Privacy Notice

Information you choose to send

Our contact form asks for your name, email address, subject, and message. A studio submission can also include the studio name, website, location, your relationship to it, and the details or correction you want us to review. Requests for photography updates include your email address.

Only send information needed for your request. Do not include passwords, payment-card information, identity documents, or other sensitive personal information in these forms.

Why we use it

We use contact and submission information to respond, research corrections, and maintain the studio directory. Public studio details you submit may be used in a listing; your contact email is for follow-up.

A request for photography updates gives us permission to contact you about that topic. You can withdraw that request through our contact page. A form confirmation means the request was accepted by the form service; it does not confirm an automated mailing-list subscription.

Forms, hosting, and external links

Our forms send the information you enter to the form service at submit-form.com (Formspark). Hosting and form providers also receive technical request information, such as an IP address and browser information, to deliver pages and process submissions.

Links to studio operators, retailers, and other resources lead to independently operated websites. Their privacy notices apply when you visit them. This website does not process payments for their services.

Your shortlist and browser storage

Adding a studio to your shortlist stores its identifier in your browser. The comparison tool does not send that shortlist to us. It stays on the device until you remove it or clear site data. Calculator inputs remain in the open calculator page and are not submitted through a form.

These pages do not load Google Analytics or advertising pixels. The Cookies & Browser Storage page explains local storage and lets you clear your shortlist and old cookie preferences. Your browser can also block or delete site data.

Processing and your choices

Where the GDPR applies, the appropriate basis depends on the request: consent for requested email updates, steps requested before entering a contract for relevant business inquiries, and legitimate interests in responding to general messages, maintaining accurate listings, and keeping the site secure. Legal obligations may require certain records to be retained.

You can browse the guides without submitting a form. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.

Retention and deletion requests

Contact and submission information should be kept only as long as needed to handle the request and any applicable record-keeping obligation. To ask what information is held about you or request deletion, use the contact page. Clearing browser storage does not delete a form submission.

Your locally saved shortlist remains until you remove it or clear site data. It is not synchronized to an account.

Security and breach notices

Forms are submitted to an HTTPS endpoint. No online service can promise that every transmission or stored record is free from risk. Please avoid sending sensitive information that is unnecessary for your request.

Where the GDPR requires a breach report, the relevant supervisory authority must be notified without undue delay and, where feasible, within 72 hours of awareness. Affected people must be informed without undue delay when the breach is likely to create a high risk to their rights and freedoms, subject to the applicable legal exceptions. These are different notification duties.

Your privacy rights

Depending on the law that applies and its conditions, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your information, restrict or object to processing, and withdraw consent. You can also complain to the relevant data protection authority.

Send a privacy request through the contact page and include enough information to identify the relevant message or submission. Further information may be needed to verify your identity; do not send identity documents unless they are specifically requested through an appropriate channel.

Changes to this notice

The date below identifies the latest revision of this notice. Changes to the forms, storage, or tracking used on these pages should be reflected here before those changes take effect.