Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 1, 2026

Lighting Moments Photography LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, safeguard, and disclose your information when you visit our website or use our photography services in Chicago, Illinois, and the surrounding areas.

Information We Collect

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when inquiring about or booking our services. This may include:

Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, and mailing address.
Event Details: Dates, locations, and specific requests regarding your portrait session or event.
Photographs: Images captured during your contracted photography session.
Payment Information: Billing details necessary to process invoices (note: we use secure third-party payment processors and do not directly store your credit card numbers).
Website Data: Information submitted through our website contact forms, as well as basic, anonymized analytics data (such as browser type or device) used to improve site performance.

How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following business purposes:

To communicate with you regarding inquiries, bookings, scheduling, and delivering your final digital galleries.
To fulfill our contractual obligations and provide professional photography services.
To process payments and send invoices.
To manage our internal business operations and maintain client records.

Image Usage and Marketing

As a photography business, images are our primary work product.

Private Delivery: Photographs are processed, edited, and securely delivered to you via private digital galleries.
Marketing and Portfolio: We rely on showcasing our work to grow our business. We may use selected photographs from your session for our website portfolio, social media, and promotional materials only if you have signed a separate Model Release or standard contract granting us permission to do so. We will never sell your photographs to third-party stock image websites without your explicit, written consent.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties. We only share your data with trusted service providers necessary to operate our business, including:

Website Hosting: Platforms handling our site architecture and contact form submissions.
Client Management & Galleries: Software used to deliver your high-resolution images and manage contracts.
Payment Processors: Secure gateways used to handle financial transactions.

These third parties are bound by their own privacy policies to protect your data and are strictly prohibited from using your information for any other purpose.

Data Security

We implement reasonable administrative and technical security measures to protect your personal information and digital photographs from unauthorized access, disclosure, or destruction. Digital galleries are securely backed up, and access to client files is restricted. 6. Illinois Privacy Rights

Operating within Chicago, Illinois, we comply with applicable state data protection regulations, including the Illinois Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). We pledge to notify you promptly in the highly unlikely event of a data breach that compromises your sensitive personal information. 7. Your Rights Regarding Your Data

You have the right to:

Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
Request corrections to any inaccurate contact information.
Request the deletion of your personal data or removal of your images from our public portfolio or social media channels (subject to the terms of your signed contract/model release).

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our business practices or legal requirements. Any updates will be posted on our website with a revised Effective Date. If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how your data is handled, please contact us at:

Lighting Moments Photography LLC Chicago, Illinois

[email protected]