Privacy policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: February 5, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Pacific Coast Licensing LLC d/b/a Ultramarine Photo (the "Site", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from ultramarinephoto.com (the "Site") or otherwise communicate with us regarding the Site (collectively, the "Services"). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, licensee, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any of the Services.

Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the "Last updated" date and take any other steps required by applicable law.

How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information
To provide the Services, we collect and have collected over the past 12 months personal information about you from a variety of sources. The information that we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us. In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use information we collect about you to communicate with you, provide or improve the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

Licensing and Usage Monitoring
As a digital image licensing platform, we collect and maintain information about image downloads, usage, and distribution. This includes information about license types and terms selected, distribution metrics and reach, usage verification, download history, and compliance monitoring. We employ third-party services and professional review processes to monitor digital content usage across the internet to verify license compliance, track distribution limits, and protect our intellectual property rights. Our monitoring includes regular compliance audits, digital content tracking, distribution verification, license validation, and professional usage review.

Information Collection
The types of personal information we obtain about you depends on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. Information we collect directly from you includes contact details, order and license information, billing and shipping addresses, payment confirmation, account credentials, customer support communications, distribution reporting, and license compliance documentation. We automatically collect information about your interaction with the Services through cookies and similar technologies, including device information, browser details, network connection data, IP address, and usage patterns. We may obtain additional information from third parties including payment processors, usage monitoring services, compliance verification partners, and content review services.

Use of Information
We use your personal information to process payments, manage accounts and licenses, track usage and distribution, monitor compliance, and verify authorized use. For security and fraud prevention, we use this information to detect unauthorized usage, verify distribution claims, monitor compliance, prevent abuse, and protect intellectual property. We also use your information for marketing communications including service updates, license renewal notices, usage reminders, and product announcements.

Disclosure of Personal Information
We may share your information with usage monitoring services, compliance verification partners, payment processors, legal services providers, and professional reviewers. Your information may be accessed by vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf, including IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment, and shipping. We may share information with business and marketing partners to provide services and advertise to you. Our business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices.

Security and Data Retention
We implement reasonable security measures to protect your information and retain it as needed for license verification, usage monitoring, compliance checks, legal requirements, and business purposes. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee "perfect security." Additionally, any information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use insecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

Your Rights and Choices
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to access your information, correct inaccurate data, request deletion, restrict processing, and request data portability. You may exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided below. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to collect information from you to verify your identity before providing a substantive response to the request.

Cookies and Tracking
Like many websites, we use Cookies on our Site. For specific information about the Cookies we use related to powering our store with Shopify, see https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies. We use Cookies to power and improve our Site and Services, to run analytics and better understand user interaction with the Services. We may also permit third parties and service providers to use Cookies on our Site to better tailor the services, products and advertising on our Site and other websites.

Third Party Websites and Links
Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites.

Children's Privacy
The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us to request that it be deleted.

International Users
Please note that we may transfer, store and process your personal information outside the country you live in. Your personal information is also processed by staff and third party service providers and partners in these countries. If we transfer your personal information out of Europe, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms like the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or any equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the UK, as relevant, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection.

Contact Information
Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please contact us at:

Pacific Coast Licensing LLC
2632 SE 25th Ave Suite C
Portland, OR 97202
curator@ultramarinephoto.com