PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: June 1, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a booking inquiry through this website (the "Site").

1. Personal Information We Collect

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site.

When you voluntarily submit a contact form, booking inquiry, or subscribe to a newsletter on our Site, we collect specific information from you, including:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Event, project, or session details (e.g., dates, locations)

2. How We Use Your Personal Information

We use the information we collect generally to fulfill any inquiries or bookings placed through the Site. Additionally, we use this personal information to:

  • Communicate directly with you regarding photography services, scheduling, and contracts.
  • Provide you with invoices, contract links, and digital photo gallery deliveries.
  • When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our photography services or studio updates.
  • Screen our inquiries for potential risk or fraud.
  • Optimize and improve our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our clients browse and interact with the Site).

3. Sharing Your Personal Information

We value your privacy. We do not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to third parties. We only share your personal information with trusted third-party service providers to help us use your personal information as described above. For example:

  • We use Pixieset to host our website and client galleries.
  • We use standard analytics tools (like Google Analytics) to help us understand how our visitors use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

4. Image Ownership & Model Releases

Photography naturally involves the collection of visual data (your likeness). The usage, display, and hosting of client imagery on this website, social media, or marketing materials are strictly governed by individual Model Releases and Photography Service Contracts signed by clients prior to their sessions. We do not publicly display images of clients without prior contractual consent.

5. Your Rights (Connecticut Data Privacy Act - CTDPA)

If you are a resident of Connecticut, you have specific rights regarding your personal data under state law, including:

  • The Right to Access: You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  • The Right to Correct: You may request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
  • The Right to Delete: You may request that we delete the personal data we have collected from you (subject to certain legal, tax, or business contractual record-keeping obligations).

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us directly via the email listed below.

6. Data Retention

When you submit a contact form or book a session through the Site, we will maintain your Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

7. Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

8. Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a request regarding your data, please contact us by mail or email at:

Dariusz Terepka Photography Attn: Privacy Compliance

dariusz@bestinct.com

199 Elm St, Fairfield, CT 06824