PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: July 29, 2026

Four Elements Photo Adventures, LLC (“Four Elements Photo Adventures,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit our website, contact us, subscribe to our newsletter, register for a photography workshop, or otherwise interact with us.

By using our website or providing information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect / Information You Provide to Us

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:

Your name, email address, telephone number, and mailing or billing address.

Workshop selections, registration information, participant details, and other booking-related information.

Messages, questions, feedback, and other information submitted through our contact forms.

Your name and email address when you subscribe to our newsletter.

Information you provide when purchasing products or services.

Any other information you choose to provide to us.

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through our general contact forms unless we specifically request it for a legitimate workshop-related purpose.

Payment Information

Workshop registrations and online payments are processed using GoDaddy website and payment tools. When you make a purchase, GoDaddy and its payment-processing partners may collect payment card information, billing information, transaction details, and information needed to process and secure your payment.

Four Elements Photo Adventures may receive limited transaction information, such as your name, purchase amount, payment status, payment method, and the last four digits of your payment card. We generally do not receive or store your complete payment card number.

GoDaddy’s handling of your information is governed by its own privacy notices and applicable service terms.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies, including:

• Your Internet Protocol address.
• Browser, device, and operating-system information.
• General or approximate geographic location.
• Pages viewed and features used.
• The date, time, and duration of your visit.
• Referring and exit pages.
• Website interaction and performance information.
• Cookie identifiers and similar technical information.

This information helps us operate, secure, evaluate, and improve our website and services.

2. How We Use Information

We may use the information we collect to:

• Respond to questions, requests, and messages.
• Process workshop registrations and payments.
• Confirm reservations and provide workshop-related information.
• Communicate schedule changes, preparation details, safety information, and other important updates.
• Provide customer service and ongoing photography-related support.
• Send newsletters, workshop announcements, photography tips, and promotional communications when you have chosen to receive them.
• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website.
• Understand how visitors use our website.
• Prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents, and unlawful activity.
• Maintain business, financial, and transaction records.
• Enforce our policies, agreements, and legal rights.
• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, and legal obligations.

We may also use information for another purpose disclosed at the time it is collected or with your consent.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website and service providers may use cookies, pixels, scripts, and similar technologies. These technologies may be necessary for the website to function, remember visitor preferences, protect forms from abuse, process transactions, measure website performance, and understand visitor activity.

You may be able to manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the availability or performance of some website features.

4. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors find and interact with our website. Google Analytics may collect information such as pages visited, session activity, browser and device information, approximate location, and how visitors navigate the website.

Google may process information collected through Google Analytics according to its own privacy policies and terms. You may limit Analytics collection by changing your browser or cookie settings or by using Google’s Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

We do not intentionally send names, email addresses, payment information, or other directly identifying contact information to Google Analytics.

5. Google reCAPTCHA

Our website uses Google reCAPTCHA to help protect contact forms, newsletter forms, registration features, and other website functions from spam, fraud, and automated abuse.

When you interact with a reCAPTCHA-protected feature, Google may collect technical and usage information to determine whether the interaction is being performed by a person or an automated system. Google processes this information according to the Google Privacy Policy and Google Terms of Service.

6. Newsletter and Marketing Communications

You may choose to receive newsletters, photography tips, workshop announcements, special offers, and other marketing communications from us.

You may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in a marketing email or by contacting us. Unsubscribing from marketing communications will not prevent us from sending transactional or service-related messages, such as registration confirmations, payment information, workshop updates, or responses to your inquiries.

7. How We Disclose Information

We may disclose information in the following circumstances:

Service Providers

We may provide information to companies that perform services on our behalf, including:

• Website hosting and administration.
• Registration and payment processing.
• Email and newsletter delivery.
• Website analytics.
• Data storage and security.
• Fraud prevention and technical support.

These providers may use information only as permitted by their agreements with us, their privacy policies, and applicable law.

Legal and Safety Requirements

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

• Comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or governmental request.
• Protect the rights, property, safety, or security of Four Elements Photo Adventures, our instructors, participants, website visitors, or others.
• Investigate or prevent fraud, security incidents, unlawful conduct, or violations of our policies.
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Business Transactions

Information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, sale, reorganization, financing, or transfer of some or all of our business or assets. Any successor organization would be expected to handle personal information consistently with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.

With Your Direction or Consent

We may disclose information when you direct us to do so or provide your consent.

8. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information

Four Elements Photo Adventures does not receive monetary payment in exchange for selling your personal information.

Some privacy laws define “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” broadly and may apply those terms to certain uses of cookies or analytics technologies. Where required by applicable law, eligible visitors may request information about these practices or exercise applicable opt-out rights by contacting us.

9. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing services, maintaining registration and transaction records, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, and complying with legal, tax, accounting, and insurance requirements.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the nature of our relationship with you, and applicable legal obligations. When information is no longer reasonably needed, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.

10. Information Security

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

No website, electronic transmission, payment system, or storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should use appropriate caution when transmitting information online.

11. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Request information about the personal information we collect and use.
• Request access to or a copy of your personal information.
• Request correction of inaccurate information.
• Request deletion of certain personal information.
• Withdraw consent when processing is based on consent.
• Opt out of marketing communications.
• Object to or restrict certain processing.
• Request portability of certain information.
• Appeal a decision concerning a privacy request, where applicable.

These rights may be subject to exceptions or limitations under applicable law.

To submit a privacy request, contact us through the Contact Us page on our website. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.

You may also manage cookies through your browser settings and manage certain Google data preferences through Google’s privacy controls.

12. Children’s Privacy

Our website is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13.

When a participant is under 18, registration and other required information should be submitted by the participant’s parent or legal guardian. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate permission, please contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete the information.

13. Third-Party Websites and Services

Our website may contain links to social-media platforms, lodging providers, parks, photography resources, business partners, registration services, or other third-party websites.

We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third-party websites and services. Visiting or using a third-party service is subject to that provider’s privacy policy and terms.

14. Visitors From Outside the United States

Four Elements Photo Adventures is based in the United States. If you access our website from another country, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.

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

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

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

The revised policy will be posted on our website with an updated effective date. Your continued use of the website after an updated policy is posted signifies your acknowledgment of the revised policy.

16. Contact Us

Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices may be submitted through the Contact Us page on the Four Elements Photo Adventures website.

Four Elements Photo Adventures, LLC