Last Updated: October 10, 2026
JB Photography respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly, transparently, and in accordance with applicable Canadian privacy laws. This Privacy Policy explains how JB Photography collects, uses, stores, protects, and discloses personal information when you visit this website, submit an inquiry, book photography services, communicate with us, participate in a photography session or event, or otherwise interact with JB Photography.
JB Photography is based in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada and is subject to Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) and other applicable Canadian privacy legislation.
1. Who We Are
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, JB Photography is the business responsible for the personal information under its control. JB Photography is located in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, operates through www.jbphotography.ca, and may use trusted third-party service providers to assist with the operation of the business. Privacy-related questions, access requests, correction requests, or concerns may be directed to JB Photography using the contact information provided at the end of this Policy.
2. Personal Information We May Collect
Depending on how you interact with JB Photography, we may collect your name, email address, telephone number, mailing or billing address, wedding, elopement, maternity, couples, branding, or session details, event dates, venue information, travel details, partner or spouse information, names or details of family members, wedding-party members, guests, vendors, or other individuals you voluntarily provide, information submitted through inquiry forms, questionnaires, contracts, consultations, emails, or other communications, photography preferences, timelines, scheduling information, business or brand information for commercial or branding photography, invoice and payment information, transaction history, testimonials, reviews, photographs, video, audio, social-media usernames, device information, IP addresses, browser type, operating system, referring website, pages visited, website activity, cookie data, analytics information, advertising information, and any other information you voluntarily provide.
JB Photography will only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary for legitimate business purposes.
3. How We Collect Personal Information
JB Photography may collect personal information when you submit an inquiry or contact form, contact us by email, telephone, text message, social media, or another communication method, schedule a consultation, book photography services, complete a questionnaire, sign a contract, make a payment, participate in a photography session, wedding, elopement, event, or branding session, communicate with us about planning or logistics, access or download an online gallery, order albums, prints, or photography products, subscribe to communications, leave a review or testimonial, interact with our website or social media accounts, respond to advertisements, or collaborate with us as a vendor, second photographer, contractor, or creative partner. We may also receive limited information from third parties where reasonably necessary to provide our services, including planners, venues, vendors, payment providers, referral partners, gallery platforms, or client-management systems.
4. How We Use Personal Information
JB Photography may collect, use, and process personal information to respond to inquiries, determine availability, prepare pricing and proposals, schedule consultations and sessions, provide photography and related services, prepare contracts, invoices, questionnaires, guides, and timelines, communicate with clients, coordinate wedding, elopement, session, vendor, and travel logistics, process payments, deliver galleries, fulfil print or album orders, provide customer service, maintain client records, maintain legal, accounting, insurance, and tax records, respond to concerns, disputes, or claims, protect against fraud or misuse, improve our website, workflow, and client experience, analyze website activity, measure advertising or marketing effectiveness, promote JB Photography where appropriate consent or legal authority exists, comply with legal obligations, and protect the rights, safety, property, and legitimate interests of JB Photography and others. JB Photography will not use personal information for purposes that are unreasonable or unrelated to the reason it was collected.
5. Consent
By voluntarily providing personal information to JB Photography, you consent to its collection, use, and disclosure for purposes that are reasonable and described in this Privacy Policy or explained at the time of collection. Where required, JB Photography will seek express consent for uses that would not reasonably be expected as part of the client relationship.
You may withdraw consent where permitted by law, however, withdrawing consent may affect our ability to provide photography services, fulfil contractual obligations, communicate with you, process payments, deliver products, or otherwise complete the services you have requested.
6. Photography, Video, and Image Use
Photography services naturally involve collecting and creating identifiable images of individuals. Photographs may include clients, partners, family members, children, wedding-party members, guests, vendors, venue staff, or other individuals present at a session or event.
The ownership, copyright, publication, licensing, portfolio use, social-media use, advertising use, vendor sharing, editorial use, promotional use, and other use of photographs are governed primarily by your photography contract, model release, or other agreement with JB Photography. Nothing in this Privacy Policy overrides or replaces the terms of a signed photography agreement.
7. Weddings, Guests, and Other Individuals
Wedding and event photography often involves photographing individuals who are not the contracting client, including family members, children, wedding-party members, guests, vendors, venue employees, officiants, entertainment providers, and others present during the normal course of the event. JB Photography may photograph those individuals as part of documenting the event. Any commercial, promotional, or other use requiring additional permission will be handled in accordance with applicable law, contract terms, and consent requirements.
8. Children and Minors
Photography services may involve children or minors. Where appropriate, consent involving a minor may be provided by a parent, legal guardian, or other authorized person. JB Photography does not knowingly collect personal information directly from children for marketing or account-registration purposes without appropriate consent.
9. Payments and Financial Information
JB Photography may use third-party systems to process invoices and payments. Where payment is processed through a third-party provider, JB Photography generally does not directly store full credit-card or banking information. The payment provider may collect and process financial information according to its own privacy practices, security standards, and terms. JB Photography may retain limited transaction information for accounting, tax, legal, and record-keeping purposes.
10. Third-Party Service Providers
JB Photography may use third-party providers for website hosting, website design, contact forms, customer relationship management, contracts, questionnaires, scheduling, invoicing, payment processing, gallery hosting, image delivery, photo editing, album production, print fulfilment, cloud storage, backups, file transfer, email, accounting, analytics, advertising, social-media integration, communication, travel arrangements, business administration, and other related services. These providers may include companies such as Showit, HoneyBook, Google, Meta, Instagram, online gallery providers, payment processors, email providers, cloud-storage providers, accounting software, and other business tools. These providers may process personal information on behalf of JB Photography only where reasonably necessary to provide their services.
11. Service Providers Outside Canada
Some service providers used by JB Photography may collect, access, process, or store personal information outside Canada, including in the United States and potentially other countries where the provider or its subcontractors operate. Personal information processed outside Canada may be subject to the laws of the foreign jurisdiction and may be accessible to courts, law-enforcement authorities, government agencies, or regulators in accordance with those laws. The purposes for which information may be processed outside Canada can include website hosting, cloud storage, email, client management, contracts, galleries, analytics, payments, advertising, communications, scheduling, and business administration.
12. Cookies and Website Technologies
This website may use cookies, pixels, analytics technologies, and similar tools to collect information such as IP address, device type, browser type, operating system, referring website, pages visited, time spent on pages, interactions with website features, general geographic region, and advertising interactions.
These technologies may be used to operate the website, remember preferences, improve website functionality, understand website traffic, measure marketing effectiveness, support analytics, and provide or measure advertising. You may control cookies through your browser settings, although disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality. Where required by applicable law, consent will be requested before non-essential tracking technologies are activated.
13. Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Advertising, and Remarketing
JB Photography may use analytics or advertising tools provided by companies such as Google or Meta. These tools may help us understand how people find our website, which pages they visit, whether advertising results in website visits or inquiries, how visitors interact with our website, and which marketing campaigns perform effectively.
These technologies may also support remarketing or advertising to individuals who have previously interacted with JB Photography’s website or social-media accounts. Where required, non-essential advertising or analytics technologies will be used only after appropriate consent.
14. Social Media and Embedded Content
This website may contain links to or embedded content from platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, or other third-party services. Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party platform directly, and those platforms may collect information, use cookies, track interactions, or process data according to their own privacy policies. JB Photography does not control the privacy practices of third-party social-media platforms.
15. Email and Marketing Communications
JB Photography may send communications relating to inquiries, bookings, contracts, invoices, consultations, sessions, galleries, planning, products, and business updates. If you separately agree to receive promotional communications, we may also send information about availability, travel dates, promotions, new services, photography offerings, special events, educational content, or other business updates.
You may unsubscribe from promotional communications at any time. This does not prevent JB Photography from sending necessary transactional or client-service communications relating to an existing inquiry, contract, or booking.
16. Sharing and Disclosure of Personal Information
JB Photography does not sell personal information. Personal information may be shared where reasonably necessary with service providers, payment processors, gallery providers, second photographers, assistants, contractors, photo editors, album or print laboratories, accountants, bookkeepers, legal advisors, insurance providers, web or cloud providers, vendors involved in fulfilling photography products or services, or other parties required to support legitimate business operations.
Personal information may also be disclosed where reasonably necessary to comply with a court order or legal obligation, respond to lawful requests from authorities, enforce a contract, collect unpaid amounts, respond to a chargeback or dispute, investigate fraud, protect legal rights, or protect the safety of JB Photography, clients, or others.
17. Second Photographers, Assistants, and Contractors
JB Photography may work with second photographers, assistants, photo editors, contractors, or other service providers. These individuals may receive limited access to personal information where needed to perform their duties. JB Photography expects contractors and service providers to protect confidential information and to use personal information only for appropriate business purposes.
18. Retention of Personal Information
JB Photography retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for legitimate business, legal, contractual, accounting, insurance, tax, archival, or client-service purposes. Contracts may be retained for legal and business records, invoices and accounting records may be retained as required for tax purposes, client correspondence may be retained for service history, gallery information may be retained for a limited period, and photographs or archived files may be retained for portfolio, archival, backup, client-service, or legal purposes. When personal information is no longer reasonably required, it may be securely deleted, destroyed, or anonymized.
19. Photograph Storage and Backups
JB Photography may retain copies of RAW image files, edited images, gallery files, album designs, backups, archived projects, and other photography-related files for business, archival, recovery, legal, portfolio, or client-service purposes.
JB Photography does not guarantee permanent or indefinite storage of photography files unless specifically stated in a signed contract. Clients are responsible for downloading and securely backing up their final delivered images.
20. Security of Personal Information
JB Photography uses reasonable administrative, technological, and physical safeguards to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, theft, misuse, copying, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Security practices may include passwords, account authentication, secure payment providers, device security, encrypted connections where available, limited access, trusted cloud-storage systems, backups, confidentiality expectations, and software updates. However, no method of electronic storage, transmission, or internet communication can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
21. Privacy Breaches
If JB Photography becomes aware of a suspected privacy breach, reasonable steps will be taken to contain the incident, investigate what occurred, determine what information was involved, assess potential harm, reduce further risk, document the incident, and notify affected individuals or privacy regulators where required by law.
22. Access to and Correction of Personal Information
You may request access to personal information JB Photography holds about you and may ask for inaccurate or incomplete information to be corrected. Requests should be made in writing to the Privacy Officer, and JB Photography may need to verify your identity before responding.
Access may be limited where permitted or required by law, including where disclosure would reveal another individual’s personal information or legally protected information.
23. Accuracy of Information
JB Photography relies on clients and website users to provide accurate and current information. Please notify us if important contact, billing, event, or other information changes.
24. Business Transfers
If JB Photography is sold, merged, reorganized, transferred, or otherwise changes ownership or business structure, personal information may form part of the transferred business assets where permitted by law. Any successor business would be expected to handle personal information in accordance with applicable privacy obligations.
25. Legal Claims and Business Protection
JB Photography may retain, use, or disclose information where reasonably necessary to enforce contracts, establish or defend legal claims, respond to disputes, process insurance claims, address chargebacks, collect unpaid invoices, investigate fraud, protect intellectual property, protect business property, protect legal rights, or respond to lawful legal proceedings. Any such use will be limited to what is reasonably necessary and permitted by law.
26. Third-Party Websites
This website may contain links to third-party websites. JB Photography is not responsible for the content, security, privacy policies, or practices of websites operated by other organizations. You should review the privacy policy of any third-party website before providing personal information.
27. Your Privacy Rights and Complaints
Subject to applicable law, you may ask what personal information JB Photography holds about you, request access to that information, request correction of inaccurate information, ask questions about how your information is used or disclosed, withdraw consent where permitted, or submit a privacy complaint. If you have a concern about how JB Photography has handled your personal information, please contact us first so the concern can be reviewed. If the matter is not resolved, you may contact the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta.
28. Changes to This Privacy Policy
JB Photography may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in business practices, technology, service providers, website functionality, legal requirements, or privacy guidance. The current version will be posted on this website with an updated Last Updated date. Where a material change requires additional consent, JB Photography will obtain that consent where required by law.
29. Contact JB Photography
For questions, privacy concerns, access requests, correction requests, or questions regarding service providers outside Canada, please contact:
Privacy Officer
JB Photography
Fort McMurray and Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Website: www.jbphotography.ca
Email: info@jbphtography.ca