We collect certain information about you to enable us to do business with you and improve our services. This privacy policy informs you about our online collection and how we use information that identifies you personally when you use this site.

By submitting your information to PHOTOALTO, (“PHOTOALTO”), you agree to the practices described below. This website is operated in the United States, and the information collected from this site may be retained indefinitely, and may be stored, accessed, and used in jurisdictions whose privacy laws may be different or less protective than those of your home jurisdiction. PhotoAlto may disclose this information to affiliates, subsidiaries, agents, third party content providers, and necessary payment processors, whose privacy policies and practices may be different from those of PhotoAlto, and for which PhotoAlto assumes no responsibility. Information about our customers, including personal identifying information, may be disclosed as part of any merger, sale of the PhotoAlto assets or acquisition as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the PhotoAlto. We reserve the right to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, respond to claims, or protect the rights, property or safety of our PhotoAlto, employees, customers, or the public. Other than as described above PhotoAlto does not sell or rent information about its customers to third parties.

When you visit this website, some information may be collected automatically as part of the site's operation such as your IP and email address and navigational information. Your name, address, phone number, email address, password, and other information are collected when you register online with us. Registration enables you to access higher resolution images and to enter into a license to use images for comp purposes.

If you wish to license an image from us, your username, password, full name, telephone number, email address and postal address, your credit card number or other personally identifying information is collected to complete the license agreement or to receive products or services. Your email address is used to confirm the licensing transaction.

From time to time we may ask you questions relating to your user preferences in order to better serve you and improve the use of our website. Providing information regarding your usage and preferences is always voluntary, however, if you choose not to provide the information, some products and services may not be available to you.

We may use your email to contact you regarding our services, products and promotional offers for direct marketing purposes. If you do not wish to receive direct marketing, you may opt out by contacting us at the CONTACT US portion of this site and notifying us that you no longer wish to receive promotional information.

We collect information about your use of the website and our customers in the aggregate about how our site is used by our customers, in order to improve our service and our website. We collect your orders, your use of light boxes and other account information as part of your sales history with us. You may review and correct your information by contacting us at: info@photoalto.com

We may disclose to carefully chosen third parties navigational and transactional information in the form of anonymous, aggregate usage statistics and demographics but only in forms that do not reveal a your identity or confidential information.

When you visit PhotoAlto’s Web site, a text file called a cookie is placed in the browser directory of your computer's hard drive. A cookie is information that a website can store on your web browser and later retrieve. The information that cookies collect includes the date and time of your visit, your registration information and your navigational and licensing information. It allows the web browser to recognize the pages you have been to when you are visiting the site, and allows you to quickly return to viewed pages. Cookies are not linked to you as an individual and cannot be used to track where you have been either before or after you visit PhotoAlto’s site. Most browsers allow you to decline cookies, but if you elect to do so, certain pages and user features such as light boxes may not display properly. You are free to delete cookies after your session, and your browser should contain instructions on how to do this.