SELF. STUDIOS NYC
This Privacy Policy explains how SELF. Studios NYC collects, uses, stores, and shares information when you use our website, contact us, or interact with our services.
Last updated: August 21, 2026
SELF. Studios NYC may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you use our website, contact us, request information, request a quote, or book or participate in a session.
This may include your name, email address, telephone number, booking information, messages, session details, payment-related information handled through our service providers, and other information you choose to provide.
We may use information to respond to inquiries, manage bookings, provide customer service, prepare sessions, deliver photographs or galleries, coordinate prints or retouching, provide quotes, communicate about services, and operate SELF. Studios NYC.
We may also use information as reasonably necessary to maintain, secure, troubleshoot, monitor, and improve our website and business systems.
When you submit our contact form, the information you enter is transmitted to SELF. so that we can review and respond to your request.
We may send a confirmation to the email address you provide.
Our website also uses anti-spam and security measures designed to identify automated, fraudulent, duplicate, or abusive submissions.
These systems may process technical information such as an IP address, submission timing, and other information reasonably necessary to protect the form and website.
SELF. may use third-party providers for scheduling, payments, website hosting, email delivery, galleries, analytics, security, and other business functions.
When you interact directly with a third-party service, information you provide may also be processed according to that provider's own privacy practices and terms.
Photographs and other session content may be processed, transferred, stored, and accessed as reasonably necessary to provide the SELF. experience and related services.
This may include image capture, temporary storage, gallery delivery, downloading, retouching, printing, backups, customer service, and technical support.
The length of time photographs remain available may depend on the service, gallery, booking agreement, or applicable Studio Policy.
Booking or participating in a SELF. session does not, by itself, grant SELF. permission to publicly use your likeness or session photographs for advertising, portfolio, social media, or other promotional purposes.
Any permission for promotional use may be addressed separately through an applicable model release, photography release, booking agreement, or other authorization.
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies that support necessary website functionality, security, preferences, performance, and other website operations.
We may also use analytics, advertising, or other third-party technologies if those services are added to the website.
The specific technologies used by SELF. may change as the website develops. Any privacy choices or controls we make available are intended to accurately reflect how the website is configured at that time.
You may also be able to manage certain cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some technologies may affect website functionality.
Our website, hosting provider, security systems, or other service providers may automatically receive technical information when you access the site.
This may include IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, referring page, requested pages, date and time information, and general website activity.
This information may be used for security, fraud prevention, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, analytics, and website administration.
SELF. may use service providers to operate parts of our business, including website hosting, email, scheduling, payment processing, galleries, storage, security, and other technical services.
As a result, information may be processed or stored on systems located outside New York or in another jurisdiction where a service provider operates.
We select and use service providers based on the services reasonably necessary to operate SELF. and take appropriate steps to protect information under our control.
SELF. does not sell personal information in exchange for money.
We may disclose information to service providers when reasonably necessary to operate the website, process bookings, provide photography services, deliver galleries, process payments, send email, maintain security, provide technical support, or conduct normal business operations.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, legal process, enforce agreements, investigate fraud or security issues, or protect SELF., our clients, our property, or others.
SELF. may disclose information when required to do so by applicable law, court order, subpoena, legal process, or another lawful governmental request.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to protect legal rights, investigate suspected fraud, enforce agreements, or address security concerns.
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and for legitimate business, accounting, contractual, security, dispute-resolution, or legal purposes.
Different information may have different retention periods.
Session photographs and galleries may also be subject to retention periods described in your booking terms or Studio Policy.
SELF. takes reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures designed to protect information under our control from unauthorized access, use, alteration, loss, or disclosure.
We also evaluate the systems and service providers used to operate our website and business as appropriate for the nature of the information involved.
No website, network, email system, storage system, or electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
If SELF. becomes aware of a security incident involving information under our control, we may investigate the incident, take appropriate corrective measures, and provide notifications when required by applicable law.
SELF. provides photography experiences that may include children and teenagers.
A parent, legal guardian, or other properly authorized adult is responsible for making or authorizing bookings for minors when required and for providing any required consent or release.
Our website is not intended to knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 acting independently.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information to us without appropriate authorization, please contact SELF.
You may contact SELF. to ask about personal information you previously provided to us or to request that information be corrected or deleted.
We will review requests based on the information we control and applicable legal and business requirements.
We may need to verify your identity before acting on certain requests.
Some information may need to be retained for legitimate business, accounting, security, contractual, dispute-resolution, or legal purposes.
If SELF. Studios NYC is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale, reorganization, financing, or transfer of all or part of the business, information associated with the business may be transferred as part of that transaction.
Any personal information transferred in that situation would remain subject to applicable law and the privacy commitments that apply to it.
Our website may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.
SELF. does not control the privacy practices of independent third-party websites. Their privacy policies apply when you interact directly with those services.
When you opt in to receive text messages from SELF. Studios NYC, we may send you transactional messages related to your booking, including Studio Use Agreement notifications, appointment reminders, and other service-related updates.
Message frequency varies based on your booking and agreement status. Message and data rates may apply.
You may reply STOP at any time to opt out of text messages or reply HELP for assistance.
Mobile information will not be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Your mobile number and SMS consent information will not be sold, rented, or shared with third parties for their own marketing purposes.
Consent to receive SMS messages is not a condition of purchase.
We may update this Privacy Policy as our website, services, technology, vendors, or business practices change.
The current version will be posted on this page with its updated revision date.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or information you previously provided, contact SELF. Studios NYC through our Contact page.
CONTACT SELF.