Telling Photography GDPR & Privacy Notice
Last Updated: 6th January 2026
This privacy notice explains how Telling Photography (“we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and protects your personal data when you engage with our event photography services, such as the contact form, the gallery or sign up for our marketing communications.
1. What Data We Collect
We only collect the minimum amount of information necessary to provide our services and keep you updated. This includes:
Name
Company Name
Email Address
2. How We Use Your Data
We use your information solely for email marketing purposes. This includes:
Sending you galleries from events you attended.
Sharing updates about our photography services, special offers, and portfolio updates.
Professional networking and business-to-business outreach.
3. Legal Basis for Processing
Under the UK GDPR, we rely on the following legal bases to process your data:
Consent: Where you have explicitly opted in to receive our marketing emails (e.g., via a sign-up form).
Legitimate Interests: Where we process business contact details (B2B) to provide information about services that are relevant to your professional role, provided this does not override your privacy rights.
4. How We Store Your Data
Your data is stored securely using our trusted partner platforms:
HubSpot: Used as our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and email marketing tool.
Zenfolio: Used for hosting and delivering digital photography galleries.
Lightblue: For producing and managing itinery, quotations and invoicing
All providers maintain high security standards and utilize encryption to protect your information. As these providers may store data on servers located in the US, we ensure they participate in recognized data transfer frameworks (such as the Data Privacy Framework) or use Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to ensure your data receives a level of protection equivalent to that in the UK.
5. Data Retention
We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, or until you ask us to delete it. You can unsubscribe from our marketing list at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in any email.
6. Your Rights
Under UK data protection law, you have the following rights:
Access: You can request a copy of the data we hold about you.
Rectification: You can ask us to correct inaccurate information.
Erasure: You can ask us to delete your data (“the right to be forgotten”).
Withdraw Consent: You can withdraw your consent for
marketing at any time.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your data, please contact: hello@tellingphotography.co
8. Cookies
We don’t use cookies.
9. Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the p
rivacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
We donot sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so.
You may request details of personal information which we may hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email us
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.