This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and protect your personal data when you visit and shop on the African Wildlife Fine Art Prints – Every Purchase for a Noble Cause website (https://atkye.africa-photography.ch).
Data Controller
The data controller responsible for this website and the processing of your personal data is:
Gabriel Haering Fine Art Photography / Associazione Ticino Kenya Youth Education (ATKYE)
Address: Associazione Ticino Kenya Youth Education, C.P. 1013, 6901 Lugano
Email: shop@africa-photography.ch
For additional legal details about the site owner, please also refer to the Imprint page. If anything in this Privacy Policy is unclear, you can contact us at any time using the details above.
Data Controller
The data controller responsible for this website and the processing of your personal data is:
Gabriel Haering Fine Art Photography / Associazione Ticino Kenya Youth Education (ATKYE)
Address: Associazione Ticino Kenya Youth Education, C.P. 1013, 6901 Lugano
Email: shop@africa-photography.ch
For additional legal details about the site owner, please also refer to the Imprint page. If anything in this Privacy Policy is unclear, you can contact us at any time using the details above.
We collect only the information that is necessary to operate this fine art print shop, fulfill your orders and communicate with you.
Information you provide directly
Information collected automatically
More details about cookies and similar technologies are provided in the section “Cookies & Tracking” and in our dedicated Cookie Policy.
Information you provide directly
- Account details (if you create an account): name, email address, password, and optionally billing and shipping addresses.
- Order and billing data: name, billing and shipping addresses, email address, phone (if you choose to provide it), products ordered, order history.
- Payment-related information: we receive confirmation from our payment providers that a payment has been made (e.g. date, amount, payment method). Full card or bank details are processed directly by the payment provider and are not stored on our servers.
- Messages and enquiries: any information you send us via contact forms or email, such as questions about prints, editions, shipping or donations to ATKYE.
Information collected automatically
- Technical data: IP address, browser type and version, device type, operating system, language settings, and basic server logs to keep the site secure and reliable.
- Usage data: information about how you navigate the website (pages viewed, time spent, clicks), collected via cookies and similar technologies.
- Analytics data: aggregated statistics about visits, referrers and general interest in our prints, collected via analytics tools (for example, to see which pages are most popular).
More details about cookies and similar technologies are provided in the section “Cookies & Tracking” and in our dedicated Cookie Policy.
We use your personal data only for clearly defined purposes and in line with applicable data protection laws.
Operating the online shop and fulfilling orders
Customer service and communication
Supporting ATKYE and internal administration
Website improvement and security
Legal obligations and enforcement
Operating the online shop and fulfilling orders
- To process your orders, prepare and ship your fine art prints, and manage payments and invoices.
- To create and manage your customer account, if you choose to register.
- To provide you with order updates (for example, order confirmation, shipping notifications, issues with delivery).
Customer service and communication
- To respond to your questions about prints, editions, shipping, donations to ATKYE or other topics.
- To communicate with you about changes to our services, terms or this Privacy Policy where this is necessary.
Supporting ATKYE and internal administration
- To keep internal records on the donations that are linked to print sales, usually in an aggregated or pseudonymised form.
- To carry out bookkeeping, accounting and administrative tasks related to the operation of the shop.
Website improvement and security
- To understand how visitors use the website so we can improve the browsing and shopping experience (for example, which collections are most viewed).
- To protect the website against misuse and attacks and to ensure the stability and security of our systems.
Legal obligations and enforcement
- To comply with legal requirements (for example, tax and accounting rules).
- To establish, exercise or defend legal claims where necessary.
| Legal Basis | Examples of When We Use It |
|---|---|
| Performance of a contract | Processing and fulfilling your print orders; managing your customer account; handling delivery and returns; providing customer support related to your purchases. |
| Compliance with legal obligations | Keeping records required by tax and accounting laws; responding to lawful requests from authorities; complying with obligations related to donations and transparency. |
| Legitimate interests | Maintaining and improving the website; preventing fraud and misuse; ensuring IT security; contacting existing customers with important service information; keeping internal statistics on sales and ATKYE support, where these interests are not overridden by your rights and interests. |
| Consent | Using non-essential cookies and similar technologies for analytics or marketing (if implemented); sending you certain forms of direct marketing where consent is required by law. You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. |
We do not sell your personal data. We only share it where this is necessary for the operation of the shop, to fulfill our obligations to you or where we are legally required to do so.
Service providers (processors)
Other recipients
Where service providers process personal data on our behalf, they act as processors and are bound by contracts that require them to protect your data and to use it only in accordance with our instructions and applicable data protection laws.
Service providers (processors)
- Payment providers: to process your payments securely. They receive the information needed to process the transaction and may act as independent controllers for some activities.
- Shipping and logistics partners: to deliver your prints to the address you provide.
- Hosting and IT providers: to host the website, store data, send transactional emails and ensure security and backups.
- Analytics providers: to help us understand how the website is used and to improve it, usually based on aggregated or pseudonymised data.
Other recipients
- Professional advisors (such as accountants or legal advisors) where necessary for our legitimate interests and subject to confidentiality duties.
- Authorities and courts where we are legally obliged to disclose information or where this is necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Where service providers process personal data on our behalf, they act as processors and are bound by contracts that require them to protect your data and to use it only in accordance with our instructions and applicable data protection laws.
How long we keep your data
We keep your personal data only for as long as it is needed for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, or as required by law.
How we protect your data
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure.
We keep your personal data only for as long as it is needed for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, or as required by law.
- Order and invoice data are usually stored for the period required by applicable tax and accounting laws.
- Customer account data are stored while your account is active. If you request deletion, we will remove or anonymise your data unless we must keep certain information for legal reasons.
- Communication data (for example, emails and contact form messages) are kept for as long as necessary to deal with your request and to document our correspondence, in line with limitation periods.
- Technical logs and analytics data are kept for shorter periods where possible and then deleted or anonymised.
How we protect your data
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure.
- Restricted access to personal data on a need-to-know basis.
- Use of secure connections (HTTPS) for the website.
- Regular updates of systems and software and use of reputable hosting and IT providers.
- Backups and monitoring to detect and respond to possible incidents.
Depending on where you live and on the applicable data protection law (for example, the GDPR for individuals in the EU/EEA), you may have some or all of the following rights in relation to your personal data:
To exercise your rights, please contact us using the details provided in the section “Contact for Privacy Matters”. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
- Right of access: to obtain confirmation as to whether we process your personal data and to receive a copy.
- Right to rectification: to have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected.
- Right to erasure: to request deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances (for example, when it is no longer needed or if you withdraw consent).
- Right to restriction of processing: to request that we restrict the processing of your data in certain situations.
- Right to data portability: to receive personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit it to another controller where technically feasible.
- Right to object: to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing based on our legitimate interests; and to object to direct marketing at any time.
- Right to withdraw consent: where processing is based on your consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time with effect for the future.
- Right to lodge a complaint: to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority if you believe that your rights have been infringed.
To exercise your rights, please contact us using the details provided in the section “Contact for Privacy Matters”. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
This website uses cookies and similar technologies to function properly, to provide a smooth shopping experience and, where implemented, to help us understand how visitors use the site.
What cookies do on this site
For a more detailed description of the cookies and tools we use, their purposes and storage periods, and for information on how to manage your cookie preferences, please refer to our dedicated Cookie Policy.
What cookies do on this site
- Essential cookies: required for the basic operation of the website and the online shop (for example, remembering the contents of your cart or maintaining your session).
- Preference cookies: to remember certain choices you make, such as language or other settings.
- Analytics cookies: to collect anonymous or aggregated information about visits and usage patterns so we can improve the website and our collections.
- Other third-party tools: for example, services embedded on the site that may set their own cookies.
For a more detailed description of the cookies and tools we use, their purposes and storage periods, and for information on how to manage your cookie preferences, please refer to our dedicated Cookie Policy.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, about how we handle your personal data or if you wish to exercise your privacy rights, you can contact us at:
Gabriel Haering Fine Art Photography / Associazione Ticino Kenya Youth Education (ATKYE)
Address: Associazione Ticino Kenya Youth Education, C.P. 1013, 6901 Lugano
Email: shop@africa-photography.ch
Please describe your request as clearly as possible so that we can assist you efficiently. We will do our best to respond without undue delay and in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Gabriel Haering Fine Art Photography / Associazione Ticino Kenya Youth Education (ATKYE)
Address: Associazione Ticino Kenya Youth Education, C.P. 1013, 6901 Lugano
Email: shop@africa-photography.ch
Please describe your request as clearly as possible so that we can assist you efficiently. We will do our best to respond without undue delay and in accordance with applicable data protection laws.