Cookie Policy

Fotorivals.com believes in offering Photographers and all photography enthusiasts the opportunity to showcase their photography, be it amatuer and just purely fun to the avid professional and keen ones. Photography is all about memories and pieces of time caught in an instance and everyone should be able and free to share that with the rest to enjoy and appreciate. Privacy is still obviously super important to us so please observe our Privacy policies.The column on the right provides a short explanation of the privacy policy and is not legally binding. This Privacy Policy covers Fotorivals.com's treatment of personal information that Fotorivals.com gathers when you are on the Fotorivals.com website and when you use Fotorivals.com services. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Fotorivals.com does not own or control, or to individuals that Fotorivals.com does not employ or manage. Information Collected by Fotorivals.com We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website. This information allows us to provide you with a customized and efficient experience. We collect the following types of information from our Fotorivals.com users:

We collect information to make Fotorivals.com useful for you and to provide a personalized experience.

Information You Provide To Us

We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our features.
Registration: In order for you to use Fotorivals.com services you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require certain personal information. Our lawful basis for collecting personal information from you is to provide our services and to communicate with you with your consent when you register with us. Our collection of personal information from you is limited to information that we require in order to provide our services to you.
User Profile: To allow you to express yourself beyond just the information collected during registration, we enable you to provide additional information, such as your first and last names, email address, social media account links, a bio, and website URL. In addition, you may choose to include photos of yourself in your profile. As indicated below, in the section titled "Sharing Your Information", you can control how your information is displayed and used.
You have the right to edit, update, access, or transfer your personal information, or to delete your personal information if you are terminating your registration with Fotorivals.com.

We collect your registration and user profile data. Our servers also collect log information used to make the website faster and better. We also collect geographic location data; this allows us to present a more personalized experience.

Automatic Information

We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Fotorivals.com and its authorized agents automatically receive and record certain "traffic data" on their server logs from your browser and apps including your IP address, Fotorivals.com cookie information, and the page you requested. Fotorivals.com uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends, and administer the website. This does not involve collecting any of your personal information.
In addition to the "traffic data", Fotorivals.com and its authorized agents may collect information about the device you're using to access Fotorivals.com, its operating system, unique device identifier, device settings such as language, and crash data. Which data is specifically collected depends on the type of device and/or system running on that device. This data is again used to help us diagnose problems with the site and/or mobile apps and analyze trends. This does not involve collecting any of your personal information.
Fotorivals.com may collect and use information regarding the geographic location of your devices. If the location data contains your personal information, then Fotorivals.com will treat this location data in accordance with this Policy.
Fotorivals.com may collect and, on any page, display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes User Profile pages.
Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While Fotorivals.com will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available. Communications Email and push notifications: Fotorivals.com is very concerned about your privacy and we will never provide your email address to a third party without your explicit permission, as detailed in the "Sharing Your Information" section below. Fotorivals.com may send out emails with Fotorivals.com-related news, products, offers, surveys, or promotions. You may also receive emails and/or push notifications from Fotorivals.com, which inform you of actions (e.g. “new follows”) that have been performed on the site. We send these notifications to you based on receiving your consent. If you do not want to receive email from us, please visit the “Email notifications” section of your User Profile and/or follow the “unsubscribe” instructions contained in each email message. To unsubscribe from push notifications, please visit the “Push notifications” section of your User Profile on the app. However, please note that in all cases you will continue to receive all system emails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us unless you terminate your registration. Fotorivals.com’s messenger service: The Fotorivals.com messenger service allows you to communicate with other Fotorivals.com users. Fotorivals.com may monitor the messenger service as set forth in this Policy, but Fotorivals.com does not collect any personal information through the messenger service (except as set forth in this Privacy Policy). You can stop using Fotorivals.com’s messenger service at any time and/or block or report other users attempting to communicate with you through Fotorivals.com’s messenger service. You are entirely and solely responsible for any information that you disclose or share with other users through Fotorivals.com’s messenger service or other means. We strongly recommend that you use extreme caution in sharing any personal information with other users through Fotorivals.com’s messenger service (or otherwise) and Fotorivals.com is not responsible for any information that you disclose to other users through Fotorivals.com’s messenger service. Fotorivals.com monitors the usage of its messenger service to improve its service, but does not read private messages exchanged between users through the Fotorivals.com’s messenger service unless a user has been reported for inappropriate behavior as outlined in our Terms of Use. If we receive such a report, we will only review the allegedly inappropriate communications that have been reported in order to determine whether they violate our Terms of Use and what actions we will take in response to the conduct (if any), including possibly terminating users. All users have the ability to block parties they do not wish to communicate with via Fotorivals.com’s messenger service and to stop using Fotorivals.com’s messenger service at any time.

We will send you emails and push notifications based on your User Profile settings. From time to time, we may send emails to all our users. We also won’t read your Fotorivals.com messages unless you have been reported for behaving inappropriately.

Cookies Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. Fotorivals.com cookies do not collect personal information. Fotorivals.com utilizes third-party services like Google Analytics to help analyze how our site is used. These services, including Google Analytics, also use cookies to collect information about visitors to our site (including IP addresses) in an anonymous form that does not include personal information.

The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We recommend that you leave the cookies activated because cookies allow you to use some of Fotorivals.com's coolest features. Some of our business partners, like our advertisers, may use cookies on our website. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.

To remember you, our system will give you a cookie. It's safe. Third-party services that help us analyze how our site is used also use cookies to collect information about visitors to our site.

Analytics Fotorivals.com uses services like Google Analytics and/or Amplitude to help analyze and understand how our site and mobile applications are used, so that we can make Fotorivals.com products more interesting to you. These tools capture data about how individual users are using our site and mobile applications. This includes event logs, device type, and device configuration settings such as language, crash data, and other data but never personal information. These third-party services treat the analytics data in accordance with this privacy policy and Fotorivals.com does not disclose your personal information to any third parties through our use of these services. Basically,

We use third-party analytics services that help us better understand usage trends and make decisions based on those trends. These tools don't collect personal information, and all information collected is used in accordance with this policy.

Sharing Your Information Because Fotorivals.com enables people to discover and share information with one another, information about the people who use Fotorivals.com is an integral part of the Fotorivals.com experience. Rest assured that we will not rent or sell your personal information to anyone and that we will share your personal information only as described below: Fotorivals.com Personnel: Fotorivals.com personnel and authorized consultants and/or contractors may have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of Fotorivals.com business. Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if Fotorivals.com, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred. Protection of Fotorivals.com and Others: We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with a law; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Fotorivals.com, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. User Profile information: Information collected during registration and subsequent visits, such as your full name and location, may be displayed to other Fotorivals.com users in your User Profile. The User Profile is the area on Fotorivals.com where we allow you to tell other Fotorivals.com users about yourself. You may control what personal information is displayed in your User Profile by visiting the Settings section of your User Profile. Followers' Activity: Much like other online social networks, Fotorivals.com allows non-followers to browse your followers’ activity. Syndication: Fotorivals.com allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the Fotorivals.com website. Service Providers: Fotorivals.com may share user information as well as information from tools such as cookies, log files, device identifiers, and location data, with third-parties that help Fotorivals.com provide services to you (“Service Providers”). Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary for Fotorivals.com to provide our services. Fotorivals.com requires Services Providers to protect your data in a manner consistent with this Policy and to limit the use of such information to the performance of services for Fotorivals.com. Fotorivals.com may also remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with Service Providers, including combining your information with other information in a way that it is no longer associated with you. Data Storage: Your encrypted personal information is stored on servers provided by a third-party cloud-based service provider that protects and stores your data in a manner that is consistent with this Policy.

With Your Consent: Except as noted above, we will contact you when your personal information is shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to opt out to prevent the sharing of this information.

We do not sell your information to anyone. However, we will show publicly available information to other users. We may share information so that we can provide our service, and we may share information where required by law. We may also share information with third-parties that help Fotorivals.com provide services to you.

Keeping Information and Our Website Secure Your Fotorivals.com account information is protected by an encrypted password for your privacy and security. Protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer. Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices. Fotorivals.com has also implemented the Invisible reCAPTCHA API (“reCAPTCHA”) to help protect our website from spam and abuse from “bots” and other malicious software. It works by collecting hardware and software information, such as device and application data and the results of integrity checks, and sending that data to Google for analysis. The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Your account is protected by an encrypted password. We keep it secure; you must also keep it safe. Our employees may not access your account unless required to do a specific job. We use reCAPTCHA to help protect our website from malicious attacks.

Ways to Control Display and Use of Your Information As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose information, but then you may be unable to use certain features on our website. By visiting your User Profile, you can correct, amend, add, or delete personal information on our website. If you do not wish to receive email from us, please visit the Settings of your User Profile and/or follow the instructions contained in the unwanted email message. However, please note that you will continue to receive all system emails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us unless you terminate your registration with Fotorivals.com. As explained earlier, the "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. Please note, however, that if your browser does not accept cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of some of our attractive features.

You can choose not to share information with us, but your experience of the site may be limited. However, until your account is deleted, you may receive all system emails.

Children Under 14 Years of Age You must be 14 years and older to register to use the Fotorivals.com website. As a result, Fotorivals.com does not specifically collect information about children. If we learn that Fotorivals.com has collected information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend that minors between the ages of 14 and 18 ask and receive permission from a legal guardian before using Fotorivals.com or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.

Please register only when you reach 14 years of age, or ask for permission from a legal guardian if you are younger than 14 years of age upon registering.

Changes to This Privacy Policy Fotorivals.com may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Fotorivals.com website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed. Basically,

The Privacy Policy may change.

Conditions of Use If you decide to visit Fotorivals.com website, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of Ontario law. Basically,

Visiting Fotorivals.com is subject to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Effective Date of This Privacy Policy This Privacy Policy is effective as of February 27th, 2025.

Effective as of February 27th, 2025.