Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: September 23, 2026

Steffany Graham and Merakairos Media (“Steffany Graham,” “Merakairos Media,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and otherwise process information when you visit the Steffany Graham website, submit an inquiry, book or inquire about services, subscribe to communications, purchase products or services, or otherwise interact with us online or through our related services. By accessing or using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We May Collect

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us as well as certain information collected automatically when you use the website. Depending on how you interact with us, this information may include your name, email address, telephone number, business or company name, social media handles, website information, billing or mailing address, project details, photography or campaign information, event or production details, preferred dates, scheduling information, information submitted through inquiry, booking, application, questionnaire, or contact forms, newsletter preferences, testimonials, reviews, feedback, and correspondence. We may also collect information you provide when communicating with us by email, telephone, text message, social media, or other communication channels.

If payment is required, payment information may be processed through a third-party payment processor. We generally do not directly store complete credit card or banking information when transactions are handled by a third-party payment provider.

When you visit our website, we or service providers acting on our behalf may also automatically collect certain information, including your Internet Protocol address, browser type, device type, operating system, approximate geographic location based on IP address, referring website or source, pages viewed, links clicked, dates and times of visits, time spent on pages, website interactions, cookie identifiers, advertising or analytics identifiers, and other technical or diagnostic information. This information may be collected through cookies, pixels, tags, analytics tools, log files, and similar technologies.

2. How We Use Information

We may use personal information to respond to inquiries and communications, evaluate potential photography, creative direction, consulting, campaign, or other projects, schedule consultations, sessions, productions, or meetings, provide requested products and services, create proposals, estimates, contracts, invoices, and project documentation, process transactions and payments, manage client relationships, communicate regarding active or prospective projects, deliver purchased products or digital materials, provide customer service, maintain business and accounting records, and send newsletters, announcements, educational content, promotions, or marketing communications when permitted.

We may also use information to personalize website experiences, understand how visitors use our website, measure website and marketing performance, improve our website, products, services, and customer experience, protect our business, clients, intellectual property, and users from fraud, misuse, security threats, or unlawful activity, enforce contracts and policies, satisfy legal, tax, accounting, regulatory, or contractual obligations, and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. We may also use information for another purpose disclosed to you at the time the information is collected.

3. Photography, Creative Work, and Client Information

Information collected through this website is separate from the ownership, licensing, copyright, privacy, publicity, or usage rights applicable to photographs, videos, creative materials, campaign assets, or other works created as part of a client engagement. Those rights may be governed by a separate photography agreement, services agreement, proposal, model release, licensing agreement, or other written agreement between the applicable parties.

Nothing in this Privacy Policy transfers intellectual property ownership or grants a license to any photographs, videos, designs, concepts, creative materials, or other intellectual property owned by Steffany Graham or Merakairos Media.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember user preferences, understand website traffic, improve performance, and support analytics or marketing activities. Cookies are small files placed on or associated with your browser or device.

We may use essential cookies that are necessary for website functionality, security, forms, navigation, or other important features; analytics cookies that help us understand how visitors find and interact with the website; functional cookies that remember preferences and improve functionality; and advertising or marketing technologies that may help us understand marketing performance, measure conversions, build audiences, or present more relevant advertising where such tools are enabled.

You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings or any cookie-management tools provided on the website. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website.

5. Analytics and Advertising Technologies

We may use third-party analytics, advertising, website-management, customer relationship management, or measurement providers. These providers may collect information about your browser, device, website interactions, referral source, advertising interactions, or other online activity.

Depending upon the technologies used and applicable law, certain disclosures of personal information to advertising or analytics providers may be considered “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes even when no money is exchanged. Where legally required, we will provide mechanisms allowing users to exercise applicable opt-out rights.

6. How We May Disclose Information

We may disclose personal information to third parties when reasonably necessary to operate our business or provide our services. These parties may include website hosting providers, website development and maintenance providers, customer relationship management platforms, email and communication providers, scheduling platforms, payment processors, accounting and bookkeeping providers, cloud storage providers, analytics providers, advertising and marketing platforms, form and survey providers, automation providers, contractors, vendors, attorneys, accountants, insurers, and other professional service providers.

We may also disclose information with your authorization or at your direction, to fulfill a transaction or provide a requested service, to comply with a subpoena, court order, legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, to investigate fraud, misuse, security threats, or violations of our agreements, to protect our rights, property, safety, clients, or others, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, sale, restructuring, reorganization, or transfer of some or all of our business or assets.

7. Sale or Sharing of personal Information

We do not sell personal information in exchange for money as part of our ordinary business operations. However, some website analytics, advertising, or marketing technologies may involve disclosure of identifiers or internet activity to third parties.

Under certain privacy laws, including California law where applicable, some of these activities may constitute a “sale” or “sharing” even though we do not receive money directly in exchange for the information.

If our activities are subject to applicable opt-out requirements, eligible individuals may exercise their rights using any applicable privacy controls provided on our website or by contacting us as described below.

8. Email and Marketing Communications

If you subscribe to our email list, request information, become a client, or otherwise provide appropriate permission, we may send you communications regarding services, availability or booking openings, new projects or portfolio work, educational content, business updates, events, promotions, products, offers, or newsletters.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link contained in the communication. Unsubscribing from marketing communications will not necessarily prevent us from sending transactional or service-related communications, such as booking confirmations, invoices, project updates, contract communications, or other messages related to an existing business relationship.

9. Text Messages

If you voluntarily provide a telephone number, we may use it to respond to an inquiry, communicate regarding a booking or project, or provide other communications you have requested or authorized. Where consent is legally required for promotional text messages, we will obtain the required consent before sending such communications.

Consent to receive marketing communications is not a condition of purchasing services unless expressly permitted by law. Message and data rates may apply depending on your mobile carrier.

10. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, maintain business and client records, satisfy contractual obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, protect legal rights, and comply with tax, accounting, regulatory, insurance, and other legal requirements.

Different categories of information may be retained for different periods depending on the nature of the information and the reason it was collected. We may retain certain information after a deletion request when retention is permitted or required by law.

11. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. However, no internet transmission, electronic storage system, website, or communication method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by us. You are responsible for using appropriate safeguards when transmitting information electronically and for maintaining the security of any accounts, passwords, or devices under your control.

12. Third-Party Websites & Services

Our website may contain links to social media platforms, payment processors, scheduling services, video platforms, portfolio services, retailers, or other third-party websites and services. We do not control the privacy practices of third parties.

When you leave our website or interact directly with a third-party service, that third party’s terms, privacy policies, and practices will govern your interaction. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those services before submitting personal information.

13. Embedded Content & Social Media

Our website may include embedded photographs, videos, social-media feeds, YouTube videos, Instagram content, or other content provided by third-party platforms. These providers may collect information about your interaction with embedded content, including through cookies, pixels, or similar technologies.

Your interactions with these providers are also governed by their respective privacy policies.

14. Children's Privacy

Our website and services are intended primarily for adults and businesses and are not directed toward children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 through this website without appropriate authorization.

If we learn that personal information from a child under 13 has been collected in circumstances where parental or guardian consent was required, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information. Parents or legal guardians who believe a child has provided personal information to us may contact us using the information provided below.

15. California Privacy Rights

California residents may have specific privacy rights under California law depending upon the circumstances and whether applicable legal requirements apply to our business and processing activities. Where applicable, these rights may include the right to request information regarding the personal information we have collected, the categories of information collected, the sources from which it was collected, the purposes for which it was used, and the categories of parties to whom it has been disclosed.

California residents may also have the right to request access to specific pieces of personal information we maintain, request deletion of certain personal information, request correction of inaccurate information, opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information where applicable, and limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information in circumstances where California law provides that right.

We do not intend to use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about individuals for purposes requiring a right-to-limit mechanism unless expressly disclosed otherwise.

We will not unlawfully discriminate against you because you exercise an applicable privacy right. Where permitted by law, you may designate an authorized agent to submit certain requests on your behalf. We may require reasonable verification of your identity, the agent’s identity, and the agent’s authority to act for you before processing a request.

Not all California privacy laws apply to every business. Nothing in this section is intended to represent that Steffany Graham or Merakairos Media is subject to a particular statutory requirement when the applicable legal threshold has not been met. Where a right applies, we will honor it as required by law.

16. Global Privacy Control And Opt-Out Preference Signals

Where required by applicable law and technically supported by the website and services we use, we will recognize legally valid browser-based opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control, for requests to opt out of applicable sale or sharing activities.

Such signals generally apply to the browser or device from which they are sent.

17. Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting. Because there is not a universally adopted standard governing all Do Not Track signals, our website may not respond to every browser-based Do Not Track mechanism.

Where applicable law requires recognition of a particular opt-out preference signal, we will comply with those requirements.

18. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may request access to information we hold about you, correction of inaccurate information, deletion of certain information, information concerning how personal information is used or disclosed, withdrawal of certain consent where applicable, opt-out from certain marketing communications, or exercise applicable rights concerning sale or sharing of personal information.

To submit a privacy request, contact us using the method identified in the Contact Us section below. We may request reasonable information necessary to authenticate and process your request.

19. International Visitors

Our business is based in the United States. If you access our website from outside the United States, information you provide may be processed, transferred, or stored in the United States or other jurisdictions where our service providers operate.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those jurisdictions may differ from the laws of your country. Where required by applicable law, appropriate safeguards will be used for international transfers of personal information.

20. Business Transfers

If Steffany Graham, Merakairos Media, or any applicable business operation is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale, financing, reorganization, restructuring, bankruptcy, or transfer of assets, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

21. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our business practices, website, technologies, services, or legal obligations. When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Material changes may also be communicated through additional notices where required by law. We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

22. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or would like to submit a privacy-related request, please contact Steffany Graham and Merakairos Media in San Diego, California, United States through the contact form available on the Steffany Graham website.

When submitting a privacy-related request, please include “Privacy Request” in the subject line or beginning of your communication.