What we do with your details

Who this is about

Praneeth Mendis Weddings is a photography studio based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, run by Praneeth Mendis. If you want anything on this page explained, changed or deleted, write to hello@praneethmendisweddings.com or call +94 77 816 0925.

What we collect

What you type in

When you send an enquiry through this site, we receive what you filled in: your name, your email address, and — where you chose to give them — your phone number, the date of the event, the kind of event, the venue, and your message. Nothing on the form is collected that you cannot see on the form.

What is recorded alongside it

Saved with the enquiry itself, not tracked across the web:

• Your IP address — also used to limit how many enquiries can be sent from one connection, which is what keeps the form from being used by spammers.
• Your browser and device type, as your browser reports it.
• The page you came from, and campaign tags in the link if you arrived from an advertisement. This tells us which channels are worth paying for.

What we do not collect

• No payment details. Nothing on this site takes a card number.
• No account. There is nothing to sign up for, so there is no password of yours for us to lose.

Measurement and advertising

Nothing below runs until you say yes. On your first visit a banner asks; until you answer, and if you answer no, none of these scripts is loaded, no request is made to them and no cookie of theirs is set. Your answer is remembered on your own device, and the Cookies link at the foot of any page changes it back.

If you do agree, these are what load. They set cookies on your device and report back to their own companies, not only to us.

Google Analytics 4

Tells us how many people visit, which pages they read and roughly where in the world they are (worked out from the IP address, not from GPS). Run by Google, which processes it on servers outside Sri Lanka. Google’s own explanation is in its privacy policy.

Turning it off

You can change your mind at any point:

• Use the Cookies link at the foot of any page to bring the banner back and answer no. That stops anything further being collected.
• Clear cookies for this site in your browser to remove what was already set — we cannot delete those for you, only stop adding to them.
• Install Google’s Analytics opt-out add-on, which stops it on every site, not just ours.
• Use a tracker blocker. We would rather you read the site with one than not read it at all.

Why we keep it

• To reply to you, which we aim to do within 24 hours.
• To prepare and send a quotation, and to keep a record of what you were quoted.
• To run the booking if you go ahead — dates, venue and the plan for the day.
• To keep the enquiry form usable rather than full of spam.

Who else sees it

Only the people who have to, to get your enquiry to us and our reply to you:

Our email provider

Your enquiry is emailed to the studio, and an acknowledgement is emailed back to you. That means the contents pass through our email provider in the ordinary way email does.

Our web host

The site and its database run on rented hosting, so the host’s servers hold the data physically.

Nobody else

We do not sell your details, rent them, or hand them to advertisers, other studios or suppliers. If we ever have to disclose something because the law requires it, that is the only other case.

Your photographs

If you book us, the photographs we take of your day are yours to keep and share. We also like to show our work — on this site, on Instagram and Facebook, and to couples who ask what a full day looks like.

If you would rather your photographs were never shown publicly, tell us — before the day or after it. We will take them down and keep them out of the portfolio. You do not need to give a reason, and it does not change anything about your coverage.

How long we keep it

• Enquiries that did not become bookings — kept while there is a reasonable chance you will come back to us, then deleted.
• Quotations and bookings — kept as business records, because we may need them for accounts and tax.
• Photographs — kept in our archive so we can supply replacements and reprints later. Ask us to delete yours and we will.

What you can ask for

Write to hello@praneethmendisweddings.com and you can ask us to:

• tell you what we hold about you;
• correct anything that is wrong;
• delete your enquiry, or your photographs, from our records;
• stop emailing you.

We will answer within a reasonable time and at no charge. We may need to keep records the law requires us to keep, and we will say so if that applies.

Children

This site is not aimed at children, and we do not knowingly collect details from them. Children obviously appear in wedding photographs; those are covered by the section on your photographs above, and a parent or guardian can ask us to withdraw them.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS. Enquiries are stored in a private database, the studio’s admin area is password-protected, and photographs are held in storage that is not publicly listable. No setup is perfect, and we will not pretend otherwise — but we do not hold card details, and that is the thing most worth stealing.

If this notice changes

We will change the date at the top. If a change actually affects what happens to your details rather than just the wording, we will say so here rather than quietly rewriting it.

Contact

Praneeth Mendis · hello@praneethmendisweddings.com · +94 77 816 0925 · Colombo, Sri Lanka

See also our terms.