Last updated: 13 September 2026
Who we are
Joe Passage is an independent photography website presenting photographic work, visual stories and related editorial content.
Our website address is joepassage.com.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the personal information we process, you can contact us at:
Information we collect
We collect personal information only when it is necessary to operate the website, respond to enquiries, protect the website from abuse, or provide services requested by visitors.
When you contact us through the contact form, we may collect the information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address, subject and message.
We may also process limited technical information associated with your visit or form submission, such as your IP address, browser information and other technical data required for website security and spam prevention.
Contact forms
Joe Passage uses Contact Form 7 to provide the website contact form.
Information submitted through the contact form is used to receive and respond to your enquiry. Form submissions may also be stored in the website database using Flamingo so that enquiries can be managed and recovered if email delivery fails.
We do not use information submitted through the contact form for advertising or sell it to third parties.
Spam and bot protection
We use Cloudflare Turnstile to protect our contact form against automated submissions, spam and abuse.
Turnstile processes limited technical signals required to distinguish legitimate visitors from automated traffic. These signals may include an IP address, browser and device-related information, User-Agent information and other security signals.
Turnstile does not access, store or transmit the contents of the information you enter into our contact form.
For more information about how Cloudflare processes information through Turnstile, please see the Cloudflare Turnstile Privacy Addendum.
Google Maps
Our website may use Google Maps to display geographic or location-related information.
When Google Maps content is loaded, Google may receive technical information such as your IP address and browser information and may use cookies or similar technologies according to its own privacy practices.
Where required, Google Maps is loaded subject to the visitor’s consent choices.
Cookies and consent
Joe Passage uses Complianz to manage cookie consent and privacy preferences.
Some cookies and technologies are necessary for the operation and security of the website. Other services that are not strictly necessary may be loaded only according to your consent choices where required by applicable law.
Detailed and current information about the cookies and services used on this website, their purposes and your consent options is available in our Cookie Policy.
Google Analytics
Joe Passage uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the website and to help improve its content and performance.
Google Analytics may process information about your interaction with the website, such as pages visited, approximate location, device and browser information, and other technical or usage data.
Where consent is required, Google Analytics is activated according to your consent choices managed through Complianz. If you do not consent to analytics cookies and related technologies, Google Analytics is not activated for that purpose.
Information collected through Google Analytics is processed by Google in accordance with its own privacy practices.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through the website’s cookie preferences.
How we use personal information
We may process personal information to:
- respond to enquiries submitted through the website;
- operate and maintain the website;
- protect the website and its forms against spam, bots, fraud and other abuse;
- diagnose technical problems and maintain website security;
- comply with applicable legal obligations.
We do not use personal information submitted through the contact form for unrelated marketing purposes.
Legal bases for processing
Where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or similar data protection legislation applies, we process personal information only where we have an appropriate legal basis.
Depending on the circumstances, this may include your consent, taking steps at your request before entering into a contract, our legitimate interests in operating and securing the website and responding to enquiries, or compliance with a legal obligation.
How long we retain information
Contact form submissions may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to enquiries, maintain appropriate correspondence records, resolve disputes, protect the website, or comply with legal obligations.
Information that is no longer reasonably required for these purposes may be deleted.
Who we share information with
We do not sell personal information.
Personal information may be processed by service providers where necessary to operate, host, secure or maintain the website. These may include our website hosting provider and providers of services described in this Privacy Policy.
Cloudflare processes limited technical information in connection with Turnstile for website security and bot detection.
Google may process information when Google Maps is loaded.
Google may also process information when Google Analytics is enabled according to your consent choices.
Service providers may process information in countries outside your country of residence. Where applicable, such processing is subject to the safeguards required by relevant data protection legislation.
Your rights
Depending on where you live and the applicable data protection law, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information.
You may also have the right to restrict or object to certain processing, withdraw consent where processing is based on consent, and request portability of certain information.
You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority.
To make a privacy-related request, contact:
Third-party services
This website may contain links to external websites or use third-party services. Those third parties have their own privacy practices, and Joe Passage is not responsible for the privacy practices of independent external websites.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when the website, the services we use, or applicable legal requirements change.
The current version will be published on this page together with the date of the latest update.