Effective Date: January 1, 2026
At Photographer Slovakia (“we”, “us”, or “our”), accesible from https://photographerslovakia.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors and members. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by us and how we use it.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), our lawful basis for processing your personal data depends on the specific context:
Performance of a Contract: To provide you with access to purchased content and manage your membership.
Legal Obligation: To comply with tax laws and accounting regulations.
Legitimate Interest: To ensure the security of our website, prevent fraud, enforce our Terms & Conditions, and protect our intellectual property rights.
When you register for an account or purchase a membership, we ask for personal information such as:
Name and Email address.
Billing information (processed securely by third-party payment providers).
Account credentials (username and encrypted password).
When you visit our website, we may collect certain information automatically from your device:
Log Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and timestamps.
Security Logs: To protect our site from brute-force attacks and unauthorized access, we log login attempts and suspicious activities.
We use the information we collect to:
Provide, operate, and maintain our website.
Process your transactions and manage your membership access.
Send you emails related to your account (e.g., password resets, purchase confirmations).
Detect and prevent fraud, unauthorized sharing of accounts, and copyright infringement.
We do not store your full credit card details on our servers. All payments are processed by secure third-party payment gateways.
PayPal / Stripe: When you pay, your data is processed by these providers in accordance with their own Privacy Policies. We only receive confirmation of payment and limited payer details (e.g., name, email) to link the payment to your account.
To ensure the integrity of our exclusive content, we implement strict security monitoring.
Monitoring & Evidence Collection:
Based on our Legitimate Interest (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)) to protect our intellectual property and defend legal claims:
We monitor user account activity for suspicious behavior (e.g., simultaneous logins from different countries, excessive page loads indicative of scraping).
External Evidence: In cases of suspected copyright infringement (leaking content), we reserve the right to document publicly available information on third-party platforms (such as social media profiles, stories, or posts) that serves as evidence of a violation of our Terms of Service. This may include capturing screenshots or screen recordings of public profiles to be used for legal defense or enforcement actions.
We retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
Membership Data: Retained as long as your account is active.
Transaction Data: Retained for accounting purposes as required by law (usually 10 years).
Security Logs: Retained for a limited period to analyze security incidents.
Comments: When visitors leave comments, 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.
Cookies: If you leave a comment or log in, cookies may be stored to save your information for future convenience. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year.
Embedded Content: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
You have the right to:
Access: Request copies of your personal data.
Rectification: Request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
Erasure: Request that we erase your personal data (unless we are required to keep it for legal/tax reasons).
Restrict Processing: Object to our processing of your personal data (e.g., for marketing purposes).
To exercise these rights, please contact us at: info@photographerslovakia.com