Last Updated: [4-Oct,2025]
At FOX WALK, we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, protect, and handle your personal information when you use our website and services. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you use our website or contact us, we may collect the following information:
Information You Provide:- Name – Email address – Phone number (optional) – Company name (optional) – Project details and inquiries – Any other information you choose to share.
Automatically Collected Information:– IP address – Browser type and version – Device information – Pages visited and time spent – Referral source – Cookies and similar technologies
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2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
✓ Responding to your inquiries and providing quotes
✓ Communicating about projects and services
✓ Scheduling and coordinating photography/video shoots
✓ Sending invoices and processing payments
✓ Following up after project completion
✓ Improving our website and services
✓ Analyzing website traffic and user behavior
✓ Preventing fraud and ensuring security
✓ Complying with legal obligations
We do NOT: ✗ Sell your personal information to third parties
✗ Use your information for marketing without your explicit consent
✗ Share your information except as described in this policy
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3. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING (GDPR)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we process your personal information based on:
– Consent: When you provide information voluntarily through our contact form
– Contractual Necessity: To perform services you’ve requested
– Legitimate Interests: To improve our services and prevent fraud
– Legal Obligation: To comply with applicable laws ]
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4. COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your experience:
Essential Cookies: Required for the website to function properly (e.g., security, form submissions)
Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors use our site (e.g., Google Analytics)
You can control cookies through your browser settings.However, disabling cookies may affect website functionality.
Third-Party Services We Use:
– Google Analytics (website analytics)
– Google reCAPTCHA (spam prevention)
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5. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We may share your information only in the following circumstances: Service Providers: We may share information with trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website and conducting business (e.g., email service providers, payment processors). These parties are contractually obligated to protect your information.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose information when required by law, court order, or government request, or to protect our rights, property, or safety.
Business Transfers: If FOX WALK is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred. We will notify you of any such change.
With Your Consent: We may share information with third parties when you have given explicit permission. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
6. DATA SECURITY
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information:
– Secure server infrastructure – Encryption of data in transit (SSL/TLS)
– Access controls and authentication
– Regular security assessment.s However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
7. DATA RETENTION
We retain your personal information only as long as necessary:
Inquiry Information: Retained for 2 years from the date of inquiry, unless we enter into a business relationship.
Client Information: Retained for 7 years after project completion for accounting and legal purposes
Website Analytics: Retained for 26 months (Google Analytics default)
You can request deletion at any time (see “Your Rights” below) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
8. YOUR RIGHTS
You have the following rights regarding your personal information:
Right to Access: Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you **Right to Rectification:** Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): Request deletion of your personal information
Right to Restrict Processing: Request that we limit how we use your information
Right to Data Portability: Request your information in a structured, machine-readable format.
Right to Object: Object to our use of your information for certain purposes
Right to Withdraw Consent: Withdraw consent at any time (where processing is based on consent)
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information below.
We will respond to your request within 30 days.
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9. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS FOX WALK is based in Japan. If you are accessing our website from outside Japan, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in Japan. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place for international data transfers, in compliance with applicable data protection laws. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
10. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY Our services are not directed to individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we have collected information from a child, please contact us immediately.
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11. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to external websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third-party sites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
12. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements.
When we make significant changes:
– We will update the “Last Updated” date at the top – We will notify you via email (if we have your email address) – We will display a notice on our website Your continued use of our website after changes indicates acceptance of the updated policy.
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13. CONTACT US If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal information, please contact us:
Contact Form: https://fox-walk.com
Contact Instagram: @fox_walk
Data Protection Officer (if applicable):
[Yoko /Photographer]
Email:
For EU Residents:
If you are located in the EU and have concerns about how we handle your data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
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14. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS (CCPA)
If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):
– Right to know what personal information is collected
– Right to know whether personal information is sold or disclosed
– Right to opt-out of the sale of personal information
– Right to deletion –
Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
We do not sell personal information.
To exercise your CCPA rights, please contact us using the information above. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
By using FOX WALK’s website and services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
