Updated August 18, 2026

Pasadena Photography Arts is committed to respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect through this website, how we use it, and the choices you have regarding your information.

1. Information We Collect

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace may collect personal information when you visit or interact with this website, including:

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Web pages you view while on this website

• Your IP address

• Information you provide directly, including:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Contact or inquiry information

  • Newsletter subscription information

  • Information submitted as part of an Open Show or other photography submission

Information about your use of this website may also be collected, including:

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

Squarespace uses this information to operate, maintain, protect, and improve its platform and services. For more information about how Squarespace processes information, please see the Squarespace Privacy Policy.

SOCIAL MEDIA

If you interact with Pasadena Photography Arts through social media platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook and Youtube, those platforms may collect information about your interactions with their services. Your use of those platforms is governed by their respective privacy policies.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use information we collect to:

• Respond to inquiries and communications submitted through our contact form

• Manage newsletter subscriptions and send newsletters, announcements, and other communications you have requested

• Process and administer Open Show and other photography submissions

• Promote Pasadena Photography Arts programs, exhibitions, events, and activitiesUnderstand how visitors use our website and improve its content, functionality, and performance

• Maintain website security and prevent misuse

• Comply with applicable legal or administrative requirementsWe do not sell your personal information.

Use of Photography Submitted Through Open Shows

By submitting a photograph to an Open Show or similar Pasadena Photography Arts program, you acknowledge that Pasadena Photography Arts may use the submitted photograph, along with the photographer's name and other information provided with the submission, for advertising and promotional purposes related to Pasadena Photography Arts and its programs, exhibitions, events, and activities.

This may include use on our website, social media accounts, newsletters, digital advertisements, printed promotional materials, and other communications promoting Pasadena Photography Arts.

Photography submitted through an Open Show will not be used for unrelated commercial purposes or sold to third parties without the photographer's permission.

3. Third-Party Services

Squarespace

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Contact-form submissions, website-related information, and other information collected through the website may be processed by Squarespace in accordance with its privacy practices.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, to help us understand website traffic and how visitors use the site. Google may collect information about your use of the website through cookies and similar technologies.

Mailchimp

We use Mailchimp, a third-party email marketing service, to manage our newsletter mailing list and distribute newsletters and other email communications.When you subscribe to our newsletter, the information you provide, such as your name and email address, may be transferred to and stored by Mailchimp. Mailchimp may also collect information about your interactions with our emails, such as whether an email was opened or links were clicked, in order to help us understand newsletter engagement and improve our communications.You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in our emails. Mailchimp's handling of your information is subject to its own privacy policy and terms.These third-party services may collect, store, or process information in accordance with their own privacy policies.

4. Cookies and Analytics

This website uses cookies and similar technologies through Squarespace and Google Analytics. These technologies help the website function and allow us to understand how visitors interact with the site.You can adjust your browser settings to refuse or delete cookies. You may also be able to control certain Google Analytics data collection through Google's available privacy controls.For information about cookies used by Squarespace, please see The Cookies Squarespace Uses.

5. Data Security

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission or storage over the internet is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

6. How Long We Keep Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to inquiries, maintain business records, administer programs and submissions, send requested communications, or otherwise fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected.You may unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time using the unsubscribe link provided in our emails.

7. Your Privacy Choices

You may contact us to request information about the personal information we maintain about you or to ask questions about how your information is used.

You may also:

• Unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time using the unsubscribe link in our emails

• Contact us regarding information submitted through our website

• Adjust your browser's cookie settings

• Use available privacy controls provided by Google Analytics and other third-party services

Additional privacy rights may apply to California residents under applicable California law.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. The latest version will always be available on our website. If we make material changes to how we collect or use personal information, we may provide additional notice as appropriate.

9. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact us at:
Pasadena Photography Arts
pasadenaphotoarts@gmail.com