Sarah DiCicco Photography (“Sarah DiCicco Photography,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and protect information when you visit www.sarahdicicco.com (the “Website”), contact us, subscribe to our emails, inquire about our services, become a client, access a gallery, purchase a product, or otherwise interact with our business.
By using the Website or providing information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not provide personal information through the Website.
1. Information We Collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with us.
Information You Provide Directly
- Your name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Mailing or billing address
- Wedding or event date
- Event venue and location
- Information about your partner, family members, children, guests, or other participants
- Photography preferences, plans, timelines, and questionnaire responses
- Budget or anticipated photography investment
- Referral information
- Messages, inquiries, testimonials, reviews, and other correspondence
- Contract, invoice, scheduling, and transaction information
- Image selections, album preferences, print orders, and gallery activity
- Email subscription and marketing preferences
- Any other information you choose to provide
Please obtain permission before submitting personal information about another person. If you provide information about another individual, you represent that you are authorized to do so.
Photographs and Creative Materials
When you engage us for photography services, we may create, receive, process, edit, store, archive, deliver, and otherwise handle photographs, video clips, audio, written materials, and other creative content related to your session or event.
Our rights to display, publish, license, or otherwise use client photographs are governed by the applicable photography agreement, model release, or other written authorization. This Privacy Policy does not independently grant us rights beyond those agreements.
Payment Information
Payments may be processed through third-party payment processors. Depending on the service used, we may receive limited transaction information, such as your name, billing address, payment status, transaction amount, and the last digits of a payment card.
We generally do not directly receive or store complete credit or debit card numbers. Payment information submitted to a payment processor is subject to that provider’s privacy policy and security practices.
Information Collected Automatically
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Referring and exit pages
- Pages viewed and links selected
- Date, time, and duration of visits
- Approximate geographic location
- Device identifiers
- Cookie and similar technology information
- Website interaction and performance data
This information may be collected through cookies, pixels, tags, analytics tools, embedded content, and similar technologies.
2. How We Use Information
- Respond to inquiries and communicate with prospective clients
- Determine availability and prepare proposals
- Provide, personalize, and manage photography services
- Create and maintain client records
- Prepare contracts, invoices, questionnaires, timelines, and schedules
- Process payments and fulfill purchases
- Photograph and document sessions, weddings, and events
- Edit, store, archive, organize, and deliver images
- Create galleries, albums, prints, and other products
- Provide customer service and technical assistance
- Send administrative messages and service-related communications
- Send newsletters, announcements, educational content, and promotional emails when permitted by law
- Remember preferences and improve the client experience
- Maintain, analyze, secure, and improve the Website
- Detect fraud, misuse, security incidents, or unlawful activity
- Maintain business, tax, accounting, insurance, and legal records
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
- Comply with contracts, court orders, and legal obligations
- Protect our rights, property, clients, personnel, and the public
- Complete a business restructuring, sale, or transfer
- Carry out another purpose disclosed when the information is collected or with your consent
3. Client-Management and Gallery Services
We may use third-party platforms to manage inquiries, client communications, scheduling, contracts, invoices, questionnaires, workflows, image galleries, album designs, product orders, and delivery.
Information you provide may be stored or processed through these platforms on our behalf. Those providers are permitted to process information as necessary to perform their services and are subject to their own contractual obligations and privacy practices.
If you access a password-protected gallery, you are responsible for protecting the gallery link, password, download PIN, and other access credentials. Please share gallery access only with people whom you authorize to view or download the images.
We are not responsible for another person’s use, copying, downloading, publication, or distribution of images when that person received access through a link, password, PIN, or permission provided by you.
4. Email Communications
- Responses to inquiries
- Proposals and booking information
- Contracts and invoices
- Session or event preparation materials
- Scheduling notices and reminders
- Gallery and product updates
- Other communications related to an existing or requested service
If you subscribe to marketing communications, or when otherwise permitted by law, we may also send newsletters, promotions, studio announcements, and information about our services.
You may unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the message or contacting us. Unsubscribing from marketing emails will not prevent us from sending necessary communications concerning an inquiry, contract, transaction, gallery, order, or existing client relationship.
We do not sell or rent email addresses to third parties for their independent marketing purposes.
7. When We Disclose Information
- Website hosting and design providers
- Client-management and scheduling platforms
- Email and communication providers
- Cloud-storage and file-transfer providers
- Online gallery and album-design providers
- Photo laboratories, printers, album makers, and fulfillment partners
- Payment processors and financial institutions
- Bookkeepers, accountants, attorneys, insurers, and professional advisers
- Contractors, employees, editors, photographers, assistants, and other members of our production team
- Analytics, security, fraud-prevention, and technology providers
- Government agencies, regulators, courts, or law enforcement when required or permitted by law
- A buyer, successor, lender, or adviser involved in a merger, sale, financing, reorganization, or transfer of all or part of the business
- At your direction or with your consent
- To fulfill a request or transaction
- To enforce our agreements
- To protect our legal rights, safety, property, clients, or others
- When we reasonably believe disclosure is required to comply with applicable law or legal process
We may use or disclose aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
8. Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
We do not sell personal information for money.
Some privacy laws define “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” broadly enough to include certain uses of advertising cookies or pixels. If we engage in activity subject to those definitions, we will provide any notices and choices required by applicable law.
9. Data Retention
- Provide services and fulfill orders
- Maintain client and business records
- Preserve photography archives and order histories
- Meet accounting, tax, insurance, contractual, and legal obligations
- Resolve disputes and enforce agreements
- Maintain security and prevent fraud
Different types of information may be retained for different periods. Photographs and project files may be preserved as part of our professional archive, subject to our contract and storage policies. We do not guarantee permanent storage or archival preservation unless expressly stated in a written agreement.
When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it, subject to legal and operational requirements.
10. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, email account, electronic transmission, cloud-storage system, or digital database is completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee absolute security or that information will never be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed without authorization.
You are responsible for using secure devices and networks and for protecting any passwords, gallery links, download PINs, or account credentials provided to you.
If we become aware of a data breach affecting information covered by applicable breach-notification law, we will provide legally required notices.
11. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
- Confirm whether we hold personal information about you
- Provide access to certain personal information
- Correct inaccurate information
- Delete certain information
- Restrict or object to certain uses
- Provide a portable copy of certain information
- Withdraw consent when processing is based on consent
- Stop sending promotional communications
These rights are not absolute. We may retain information when reasonably necessary to complete a transaction, provide requested services, comply with legal obligations, maintain business records, preserve evidence, enforce agreements, protect legal rights, or exercise another lawful exception.
To make a request, contact us using the information below. We may need to verify your identity and authority before completing it. Authorized agents may be required to provide proof of authorization.
We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.
12. Information Concerning Children
Our Website is intended for adults and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly use the Website to collect personal information directly from children under 13 without legally required parental consent.
Parents or legal guardians may provide information concerning their children when arranging family, newborn, portrait, or event photography. In those circumstances, we treat the parent or guardian as the person authorized to provide that information and make decisions concerning the child’s participation.
If you believe a child under 13 submitted personal information directly to us through the Website without appropriate parental consent, please contact us so we can review and, when required, delete the information.
13. Photography Featuring Minors
Images of children may be created as part of contracted photography services. The creation, delivery, display, publication, and promotional use of those images are governed by the applicable photography agreement, model release, and parental or guardian authorization.
Parents and guardians are responsible for determining who may receive gallery access and for supervising the downloading, sharing, or publication of images featuring their children.
14. Visitors Outside the United States
We are based in Pennsylvania, United States. If you access the Website or provide information from another country, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or another location where our service providers operate.
Those locations may have privacy laws different from those in your country. When required, we will process personal information under an appropriate lawful basis and use legally recognized safeguards.
15. Do Not Track and Browser Privacy Signals
Some browsers transmit “Do Not Track” signals. Because there is not a universally accepted standard for responding to those signals, the Website may not respond to them in every circumstance.
Where applicable law requires recognition of a browser-based opt-out preference signal, we will process that signal as legally required.
16. Third-Party Websites and Services
The Website may link to websites, galleries, payment pages, social-media platforms, or other services that we do not own or control. Their privacy policies govern information submitted directly to them.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of each third-party service you use. We are not responsible for the content, availability, security, or privacy practices of third parties.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our services, technologies, business practices, or legal obligations.
The “Last Updated” date at the top indicates when the policy was most recently revised. Updated policies become effective when posted unless a different effective date is stated. Your continued use of the Website after an update is subject to the revised policy.
If a change materially affects how we use previously collected personal information, we will provide any additional notice or obtain any consent required by law.
18. Contact Us
For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact:
Sarah DiCicco Photography
Attn: Privacy
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: (610) 348-2199
Mailing Address: 337 West Lancaster Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087
Website: www.sarahdicicco.com