Privacy Policy

Privacy & Cookie Policy

INTRODUCTION
Alternative Images uses and protects any information that you give to us when you use this website or have any other interaction with the Company.
The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Alternative Images has implemented numerous technical measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. We will protect your personal information but we cannot guarantee the security of your information which is transmitted to our website, applications or services or to other website, applications and services via an internet or similar connection.
Peter Austin of Alternative Images being the data protection officer is fully registered with ICO reference: A8314161 and compliant with all requirements under Data Protection Law.

WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, AND HOW IS THIS USED?
Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. We may process the following categories of personal data about you:
Communication Data that includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through the contact form on our website, through email, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you and for record keeping purposes.
Customer Data that includes data relating to any purchases of services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address email address, phone number, contact details.
Consent basis is used when you choose to opt in to receive our direct marketing such as, but not limited to, email newsletters, promotions and events. This use of personal data applies to both clients and non-clients and is usually restricted to just your name, address, email address and telephone number.
You may opt out of receiving our newsletters and marketing at any time. If you wish to opt out from direct marketing you will be able to do so via an unsubscribe link.
We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.

PERSONAL DATA COLLECTION
We may collect data by you providing the data directly to us by sign up forms or emails. We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies.

MARKETING
Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests.
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send you marketing communications from us if you asked for information from us about our services or you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time. No personal data will be shared with any third party for their own marketing purposes. Opting out of marketing messages at any time can be by emailing us at info@alternativeimages.co.uk and including UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.
DATA SECURITY
We will take all reasonable technical and organisational security measures to safeguard your personal information whilst it is in our possession or control so that it is not, for example, lost, stolen or tampered with.

DATA RETENTION
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You have a number of rights with regards to the personal information that we hold about you. Right of Access, Right to Rectification, Right to Erasure, Right to Data Portability and Right to Restricting processing.
If you would like to exercise these rights, please email us at info@alternativeimages.co.uk outlining your specific request.

COOKIES
Your Internet Browser has the in-built facility for storing small text files – “cookies”, which hold information which allows a website to recognise your account.
Our website using cookies to enhance your experience by helping us to provide you with a personalised service, and to help make our websites, applications and services better for you.
Cookies help provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor the pages you find useful and which you do not.
If you choose you may be able to configure your browser or our website, application or service to restrict cookies or block all cookies, however if you disable cookies you may find this affects your ability to use certain parts of the website.

Engage Visitors on Your Website with Video

We are all at the start of another year. The time to put in place business strategies, create new ideas and push your marketing for your company to hit those desired targets.

This sound easy, but we all know that it can be a difficult and daunting time for any sales force within a company. But we all need to sell, sell, sell!

The world wide web has now become our most favourite shop. Well, Primark could be a good contender here, but let’s move on! And it’s a well known fact, I’m not going to bore your with stat facts, a good deal of the nation will look to the web to shop for either goods, find information or services. This started with the private sector but has grown vastly to include business as well.

So if your in business to attract customers, what do you have? A website! It’s all about communication. Right? And when a visitor lands to that website they need to see if you can supply what they are looking for within a very short time frame. It is also a well researched fact that people don’t want to spend time reading to find the information.

So make it easy TELL THEM!

The Benefit of adding a custom video to your website. This allows the viewer to be informed with a single click. What, how, where on any of the desired platforms your site is viewed on.
Because of this, many businesses have found it valuable to use video to quickly convey their primary value proposition.

Having video on your site makes it easy for the viewer. Video can explain a more complex message than script. It keeps the viewer engaged and therefor more likely to purchase your service or product. This way of thinking is for any small business, right up to the multinationals. So don’t think that your business is not large enough to have one, think the opposite. It needs one.

The prospect of taking on the challenge of producing such a project can be somewhat intimidating if its not your day to day thing. There are various areas to consider to make sure you convey your message. Here at Alternative, helping people and companies to do this better, more creatively and more effectively is a great challenge to have. We would both come together and start with a process known as the “Story Boarding” that will address scripts, planned visuals and locations for the shoot to tell the story.

The process to making a video can be fairly complex, but that’s where I come in!
If you feel this could be right for you and would like to know more and have a chat, please contact me.

Planning
All the help you need for planning, completing a story board and scripting is offered.

Location
You have a product or service to present so a suitable location will be discussed to enhance the production.

Help with other areas such as theming, cut away shots, right down to the final edit stages.

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Photographic Prints and the Corporate Sector

Recently I was asked by one of my clients who I do various corporate group shots for to do the artworks and printing for a group photograph she was arranging abroard at a conference. As a photographer for conferences that includes group photos what I usually handle is the artwork for the script and the corrections needed for the final print run.

On this occasion the conference was held in Shanghai, China so my client had organised a local photographer to come and take the photo (adhering to some detailed instruction from myself). There was some urgency to get the process moving so to save time I asked for the Raw images to be sent to me via my upload server soon after the event.

Now I had all that I needed to start making the image. I managed in a short time to send a proof back to the company who was still in Shanghai to approve and then set the process for the actual quantity print run.

While my client was on a flight back from Shanghai, that was about a ten hour duration, I had this order completed so there was no delay in getting this to the company to send out to the individuals. With all the digital world thrust upon us in recent years this could have been done as a digital file and just pinged into people inbox, but somehow that would to me shows a cheapness about doing it the first place. I think its great that a large corporate company still values the “corporate group photo” still done in a traditional way.

Please note this photo has been blured intentionally to protect individuals.

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My Shot Made Front Cover Again!

Having done various photographic assignments for the Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce recently I was asked to join them at a Black Tie event at the Marriott Hanbury Manor Hotel for their Global Dinner event with speeches from manufacturing sectors of business.

The main topic was Brexit… discussing the positives for a bright future… here the editor of the Inspire bimonthly magazine from the Chamber used one of my images from the evening for the front cover as well as some in the two page article written within.

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