At Apex Dream Visuals, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your data when you access our website, book our photography or videography services, or engage with us on social media.

By using this website, you agree to the terms outlined below. We may update this policy from time to time; changes are effective immediately upon posting. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically, whenever you utilize our products, website, and/or services for any purpose or engage with us on social media. You are deemed to have accepted any changes to any revised Privacy Policy by the continued use of our products, website, and/or services after the revised Privacy Policy is posted.

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:

• Information about your browser, network and any device (to include model, manufacturer, location, and/or device ID)

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Web pages you view while on this website

• Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.

1) INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Personal Data

We collect information you voluntarily provide, such as your name, email address, shipping and/or billing address, and phone number. This occurs when you:

• Register for an account or book a session.

• Sign up for our newsletter.

• Contact us with inquiries or participate in surveys/contests

Visitor & Order Data

As a Squarespace-hosted site, when you make a purchase or book a service, we collect additional details to fulfill your order, including:

• Billing and shipping addresses.

• Email address

• Name

• Phone number

• Specific and/or details relating to your purchase details (e.g., shoot locations, dates, or product preferences).

• Project scope for proposals, estimates, and contracts.

For proposals, estimates, contracts, shipping, invoices, and/or taxes

When you contact us, agree to a service, and/or purchase a physical product on this website, we collect personal information necessary from you to negotiate, draft, execute the service agreement, and/or ship the order to you. 

We use branded invoices to collect payments. We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide invoicing services to us. 

When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace as our commerce platform. Squarespace makes use of Stripe, a third-party service provider, to power automated tax calculations. 

For the above, we may collect information like your: 

• Billing and shipping address 

• Details relating to your purchase (for example, the product’s weight, project scope, line items, and/or Product Tax Codes for the items purchased) 

• Email address 

• Name 

• Phone number 

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide shipping services to us. 

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

For Purchases and/or Taxes

When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace as our commerce platform. Squarespace makes use of Stripe, a third-party service provider, to power automated tax calculations. We may collect information like your: 

• Billing and shipping address 

• Details relating to your purchase (for example, Product Tax Codes for the items purchased) 

• Name 

Stripe may also receive personal information and process it in accordance their privacy policies. Stripe’s privacy policy can be found here: https://stripe.com/privacy

Financial Data

Financial data includes information related to your payment methods, such as bank transfer details or credit card information. We collect this data to facilitate purchases, orders, returns, and exchanges through our website and mobile applications. To enhance security, we retain only limited financial records; the majority of this information is transmitted directly to our payment processors, Stripe and PayPal. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policies of these processors to understand how they handle, disclose, and secure your financial information.

For Form Block Submissions

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We provide this information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us and help us manage our relationship with you. We also provide this information with google drive, email address, Zapier, and Squarespace for storage and with email, Google Drive, Squarespace, and Zapier for data porting.

Analytical & Derivative Data

This website collects personal information to power our site analytics. This includes:

• Information about your browser, network, and device.

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website.

• Your IP address.

• Your interactions with the site (clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps).

2) COOKIES AND TRACKING

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

This website collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

3) HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use your data to provide high-quality visual services and maintain our business operations:

• Service Delivery: To fulfill bookings, deliver digital/physical products, and manage contracts.

• Communication: To send you administrative emails, updates on your gallery, or marketing newsletters (which you can opt out of at any time).

• Business Interests: To analyze trends, protect against fraud, and improve our website.

• Automated Taxes: We use Squarespace and third-party processors to power automated tax calculations based on your location.

Additionally, we utilize your information detailed in this Privacy Policy to conduct business interests, offer you products and services, to fulfill our obligations to you, to customize the interaction you have with our website and/or business, and/or the use of our website. We may store your data and/or transmit it to a third-party for processing. The extent we process your data is to serve and/or conduct legitimate business interests and/or transactions.

More specifically we may utilize the information and data described in this Privacy Policy to:

• Prevent fraudulent activity on our website; and

• Assist law enforcement personnel as necessary; and

• Resolve disputes and troubleshoot any problems; and

• Create and administer Your account; and

• Deliver any products or services purchased; and

• Process payments or any refunds; and

• Any correspondence with you; and

• Notify you of any updates to product and/or service we offer; and

• Request any feedback from you; and

• Analyze trends to improve our website, products, and/or services; and

• Compile anonymous statistical data for our own use or for a third-party’s use; and

• Deliver targeted advertising; and

• Contact you about new offerings that we think may interest you; and

• Send you a newsletter or other updates about products, website, and/or services; and

• Interact with you via social media; and

• Administer contests or giveaways.

4) SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

We DO NOT plan to sell your data. We share your information with trusted third-party providers only as necessary:

• Hosting & Analytics: We share site usage and personal data with Squarespace, our website provider, so they can provide website services and analytics to us.

• Payment Processing: Financial data is processed via Stripe and PayPal. These processors receive your information directly and handle it in accordance with their own privacy policies.

• Social Media: If you use "Share" buttons on our site, those third-party services (like Instagram or Facebook) may receive your data, including browser info and your IP address. Please review the privacy policies of the social media platform you utilize in connection with our website or property.

• Legal Obligations: We may disclose data to comply with legal processes or to protect the safety and rights of our company and clients.

5) DATA RETENTION & SECURITY

Retention: We retain your personal data for as long as needed to provide our services or comply with legal requirements. If you create an account, we maintain that information until you choose to delete it.

6) YOUR RIGHTS

All of the below are dependent on Squarespace’s policy and processes as they host Apex Dream Visuals’ website and web services.

You have the right to:

• Access or Update: You can request a copy of the data we hold or ask us to correct inaccuracies.

• Deletion: You may request that we delete your personal data, subject to legal or contractual obligations.

• Opt-Out: You can unsubscribe from marketing communications by clicking "unsubscribe" or emailing us directly.

California Residents (CCPA): You have the right to request disclosure of the categories of personal information we collect and to request deletion of that information. We do not sell your personal data.

7) CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our services are intended for individuals 18 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect information from person(s) under 18. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such data, please contact us for immediate removal.

8) CONTACT US

For questions regarding this policy or to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at:

Email: support@apexdreamvisuals.com

Website: www.apexdreamvisuals.com