2025 PRIVACY POLICY & TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at Mane and Grace Photography (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at hello@maneandgracephotography.com.
When you visit our website https://maneandgracephotography.com/, and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Sites and our services.
This privacy notice applies to all information collected through our website (such as https://maneandgracephotography.com/), and/or any related services, sales, marketing or events (we refer to them collectively in this privacy notice as the "Services").
Please read this privacy notice carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us.

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
In Short: Some information — such as IP address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Services.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.
We use personal information collected via our Services for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive:
• To send you marketing and promotional communications. We and/or our third party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time (see the "WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS" below).
• Deliver targeted advertising to you. We may use your information to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
• To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.
• For other Business Purposes. We may use your information for other Business Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing and your experience. We may use and store this information in aggregated and anonymized form so that it is not associated with individual end users and does not include personal information. We will not use identifiable personal information without your consent.

3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.
We may process or share data based on the following legal basis:
 Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information in a specific purpose.
 Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
 Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
 Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
 Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:
 Vendors, Consultants and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the Services, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with the Services over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. Unless described in this Policy, we do not share, sell, rent or trade any of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
 Third-Party Advertisers. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Services. These companies may use information about your visits to our Website(s) and other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

4. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us keeping your personal information for longer than 2 years.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

5. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at hello@maneandgracephotography.com.

6. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
If you are resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

7. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

8. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: Yes, if you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Services, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Services. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Services, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems.

9. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
In Short: Yes, we will update this policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

10. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at hello@maneandgracephotography.com or by post to:
Mane and Grace Photography
3328 Lincoln Lane
Gastonia, NC 28056
United States

HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the laws of some countries, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please submit a request form by clicking here. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The following TERMS AND CONDITIONS are those in effect as of this date, between the owners and operators, Mane and Grace Photography, LLC (“Mane and Grace Photography,” the “Company,” or “We,” or “Us”) and the user (“You” or “Your”). The Website owner and operator is under no obligation to inform You of any change to these Terms and Conditions, and by utilizing and/or purchasing any product provided on this Website, You agree to visit this URL regularly for updates to these Terms and Conditions.

These Terms & Conditions, along with our Privacy Policy, govern Your access to, use of and functionality and services offered on or through http://www.maneandgracephotography.com or any other associated domains and/ or subdomains owned by Us now or in the future (the “Website”).

AGREEMENT TO TERMS OF USE
Please read these Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy carefully before accessing or starting to use the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy when this option is made available to You, You accept and agree to be bound and abide by the terms. Disclaimer: If You do not want to agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy, You must not access or use the Website.
By using and/or purchasing from any of the Websites, You expressly agree to any and all Terms and Conditions set forth herein. As stated above, We reserve the right to modify these Terms and Conditions at any time without notice, and it is Your responsibility to check this page periodically for any such changes. By using the Website(s) subsequent to a change to the Terms and Conditions, You thereby agree to accept and be bound by any such changes to the Terms and Conditions, regardless of whether You have actually read and/or otherwise reviewed said changes. If, at any time, You determine that You are not willing to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, then You shall relinquish any rights that You may have to the use of the Websites and any products purchased therefrom, and agree to no longer utilize the Website(s).

SCOPE OF TERMS OF USE
These Terms and Conditions apply to all websites owned and operated by Mane and Grace Photography.
On occasion, the Websites will provide links to third party sites (hereinafter referred to as the “Third Party Websites”) for reference or referral purposes. On such occasions, these Terms and Conditions shall apply only to Our Website(s), and expressly do not apply to the Third Party Websites.
Mane and Grace Photography has no official affiliation with the Third Party Websites, and therefore has no control over the terms and conditions that will apply to the Third Party Websites. It is Your responsibility to review the Third Party Websites for their applicable terms and conditions.
Additionally, Mane and Grace Photography does not endorse or take any responsibility for the content or products provided on the Third Party Websites. Therefore, You agree to hold Mane and Grace Photography harmless with respect to Your use of the Third Party Websites, despite any link thereto provided on the Websites.

CONFIDENTIALITY
By utilizing the content or purchasing the products contained on the Websites, You expressly acknowledge that such information and materials are confidential, and agree not to disclose or share any such information to any third party.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY/ SINGLE USE LICENSE
All content contained in and all products sold on the Websites are the intellectual property of Mane and Grace Photography, LLC, and are protected by the copyright and trademark laws of the United States. As such, any such content and/or products are being provided to You for Your individual use and as a single-use license. No license to sell or otherwise distribute Mane and Grace Photography, LLC’s intellectual property is express or implied. You are not authorized nor permitted to use, sell, or share Our content and/or products on Your sites without express permission from Mane and Grace Photography, LLC. You expressly agree (1) not to infringe on or otherwise violate Mane and Grace Photography, LLC’s intellectual property, (2) to ensure that any confidential information disclosed to You by Mane and Grace Photography, LLC remains confidential, and (3) not to disclose any information provided to You by Mane and Grace Photography, LLC to any third party. In the event that You violate any provisions of this section of the Terms and Conditions, You agree that Mane and Grace Photography, LLC will be entitled to any and all remedies under the law, including but not limited to compensatory, punitive, and/ or treble damages and injunctive relief against You or third parties in relation to such violations.

SCOPE OF USE OF WEBSITE CONTENT
Notwithstanding the above, Mane and Grace Photography owns the content contained on the Websites. Accordingly, You may:
• Link to the Website.
• Extract any portion of a post on the Websites, provided that You cite the appropriate Website and provide a link to that Website.
• Print and distribute portions of the Websites for internal distribution within Your company.
• Print any information from the Websites in any non-commercial publication, provided You cite the source of the information and provided information for accessing the source of the information.
If You wish to utilize the content of the Websites in any other manner, You must first obtain the express written consent of Mane and Grace Photography. In order to request such consent, please consent, please contact hello@maneandgracephotography.com

NO PROFESSIONAL-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
Your use of this Website – including implementation of any suggestions set out in this Website and/or use of any resources available on this Website – does not create a professional-client relationship between You and Mane and Grace Photography. We do not accept You as a client unless and until You have signed a written agreement and paid a retainer fee in full, or until all fees are completed and processed. Thus, You recognize and agree that We have not created any professional-client relationship by Your use of this Website.

NO GUARANTEES
The information contained on the Website(s) and the resources available for download through the Website(s) are for educational and informational purposes only.
We make no guarantees about the results of taking any action, whether recommended on this Website or not. The Company provides educational and informational resources that are intended to help users of this website succeed in photography, business, and otherwise. You nevertheless recognize that Your ultimate success or failure will be the result of Your own efforts, Your particular situation, and innumerable other circumstances beyond the control and/or knowledge of the Company. You also recognize that prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome in exposure, earnings, or other business potential. Thus, the results obtained by others – whether clients or customers of the Company or otherwise – applying the principles set out in this Website are no guarantee that You or any other person or entity will be able to obtain similar results.

THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, OR GUARANTEES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY EXPRESS WARRANTIES, STATUTORY WARRANTIES, AND ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF: MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT REGARDING THE OUTCOMES, EFFECTS, OR SUCCESS RATE OF THE PROGRAM, WHETHER VERBALLY OR IN WRITING.

Furthermore, We do not represent and warrant that the Website(s) will be uninterrupted, available at any time or from any location, secure, error free, free from defects, or that the service or associated downloads are free from viruses or harmful components. USE OF THE WEBSITE’S SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES THAT MAY RESULT FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH INFORMATION.
At various places on this Website, You may find testimonials from clients and customers of the products and services offered by us. The testimonials are actual statements made by clients and/or customers and have been truthfully conveyed on this Website.
Although these testimonials are truthful statements about the results obtained by these clients and/or customers, the results obtained by these clients and/or customers are not necessarily typical. We make no guarantees about the outcomes or success of any practice, method, teaching, tool, or other recommendation given by Us or our affiliates. You specifically recognize and agree that the testimonials are not a guarantee of results that You or anyone else will obtain by using any methods or services offered on this Website.

AFFILIATE LINKS
From time to time, the Company participates in affiliate marketing and may include affiliate links to be included on some of our pages. This means that We may earn a commission if/when You click on or make purchases via affiliate links. As a policy, We will only affiliate with products, services, coaches, consultants, and other experts that We believe will provide value to our customers and followers.
You recognize that it remains Your personal responsibility to investigate whether any affiliate offers are right for Your business and will benefit You. You agree to conduct and rely on Your own investigation to decide whether to purchase the affiliate product or service.

NO ENDORSEMENTS
From time to time, the Company will refer to other products, services, vendors, consultants, and/or experts. Any such reference is not intended as an endorsement or statement that the information provided by the other party is accurate. The Company provides this information as a reference for users. It is Your responsibility to conduct Your own investigation and make Your own determination about any such product, service, coach, consultant, and/or expert.

ERRORS AND OMISSIONS
This Website is a resource of general information that is intended, but not promised or guaranteed to be correct, complete, and up-to-date. We have taken reasonable steps to ensure that the information contained in this Website is accurate, but We cannot represent that this Website is free of errors. You agree to conduct due diligence to verify any information obtained from this Website and/or resources available on it prior to taking any action. You expressly agree not to rely upon any information contained in this Website.


SEVERABILITY/ WAIVER
If any provision of these Terms and Conditions are deemed to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable, the remaining terms of the Terms and Conditions shall remain in full force and effect. Additionally, the failure of Mane and Grace Photography to exercise any right contained herein will not be deemed a waiver of that right or any further right hereunder.

USER’S PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
By using this Website, You accept personal responsibility for the results of Your actions. You agree to take full responsibility for any harm or damage You suffer as a result of the use, or non-use, of the information available on this Website or the resources available for download from this Website. You agree to use judgment and conduct due diligence before taking any action or implementing any plan or policy suggested or recommended on this Website.

ASSIGNMENT
You may not assign Your rights to utilize the content or products contained on the Websites without the express written consent of Mane and Grace Photography, LLC.

INDEMNIFICATION
By utilizing the content or purchasing the products contained on the Websites, You agree, for Yourself, Your spouse (if any), Your respective heirs, successors, personal representatives, administrators, executors, assigns, receivers, partners, employees, agents, attorneys, subsidiaries, parent companies, shareholders, officers, directors, and accountants, to indemnify and hold harmless Mane and Grace Photography, and their respective heirs, successors, personal representatives, administrators, executors, assigns, receivers, partners, employees, agents, attorneys, subsidiaries, parent companies, shareholders, officers, directors and accountants, and each of them, and anyone chargeable on their behalf, against any and all causes of action, suits, debts, injuries, damages, claims, and demands whatsoever from the e date of this Agreement arising from or relating to Your use of said content and or products from the Websites.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION
If not resolved first via good faith negotiations, every controversy or dispute with Mane and Grace Photography relating to the content and/or products on the Websites, Your use of the Website, and/ or this Privacy Policy, the Parties agree to first submit the dispute to mediation. The mediator shall be selected by an agreement of the Parties, and costs shall be split equally between the Parties The mediation shall take place in Gaston County, North Carolina, occur within ninety (90) days from the date of the initial mediation demand. If the Parties cannot reach a settlement within ninety (90) days from the start of the mediation, the Parties may submit the matter to binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association in accordance with its Commercial Arbitration Rules. The written decision of the arbitrator will be absolutely binding and conclusive and not subject to judicial review, and may be entered and enforced by any court of proper jurisdiction, either as a judgment of law or a decree in equity, as circumstances may indicate. All claims against Mane and Grace Photography must be lodged within one hundred (100) days of the date of the first claim or otherwise be waived. We may bring collection actions with which to collect debts on unpaid accounts, the cost, attorneys fees, and expenses of which the losing party shall bear.

NOTICES
Any notice, demand, or communication required or permitted to be given by any provision of these Terms and Conditions will be deemed to have been given and received (a) when delivered personally to the Party designated to receive such notice, or (b) on the first (1st) business day following delivery to a nationally recognized overnight courier service (such as Federal Express), specifying next day delivery, or (c) on the third (3rd) day after the same is sent by certified mail, postage and charges prepaid. Any notice, demand, or communication directed to Mane and Grace Photography, shall be sent to:
Mane and Grace Photography
3328 Lincoln Lane
Gastonia, NC 28056

COPYRIGHT AND DMCA
Mane and Grace Photography respects the intellectual property rights of others. Per the DMCA, we will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement on the site if submitted to our Copyright Agent as described below. Upon receipt of a notice alleging copyright infringement, We will take whatever action We deem appropriate within our sole discretion, including removal of the allegedly infringing materials and termination of access for repeat infringers of copyright protected content.
Copyright Agent:
T-kia Good – Copyright Agent
Mane and Grace Photography
3328 Lincoln Lane
Gastonia, NC 28056