Privacy Policy for High-Tech Studios
Effective Date: September 6, 2025
Last Updated: September 6, 2025
This Privacy Notice for High-Tech Studios (“we,” “us,” or “our”) describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services”). Our Services include, but are not limited to:
- Visiting our website at http://www.high-techstudios.com, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice.
- Engaging with us for our creative and digital services, including Photography and Videography, Social Media Marketing, and Web Design/E-commerce development.
- Engaging with us in other related ways, including sales, marketing, or events.
Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at [email protected].
1. What Information Do We Collect?
Personal Information You Disclose to Us
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you fill out forms on our website, express an interest in our Services, or otherwise contact us. The personal information we collect may include:
- Contact Information: Names, phone numbers, email addresses, and mailing addresses.
- Project Information: Details related to your project, which may include business information, event details (dates, locations), and creative preferences.
- Payment Information: Data required to process transactions. This is typically processed by a secure third-party payment processor.
Information Created Through Our Services
- Photographs and Videos: As a core part of our Services, we create and process photographs and videos of individuals, events, and properties. These images and recordings are considered personal information.
Information Automatically Collected
When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information, such as your IP address, browser type, referring website, pages viewed, and time spent on our website. This information is collected through cookies, Google Analytics, and similar technologies.
Sensitive Information
Our photography and videography services may incidentally capture information that could be considered sensitive under applicable law (e.g., images revealing religious beliefs or health conditions at an event). We do not intentionally collect this information without your consent and process it only for the purpose of fulfilling our service agreement.
2. How Do We Use Your Information?
We use your information for the following purposes:
- Providing Services: To deliver the Services you request, such as responding to inquiries, processing form submissions, and completing creative projects.
- Communication: To contact you with updates about your project, newsletters, or marketing materials (you may opt-out of receiving these communications at any time).
- Improving Our Website: To analyze usage data through tools like Google Analytics to improve the functionality and user experience of our website.
- Security and Legal Compliance: To keep our Services safe, prevent fraud, and comply with applicable laws and regulations.
3. How Do We Share Your Information?
We may share your information with the following categories of third parties:
- Service Providers: We share information with third-party vendors who assist us with essential business functions, such as website hosting (Elementor), data analysis (Google Analytics), payment processing, professional photo printing, and email marketing. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information.
- AI-Powered Tools: To enhance our creative services, we may use tools (e.g., Adobe Sensei) that use artificial intelligence for functions like advanced image editing. Your data, such as photographs, may be processed by these third-party AI providers under strict confidentiality terms.
- Social Media Platforms: If you interact with our social media links, those platforms will collect information about your activity. We do not control the data they collect.
- Legal Authorities: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so to comply with applicable law or a legal process.
We do not “sell” your personal information.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and similar technologies to collect usage data and enhance your experience on our website.
- What are Cookies? Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. For more information, please visit All About Cookies.
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand website traffic and user behavior. This service uses cookies to collect information, such as your IP address, which is transmitted to and stored by Google. We have taken steps to anonymize IP addresses within Google Analytics. You can opt-out of Google Analytics by installing their Opt-out Browser Add-on: Google Analytics Opt-out
- Google Tag Manager: We use Google Tag Manager to manage and deploy marketing tags (code snippets) on our website. Google Tag Manager itself does not collect personal data but facilitates the use of other tags, like Google Analytics.
- Managing Cookies: You can control cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our website.
5. Third-Party Services & External Links
Our website is hosted by Elementor and contains links to social media platforms. These third parties have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these platforms.
- Elementor: Elementor Privacy Policy
- Meta (Facebook & Instagram): Meta Privacy Policy
- Google & YouTube: Google Privacy Policy
6. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no data transmission over the internet is completely secure.
7. Children’s Privacy
Our website and Services are not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
8. Your U.S. Privacy Rights
Depending on your location (e.g., California), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as the right to know, access, or delete your data. The table below describes the categories of personal information we may collect.
| Category | Examples | Collected |
|---|---|---|
| A. Identifiers | Real name, postal address, telephone number, IP address, email address. | YES |
| B. Personal Information (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) | Name, contact information, financial information. | YES |
| C. Protected classification characteristics | May be incidentally captured in photos/videos (e.g., age, gender, race). | YES |
| D. Commercial information | Records of services purchased, transaction history. | YES |
| F. Internet or other similar network activity | Browsing history and interactions with our website. | YES |
| G. Geolocation data | Device location from website visits or image metadata. | YES |
| H. Audio, electronic, visual information | Images and audio/video recordings from our services. | YES |
| L. Sensitive Personal Information | May be incidentally captured in photos/videos as described above. | YES |
Table data adapted from internal review document.
To exercise your rights, please contact us using the information below.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date. We encourage you to review this policy frequently.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to review, update, or delete the data we collect from you, please contact us: