Privacy Policy
Effective Date: January 21, 2023
Last Updated: July 23, 2026
Welcome to Indigo Sky Studios (“Indigo Sky Studios,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). We value your privacy and take reasonable steps to protect the personal information entrusted to us.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information obtained through our website, communications, and professional photography and videography services.
This Privacy Policy applies when you:
Visit our website.
Submit an inquiry or contact form.
Request pricing or availability.
Schedule a consultation.
Book our services.
Complete questionnaires or planning forms.
Sign agreements or submit payments.
Access online galleries or digital deliveries.
Communicate with us by email, telephone, text message, social media, or another method.
Otherwise interact with Indigo Sky Studios in connection with our services.
By using our website or providing information to us, you acknowledge that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with Indigo Sky Studios. We may collect information directly from you, automatically when you use our website, and in limited circumstances from other people or organizations involved with your event or project.
A. Information You Provide
When you contact us, request information, or use our services, you may provide information such as:
Name.
Email address.
Telephone number.
Mailing or billing address, where applicable.
Wedding, event, or session date.
Venue name and location.
Event details and guest count.
Photography or videography interests.
Budget or package preferences.
Wedding timelines and schedules.
Family photograph lists.
Wedding-party and vendor information.
Questionnaire responses.
Music preferences.
Editing or delivery requests.
Contract, invoice, and transaction-related information.
Communications exchanged with us.
Other information you choose to provide during the inquiry, planning, booking, or delivery process.
Providing personal information is voluntary. However, choosing not to provide certain information may prevent us from responding to an inquiry, completing a booking, or providing requested services.
B. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically through your browser, device, Squarespace, cookies, analytics services, or similar technologies.
This information may include:
Internet Protocol address.
Browser type and version.
Device type.
Operating system.
Pages viewed.
Date and time of a visit.
Time spent on pages.
Referring website or source.
Website navigation and interaction information.
Approximate location derived from an Internet Protocol address.
Cookie or device identifiers.
Diagnostic, security, and performance information.
This information helps us operate and secure the website, understand general website usage, identify technical problems, and improve the visitor experience.
C. Information Received from Others
In connection with an event or project, we may receive relevant information from other people or organizations, including:
Wedding planners and event coordinators.
Venues.
Family members or representatives acting on a client’s behalf.
Members of a wedding party.
Other event vendors.
Referral partners.
Payment processors.
Scheduling, contract, gallery, and delivery platforms.
For example, a wedding planner may provide an updated timeline, vendor list, venue instructions, or contact information needed to coordinate services.
We use information received from others only as reasonably necessary to communicate, coordinate an event, provide services, or operate our business.
2. How We Use Information
We may use personal information for purposes related to operating our website, responding to prospective clients, providing professional services, maintaining business records, and protecting our legal and operational interests.
These purposes may include:
Responding to Inquiries
Responding to questions and requests.
Providing pricing, package, and availability information.
Scheduling consultations.
Communicating before a booking decision is made.
Providing Photography and Videography Services
Planning, coordinating, and performing services.
Preparing agreements, invoices, questionnaires, timelines, and project documents.
Coordinating with clients, planners, coordinators, venues, and other vendors.
Creating, editing, and delivering photographs, videos, audio, galleries, albums, and related materials.
Processing editing, revision, or delivery requests.
Providing customer support.
Processing Transactions and Maintaining Records
Processing and verifying payments.
Managing bookings and accounts.
Maintaining accounting, tax, insurance, and transaction records.
Documenting project communications and service history.
Resolving disputes and enforcing agreements.
Operating and Improving Our Website and Business
Operating and maintaining our website.
Understanding general website traffic and usage.
Diagnosing technical issues.
Improving website content, functionality, services, and workflows.
Training authorized team members.
Maintaining security and preventing misuse.
Legal, Safety, and Fraud-Prevention Purposes
Complying with applicable laws and legal processes.
Responding to court orders, subpoenas, or lawful governmental requests.
Detecting and preventing fraud, unauthorized activity, or security incidents.
Protecting our rights, property, clients, personnel, vendors, or others.
Establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims.
We may also use information for another purpose that is reasonably compatible with the purpose for which it was collected or with your authorization.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to provide essential website functions, remember visitor preferences, measure website performance, maintain security, and understand general website usage.
Cookies are small files placed on a device when a person visits a website. Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, and related website technologies.
Essential Technologies
Essential cookies and similar technologies may be used to:
Operate core website features.
Maintain website security.
Remember cookie selections or other preferences.
Support website reliability and performance.
Prevent fraud or misuse.
Because these technologies are necessary for website operation, they may remain active even when a visitor declines optional cookies.
Functional Technologies
Functional technologies may support optional website features or remember selections that improve the visitor experience.
Disabling functional technologies may affect certain website features.
Analytics and Performance Technologies
We may use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to understand general website usage and performance.
These technologies may collect information such as:
Pages viewed.
Approximate visit duration.
Navigation patterns.
Referring sources.
Browser and device information.
General interaction and performance data.
We use this information to evaluate website performance and improve our content, services, and visitor experience.
We do not use analytics information to sell personal information or to provide other businesses with personal information for their own independent marketing purposes.
Embedded and Third-Party Technologies
Our website may contain embedded videos, social-media features, maps, galleries, forms, or other content provided by third parties.
When you interact with third-party content, the provider may receive information such as your Internet Protocol address, browser or device information, cookie identifiers, and information about your interaction. Such information is governed by the third party’s own privacy practices.
Additional information about the technologies used on our website and your available choices is provided in our separate Cookie Policy.
Cookie Choices
You may accept, decline, or manage optional cookies through the cookie controls provided on our website.
You may also manage cookies through your browser or device settings. Disabling certain technologies may affect website functionality or performance.
Where our website’s consent controls require permission before activating non-essential cookies, those cookies will remain restricted unless the appropriate selection is made.
4. Do Not Track and Privacy Signals
Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting intended to communicate a visitor’s preference regarding certain forms of online tracking.
Because there is no universally accepted technical standard for interpreting traditional Do Not Track signals, our website does not currently respond differently to those signals.
You may instead manage optional cookies and analytics technologies through our website’s Cookie Preferences controls and your browser or device settings.
Our website and embedded third-party services may allow providers such as website-hosting, analytics, gallery, video-hosting, or form providers to collect information about your browser, device, and interactions with the website. These providers process information according to their own privacy policies and the services they provide to us.
We do not currently sell personal information or use personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. Accordingly, we do not currently maintain a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” process. If our practices or applicable legal obligations change, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any legally required privacy controls.
5. Service Providers and Business Partners
We use third-party providers to help operate our website, manage our business, and deliver services.
Depending on the service performed, these providers may receive or process information on our behalf.
Categories of providers may include:
Website-hosting and website-management providers.
Customer-relationship and project-management platforms.
Inquiry forms and scheduling services.
Contract and electronic-signature platforms.
Payment processors.
Accounting and bookkeeping providers.
Questionnaire and planning platforms.
Gallery-hosting and digital-delivery services.
Cloud-storage and backup providers.
Email and communication services.
Website analytics providers.
Editing and post-production providers.
Printing, album-production, and fulfillment companies.
Information-technology, security, and fraud-prevention providers.
We may also disclose relevant information to attorneys, accountants, tax professionals, insurers, auditors, or other professional advisers when reasonably necessary.
These providers receive information only as reasonably necessary to perform services for us, process transactions, fulfill products, maintain our systems, or comply with applicable obligations.
The providers we use may change as our technology and business needs evolve.
6. Coordination With Planners, Venues, and Other Vendors
When reasonably necessary to plan or coordinate an event, we may share limited client or project information with a wedding planner, event coordinator, venue, or another vendor involved with the event.
This information may include:
Client names and contact details.
Event dates and locations.
Timelines and schedules.
Vendor contact information.
Photography or videography logistics.
Relevant project instructions.
Selected photographs or other project materials.
For example, we may provide selected photographs to a wedding planner or collaborating vendor for event coordination, professional collaboration, or another client-authorized purpose.
We do not provide unrelated businesses with client information for their independent advertising or marketing. Public or promotional use of client photographs is governed by the applicable client agreement, release, authorization, or applicable law.
7. Photographs, Videos, Galleries, and Project Materials
As part of providing our services, we may create, receive, store, organize, edit, process, transmit, archive, and deliver:
Photographs.
Video recordings.
Audio recordings.
Drone footage, where applicable.
Raw or working project files.
Questionnaires and planning documents.
Timelines and schedules.
Editing notes.
Design proofs.
Album layouts.
Gallery selections.
Other project-related materials.
These materials may contain images, voices, names, likenesses, event details, or other information concerning clients, guests, vendors, and event participants.
Project materials may be processed through electronic-storage systems, editing software, cloud services, backup systems, gallery platforms, printing services, album-production providers, or other technologies reasonably necessary to provide our services.
Project materials may also be made accessible to authorized photographers, videographers, editors, assistants, or service providers when reasonably necessary to complete a project.
The ownership, licensing, portfolio use, delivery, revision rights, download periods, and availability of project materials are governed primarily by the applicable client agreement and any related written authorization.
8. Payments
Payments may be processed by third-party payment providers.
Indigo Sky Studios does not intentionally receive or store complete payment-card numbers, card-security codes, or full payment credentials through its website. Payment credentials are submitted to and processed by the applicable payment provider.
Payment providers may collect information including:
Name.
Billing address.
Payment credentials.
Transaction information.
Fraud-prevention and device information.
We may receive limited transaction information, such as payment status, transaction identifiers, billing details, and confirmation records, for booking, accounting, customer-service, legal, and recordkeeping purposes.
Payment information is subject to the privacy and security practices of the applicable payment provider.
9. Communications
We may communicate with prospective and existing clients through email, telephone, text message, postal mail, social media, online messaging services, or another reasonable communication method.
Communications may include:
Responses to inquiries.
Pricing and availability information.
Consultation scheduling.
Booking confirmations.
Agreements and invoices.
Questionnaires and planning documents.
Project updates.
Payment reminders.
Gallery and delivery notifications.
Customer-service messages.
Where permitted by law, we may occasionally send promotional information concerning our services or business updates. You may opt out of promotional email communications by following the instructions in the message or contacting us.
Opting out of promotional communications does not prevent us from sending transactional, project-related, legal, or service communications.
10. When We Disclose Information
We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information.
We also do not disclose personal information to third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising or for unrelated third parties’ independent marketing purposes.
We may disclose personal information in the following circumstances:
Service Providers
We may provide information to service providers acting on our behalf, as described in this Privacy Policy.
Event Coordination and Collaboration
We may share limited information or project materials with planners, coordinators, venues, vendors, or other project participants when reasonably necessary for event coordination, service delivery, collaboration, or a client-authorized purpose.
Legal and Safety Purposes
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
Comply with applicable laws or legal processes.
Respond to lawful governmental requests.
Enforce an agreement or protect our legal rights.
Prevent or investigate fraud, misuse, security incidents, or unlawful activity.
Protect the safety, property, or rights of Indigo Sky Studios or others.
Business Transactions
Information may be transferred in connection with a potential or completed sale, merger, financing, reorganization, transfer of assets, or similar business transaction, subject to applicable law and appropriate confidentiality protections.
11. California Privacy Information
Indigo Sky Studios is a small business and does not currently represent that it is subject to every provision of the California Consumer Privacy Act.
California residents may nevertheless have rights under laws that apply to our activities and the circumstances surrounding the collection and use of their information.
Where required by applicable law, these rights may include the right to:
Request information concerning certain personal information we maintain.
Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
Request deletion of certain personal information, subject to applicable exceptions.
Receive information concerning certain collection and disclosure practices.
Exercise applicable privacy rights without unlawful discrimination.
We do not sell personal information or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
To submit a privacy inquiry or request, email contact@indigoskystudios.com.
We may request information reasonably necessary to verify your identity, authority, or connection to the information involved. We will review and respond to requests as required by applicable law.
12. Reviewing or Correcting Information
You may contact us at contact@indigoskystudios.com to request that we review or correct personal information you previously provided through our website.
We may need to verify your identity before making a change. We may also retain certain information where reasonably necessary to fulfill a contract, maintain business records, resolve a dispute, comply with applicable law, protect legal rights, or preserve accurate transaction and project records.
13. Data Retention
We retain different categories of information for different periods based on:
The purpose for which the information was collected.
The nature and duration of our relationship with you.
Contractual requirements.
Project-delivery and archival practices.
Tax, accounting, insurance, and recordkeeping obligations.
Applicable limitation periods.
Fraud-prevention and security needs.
Potential or actual disputes.
Other legitimate business or legal purposes.
When determining an appropriate retention period, we may consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the purposes for which it is processed, the risk associated with unauthorized use or disclosure, and applicable legal requirements.
Photographs, videos, audio, galleries, agreements, invoices, questionnaires, communications, and other project materials may be retained according to the client agreement, our archival practices, and legitimate business or legal needs.
We may delete, de-identify, or anonymize information when it is no longer reasonably necessary, subject to applicable law and contractual obligations.
14. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
These measures may include password-protected systems, access limitations, secured service providers, backup practices, and other safeguards appropriate to the nature of our operations.
No Internet transmission, electronic-storage system, cloud service, or security method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee the absolute security of information.
Please use appropriate caution when sending sensitive or confidential information electronically.
15. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are intended for individuals who are at least 18 years old or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction.
We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 through our website.
If we learn that a child under 13 provided personal information directly through our website without legally required authorization, we may take reasonable steps to delete or otherwise address the information.
Nothing in this section restricts the lawful creation, editing, delivery, storage, or authorized use of photographs, videos, or audio recordings containing minors when captured as part of an event or professional photography or videography service.
A parent, guardian, or other person who believes a child has submitted personal information directly through the website may contact us at contact@indigoskystudios.com.
16. Third-Party Links and Embedded Content
Our website may contain links to or embedded content from third-party websites and services, including:
Social-media platforms.
Online galleries.
Video-hosting providers.
Maps.
Payment services.
Scheduling or inquiry platforms.
Review websites.
Other external resources.
Third-party content may function as though you visited the provider’s website directly. The provider may collect information about your browser, device, cookies, or interactions.
We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third-party websites or services.
You should review the privacy policies and terms of third-party services before interacting with them or submitting information.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our website, services, technology, business practices, or legal obligations.
When we update the policy, we will post the revised version on this page and update the “Last Updated” date at the top.
If a change materially affects how we collect, use, or disclose personal information, we may provide additional notice through the website, cookie banner or preference controls, email, or another reasonable method where appropriate or required by applicable law.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
18. Contact Information
Questions, correction requests, and other privacy-related inquiries may be directed to:
Indigo Sky Studios
3050 Fite Circle
Sacramento, California 95827
Email: contact@indigoskystudios.com
Telephone: (916) 460-2830
Website: www.indigoskystudios.com
We will make reasonable efforts to review and respond to privacy inquiries within a reasonable period, subject to applicable law and the nature of the request.