Image use policy
What the studio may and may not do with your photographs, and how you withdraw permission.
Updated 08 September 2026
The principle
No image of you is published anywhere without specific, written, current permission. This is not a promise about conduct: the site checks each image's release record before displaying it, and an image without a valid record does not appear.
Granular permission
Permission is given by scope, separately: this site's portfolio, social media, paid advertising. And with a second, independent decision: identifiable face, or faceless images only. You can allow one scope and refuse another.
Duration
Permission can carry an expiry date. Once it passes, the image comes down automatically, without depending on anyone remembering.
Withdrawal
You may withdraw permission at any time, without giving a reason and at no cost, by writing to the removal address published in this site's footer. Requests are actioned within 48 hours.
Metadata
Every published or delivered file has its metadata stripped, dates and GPS coordinates included.
Age verification
I do not photograph anyone under 18, and confirmation of age is recorded before any session.
Under review
A working version. The client-signed release will be reviewed by a solicitor before launch.
Image and testimonial authorisations
How you authorise
When the studio asks to show your photographs or your words, you receive a private link. You choose each use separately, sign by typing your name and receive a receipt by e-mail. The studio receives the same receipt.
What the website stores
Only the receipt number, your initial, the items, the uses, the dates and a fingerprint of the receipt. Your name and your e-mail are used once to write and send the receipt, and are not stored on the website. The receipt records the time, network address and browser used to sign, as evidence.
Proof and retention
The fingerprint is time-stamped by an independent timestamping authority, which receives the fingerprint only. The studio keeps the receipt for as long as the authorisation is in use and for six years afterwards, the period for legal claims in England and Wales.
Withdrawing
The same link lets you withdraw at any time with one tap. What was covered leaves the website immediately. You can also write to the studio.
A working version, drafted from current legislation. It will be reviewed by a solicitor specialising in data protection before launch.