Your privacy is important to us. It is Herrmann Funeral Photography's policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our website, www.herrmannfuneralphotography.com, and other sites we own and operate.

Personal information is any information about you that can be used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as your name, address, and date of birth), your devices, payment details, and even how you use a website or online service.

If our site contains links to third-party sites and services, please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our site.

This policy is effective as of 21 December 2021.

Last updated: January 2026

Information We Collect

Information we collect includes both information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions, and any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and services.

Log Data

When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log standard data from your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details about your visit.

Additionally, if you encounter certain errors while using the site, we may automatically collect data about the error and the circumstances surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technical details about your device, what you were trying to do when the error happened, and other technical information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive notice of such errors, even in the moment they occur, that they have occurred, or what the nature of the error is.

Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.

Device Data

When you visit our website or interact with our services, we may automatically collect data about your device, such as:

• Device Type

• Operating System

• Geo-location data

The data we collect may depend on your device's and software's settings. We recommend checking the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider to learn what information they make available to us.

Personal Information

We may ask for personal information, which may include one or more of the following:

• Name

• Email

• Phone/mobile number

Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information

We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.

Collection and Use of Information

We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website:

• Register for an account

• Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content

• Contact us via email, social media, or any similar channels

We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:

• to provide you with our platform's core features and services

• to enable you to customize or personalize your experience of our website

• to contact and communicate with you

• to enable you to access and use our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms

• for internal record keeping and administrative purposes

• for security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our sites and apps are safe, secure, and used in line with our terms of use

Security of Your Personal Information

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain it, we will protect it using commercially acceptable measures to prevent loss, theft, and unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.

You are responsible for selecting a password and ensuring its overall security strength, within the bounds of our services.

How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Information

We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy. If your personal information is no longer required, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.

However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information to comply with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation, or for archiving in the public interest, for scientific or historical research, or for statistical purposes.

Children’s Privacy

We do not aim any of our products or services at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We may disclose personal information to:

• a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company

• third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, for example, IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, advertisers, or analytics platforms

• our employees, contractors, and/or related entities

• our existing or potential agents or business partners

• courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights

• third parties, including agents or subcontractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you

• third parties to collect and process data

Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information

You always retain the right to withhold personal information from us, with the understanding that your experience of our website may be affected. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. If you do provide us with personal information, you understand that we will collect, hold, use, and disclose it in accordance with this privacy policy. You retain the right to request details of any personal information we hold about you.

If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time. We will provide you with the ability to unsubscribe from our email-database or opt out of communications. Please be aware that we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.

If you believe we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to address your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.

Use of Cookies

We use “cookies” to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on the preferences you have specified.

Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information.

Limits of Our Policy

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content or policies of those sites and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their privacy practices.

Changes to This Policy

At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy.

If the changes are significant, or if required by applicable law, we will contact you (based on your selected preferences for communications from us) and all our registered users with the new details and links to the updated or changed policy.

If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.

Contact Us

For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us using the following details:

Herrmann Funeral Photography

info[AT]herrmannfuneralphotography.com