use or any subsequent amendments to them, please cease using our Site and Services. We recommend keeping a copy of these Terms of Use for your records.

Please be aware that our Terms of Use cover not only the use of our Site but also any associated services we provide, such as the sale of artwork prints, calendars, real estate photography, private photography sessions, and other related photographic works created by Ryan Marais. It is essential to familiarise yourself with these terms before proceeding.

Copyright

The client retains copyright of the photographs for private, domestic, and personal use only. Any sale or commercial use requires written approval from RYAN MARAIS PHOTOGRAPHY. RYAN MARAIS PHOTOGRAPHY asserts all moral rights associated with the photographs, and the client may not edit, alter, or amend the photographs without prior written consent, except for cropping. The client may share images with other vendors for social media use or publication on websites, magazines, and blogs, provided that proper credit to RYAN MARAIS PHOTOGRAPHY is given through a social media handle or direct website link. Our social media handle is @ryanmarais on Instagram and @ryanmaraisphoto on Facebook, and our website link is www.ryanmarais.com.

PRIVACY POLICY

RYAN MARAIS PHOTOGRAPHY is committed to protect and maintain security, privacy and accuracy of personal information under The Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988.

Any personal information that you provide with us will only be used for the purpose it was intended for.

Collection of your personal information

There are many aspects of the Site which can be viewed without providing personal information, however, for access to future RYAN MARAIS PHOTOGRAPHY customer support features you are required to submit personally identifiable information. This may include but not limited to a unique username and password, or provide sensitive information in the recovery of your lost password.

Sharing your personal information

We may occasionally hire other companies to provide services on our behalf, including but not limited to, processing transactions such as PayPal or customer freight shipping. We will never under any circumstances share or sell your personal information to any third party.

Use of your personal information

RYAN MARAIS PHOTOGRAPHY utilises data for various purposes such as providing and maintaining our service, notifying you about changes to our service, allowing you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so, providing customer support, gathering analysis or valuable information so we can continue to improve our service, detecting, preventing, and addressing any technical issues, and providing you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.

Accessing your personal information

You have a right to access your personal information, subject to exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so, please let us know. You may be required to put your request in writing for security reasons.

DATA Security

Credit card payments are secured using 128-bit SSL encryption. This ensures all credit card details you send to us via the internet will be encrypted. If any other user intercepts the communication, they will only be able to view the encrypted form. This makes it impossible to be intercepted by an unauthorized party as long as your browser supports the use of encrypted data transmissions.

Commitment to Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 15, and no part of our website is specifically structured to attract anyone under 15.

How you can access or update your information

You can access and modify all of your personally identifiable information that we collect online. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information. You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Links to other sites

At times, this website will contain external links to other sites including but not limited to Instagram, PayPal, FaceBook, Twitter, MailChimp, YouTube, Google Drive, Issuu and more.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party Sites or Services.

Changes to this policy

Current effective date of this policy: 18/07/2023

RYAN MARAIS PHOTOGRAPHY reserves the right to make changes to terms and conditions/Privacy policy at any time. If you have any objections to our policies we ask that you do not continue using our Site and Services.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our policies, please contact us:

Call: 0407 823 473

Post: Attn: Privacy Policy

Ryan Marais Photography

PO BOX 753

Robina, Australia

AUSTRALIA

Email: ryan@ryanmarais.com