Sheena Sabharwal Photography understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. I respect and value your privacy, sheenasabharwal.com (“My Site”) and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with my obligations and your rights under the law.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy is requested upon visiting My Site.
Who we are
We are Sheena Sabharwal Photography.
My Site is operated by Sheena Sabharwal, a sole trader registered in England.
Registered address: Coreopsis, Mount Park Road, HArrow HA1 3LB.
Representative: Sheena Sabharwal.
Email address: sheena@sheenasabharwal.com
Telephone number: 07956 499091
Postal address: Coreopsis, Mount Park Road, HArrow HA1 3LB.
We are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
Our collection and use of your personal information
We collect personal information about you when you access our website, register with us, contact us, send us feedback, purchase services via our website, post material to our website and social media sites and/or complete customer surveys.
We collect this personal information from you either directly, such as when you register with us, contact us or purchase services via our website or indirectly, such as your browsing activity while on our website (see ‘Cookies’ below).
The personal information we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our website. This information may include:
- your name, address and contact details
- date of birth
- bank account and payment details
- details of any feedback you give us by phone, email, post or via social media
- information about the services we provide to you
- your account details, such as username, login details
I use this personal information to:
- create and manage your relationship with us
- verify your identity
- provide services tailored to your needs
- customise our website and its content to your particular preferences
- notify you of any changes to our website or to our services that may affect you
- improve our services
Our legal basis for processing your personal information
Whenever we use your personal information, we make sure there’s a good reason for doing so. The reason depends on the type of information and what we need it for.
Some of the main reasons we may use your information include:
- With your permission: You’ve agreed for us to use your information for a specific purpose.
- To provide our services: We need your information to carry out a contract with you or take steps you’ve asked for before starting a contract.
- To meet legal requirements: Sometimes the law requires us to use certain information.
- For legitimate business purposes: We may use your information to run our business, improve our services, or work with trusted partners, while always respecting your privacy.
Our goal is always to use your information responsibly and in ways you would reasonably expect.
We routinely share categories of personal data with our third-party suppliers. A list of those suppliers is set out below:
Studio Ninja – a client management system to manage website based leads and to manage the process of your shoot, and share any relevant information regarding your shoot with you
Stripe – to allow us to process payments electronically
Paypal – to allow us to process payments electronically
Mailerlite – to enable us to use forms that send data to email marketing services (MailerLite) and to send email communications and manage subscribers
Pictime – to share your images with you
Google Drive – to enable you to access Guidance notes & any information (lead magnets) that you subscribe to
Google Analytics – gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.
WordPress – to gather information about how you use the website, which we use to improve the usability of it and the service we provide
Elementor – is used to build & operate the website
Postage services – to deliver your prints/ albums/ USB with you
This data sharing enables them to provide services to us and you and we will not at any time use your data for any third-party marketing. I advise you read each of their privacy policies, available on their website.
We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.
We will not share your personal information with any other third party.
Transfer of your information out of the UK and EEA
We may transfer your personal information to the following which are located outside the United Kingdom (UK) and European Economic Area (EEA) such as the USA where some of our service providers may be resident. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of these areas, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to you.
Cookies and other tracking technologies
When you use our website, you can choose to accept or decline cookies. Cookies are small text files placed on your device (like your computer, smartphone, or tablet) that help us recognise your device and remember some of your preferences or past actions.
We use cookies to better understand how visitors use our site, improve your experience, and support future marketing and communications. This includes cookies from services like Google Analytics and a security plugin that helps protect against malicious activity/ bots using my inquiry form.
The use of these cookies is based on your consent. Our website includes a Cookie Notice that allows you to confirm whether you accept or decline cookies, giving you full control over your browsing experience.
Marketing
We would like to send you information about our services, news, training and special offers, which may be of interest to you. Where we have your consent or it is in our legitimate interests to do so, we may do this usually via email.
If you have agreed to being contacted in this way, you can unsubscribe at any time by:
—contacting us at sheena@sheenasabharwal.com
It may take up to 30 days for this to take place.
For more information on your rights in relation to marketing, see ‘Your rights’ below.
Your Rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have a number of important rights regarding your personal information, all of which are free of charge. In summary, these include the right to:
- Have your information processed fairly and transparently.
- Access the personal information we hold about you and related details.
- Request corrections to any mistakes in your information.
- Request the deletion of your personal information in certain situations.
- Receive the personal information you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used format, and transfer it to a third party in certain situations.
- Object at any time to the use of your personal information for direct marketing.
- Object to decisions made solely by automated means that could significantly affect you.
- Object to certain other uses of your personal information or request that we restrict its processing in specific circumstances.
For more detailed information about these rights and when they apply, you can refer to the guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the GDPR.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please:
- Contact us by email, phone, or in writing.
- Provide enough information to identify you.
- Provide proof of your identity and address (for example, a copy of your driving license or passport, plus a recent utility or credit card bill).
- Specify the information your request relates to.
Keeping your personal information secure
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
How to complain
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in a European Economic Area state or in the United Kingdom if you work, normally live or if any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred in the relevant state. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.
Changes to this privacy policy
This privacy policy was published in November 2025
We may change this privacy policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via our website.
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us, please send an email to sheena@sheenasabharwal.com