PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: 26 May 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Emile Young Photography collects, uses, stores, and protects your personal information when you visit or make a purchase through https://emileyoung.com.
Emile Young Photography is operated by Emile Young as an individual/sole trader based in the United States.
For privacy questions or requests, you can contact:
1. Information we collect
We collect personal information when you use this website, place an order, or contact us.
This may include:
- Your name
- Email address
- Billing address
- Shipping address
- Order details
- Payment information
- Any information you choose to include in an enquiry message
Payment card details are processed through third-party payment providers and are not stored directly by Emile Young Photography.
2. How we use your information
We use your personal information to:
- Process and fulfil print orders
- Take payment for purchases
- Send order confirmations and transactional emails
- Ship your order
- Respond to enquiries
- Provide customer support
- Keep basic business, tax, and accounting records
- Prevent fraud, abuse, or security issues
- Comply with legal obligations
We do not sell your personal information.
3. Orders, payments, and checkout
This website uses WooCommerce to manage online orders.
Payments may be processed through WooPayments, Stripe, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. When you make a purchase, relevant information may be shared with these providers so they can process the transaction, verify payment, prevent fraud, and provide payment-related services.
This may include your name, billing details, payment details, order total, transaction information, and other information required to complete or support the payment.
You may be able to check out as a guest. If account creation is available and you choose to create an account, the website may store account-related information such as your name, email address, billing/shipping details, and order history.
4. Email communications
We send transactional emails related to your order, such as order confirmations, payment updates, and shipping notifications.
This website uses SendLayer to help send transactional emails from the domain.
We do not currently send a regular marketing newsletter. In the future, we may occasionally email past customers about new prints, exhibitions, shoots, or offers. If we do this, you will be able to unsubscribe or opt out.
5. Enquiries
If you contact us through the website or by email, we use the information you provide to respond to your enquiry.
Enquiry messages are kept for up to 6 months, unless a longer period is needed for an active project, legal reason, or business record.
6. Print fulfilment and shipping
Print orders are fulfilled personally by Emile Young Photography.
To ship your order, we may share necessary information with postal services, couriers, print labs, or fulfilment partners where needed. This may include your name, shipping address, email address, phone number if provided, and order details.
7. Client galleries and photography delivery
Client photographs are not stored on this website.
Where photography galleries are delivered through Pixieset, images may be hosted there for approximately 30 days. Pixieset has its own privacy practices and may process information according to its own policies.
8. Cookies
This website may use basic cookies that are necessary for the website and online shop to function properly.
For example, WooCommerce may use cookies to:
- Keep track of items in your cart
- Support checkout functionality
- Remember basic session information
- Help the website operate securely
At this time, this website does not use Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, TikTok Pixel, Pinterest tags, or other advertising/retargeting pixels.
We do not currently use a cookie banner because the site does not use analytics or advertising cookies. If this changes, this policy may be updated and additional cookie consent tools may be added where required.
9. Analytics and advertising
We do not currently use analytics tools or advertising tracking pixels on this website.
We do not use your personal information for targeted advertising.
10. How long we keep your information
We keep personal information only for as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy.
Current retention periods include:
- Order records: up to 1 fiscal year, unless longer retention is required for tax, accounting, legal, or dispute-resolution reasons
- Enquiry messages: up to 6 months
- Pixieset galleries: approximately 30 days
- Transactional emails and business records: as reasonably needed for customer support, accounting, or legal purposes
Some information may need to be kept longer if required by law or if there is an unresolved issue, such as a payment dispute, refund request, chargeback, or legal claim.
11. Legal bases for processing personal information
Where GDPR, UK GDPR, or similar laws apply, we rely on the following legal bases to process personal information:
- Contract: to process and fulfil your order
- Legal obligation: to keep required business, tax, or accounting records
- Legitimate interests: to respond to enquiries, provide customer service, maintain website security, prevent fraud, and manage the business
- Consent: where we ask for consent, such as for optional marketing communications in the future
12. International customers
Emile Young Photography is based in the United States and sells worldwide.
If you access the website or place an order from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States or other countries where service providers operate.
Where required, we take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is handled appropriately and protected in line with applicable privacy laws.
13. Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over your personal information.
These may include the right to:
- Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you
- Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information
- Ask us to delete your personal information
- Object to or restrict certain processing
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Ask for your information in a portable format
- Opt out of marketing emails, if we send them in the future
These rights may be limited in some cases. For example, we may need to keep certain information for legal, accounting, tax, fraud-prevention, or dispute-resolution reasons.
To make a privacy request, email:
14. Children’s privacy
This website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
We do not knowingly sell products to or photograph minors through this website.
If you believe a child has provided personal information through this website, please contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete it.
15. How we protect your information
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
However, no website, email system, payment system, or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
16. Third-party services
We use third-party services to operate the website, process payments, send transactional emails, fulfil orders, and deliver photography galleries.
These may include:
- WooCommerce
- WooPayments
- Stripe
- Apple Pay
- Google Pay
- SendLayer
- Pixieset
- Shipping carriers, postal services, print labs, or fulfilment partners where needed
These third parties may process personal information according to their own privacy policies and legal obligations.
17. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time if the website, services, tools, or legal requirements change.
The updated version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.
18. Contact
For questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal information, contact:
Emile Young Photography
Email: hello@emileyoung.com
Website: https://emileyoung.com