Terms of service.
Thank you for booking a portrait photography session with me. Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully, as they apply to your booking.
1. RESERVATIONS
Your portrait session is reserved only once paid for.
2. SCHEDULING, RESCHEDULING & REFUNDS/CANCELLATIONS
2.1. If there are unavoidable circumstances that affect your ability to take part in our session, then I am happy for us to reschedule once, within a three month period.
2.2. Please let me know as soon as possible that you can no longer make the session, and at least 48 hours in advance.
2.3. Your session fee is non-refundable if you cancel your portrait session.
2.4. Your session must be taken within 12 months of the session fee payment being made.
3. SESSION TIMES & DURATION
3.1. Please make every effort to arrive on time for your session and please let me know as soon as possible if you anticipate arriving late.
3.2. If you are less than fifteen minutes late, your session length may be reduced accordingly.
3.3. If you are more than fifteen minutes late, your session may be cancelled, with no refund or re-shoot provided.
4. EDITING AND PHOTOSHOP
4.1. You have chosen me as your photographer to allow me to select and edit images which best reflect your session.
4.2. I will make every reasonable effort to comply with requests for specific photos, where possible. Please ensure these are notified to me in advance of the shoot.
4.3. Final images will be professionally edited for colour balance, exposure, cropping, and other foundational adjustments to ensure consistency with my portfolio style. However, I do not offer extensive retouching or body modification (e.g., altering body shapes, removing features, or airbrushing skin) beyond minor blemish removal and basic clean-up.
5. ORDER SALES & FULFILMENT
5.1. Due to the nature of custom photography, all orders which you place with me for physical products are final and cannot be cancelled or refunded. Please note that any special offers and discounts only apply to your initial ordering window.
5.2. Delivery times for prints, albums or other products may vary and will be advised at the time of ordering, but is usually within four weeks.
Please ensure to let me know if you move house between booking your photoshoot and receiving your order.
6. IMAGE ARCHIVING
6.1. I will keep all images on archive for one month from the date of your session, after which they may be permanently deleted.
6.2. It is your responsibility to backup any digital files you receive.
7. DATA PROTECTION
I will store your name, contact details and session information privately and will not share these with any other business or organisation. A separate privacy policy is available on request
8. GENERAL
8.1. These Terms and Conditions are an agreement between us covering your booking. They replace all previous agreements between us relating to your booking, except for the booking form. The booking form forms part of these Terms and Conditions
8.2. You and/ or I can only change or end this agreement if we do so in writing.
8.3. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions (or part of any provision) is found by any court or other authority of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, the rest of the agreement shall remain in force. A person who is not a party to this agreement shall not have any rights under or in connection with it.
8.4. This agreement and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of Scotland.
8.5. When you make your booking and/or pay your session fee, you are indicating you have read and agreed to the terms and conditions in this contract and you are entering into a legally binding contract
8.6. If this contract has to be enforced, you agree to mediation instead of court proceedings.
9. COPYRIGHT & OWNERSHIP
9.1. I retain the copyright and all other rights in the photographs. When I deliver the photographs to you, I grant you a licence to use them, but the photographs remain mine.
9.2. If you wish to share photographs to your own network, please include my name and website.
9.3. You are not permitted to take your own photographs at any portrait photography session.
10. LIABILITY
10.1. If I am unable to supply my photographic services due to illness, mechanical breakdown, accident, acts of God, or any other cause beyond his control, then I return any fees paid by you and will have no further liability with respect to this Agreement
10.2. I will not be responsible or liable for any other damages beyond the amount of this Agreement.
10.3. This limitation of liability will also apply in the event that any Image is lost or damaged through equipment malfunction, or otherwise.