Privacy Policy

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Privacy Policy

 HOME & SKY is accessible from https://www.homeandsky.com. One of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by HOME & SKY and how we use it. If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Privacy Policy applies to www.HomeAndSky.com and Home & Sky (“Company”) and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to the site, website, or Company website mean both www.HomeAndSky.com and Home & Sky. By using the Company website, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy or “Policy”).

 

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.

 

 

Online Privacy Policy Only

 This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in HOME & SKY. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

 

Collection of your Personal Information

 In order to better provide you with the services offered, Company may collect personally identifiable information, which falls into categories such as identifiers and customer records information. These are your:

  • First and Last Name
  • Mailing Address
  • Billing Address
  • Email Address
  • Phone Number

 

Except as otherwise provided in this Policy, Company does not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to Company. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to Company when you elect to use certain services. Company also may gather additional personal or non-personal information about you from third parties. Any information Company obtains from third parties will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

 

Use of your Personal Information

 Company collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested. This includes, but is not limited to, facilitating bookings, processing payments, managing communications, and providing tools for business management and order fulfillment in the context of real estate photography services. Company uses this information to provide personalized and relevant support to meet your specific needs within the real estate photography industry. Company may also use your personal information for: (i) Communicating with you about services you have requested or inquired about; (ii) Informing you of other available services and features offered by Company; (iii) Sending marketing communications related to real estate photography services; and (iv) Improving and optimizing Company’s services and user experience.

 

Sharing Information with Third Parties

 Company does not sell, rent, or lease your data to third parties or share your data for targeted advertising. However, you have the right to direct us to not sell or share your personal information at any time, should our practices change in the future. If you would like to exercise this right or opt-out of any potential future sale or sharing of your personal information, please follow the procedure under the Privacy Rights Section of this Policy. Company may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information is transferred to the third party. Company may also share personal information and non-personal data to help perform statistical analysis, host your information on external servers, or provide customer support. Such third parties include Stripe, Inc for payment processing and Google Analytics (further detailed in the Cookies Section of this Policy). The use of your data by such third parties will be subject to their privacy policy.

 

As a platform that connects photographers and real estate agents, Company may share basic contact information (such as name, email address, and phone number) between users to facilitate communication and service delivery. Sensitive personal information, such as financial account details or precise geolocation, will not be shared between users unless explicitly required for the service and agreed upon.

 

Please note that any personal or sensitive information you provide directly to other users (such as photographers or real estate agents) within the platform is at your discretion. Company is not responsible for any data or information exchanged directly between users.

 

Company may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (i) comply with legal process served on Company; (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of Company; and/or (iii) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Company, or the public.

 

Automatically Collected Information

 Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Company. This information can include: your IP address, browser type and version, device type, operating system, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. Company may also collect interaction data such as pages visited, time spent on pages, and click patterns. This information is used for the operation of the website, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Company website.

 

Use of Cookies

 The Company website uses “cookies” to enhance and personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file placed on your hard disk by a web page serve. Cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. They are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Company uses two main types of cookies:

  1. Essential/Functional Cookies: These are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, secure access to protected areas, and remembering your preferences. For example, these cookies allow us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits, simplifying the process of recording personal information like billing and shipping addresses.
  2. Analytics Cookies: These help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. They assist us in improving our website and enhancing user experience.

 

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies through your browser settings. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline them if you prefer. However, if you choose to decline cookies, especially essential ones, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Company website.

 

Our website does not currently respond to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals or other similar mechanisms. You can choose to enable or disable the DNT setting in your web browser, which will communicate your DNT preference to websites you visit. However, please note that enabling DNT may not affect the collection of usage and other data by our website. Company has also integrated Google Analytics with Company website to better understand how users interact with Company website and to improve search engine optimization (SEO). Google Analytics uses cookies to collect data such as user demographics, behavior on the site, and other engagement metrics. For more information about how Google uses your data, you can visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. To opt out of Google Analytics tracking, you can visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/ and download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

 

Links

 This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Company is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. Company encourages you to be aware when you leave Company website and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

 

Security of your Personal Information

 Company takes industry-standard security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while Company strives to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (i) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the internet which are beyond Company’s control; and (ii) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and Company through the website cannot be guaranteed. In the event of a data breach that affects your personal information, Company will notify you in accordance with applicable laws.

 

Data Retention

 Company retains your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, Company considers the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which Company processes your personal information, and whether those purposes can be achieved through other means, as well as applicable legal requirements. After this period, your personal information will be securely deleted or anonymized so that it can no longer be associated with you, unless the law allows or requires Company to preserve certain information, including in the context of an ongoing or anticipated legal proceeding.

 

Right to Deletion

 Subject to certain exceptions as detailed in this Policy or as Company may otherwise be entitled to at law, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, Company will: (i) Delete your personal information from Company records; and (ii) Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that Company may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to: (i) Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of Company’s ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and Company; (ii) Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for that activity; (iii) Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; or (iv) Comply with an existing legal obligation.

 

Sensitive Personal Information

 Company does not collect, use, or disclose sensitive personal information unless explicitly authorized by you or as required by law. Sensitive personal information includes, but is not limited to: (i) Social Security numbers; (ii) Driver’s license numbers; (iii) Financial account information such as credit card details; (iv) Precise geolocation data; (v) Racial or ethnic origin; (vi) Religious or philosophical beliefs; (vii) Health information. If in the future Company decides to collect, use, or disclose sensitive personal information, Company will update this Privacy Policy and inform you of how we handle that data in accordance with applicable laws.

 

Children’s Privacy

 Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

HOME & SKY does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. Our services are not directed to individuals under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13 years of age. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use our services or send any personal information about yourself to us.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from someone under 13 years of age, we will take steps to delete that information as quickly as possible. Parents or legal guardians who believe that a minor under 13 may have provided us with personal information should contact us immediately by emailing us at the email address provided in the Contact Information Section at the end of this Policy, we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

 

Your Privacy Rights

 Depending on your location, you may be entitled to certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include:

  1. Right to Know: You may have the right to request information about the personal information we collect, use, disclose, or sell.
  2. Right to Access: You may have the right to request access to your personal information in a portable format.
  3. Right to Delete: You may have the right to request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
  4. Right to Correct: You may have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information.
  5. Right to Limit the Use of Sensitive Personal Information: Under applicable laws, you may have the right to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information. This includes data like financial account details, precise geolocation, and other sensitive categories defined by law. You may request that we limit the use of this information to the purposes necessary to provide the services you have requested. Currently, we do not collect sensitive personal information.
  6. Right to Opt-Out: You may have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information. Currently, we do not sell or share your personal information for targeted advertising purposes. However, you may opt-out of any future sales or sharing of personal information should our practices change.
  7. Right to Opt-Out of Automated Decision-Making: You may have the right to opt-out of decisions based solely on automated processing of your personal information, including profiling, which could significantly affect you.
  8. Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

To exercise these rights, you or your authorized agent can submit a verifiable consumer request by emailing us at the email address, or sending your request by mail to our physical address, provided in the Contact Information Section at the end of this Policy. We will respond to verifiable requests within 30 days, unless we notify you that we require additional time. If we deny your request, you have the right to appeal our decision. To submit an appeal, please contact us using the same method you used for your initial request, clearly stating that you wish to appeal our decision. We will respond to your appeal within 30 days. Please note that these rights are not absolute and may be subject to limitations or exceptions under applicable law.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

 Company reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Company will notify you about changes in the way Company treats personal information by updating this Privacy Policy on the website and by making reasonable efforts to notify you based on the significance of the scope and impact of the change. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modifications will constitute your acknowledgment of the modified privacy policy and your agreement to abide and be bound by that policy.

 

licensing

All staging, cleaning, and construction work must be completed before the photographer arrives. Please make sure the property is 100% ready. Everybody’s time is valuable.

• The license is for single-use, such as listing and marketing a home for sale or rent online.
• Payment is due at the time of booking to secure your date and time.
• Payment must be made before photos can be used for any digital marketing purposes according to our licensing agreement.

CANCELLATION AND RESCHEDULING POLICY
• Canceling/Rescheduling made 24 hours or more in advance is free of charge.
• Cancelation made less than 24 hours in advance is subject to a $50 fee.

ADD-ONS
• If including add-ons, pricing will be adjusted accordingly on the final invoice to be emailed.

  

Terms of Service

All customers, clients and end users are subject to the terms and conditions of Home & Sky legal and copyright agreement.
(Terms & Conditions Updated & Published On 01/01/2017 at 2:13pm)
Image license agreement between Home & Sky and the contracting client including clients of contracting client.
Section 1 – Image Use 
1.1 This license is individual, non-transferable and non exclusive. It gives you the right to use the photographs on any type of medium, for any sort of utilization, such as for example the illustration of press articles, advertising, on-line use, as well as the right to carry out any form of reproduction, printed or digital, needed in what you intend to do with the photographs.
This license is granted to you with a time limit based on the life of the property listing with the current contracting client (real estate agent) or unless you should fail to respect one of its clauses. This license allows you to crop the photographs, to take elements out of them, to use them partially, to touch them up or add elements to them.
1.2 The following uses are not authorized in compliance with the license granted to you here. Before any use in one of the following cases, it is mandatory to contact Home & Sky in order to pay an additional license: For any use of the photographs in a third party product or if they are to be commercialized, of which they represent the main value, such as, reports, postcards and posters. For any billing activity through a commercial network, reproducing the whole or part of a photograph.
1.3 It is forbidden to resell, give a sub-license, give, lend, sub-let, distribute the whole or part of an image, whatever its size and resolution unless you are acting on behalf of a client as advertising agency or similar. It is forbidden to use the photographs in a context which might be political, slanderous, immoral, offensive or degrading
1.4 Home & Sky certifies that it is entitled to all the commercial rights pertaining to the photographs.
1.5 All rights pertaining to the photographs are owned by Home & Sky. The granting of this license does not imply a transfer of ownership. The photographs are protected by the laws on royalty and copyright. You are therefore under the obligation to use the photographs like any other protected product. Any representation or reproduction, complete or partial, carried out without the consent of Home & Sky may be considered a a breech of contract.
1.6 All images provide by Home & Sky to the listing agent are 100% owned by Home & Sky unless otherwise stated. All images provided by Home & Sky may have been captured using Home & Sky staff, contractors or third parties. In the event that Home & Sky uses a third parties’ supplier will ensure that we have the contractual right to license the images.
1.7 Home & Sky may resell image the rights to third parties, other real estate agents or advertising agencies. The resale of image rights may only completed once the current advertising campaign has ceased.
Section 2 – Disclosure to vendors, tenants, investor or any associated person(s) 
 2.1 In accordance with the terms of this agreement you must disclose to the client, vendor, tenant, investor or any associated person(s) involved with the property that is being photographed that the images captured are bound by the image use agreement (section 1.1) and that all image captured or produced remain the property of Home & Sky and may only be used for the life of the listing. This disclosure is normally indicated on the vendors advertising schedule and may or may not include this entire document. Upon request from a vendor or associated person this document may be presented.
 2.2 The vendor, tenant, investor or any associated person(s) may obtain copies of the images for personal use only and must not reproduce, resell or redistribute those images for commercial purposes or for marketing use with another selling agent or marketing company. All copies provided will include a watermark or security tag.
 2.3 All photography bookings are a direct contract between Home & Sky and the company booking the job such as the advertising agency or listing agent. The vendor, tenant, investor or any associated person(s) have no involvement in the contract between Home & Sky and the listing agent and have no rights over any images unless specifically requested.
Section 3 – Termination
3.1 The license contained in this Agreement may terminate automatically without notice from Home & Sky if You fail to comply with any provision of this agreement or fail to pay any accounts or monies owed. Upon termination, you must immediately:
(i) Stop using the Digital Photos; and
(ii) Delete any Digital Photos and all copies of all of them from all digital media and destroy all other copies or, upon request of Home & Sky.
Section 4 – Resale 
4.1 Images may be resold to vendors or interested parties, resale of images can only be done where the original contracting client has given permission for the images to be re-distributed.
4.2 All image resale will incur an admin and re-license fee – ( See fees)
Section 5- Governing Laws
5.1 This Agreement will be governed in all respects by the laws of United States of America. The Courts of the Georgia shall have the non-exclusive jurisdiction to hear any disputes under this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Home & Sky shall have the right to commence and prosecute any legal or equitable action or proceeding before any court of competent jurisdiction to obtain injunctive or other relief in the event that, in the opinion of Home & Sky such action is necessary or desirable.
Section 6 – Fees
All images are services are initially licensed at a subsided single usage rate as set out in Home & Sky current pricing. Some images can be resold at Home & Sky discretion.
Image re-license fee per image – Price range $250 – $550, depending on image and subject to approval, full images sets can only be re-licensed as a full set with approval and the price is decided by Home & Sky.
Image infringement, copyright and ownership transfer Price range based on image, circulation and usage $500 – $2,000 per image
Section 7 – Unauthorized Image Usage
Home & Sky hold the master copyright to all images, floor plans, renders and graphics produced by Home & Sky, Home & Sky Staff and Home & Sky Contractors. All images are provided to clients under license only.
Anyone individual, company, corporation or entity using Home & Sky images without proper written authorization may be liable to costs associated with copyright, damages, loss of business, defamation of brand. In addition, images found being used in an unauthorized capacity will be subject to full copyright fees as set out in Section 7 of Home & Sky terms and conditions.
Any unauthorized usage maybe perused via legal representation of whom Home & Sky appoint as their legal representative and in accordance with the United States of America Copyright Act of 2006 and including any other related state and federal laws.
Section 8 – Booking and Cancellation Fees
8.1 – Cancellation of bookings must be made 24 hours prior to the actual job date/time for real estate agents, for builders and one-off projects 3 days notice for cancellation is required. Cancellations must be made in writing via email to admin@homeandsky.com.
Cancellations will in incur the following fees :
Real Estate Shoots
50% of job value if cancelled 12 hours prior
75% of job value if we arrive on site and the home can not be photographed
Commercial Shoots
50% of job value if cancelled 24 hours prior
50% of job value if cancelled 7 days prior for overnight and travel based bookings
100% of job value of job if full day job and project can not proceed on day

 

Contact Information

 Company welcomes your questions or comments:

Home & Sky

Email: admin@homeandsky.com

Phone: 478-388-4088

 

Updated and Effective as of: May 21st, 2026