Privacy policy

Sempre Photography Inc. (“Sempre”, “we”, “us”) photographs guests at restaurants and private events in New York City and gives them printed keepsakes. This policy explains what personal information we collect, why, and the choices you have.

It applies to guests we photograph, visitors to semprephoto.com, people who contact us, and people who apply to work with us. It does not cover the restaurants and venues where we work; they have their own policies.

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We only photograph guests who agree. Our photographer asks first, and moves on if you say no.

What we keep

The photos taken at your table, the date, the venue, and a gallery code printed on your postcard. We do not use facial recognition and we do not ask for your name to take a photo.

Editing and AI

We edit photos with Sempre’s own software. Some edits are made by an AI image service, which receives the photo to make that edit. We do not use your photos to train AI models, and we do not give them to third parties for that purpose.

Your online gallery

Your photos are kept in a private online gallery that only people with your code can open. The gallery and its photos are deleted 7 days after the evening they were taken. Download anything you want to keep before then. Photos you have bought and downloaded are yours to keep.

Marketing use only with your written permission

We never use a photo of you to promote Sempre (on our website, Instagram or other channels) unless you have given us written permission, for example by signing a short release. You can withdraw that permission at any time by writing to us; we will remove the photo from our channels within 7 days.

Restaurants and venues

The restaurant where you were photographed does not receive your photos. It may only use a photo of you if you have given written permission for that use as well.

Children

We photograph children only with a parent or guardian at the table and with their agreement. We never use photos of children for marketing.

Removing your photos early

Write to contact@semprephoto.com with the venue, the date and your gallery link, and we will delete your photos within 48 hours.

When you write to us

Your name, your email address, your phone number if you give it, what you write, and what you tell us about your restaurant or your event.

When you apply to work with us

Your name, your email address, your phone number, where you live, a link to your portfolio if you give one, and what you tell us about yourself.

When you buy your photos

Square, our payment processor, takes the payment and collects your card details and the email address your receipt goes to; your card number never reaches us. We keep the order number, the amount, the tax and the receipt number.

When you visit our site or your gallery

Our servers note the address of your connection and the pages requested, as every web server does, to keep the site working and to stop abuse. We use no advertising cookies and no analytics trackers.

We do not collect sensitive information such as government ID numbers, and we do not buy personal information from other companies.

We use your information only to take and deliver your photos, run our business, answer you, and meet our legal obligations. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising.

We share information only with:

• Service providers that work for us under contract: our payment processor, the hosting of our gallery and website, the AI image service that makes some edits, and our email provider. They may use it only to provide their service to us.
• Restaurants and venues, which receive sales totals so we can pay their share. They do not receive your photos, name or contact details, unless you give written permission.
• Authorities, when the law requires it, or to protect our rights, our staff or our guests.
• A buyer of our business, if Sempre is ever sold or merged, under the same promises made in this policy.

How long we keep it

Guest galleries: 7 days. Website messages: up to 12 months after our last reply. Job applications: up to 12 months. Order and payment records: as long as tax and accounting law requires.

Security

Galleries are private and open only with your code. Access to personal information is limited to the people who need it for their work, and our providers use encrypted connections. If a breach affects you, we will notify you as New York law requires.

Your rights

You can ask us to show you, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you, or to withdraw a permission you gave. Write to contact@semprephoto.com. We answer within 30 days and may ask you to confirm who you are first.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will post the new version here with a new effective date. If a change affects how we use photos you have already given us permission for, we will ask again.

Questions

Sempre Photography Inc. · contact@semprephoto.com