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Privacy Notice

How Captured by Yu handles your personal information, in line with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).

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Business details

Who we are

Yulin Scott, trading as Captured by Yu Photography, is the responsible party for personal information collected through this website.

What we collect

Enquiries. When you send an enquiry we receive the details you enter: your name, email address, optional phone number, the type of shoot, date, location and your message.

Newsletter. If you sign up we receive your email address and the date you confirmed. You are only added to the list once you press the confirm link we email you.

Technical information. Our web host keeps standard server logs, which include your IP address. To limit spam, the forms also keep a one-way keyed hash of your IP address and the time of your submission and, for newsletter sign-ups, of the email address. Once they are two days old, these are deleted the next time anyone uses a form.

Cookies and analytics

If you type in the home page's message box and continue, your words are held in your browser until the contact page opens. While an enquiry is being sent, what you typed in the form is held in that browser tab, so that you don't lose it if it can't be sent, and is removed once it has been sent or filled in again. None of this is sent to us unless you submit a form. Our Cookie Policy has the details.

This site doesn't use analytics or marketing cookies.

Fonts and images are served from this site rather than third parties.

Spam protection

Our forms use Cloudflare Turnstile to tell people from bots. It only loads once you start using a form. Cloudflare then receives your IP address, details of your browser and connection, and the address of this site. We use it only to keep spam out of the forms, not for analytics or advertising, and the forms can't be sent without it. If you would rather not use it, you can reach us by email or WhatsApp instead.

Cloudflare may process this information outside South Africa. It also uses it to improve its bot detection, as explained in the Turnstile privacy notice.

Why we use it

We do not sell your information or use it for marketing without asking you first.

Where it is kept

Enquiries from the website form are emailed to our business mailbox on our web hosting account. We read this mailbox on our own devices, including through the Gmail app, which is provided by Google, so Google may also process these messages, including on servers outside South Africa. If you contact us on WhatsApp, your messages are handled by WhatsApp (Meta) under its terms. Confirmed newsletter addresses are kept in a private file on our web hosting account.

We keep enquiry details only as long as needed to respond or to manage a booking, then delete them. Newsletter addresses are kept until you unsubscribe. To unsubscribe, reply to any newsletter or email info@capturedbyyu.co.za and we will remove your address.

Photographs of people

We ask for permission before publishing a photo in which people can be recognised. If you appear in a photo on this site and would like it removed, email us and we will take it down. For a child, we ask a parent or guardian.

Your rights

You may ask to see, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you, or object to its use, by emailing info@capturedbyyu.co.za . If you are unhappy with how we handle your information, you can complain to the Information Regulator.