Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 12, 2026

This policy explains what personal information Optical Luminary Photo Booth collects, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices you have. It covers this website and our photo booth service at events in San Diego County, California.

What we collect

• Booking requests. When you use the booking form we collect your name, email address, event type, event date, venue and city, and package. You can also add a guest count and notes. We record that you ticked the consent box.
• Emails and messages. If you email or message us, we keep the conversation so we can answer you and run your booking.
• Payment details. Deposits and payments are handled by a third-party payment service. We can see that a payment was made, but we do not see or store your full card number.
• Photos from your event. The booth takes photos of the people who use it. These photos are personal information. We deliver them to the event host in an online gallery and to guests who ask for their own photo.
• Guest phone numbers or email addresses. A guest who wants a photo by text or email types their number or address into the booth. We use it only to send that guest their photo. We do not use it for marketing.
• Technical data from this website. See the next section.

Information from this website

Our website is hosted by Pixieset. When you visit, Pixieset's servers receive your IP address, browser and device type, and the pages you ask for. They use this to deliver the site, keep it secure and fix errors. Pixieset also uses an error-monitoring service (Sentry) to detect and fix site problems.

The booking form is protected from spam by Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks that a visitor is a person by using technical signals such as your IP address and browser details.

Our pages load fonts from Google Fonts. Your browser sends a request to Google's servers to get them, and that request includes your IP address.

We do not use advertising cookies, remarketing, social media tracking pixels, or analytics tools that follow you across websites. See our Cookie Policy for details.

How we use your information

• To reply to your request and send you availability and a quote.
• To confirm and run your booking, including contracts, invoices and payments.
• To set up and run the booth at your event and deliver the photos.
• To answer questions and fix problems.
• To keep business, tax and legal records.
• To keep this website secure and prevent spam and fraud.

We do not make decisions about you using automated systems.

Who we share it with

We share personal information only with service providers that help us run the business, and only what they need to do their job:

• Pixieset, for website hosting, booking form entries and online galleries.
• Our email provider, to send and receive email.
• LumaBooth, our photo booth software, to run the booth and send guests their photos.
• A third-party payment service, for deposits and payments.
• Cloudflare, for form spam protection, and Google, for fonts.
• Accountants and legal advisers, government agencies when the law requires it, and a buyer if the business is sold.

We do not sell personal information. We do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We have not sold or shared personal information in the past 12 months. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing.

Photos at events and children

• Many events include children and teenagers. We send event photos only to the event host and to guests who choose to get their own photo.
• We do not post a photo of a minor on our website or social media unless a parent or guardian gives written permission.
• Event hosts should tell guests that photos are being taken at the event.
• If you or your child appears in a photo and you want it deleted, email us. We will remove it from our files and our gallery. The event host may already have a copy.

This website is for adults who book events. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the website.

Text messages

If a guest enters a mobile number at the booth, we use it to send that guest's photo by text and nothing else. We do not send marketing texts. Message and data rates from your carrier may apply.

How long we keep it

Information	How long
Booking requests and emails	24 months after the event, then deleted, except records the law requires us to keep
Invoices and payment records	As long as tax and accounting laws require
Event photos and online gallery	90 days after the event, then deleted unless you ask us to keep them longer
Guest phone numbers and email addresses	30 days after the event

Your privacy rights

If you live in California, you can ask us to:

• tell you what personal information we have about you and how we use it, and give you a copy;
• correct information that is wrong;
• delete your personal information;
• stop selling or sharing your personal information (we do neither); and
• limit the use of sensitive personal information (we do not use it beyond what is needed to provide our service).

We will not treat you differently for using these rights. To make a request, email opticalluminary@gmail.com. We may ask you to confirm details from your booking so we know it is you. An authorized agent can make a request for you. We reply within 45 days. If we cannot do what you ask, we will tell you why.

We handle these requests even if the law does not require us to.

Do Not Track and browser privacy signals

We do not track visitors over time or across other websites, and we do not let third parties do that on our site for advertising. Our site works the same way whether or not your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal.

Security

We use reasonable steps to protect personal information and limit access to the people who need it. No website or storage system is completely secure.

Links to other sites

This site links to Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Those services have their own privacy policies, and we are not responsible for them.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will post the new version on this page and update the date at the top.

Contact us

Questions or requests about your information: opticalluminary@gmail.com