Privacy Policy

Last updated: 20 October 2026

1. Who We Are

WildClicks is a wildlife photography website available at https://wildclicks.fi. The website showcases wildlife photographs, photographic stories, fine-art prints, and photography licensing opportunities.

For the purposes of applicable data protection legislation, including the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), the data controller is:

• Website: https://wildclicks.fi

• Data controller: Welathantrige Ansala Nethmal Boteju

• Contact email: ansala@wildclicks.fi

• Location: Finland

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect personal information when you visit our website or contact us.

2. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with WildClicks.

Information you provide

When you contact us or submit a Contact Us, Custom Print, or Photo Licensing form, we may collect:

• Your name and email address.

• Your message and contact details.

• Details of photographs you are interested in.

• Your preferred print size, format, and customization requirements.

• Information about the intended use of a photograph, including publication or commercial project details.

• Any other information you voluntarily include in your inquiry.

Please avoid submitting sensitive personal information unless it is genuinely necessary.

Technical information

When you visit the website, our hosting provider, security tools, or other services may process technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, access times, and server logs.

This information may be used to maintain website functionality, troubleshoot problems, and protect against spam or security incidents.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use personal information to:

• Respond to general inquiries and messages.

• Assess and manage custom print requests.

• Respond to photography licensing inquiries and prepare quotations.

• Fulfil orders and communicate about payments, printing, or delivery, where applicable.

• Maintain website functionality and security.

• Prevent spam, abuse, and unauthorised activity.

• Improve the website where lawful analytics tools are used.

• Meet legal obligations and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Submitting an inquiry does not automatically subscribe you to marketing communications.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

We process personal information where a lawful basis applies under the GDPR. Depending on the circumstances, this may include:

• Contractual necessity or pre-contractual steps: Responding to requests for quotations, arranging prints, and managing licensing agreements.

• Legitimate interests: Responding to general inquiries, maintaining security, preventing abuse, and protecting our legal rights, provided those interests do not override your rights and freedoms.

• Legal obligations: Keeping records or complying with applicable laws.

• Consent: Processing information for optional activities where consent is the appropriate legal basis, including certain analytics or marketing activities.

Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing carried out lawfully before withdrawal.

5. Contact, Custom Print, and Licensing Forms

Information submitted through our forms is used to respond to and manage the specific request.

We may retain correspondence to answer follow-up questions, prepare quotations, arrange an order, document an agreement, or resolve a dispute.

A custom print request does not automatically create an order, and a licensing inquiry does not grant permission to use a photograph.

We will only use your information for additional purposes where a lawful basis permits us to do so.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

WildClicks may use cookies and similar technologies for essential website functionality, security, preferences, and other purposes depending on the services installed.

WordPress or its plugins may set cookies when particular features are used, such as commenting, authentication, or administrative functions.

Third-party content embedded in the website may also use cookies or similar technologies.

Where required by applicable law, non-essential cookies and tracking technologies will not be activated before valid consent is obtained. You should be able to manage or withdraw consent through the website’s cookie settings where a consent mechanism is implemented.

The actual cookies used depend on the website’s configuration.

7. Embedded Content and Third-Party Services

Our website may contain embedded content, such as social media posts, videos, or externally hosted images.

Interacting with embedded content may allow the external provider to collect technical information, use cookies, or monitor interactions according to its own privacy practices.

We may also use service providers for website hosting, email delivery, form processing, security, spam detection, payments, printing, or delivery where applicable.

Only services actually used by the website should be identified in any detailed cookie or third-party service disclosures.

8. Sharing of Personal Information

We do not sell personal information.

Where necessary, information may be shared with:

• Website hosting and technical support providers.

• Email and form service providers.

• Security and spam prevention services.

• Analytics providers, if used.

• Payment processors, printers, or delivery providers, where applicable.

• Professional advisers or public authorities where legally required or reasonably necessary for legal purposes.

We aim to limit disclosures to information necessary for the relevant purpose.

9. International Data Transfers

Some third-party service providers may process information outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

Where personal information is transferred internationally, we will apply the safeguards required by applicable data protection law, where relevant. These may include an adequacy decision or appropriate contractual safeguards.

The actual countries and safeguards depend on the services used by the website.

10. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, taking account of legal obligations.

In general:

• General inquiries: For the time needed to respond and manage reasonable follow-up correspondence.

• Custom print and licensing requests: For the time needed to assess and manage the request and any resulting agreement.

• Customer and accounting records: For the retention period required by applicable law.

• Comments and account information: For as long as the information is needed for the relevant purpose, subject to applicable rights and legal requirements.

• Technical and security logs: For the period necessary for security, troubleshooting, and abuse prevention.

Information may be retained longer where necessary to comply with legal obligations or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. Information will be deleted or anonymised when it is no longer required.

11. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

Depending on the website configuration, these measures may include access controls, software updates, secure connections, and security tools.

No online system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, but we aim to handle personal information responsibly.

12. Your Data Protection Rights

Subject to applicable law and its conditions, you may have the right to:

• Request access to your personal information.

• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.

• Request deletion of your information.

• Request restriction of processing.

• Object to processing based on legitimate interests.

• Request data portability where applicable.

• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.

• Lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority.

To exercise your rights, contact us using the email address provided in the “Who We Are” section. We may need to verify your identity before processing a request.

Some information may need to be retained where a legal obligation or other lawful exception applies.

13. Complaints

If you have concerns about how your personal information is handled, please contact us first so we can review your concerns.

You may also lodge a complaint with the Finnish Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman:

https://tietosuoja.fi/en/home

You may have the right to complain to another competent supervisory authority where applicable.

14. Children’s Privacy

WildClicks is not specifically directed at children, and we do not knowingly seek to collect children’s personal information in circumstances where collection would be unlawful.

If you believe personal information has been collected inappropriately, please contact us so we can assess the matter.

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our website, services, data-processing practices, or legal obligations.

The latest revision date will be displayed at the beginning of this page.

16. Contact

For privacy questions or data protection requests, please contact:

WildClicks

Website: https://wildclicks.fi

Email: ansala@wildclicks.fi

Data controller: Welathantrige Ansala Nethmal Boteju

Location: Finland