Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 2026
Neil Jackson Photographic is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy.
This Privacy Policy explains how Neil Jackson Photographic collects, uses, stores and shares personal information when you visit this website, make an enquiry, book photography services, attend a wedding or event that we photograph, or otherwise interact with us.
For the purposes of UK data protection law, Neil Jackson Photographic is the data controller responsible for your personal information.
1. Information we may collect
Depending on your relationship with us, we may collect and process:
your name, address, email address and telephone number;
information you provide when making an enquiry;
wedding or event details, including dates, venues, timings and plans;
information supplied through booking forms, contracts and questionnaires;
communications between you and Neil Jackson Photographic;
payment, invoice and transaction information;
information relating to suppliers, members of the wedding party or other contacts where this is relevant to providing our services;
photographs created while providing our photography services;
website usage information, including information collected through cookies and analytics technologies; and
any other information you choose to provide to us.
Wedding photographs may include identifiable images of clients, guests, suppliers and other people attending the event.
We do not normally seek to collect sensitive or special category information about individuals unless there is a genuine reason to do so. Photographs may incidentally reveal information such as religious practices or other personal characteristics. We do not use wedding photographs to profile individuals or make assumptions about sensitive characteristics.
2. Enquiries and prospective clients
When you contact Neil Jackson Photographic about availability, pricing or photography services, we may process your name, contact details, wedding information and correspondence in order to respond to your enquiry and discuss a potential booking.
Our lawful basis is normally that processing is necessary to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
We may also retain appropriate records of enquiries and communications for the legitimate interests of administering the business, maintaining accurate records and understanding how clients find Neil Jackson Photographic.
3. Clients and photography services
When you book Neil Jackson Photographic, we process personal information where necessary to:
administer and manage your booking;
communicate with you before and after the wedding;
plan the photography;
provide the services you have booked;
create, edit, back up and deliver your photographs;
process payments and maintain financial records; and
deal with any questions, amendments or issues relating to the booking.
The principal lawful basis for this processing is the performance of our contract with you or taking steps at your request before entering into that contract.
We may also process information where necessary for our legitimate interests in operating and protecting the business, maintaining appropriate records and establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.
Certain information may also be retained where required by law, including accounting and taxation requirements.
4. Wedding photographs
Photographs created by Neil Jackson Photographic may constitute personal information where an individual can be identified from them.
Wedding photography necessarily involves photographing not only the clients but also family members, friends, wedding party members, guests and suppliers.
Photographs are created, processed, edited, stored and delivered as necessary to provide the photography services commissioned by our clients.
Where photographs are processed as part of providing the contracted service, the applicable lawful basis will normally be performance of the photography contract and/or our legitimate interests in providing and administering professional photography services.
We take reasonable care when handling and storing wedding photographs and maintain backup systems intended to protect them against accidental loss.
5. Portfolio, website and social media use
Showing examples of real wedding photography is an important and established part of Neil Jackson Photographic's business.
We may therefore use a carefully selected number of photographs to showcase and promote our photography, including through:
the Neil Jackson Photographic website and portfolio;
Neil Jackson Photographic social media accounts;
sample albums and printed promotional material;
wedding-industry features and blogs;
photographic competitions and awards; and
other appropriate promotion of Neil Jackson Photographic's work.
For this ordinary portfolio and promotional use, we may rely upon our legitimate interests in displaying our work, promoting our photography services and operating a professional photography business.
When relying upon legitimate interests, we consider whether the use is necessary and proportionate and balance our business interests against the privacy, rights and reasonable expectations of the people shown.
Clients booking Neil Jackson Photographic will ordinarily have had the opportunity to view our portfolio, website and social media presence before booking and can therefore reasonably expect that selected examples of our work may be used in this way.
We nevertheless recognise that individual circumstances differ. Particular care will be taken where publication may have an unusual privacy impact or where we have been made aware of personal, safeguarding, security or other relevant considerations.
Significant national press, unrelated third-party commercial advertising or other uses materially beyond Neil Jackson Photographic's normal portfolio and wedding-industry promotion will be considered separately. Where appropriate, these will be discussed with the client before photographs are supplied.
6. Your right to object
You have the right to object to processing of your personal information where we rely upon legitimate interests.
This includes the ability to contact us if you have a particular reason why you believe photographs identifying you should not be used for portfolio, promotional or similar purposes.
If you raise an objection, we will consider your particular circumstances and the relevant rights and interests involved in accordance with applicable data protection law.
You can contact us at:
An objection does not necessarily require deletion of the underlying wedding photographs where there remains another lawful reason for retaining them.
7. Sharing information with other organisations
We may share personal information with trusted suppliers and service providers where reasonably necessary to operate the business or provide photography services.
These may include providers of:
customer relationship and booking management systems;
website hosting;
online image galleries and image delivery;
cloud storage and backup services;
accounting and payment services;
email and communications services;
album, print and photographic product fulfilment;
IT and technical support; and
professional services such as accountants, insurers or legal advisers.
We only share information that is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.
We may also disclose information where required by law or where reasonably necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Where photographs are supplied to wedding-industry publications, awards or other organisations for an appropriate editorial or promotional purpose, this will be done with consideration for the privacy and reasonable expectations of those involved.
8. International transfers
Some of the technology and service providers used by Neil Jackson Photographic may store or process personal information outside the United Kingdom.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, we take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate protections required by UK data protection law are in place.
Depending upon the destination and service provider, these protections may include UK adequacy regulations or appropriate contractual safeguards recognised under UK data protection law.
9. How long we keep information
We do not keep personal information for longer than is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it is being used, although different types of information may be retained for different periods.
Contracts, invoices, payment information and relevant business records may normally be retained for up to six years, or longer where required by law or reasonably necessary in connection with a legal claim.
Detailed wedding planning information and working notes will generally be retained only for as long as they remain reasonably useful for providing and administering the photography service.
Wedding photographs and associated backup files may be retained for longer as part of our professional archive, backup and business continuity processes.
Selected photographs used within the Neil Jackson Photographic portfolio, website, social media, sample work or historical business archive may remain available for an extended period where there remains a legitimate reason for retaining them.
Where information is no longer required, it will be deleted, anonymised or securely disposed of where reasonably practicable.
10. Security
Neil Jackson Photographic takes reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against accidental loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure or alteration.
No electronic storage or transmission method can be guaranteed to be completely secure, but reasonable precautions are taken appropriate to the nature of the information being processed.
11. Website and cookies
The Neil Jackson Photographic website may use cookies and similar technologies required for the website to operate correctly.
We may also use analytics services such as Google Analytics to help understand how visitors use the website and to improve its performance and effectiveness.
Where consent is legally required for non-essential cookies or similar technologies, these technologies will be used in accordance with the choices made through the website's cookie controls.
You can also control or delete cookies through your web browser settings.
12. Marketing communications
Where Neil Jackson Photographic sends electronic marketing communications, we will do so in accordance with applicable data protection and electronic communications law.
Where consent is required, marketing communications will only be sent where appropriate consent has been obtained.
Where another lawful route is available, such as the applicable existing-customer provisions, we may rely on that route where permitted by law.
You can ask us to stop sending direct marketing at any time.
13. Your data protection rights
Depending upon the circumstances, you may have rights including:
the right to be informed about how your personal information is used;
the right to request access to your personal information;
the right to have inaccurate information corrected;
the right to request deletion of your information in certain circumstances;
the right to request restriction of processing in certain circumstances;
the right to object to certain processing;
the right to data portability where applicable; and
the right to withdraw consent where processing is based upon consent.
These rights are subject to certain conditions and exemptions under data protection law and do not apply in every circumstance.
Requests relating to your personal information can be made by contacting:
We may need to verify your identity before responding to a request.
14. Complaints
If you have a concern about how Neil Jackson Photographic has handled your personal information, please contact us first and we will endeavour to resolve the matter.
You also have the right to make a complaint to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
Further information is available from the ICO at:
15. Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated occasionally to reflect changes to our services, business practices or applicable law.
The current version will be published on this website and the date at the top of the policy will indicate when it was last updated.
16. Contact details
Neil Jackson Photographic
2 Northfield Way, Scalby
Scarborough
YO13 0PW
Email: neil@njphotographic.co.uk
Website: www.njphotographic.co.uk
Data protection contact: Neil Jackson