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Privacy Statement

Last updated: July 2026

This privacy statement explains what information is collected when you visit photographybyjohncorney.com, who has access to it, and what you can do about it. I've tried to write it plainly rather than in legal language. If anything below is unclear, please get in touch and I'll do my best to answer.

Who Runs This Site

This blog is run by John Corney as a personal photography and digital art site. It is hosted on Blogger, which is a Google-owned platform, and it uses a number of Google services (described below) along with a small number of third-party services. I don't sell, rent, or share visitor information with anyone.

Google AdSense

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You can opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google's Ads Settings, or you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info. For more detail on how Google uses your data, see the Google Privacy Policy.

Amazon Associates

This site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn small commissions by linking to Amazon.com. When you click an Amazon link from this site and subsequently make a purchase on Amazon, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Amazon uses cookies to track referral traffic. For details on how Amazon handles visitor data, see the Amazon Privacy Notice.

Google Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the blog. Google Analytics collects anonymous information about visits — such as which pages are viewed, how long visitors stay, general geographic region, and what type of device is used. It does not collect names, email addresses, or other personally identifying information.

If you'd prefer not to be counted in Google Analytics data, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, which prevents your visits to any Google Analytics-enabled site from being tracked.

The Contact Form

The contact form on my About page is a Google Form. When you submit a message, the content of that message — along with any information you choose to include (your name, email address, or other details) — is stored in a Google Sheet accessible only to me. I use this information only to respond to your message and don't share it with anyone else or add it to any mailing list.

Blogger and Google Platform Cookies

Because this blog runs on Blogger, standard platform cookies from Google are set when you visit — including cookies related to security, session management, and (if you're signed into a Google account) recognition of you as a Google user. Google's use of these cookies is described in the Google Cookies Policy.

Third-Party Content

Some posts on this blog include links to external sites — most commonly to my Redbubble shop and to YouTube videos I've embedded. When you click through to those external sites, or when embedded content loads on the page, those third parties may set their own cookies. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not by mine.

Children

This site is not directed at children under the age of 13, and I do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has provided information through the contact form, please let me know and I will delete it.

Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have specific rights regarding your personal data — including the right to access, correct, or delete information that has been collected about you, and the right to opt out of certain uses of that information. If you have questions or want to exercise any of these rights, please use the contact form on my About page.

Changes to This Statement

If I make significant changes to this privacy statement, I'll update the "last updated" date at the top of this page. Small clarifications may be made without a formal notice.

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Cool Granny Has Taken Up Flying — The Little Old Lady Collection Grows Again

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Cool Granny in Her Biplane — © John Corney 2026 Our cool granny is back, and she has done something the family has been quietly worried about for a few months now. She has taken up flying. A Brief Recap for New Readers If you're new to the series: she first appeared in a beautifully kept yellow Austin A35 on the corner of Queen Street and K Road in Auckland , waving cheerfully out the driver's window as she went past. That piece was, in its quiet way, a tribute to my own mother, who in her fifties bought her own motor scooter in Whanganui and never looked back — and to every older woman who has ever decided it was finally her turn. Then she showed up in a pink-and-yellow flame-painted monster truck, waving out the driver's window in exactly the same spirit, but with rather larger tyres. Same silver hair, same coral scarf, same oversized sunglasses. Same little red heart pa...
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Faces of Pasifika 2007 — A Day at Auckland's Pacific Festival

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The 15th anniversary Pasifika Festival poster — a collage of the Pacific cultures the festival celebrates. On Saturday 10 March 2007, I spent the day at the Pasifika Festival at Western Springs Park in Auckland. It was the festival's 15th year — an annual celebration of Pacific Island cultures that has been part of Auckland's calendar since 1993, and which typically draws crowds of well over 100,000 across the day. Nine Pacific villages are traditionally represented — Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Niue, Fiji, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Kiribati and Tahiti — with music, dance, food, arts, and craft from each community sharing the same park for the day. I usually visit New Zealand earlier in February, but in 2007 I was there in March and it was the first — and, to date, only — time I've been able to attend Pasifika. I hope to make it back one of these years. But I came away from that single visit with the str...
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Samoan Youth

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This young man was preparing with his friends for his moment of fame on the stage at the Samoan Village at the Polynesian dance festival called Pasifika in Auckland in March this year. Samoan Youth Canon EOS 20D 1/30sec at f/20 ISO 200 Canon 70-300mm lens at 300mm More photographs from the same Pasifika Festival day can be found in my new post, Faces of Pasifika 2007 — A Day at Auckland's Pacific Festival .
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