The last update to our Privacy Policy was posted on October 5th, 2021.
This document governs the privacy policy of Our Website, https://photocashmachine.com, also known as “The Photo Cash Machine System”.
Any capitalized terms not defined herein will have the same meaning as where they are defined elsewhere on our Website.
Our Website is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact Us if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.
By using our website you agree to our Privacy Policy and to our Terms of Service.
By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
“Non-Personal Information” (NPI) is information that is in no way personally identifiable and that is obtained automatically when you access our Website with a web browser.
“Personally Identifiable Information” (PII) is non-public information that is personally identifiable to you and obtained for us to provide you with a product or service. PII may include information such as your name, address, phone number, email, and other related information that you provide to us.
Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a natural person under 16 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not) – https://photocashmachine.com – our website. “The Photo Cash Machine System” – an alternative name for https://photocashmachine.com when we refer to us.
Our Privacy Policy tells you what PII we may collect from you, how we may share your PII, and how you can limit our sharing of your PII. https://photocashmachine.com is committed to the security and privacy of all our customers. We take your privacy seriously, and we will work with you to ensure that you have an enjoyable online experience.
Your privacy is critically important to us. At https://photocashmachine.com, we have a few fundamental principles:
We promise to follow the following data protection principles:
The Data Subject has the following rights:
On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or related to your purchasing history/browsing behavior to be our legitimate interest.
With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfill obligations rising from a law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law.
We reserve the right to anonymize Personal Data gathered and to use any such data.
We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymized.
We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from the law, but not longer than 10 years.
We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered.
To do this, we will ensure that:
We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.
You are not required to provide us with any PII as a Visitor. We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so for our legitimate interest; for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better. It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us. The amount and type of information depends upon the context and how we use the information.
When you use our Website, we automatically collect certain computer information by the interaction of your mobile phone or web browser with our Website. Such information is typically considered NPI.
We may also collect any of the following:
Our Website uses “Cookies” to identify the areas of our Website that you have visited.
A Cookie is a small piece of data, basically a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, or mobile device by your web browser.
The visitor’s browser provides this string of data to a website each time the visitor returns.
It can help load the web page faster or enable certain functionality to the user as well as enhance our site’s security for contact form submissions, logins, and so forth.
We use Cookies to personalize the Content that you see on our Website. We use cookies for the following purposes:
Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies.
However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our Website correctly or at all. We never place PII in Cookies.
For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
You can control some 3rd party cookies and tracking (for example, Facebook retargeting pixels) by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com.
We may also use a technology called, web beacons (also known as ‘Pixel Tags’), which are small blocks of code placed on websites and e-mails.
We use Web Beacons to collect general information about your use of our Website and to track and understand e-mail campaign effectiveness.
For example, to see how many subscribers and or customers click on a link from our Emails, such as a link to an article on our website or to a special promotion from our Email and or newsletters.
The information we collect by Web Beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people who open our emails. Our Web Beacons are not used to track your own activity outside of our Website.
We do not link NPI from Web Beacons to PII without your permission.
We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device.
This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our Website, if any, as well as the name of the website to which you’re headed when you leave our website.
This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your Internet Website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system as well as Geographic information like a visitor’s country.
All major hosting companies provide such general stats data on the server for website owners to understand what traffic a website gets, its volume, sources, time of day and days of the week visitors arrive to the website, what search terms they used to find the website and other general stats data.
We use all of this information only to analyze trends among our Users to help improve our Website.
We also get general information from third-party services, such as Google Analytics, about our site visitors, which we may use, for example, for better understanding visitor trends (which pages are entered, exited and viewed, time on site, purchase conversion trends etc.) as well as for marketing and advertising purposes through Google, Facebook and or other retargeting and re-marketing networks.
This information is NPI, meaning we do not know the personal identity of a visitor from these trends stats.
We also use Matomo Analytics; the Matomo data is only for our understanding of what is liked so we can improve. General non-personalized data is collected via a free plugin Matomo provides, which we use on our website, so we can know the number of visitors, Geo, time of day visitors visit our site, pages visited, how long pages are viewed, etc. This data is kept only on our own secure server and not shared with anyone else, especially not with Big Tech companies like Google FB, etc.
We place Google Adsense code on our website on certain sections and or pages of our site, for the purpose of some additional revenue and interests. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following links to read about how Google uses Cookies, manages data for its ad products and how to opt-out: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites/ and http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads
We never use or share such personally identifiable information [PII] provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
In simple wording: WE COLLECT THE BARE MINIMAL NEEDED INFORMATION FROM YOU AND IT IS SAFE WITH US. WE WILL NEVER EVER SELL, RENT OUT, OR SHARE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION OR DATA unless we specify this on the optin form or landing page collecting such data.
We use information about you as mentioned above and as follows:
To give you the best possible service, we may use 3rd party services to provide contracted services for our business, including, but not limited to processing credit cards, hosting our website, securely sending emails, shipping products to you, or advertising. In many cases, we will need to provide some if not all the PII you provide to use so these 3rd party services can perform these services.
We may have to disclose your PII to comply with state and federal laws; to assist law enforcement and governmental agencies in preventing or investigating fraud or other crimes, or in response to a court order. In such instances, we will only provide the PII requested and your PII will only be used for legal purposes as opposed to marketing.
Finally, if we sold or transferred our business, we would transfer your PII to the purchaser as appropriate and might also retain a copy of your PII for any new business ventures we would start. In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that The Photo Cash Machine System goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
When someone signs onto a newsletter from a form or a page on our website or from a dedicated landing page and or a purchase was made by a visitor or returning customer, we link such purchase behavior information stats between our eCommerce shop software and our 3rd party email provider service/s such as ConvertKit, SendGrid, Amazon SES, MailChimp and or other Email list management services (which facilitate/s our newsletter functionality and stores a copy of your contact data and what products you purchased from us). We store such data as your name, email and the name of products you purchased from us, on their secure servers, so we don’t annoy you with promotions for items you already purchased from us.
You may opt-out of our mailing list/s by clicking on the designated link to do so which is present in every single email we send you using such service).
EU citizens may request we terminate and delete all such records about you from the MailChimp server.
Information that you choose to make public is – you guessed it – disclosed publicly.
That means, of course, that information like your public profile, posts, comments other content that you make public on our website, and your “likes” and comments on other websites that use our Services, are all available to others.
Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.
Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.
You may change your PII at any time using facilities found on our Website or via our website support contact form. If you need assistance with updating your PII or removing yourself from our mailing lists, just send us an email with your request or contact us using the Contact us information found on our Website.
You can always opt-out of future unaffiliated third-party disclosures of your information. Such opt-out will not affect disclosures otherwise permitted by law including but not limited to: (i) disclosures to affiliates, (ii) disclosures to third-party service providers who provide certain services for our business, such as credit card processing, computer system services, shipping, data management, or promotional services, (iii) disclosures to third parties as necessary to fulfill your requests, (iv) disclosures to governmental agencies or law enforcement departments or otherwise required to be made under applicable law, (v) previously completed disclosures to third parties, or (vi) disclosures to third parties in connection with subsequent contests or promotions you may choose to enter, or third-party offers you may choose to accept.
You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:
Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our Website does not track your movement within our Website. Our Website does not obey such settings when transmitted to and detected by our Website. Change and Turn off tracking features in your browser.
You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by visiting the following links:
Note, that due to circumstances that are outside our control (i.e. internet transmission issues, web browser/web server incompatibilities, etc.), we may not always be able to detect and honor this setting. However, this does not change our compliance in any other way with our Privacy Policy and our best-intention adherence to the EU GDPR requirements.
Our affiliates and we fully comply with the federal CAN-SPAM Act. You can always opt-out of receipt of further email correspondence from us or our affiliates and or partners. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third-party without your permission unless specified.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
We have taken steps to build our Website using sophisticated encryption and authentication tools to protect the security of your PII. When we collect your PII through our Website, we will encrypt your PII before it travels over the Internet using industry standards as established for conducting secure online transactions. We also use industry-standard technologies such as secure routers and firewalls to make sure that your PII is safe.
Unfortunately, we cannot fully guarantee secure data transmission over the Internet because of its nature. Once we receive your PII, we have industry-standard security measures in place to protect against the loss or misuse of your PII, though again, we cannot fully guarantee against such loss or misuse. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our Website and not share it with anyone.
You should always log out of our Website when you are done using it, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.
Our website is using SSL/TSL to protect you and your data. We use CloudFlare and reputable hosts to help mitigate attacks on our servers.
Additionally, we employ on our servers state-of-the-art best practice protection systems such as firewalls, brute-force hack attack mitigation, spam protection plus other security hardening settings. We enforce long and secure passwords for login to our site.
We use anonymizing and pseudonymizing where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. All these security measures are to keep our site and its users safe. Disclaimer: No website is 100% safe from hackers.
If ever a data breach occurs, we will notify our users, as required by GDPR laws. We promise to notify the suitable authorities of data breaches.
We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.
While no online service is 100% secure, and even banks and government systems get hacked, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so. To enhance the security of your account, we encourage you to follow the advice below.
What you personally can do to help reduce the risk of a data breach:
TIP:
Avoid using the same login email and password to more than a single site or service. Using Facebook, Google and similar social media as your logins to other sites and services put you at great risk should your mobile number get hijacked by cybercriminals. They will then be able to reset your social/Gmail/similar email account and thereafter gain access to all services used by that email with the new password they set.
Best practices:
Use one email account for banking-related logins and another for phone verification for your social accounts and a third email account for additional sites and services you need to login to.
You may have to provide a credit card to buy products and services from our Website.
We use third-party billing services such as PayPal and HAVE NO CONTROL over these services.
We do not have access to nor store on our servers any of your financial information.
We use our commercially reasonable efforts to make sure that your credit card number is kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL by using only third-party billing services that use industry-standard encryption technology to protect your credit card number from unauthorized use.
However, you understand and agree that we are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number.
Our Website may contain links to other websites through contextual text links and or hyperlinked banners. You understand that these websites are not under our control and are not subject to our Privacy Policy.
These websites will likely have their own privacy policies. We have no responsibility for these websites. You acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites is solely at your own risk. It is your responsibility to check the privacy policies of these websites to see how they treat your personal information.
We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services. We follow the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Even though our Website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 13 (child), we realize that a younger child may attempt to access our Website. If you are a child, please seek the permission of a parent or guardian before accessing our Website.
We recognize the need to provide extra privacy protections when information is collected from or about children under the age of 13.
The following guidelines apply to children and online activities designed for children, as well as our general Privacy Policy. These rules follow the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Our website does not ask or knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.
If we learn that a child under the age of 13 has submitted personally identifiable information online without parental consent, we will take all reasonable measures to delete such information and not to use such information for any purpose (except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or as required by law).
If you become aware of any personally identifiable information we have collected from children under the age of 13, please contact us by emailing us using our contact form.
This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily. Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.
As necessary to address changes in laws or our business practices, we may modify our Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, to address these changes.
We will typically notify users by some message on our Website home page that our Privacy Policy has changed. We will also change the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.
Any changes we make to our Privacy Policy are effective as of this Last Updated date and replace any prior Privacy Policies. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy periodically to make sure you still agree with it.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us using the Contact us information and or form found on this page of our Website.