PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: September 3, 2026

Sam Clayton Photography respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.

Sam Clayton Photography is a brand of Twenty Four North Media Group LLC (“Sam Clayton Photography,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit www.samclaytonphoto.com, contact us, submit a project inquiry, or otherwise interact with our services.

By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us as well as certain information automatically generated when you use our website.

Information You Provide

When you submit an inquiry, request a quote, contact us, or engage Sam Clayton Photography for a project, we may collect information such as:

  • Name

  • Company or organization

  • Job title

  • Email address

  • Telephone number

  • Project name

  • Project location

  • Property address

  • Project type

  • Requested photography services

  • Intended image usage

  • Requested project dates or deadlines

  • Billing information

  • Information about project partners or other intended image licensees

  • Any other information you voluntarily provide

We ask that you avoid submitting sensitive personal information through website forms unless it is reasonably necessary for the requested service.

2. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, analytics tools, server logs, and similar technologies.

This information may include:

  • Internet Protocol (IP) address

  • Browser type

  • Device type

  • Operating system

  • General geographic location

  • Referring website

  • Pages viewed

  • Time spent on pages

  • Links clicked

  • Date and time of visits

  • General website interaction information

This information helps us understand how visitors use the website and allows us to improve its performance, content, and user experience.

3. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to operate properly, remember preferences, understand website traffic, and evaluate website performance.

Cookies are small data files stored on your device by your web browser.

Cookies may be used for purposes including:

  • Basic website functionality

  • Website security

  • Analytics

  • Performance measurement

  • Remembering visitor preferences

  • Understanding how visitors find and interact with our website

  • Measuring the effectiveness of marketing efforts

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings.

Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality or performance of portions of the website.

Where required by applicable law, additional consent may be requested before certain non-essential cookies are used.

4. ANALYTICS

We may use website analytics services provided by our website platform or third-party providers to understand how visitors interact with samclaytonphoto.com.

Analytics information may help us understand:

  • How visitors reach our website

  • Which pages receive the most traffic

  • General geographic areas of visitors

  • Devices and browsers used

  • How visitors navigate through the website

  • Which content generates inquiries

Analytics information is generally used to improve the website, evaluate marketing performance, and better understand our audience.

5. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use information collected through the website or during our business relationship to:

  • Respond to inquiries

  • Prepare estimates and proposals

  • Schedule photography projects

  • Communicate regarding projects

  • Provide photography and related services

  • Deliver completed work

  • Administer image licenses

  • Process invoices and payments

  • Maintain client and project records

  • Provide customer service

  • Coordinate with authorized project participants

  • Improve our website and services

  • Understand website performance

  • Protect against fraud, abuse, and security threats

  • Comply with legal and regulatory requirements

  • Enforce our agreements and intellectual property rights

  • Maintain appropriate business and accounting records

  • Send business or marketing communications where permitted by law

We do not use personal information for purposes materially unrelated to those described in this Privacy Policy without an appropriate legal basis or additional notice when required.

6. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

We do not sell personal information in the ordinary course of our business.

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to operate our business or provide requested services.

This may include sharing information with service providers that assist us with:

  • Website hosting

  • Website analytics

  • Email

  • Customer communication

  • Scheduling

  • Cloud storage

  • Photography delivery

  • Online galleries

  • Client management

  • Accounting

  • Invoicing

  • Payment processing

  • Marketing

  • Information technology

  • Data security

These providers may process information on our behalf as necessary to provide their services.

We may also disclose information when:

  • You direct or authorize us to do so;

  • It is reasonably necessary to complete a project;

  • We are required to comply with applicable law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other legal process;

  • We reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to protect our legal rights, property, customers, business, or safety;

  • It is necessary to investigate suspected fraud, abuse, or security incidents; or

  • Twenty Four North Media Group LLC is involved in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar business transaction.

7. PROJECT INFORMATION

Photography assignments may involve information concerning properties, businesses, architects, designers, builders, owners, management companies, hotel operators, developers, retailers, or other project participants.

We may retain reasonable project information for purposes including:

  • Project administration

  • Scheduling

  • Invoicing

  • Photography delivery

  • Licensing

  • Copyright management

  • Recordkeeping

  • Future client service

Information marked confidential or subject to an agreed embargo will be handled in accordance with the applicable project agreement.

Clients should notify Sam Clayton Photography before a project begins if the project is confidential, not yet publicly announced, subject to an embargo, or otherwise requires special handling.

8. PHOTOGRAPHS AND PORTFOLIO USE

Photographs created by Sam Clayton Photography may be displayed in our portfolio, website, social media, marketing materials, professional publications, awards, presentations, and promotional materials as permitted by the applicable project agreement and Terms & Conditions.

If confidentiality, privacy, security, or publication restrictions apply to a particular project, those restrictions should be communicated and agreed upon in writing before photography begins.

Photography containing identifiable individuals may also be subject to applicable releases, project agreements, and usage permissions.

9. PAYMENT INFORMATION

If you make payments for Sam Clayton Photography services, payment information may be processed by a third-party payment processor.

Sam Clayton Photography does not necessarily receive or retain complete payment-card information such as your full credit card number.

Payment processors maintain their own privacy and security practices, and information provided directly to those services may be governed by their respective privacy policies.

10. EMAIL AND MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

If you provide your email address, we may use it to communicate with you regarding:

  • Project inquiries

  • Estimates

  • Proposals

  • Active photography projects

  • Image delivery

  • Licensing

  • Billing

  • Customer service

  • Relevant services

  • Occasional company updates or marketing communications

Where required, marketing communications will include a way to unsubscribe.

You may request to stop receiving marketing emails at any time.

Transactional or project-related communications may continue when necessary to provide services or administer an existing business relationship.

11. THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, publications, galleries, booking services, or other external resources.

Sam Clayton Photography does not control the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites.

Visiting an external website is subject to that website's own terms and privacy practices.

We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of third-party services they choose to use.

12. SOCIAL MEDIA

Sam Clayton Photography may maintain profiles on third-party social media platforms.

If you interact with us through a social media platform, that platform may collect and process information according to its own privacy policy.

Information you publicly share through social media may be visible to others.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party social networks.

13. DATA SECURITY

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, internet transmission, electronic storage system, or method of communication can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Accordingly, we cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted or stored electronically.

14. DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and for legitimate business purposes.

Retention periods may depend on factors such as:

  • The nature of our relationship with you

  • Project and licensing records

  • Accounting requirements

  • Tax obligations

  • Contractual obligations

  • Copyright administration

  • Dispute resolution

  • Legal requirements

  • Business recordkeeping needs

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it where appropriate.

15. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

This website and our professional photography services are not directed toward children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information online directly from children under 13 through this website.

If we learn that information has been collected from a child in a manner inconsistent with applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Photography assignments involving minors may be subject to separate parental or guardian consent and model-release requirements.

16. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

These may include rights to request:

  • Access to personal information we maintain about you

  • Correction of inaccurate information

  • Deletion of certain personal information

  • Information about how your personal information is used

  • Information regarding certain disclosures of personal information

  • Withdrawal of consent where processing is based on consent

  • Opt-out from certain marketing communications

  • Other rights provided by applicable privacy laws

Not all rights apply in every jurisdiction or circumstance.

We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.

To submit a privacy request, contact us using the information listed below.

17. DO NOT SELL OR SHARE

Sam Clayton Photography does not sell personal information for money in the ordinary course of business.

If our practices change in a manner that triggers additional notice, consent, opt-out, or other obligations under applicable privacy laws, this Privacy Policy and our website practices will be updated as appropriate.

18. VISITORS FROM OUTSIDE MICHIGAN

Sam Clayton Photography is based in Michigan and provides services in Michigan and other locations.

Visitors to our website may reside in jurisdictions with privacy laws that provide additional rights.

Where an applicable privacy law applies to Sam Clayton Photography and provides you with additional rights, we will process qualifying requests in accordance with that law.

19. INTERNATIONAL VISITORS

Our website may be accessed from outside the United States.

If you provide personal information through the website, your information may be processed and stored in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those locations may differ from those in your country of residence.

Where legally required, appropriate safeguards will be used for applicable international data transfers.

20. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our services, technology, business practices, legal requirements, or website functionality.

The date at the top of this page indicates when the Privacy Policy was most recently updated.

Material changes may be communicated through the website or through another appropriate method where required.

Continued use of the website after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective is subject to the revised policy.

21. CONTACT US

Questions, concerns, or requests relating to this Privacy Policy or personal information may be directed to:

Sam Clayton Photography
A brand of Twenty Four North Media Group LLC
Lake Orion, Michigan

Website: www.samclaytonphoto.com
Email: admin@samclaytonphoto.com
Phone: (947) 622-8612

Please include “Privacy Request” in the subject line when contacting us regarding personal information.