Who we are

Beaches in Rio was born from a passion for capturing the natural beauty of Rio de Janeiro’s beaches and sharing it with a global audience. The goal is simple: to offer images of Rio de Janeiro’s coastline at an affordable price, with a fast and easy purchase process — helping creators, bloggers, and businesses enhance their digital projects.

Our website address is: beachesinrio.com. You can get in touch, please visit our Contact Us page.

Shopping in beachesinrio.com

We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store. While you visit our site, we’ll track:

Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed;
Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping;
Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order.

Cookies for store functionality

We use cookies essential to the functioning of our online store. These cookies help us:

Keep track of the items in your cart while you browse our site and during the checkout process.

Remember your session when you are logged into your account, so you can access past orders or re-download your purchased products within the allowed time.

Maintain secure authentication during checkout to prevent fraud and ensure a smooth experience.

These cookies contain no sensitive personal data and expire after a defined period or when you log out or clear your browser cache.

Personal information

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number and account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

Send you information about your account and order;
Respond to your requests;
Process payments and prevent fraud;
Set up your account for our store;
Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes;
Improve our store offerings;
Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them;
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.

We will also store comments or reviews, where applicable and if you choose to leave them.

Who on our team has access

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information. Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders and support you.

Payments

We accept payments through PayPal. We do not have access to your credit card information at any point. All payment details are securely handled by PayPal during checkout. We do not store credit card numbers on our servers. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Comments

If commenting is enabled, when visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. Youtube videos, Google Maps, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We share your data with trusted third-party services that help us operate our website and fulfill your orders, including but not limited to payment processors (such as PayPal), hosting providers, third-party email marketing services (if you choose to subscribe), and analytics tools. We do not sell or share your data with other parties for marketing purposes. It is important to note that when you visit our site and use its services, some data may be automatically shared with these companies to help deliver and improve your experience.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our shop, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

If you purchase from our shop, we retain your order data even if you delete your account. This information is kept to comply with, but not limited to, legal, tax, licensing, and accounting requirements. The retention period is determined based on applicable laws and our legitimate business needs, including the enforcement of photo licensing terms.

What rights you have over your data

If you have registered and purchased through our store, you have access to a personal account dashboard where you can view and manage your profile, order history, and available downloads (within the allowed download period). You can also update your personal data or delete your account from this dashboard. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.