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Welcome to Sarah Firkins Photography!

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These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of our website located at www.sarahfirkinsphotography.co.uk / www.sarahfirkins.com/ www.familyphotoscolchester.co.uk and all related features, content, and services (collectively, the "Website"). Please read these Terms carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations. If you disagree with any of these Terms, you are prohibited from accessing or using the Website.

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1. Website Content

The content on the Website, including text, graphics, images, videos, and software, is owned by Sarah Firkins Photography or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, create derivative works from, or exploit in any way any of the content on the Website without our prior written consent.
 

2. User Representations and Warranties

By using the Website, you represent and warrant that:

• You are at least 16 years old.

• You will use the Website in accordance with these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations.

• You will not use the Website for any unlawful purpose or to harm others.

• You will not upload or transmit any content that is defamatory, obscene, threatening, or otherwise harmful.

• You will not use the Website to infringe upon the intellectual property rights of other
  
   

3. User Submissions

If you submit any content to the Website (e.g., comments, reviews, personal enquiry details), you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, and display such content. You also represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights and permissions to grant this license.

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4. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Website is provided "as is" and without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Website will be uninterrupted, error-free, or virus-free.

5. Limitation of Liability

We will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from your use of the Website, including, but not limited to, direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, and punitive damages.

6. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless  Sarah Firkins Photography and its officers, directors, employees, agents, and licensors from and against all losses, expenses, damages, and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to your use of the Website or your violation of these Terms.

7. Termination

We may terminate your access to the Website for any reason, at our sole discretion and without notice.

8. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United Kingdom without regard to its conflict of laws provisions.

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9. Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding your use of the Website.

10. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms at any time by posting a new version on the Website. You are responsible for checking these Terms periodically for updates. Your continued use of the Website after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms.

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What are cookies and how do they benefit you?

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Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites.

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Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you'd expect

• Remember your settings during and between visits

• Improve the speed/security of the site

• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook

• Continuously improve our website for you

• Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

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We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)

• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)

• Pass data to advertising networks

• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

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You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.

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Granting us permission to use cookies

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If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, along with your acceptance on our cookies pop-up, as well as your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this.
 

Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

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More about our Cookies

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There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

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Third party functions

 

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

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• Google 

• Wix Apps

• pic-time - see https://www.pic-time.com/#TermsOfService

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Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

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Social Website Cookies

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So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook, Instagram, pintrest and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.

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The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

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Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

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We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

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Turning Cookies Off

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You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our's and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.

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To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

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If you have any questions regarding our cookies please email: hello.sarahfirkins@gmail.com

Please find our Privacy Policy here

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