Privacy Notice

Stories by Annaliz is a family photography experience operated by Careryn LLC and presented in connection with Annaliz Photography.

This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, retain, and otherwise handle personal information when you:

Visit StoriesByAnnaliz.com
Apply for The First Year
Join or participate in a Stories by Annaliz photography experience
Use a Stories by Annaliz account or member portal
View or download private galleries
Contact support
Make or receive payments, refunds, or credits
Submit privacy, accessibility, cancellation, or other service requests
Choose whether identifiable family photographs or testimonials may be used publicly

1. Who is responsible for your information

Stories by Annaliz is operated by:

Careryn LLC Maryland, United States

For privacy questions or requests, contact:

Privacy / Support Email: [email protected]

No public home address or personal phone number is published for Version 1.0.

2. Information we collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with Stories by Annaliz.

A. Contact and identity information

We may collect:

Name
Email address
Phone number
Account identity
Relationship to a child or household
Parent or guardian authority where relevant
Preferred contact information

We do not need a legal name for every child merely to provide photography services if a preferred name is sufficient for the relevant experience.

B. Application information

When you apply for The First Year, we may collect:

Whether you are expecting or your baby has already arrived
Expected due date
Baby's birth date, when already born
Child's preferred name, if provided
Whether you are expecting or parenting multiples
ZIP code
General location
Preferred start timing
Scheduling windows
Whether weekend availability is essential
Household-participation information
Practical accommodation needs
How you heard about Stories by Annaliz
Offer acknowledgments
Application status and review history

We ask customers not to submit unnecessary medical details.

If a medical or family circumstance affects timing, a brief practical explanation is generally enough unless additional information is genuinely necessary to resolve the request.

C. Family and household information

If you become a customer, we may collect information needed to provide the service, such as:

Service address
Parking or access instructions
Authorized household adults
Children included in the membership
Family relationships relevant to the photography session
Preferred names
Contact preferences
Session preferences
Comfort boundaries
Information about other household participants
Practical accessibility or accommodation needs

We try to limit photographer and editor access to information they actually need for their work.

D. Appointment and service information

We may collect and create records concerning:

Planned chapters
Appointment proposals
Confirmed appointments
Rescheduling requests
Photographer assignments
Session outcomes
Pauses
Completion visits
Reshoots
Service-period changes
Cancellations
Relocation
Hardship accommodations
Final collection preferences
Support cases and remedies

A payment record, photography appointment, chapter, and gallery are maintained as separate service records rather than being treated as the same event.

Stories by Annaliz is a photography service.

We may collect, create, store, and process:

RAW photographs
Edited photographs
Preview images
Gallery images
Image metadata
Thumbnails
Collection-design files
Digital First Year book files
Photographic slideshow files
Download archives
Captions or image notes
Quality-review information
Asset-rights and permission records

Private family photographs are not intended to be publicly indexed as customer galleries.

F. Payment and transaction information

We may collect or receive:

Payment-provider customer identifiers
Payment-method status
Transaction amounts
Installment number
Payment status
Payment attempt status
Refunds
Credits
Approved adjustments
Dispute information
Payment timestamps
Provider transaction references

Stories by Annaliz does not intend to store raw card numbers or card security codes in its own application.

Payment-card information should be collected through the approved payment provider.

G. Account and security information

We may collect:

Login and account status
Email-verification status
Authentication and recovery events
Authorized-adult invitations
Session information
Security events
Access history
Role or permission information
Suspicious-access or abuse indicators

Privileged staff may be required to use stronger authentication.

H. Communications and support information

We may retain:

Emails
Support messages
Scheduling communications
Complaint or correction requests
Privacy requests
Accessibility requests
Cancellation requests
Refund communications
Account-security communications
Notification delivery status

Important account and service changes should be documented rather than existing only in informal personal messages.

I. Permissions and marketing preferences

We may record separate choices concerning:

Portfolio or editorial website use
Organic social-media use
Paid advertising use
Testimonial use
Name or attribution preferences
Marketing-email preferences
Future revocations or changes to those choices

A customer's private photography service is separate from public-image permission.

Declining public-image use does not change the membership price or standard service.

J. Website, device, and usage information

When you use the website, we may receive technical information such as:

IP address
Browser type
Device type
Operating system
Page requests
Approximate network or regional information
Security logs
Error information
Referral or campaign information
Cookie or session identifiers required for website functionality

Optional advertising or behavioral tracking should not be treated as necessary for private member, gallery, payment, or application-answer pages.

3. How we collect information

We may collect information:

Directly from you
From another authorized adult in your household
From a parent or guardian
From a photographer fulfilling an assigned session
From an editor or quality reviewer working on your photographs
From our payment provider
From website and hosting systems
From support and email systems
From security and authentication systems
From approved analytics or attribution tools, when used
From information you choose to provide through an application, account, form, or support request

We do not treat information supplied by one adult as automatic authority for every other adult's public-image or account-access decisions.

4. Why we use information

We use personal information to operate Stories by Annaliz.

This includes purposes such as:

Applications and qualification

Receive applications
Verify contact information
Review timing and serviceability
Determine capacity
Request additional information
Manage waitlists
Invite approved families to continue

Onboarding and customer accounts

Create and secure accounts
Verify authorized adults
Confirm the service address
Present accepted offers and agreements
Record acknowledgments
Set up the family experience

Photography service

Plan the twelve chapters
Schedule sessions
Assign photographers
Provide necessary family context
Photograph sessions
Ingest and back up image files
Edit and quality-review photographs
Deliver galleries
Produce the final First Year Collection

Payments

Set up the finite twelve-payment plan
Process payments
Handle failed payments
Record refunds and credits
Reconcile cancellations
Respond to disputes
Maintain financial records

Customer support

Respond to questions
Process scheduling changes
Manage pauses and hardship
Process cancellation requests
Handle gallery corrections
Resolve service issues
Provide accessibility assistance

Privacy and permissions

Record public-image choices
Process revocations
Manage private-gallery access
Respond to privacy requests
Maintain asset-use evidence

Security and reliability

Authenticate accounts
Prevent unauthorized access
Detect abuse
Protect private galleries
Investigate incidents
Maintain backups
Monitor system health

Communications

Send application updates
Send appointment notices
Send payment notices
Send gallery notifications
Send support updates
Send cancellation or refund confirmations
Send security notices
Send optional marketing only according to the applicable preference

5. Photographers, editors, and access to family information

Stories by Annaliz is designed so photographers do not need access to the family's entire account.

A photographer may receive information reasonably necessary to perform an assigned session, such as:

Family name
Service address
Appointment time
Access or parking instructions
Baby's relevant stage
Family context needed for the session
Comfort or photography preferences
Selected visual references
Upload requirements

Photographers should not receive routine access to:

Full payment history
Payment-card data
Cancellation settlements
Unrelated household records
Unrelated galleries
Private support disputes that are not necessary for the session

Editors and reviewers should receive only the image files, references, and production information needed for their assigned work.

6. How we disclose information

We may disclose information to service providers and people who help us operate the service.

Depending on the function, these may include:

Assigned photographers
Editors
Quality reviewers
Payment processors
Email-delivery providers
Hosting providers
Cloud storage providers
Content-delivery providers
Authentication or security providers
Backup providers
Technical support and monitoring providers
Approved analytics or attribution providers
Other vendors needed to provide an active customer feature

We expect service providers to receive only the information reasonably needed for their role.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

Protect the security of an account or system
Investigate fraud or misuse
Respond to a valid legal requirement
Protect the rights, safety, or property of Careryn LLC, a customer, a child, a photographer, or another person

We do not sell private family photographs as a data product.

7. Payment information

Payment-card information should be collected directly through the approved payment provider.

Stories by Annaliz may receive transaction status and identifiers necessary to administer the membership.

The application should not store:

Full card numbers
Card security codes

A saved payment method, payment authorization, pending payment, and completed payment are separate states.

8. Private galleries and downloads

Membership galleries are private by default.

We use access controls intended to limit gallery access to authorized users.

Gallery or download links may expire or require authentication.

Revoking access can stop future authorized access, but it cannot technically recall a photograph that an authorized person has already downloaded or copied.

Customers are encouraged to maintain their own copies of delivered high-resolution photographs.

9. Copyright, personal-use rights, and public image use

Careryn LLC owns or obtains the copyright rights required for Stories by Annaliz photography through its photographer agreements.

Customers receive the personal-use and print rights described in the applicable customer agreement.

Private gallery delivery does not automatically make an image a public marketing asset.

Stories by Annaliz maintains separate permissions for public uses such as:

Portfolio/editorial website use
Organic social-media use
Paid advertising use
Testimonial use

The applicable Permissions and Model Release describes those choices in more detail.

10. Children's information

The First Year necessarily involves information about babies and children.

We collect child information primarily from a parent, guardian, or authorized adult for the purpose of providing the photography service.

Version 1.0 does not provide child login accounts or public child-profile pages.

We do not need children to interact directly with the website as independent account holders.

Information concerning a child may include:

Preferred name
Due date or birth date
Membership relationship
Photographs
Session information
Family context needed for the service
Permission records

We try to limit public identifying details concerning children.

11. Sensitive family circumstances

Stories by Annaliz may sometimes learn about sensitive circumstances because they affect scheduling or service.

Examples may include:

Premature birth
Extended hospitalization
Pregnancy loss
Infant loss
Serious family hardship

We aim to collect only the information reasonably necessary to provide an accommodation or resolve the service issue.

A family should not be required to disclose detailed medical information merely to request compassionate treatment.

When a serious hardship is recorded, ordinary milestone or promotional communications may be suppressed where appropriate.

12. Public photographs and testimonials

A family may choose whether certain identifiable photographs, testimonials, names, or approved details may be used publicly.

Those choices are recorded separately.

Permission may be limited by:

Person
Photograph
Session
Membership
Use category
Attribution
Duration
Revocation

A general service agreement should not be treated as blanket public-advertising permission.

13. Artificial intelligence and image processing

Family photographs are not authorized for AI-model training without a separate, explicit permission specifically covering that purpose.

Stories by Annaliz may use approved software or services to assist with ordinary photography production, such as:

Culling
Editing
Color correction
Cropping
Export
File organization

Before client files are supplied to an external image-processing or AI-assisted service, the business should review the provider's actual data-use practices and configuration.

The core photography service should remain usable even if an optional AI feature is not enabled.

14. Cookies and similar technologies

The website may use cookies or similar technologies necessary for:

Login
Security
Session continuity
Application progress
User preferences
Fraud prevention
Website functionality

Optional analytics or advertising technologies may be used only when enabled under the applicable Stories by Annaliz configuration and consent approach.

Private galleries, member pages, payment pages, and application-answer pages should not be treated as advertising-data sources by default.

15. Analytics and campaign attribution

Stories by Annaliz may measure business events such as:

Application started
Application submitted
Application approved
Membership activated
Payment settled
Chapter delivered
Collection delivered
Cancellation received
Refund completed

Analytics events should avoid sending unnecessary family information.

Names, emails, phone numbers, child birth dates, due dates, addresses, private images, private captions, signed gallery links, and application free-text answers should not be placed in ordinary advertising analytics payloads.

16. Marketing communications

Optional marketing communications are separate from service communications.

If you opt out of marketing, we may still send messages reasonably necessary to administer:

Your application
Account security
Appointments
Membership
Payments
Galleries
Support requests
Privacy requests
Cancellations
Refunds
Final collection

Public-image permission does not create marketing-email consent.

Marketing consent does not create public-image permission.

17. Retention

Different information is retained for different periods.

Delivered galleries

Delivered galleries are intended to remain available throughout the membership and for at least 12 months after completion or cancellation.

Continued access may be offered longer, but Version 1.0 does not promise lifetime hosting.

Final edited files

Final edited files are retained for at least the promised gallery-access period.

RAW files

RAW files are retained for at least 90 days after the applicable gallery is delivered.

They may be kept longer when:

A correction is pending
A dispute is open
A quality issue is unresolved
A reshoot or remedy is being reviewed
Another documented hold applies

Account, agreement, support, and financial records

These may be retained for periods reasonably necessary to:

Administer the service
Preserve the agreement and offer actually accepted
Maintain payment and refund records
Resolve disputes or support cases
Protect account security
Maintain required business records
Comply with applicable obligations

Deletion of an account does not necessarily require immediate deletion of every financial, agreement, security, or dispute record.

18. Backups and deletion

Some information may exist in operational backups for a period after it is removed from active systems.

Stories by Annaliz should use reviewable deletion and retention processes rather than promise that every backup copy can be erased instantly.

A deletion request may result in information being:

Deleted
De-identified
Restricted
Retained temporarily because of an active issue
Retained where another legitimate record obligation remains

19. Your choices and requests

You may contact us to request assistance concerning personal information associated with your Stories by Annaliz relationship.

Depending on the request and the information involved, this may include:

Access
Correction
Updating contact details
Updating household access
Updating marketing preferences
Changing public-image permissions
Requesting deletion
Requesting an export
Revoking a permission
Reporting unauthorized access

We may need to verify your identity and authority before acting on a request.

A request concerning a child's information may require verification of parent or guardian authority.

Some information may need to be retained because of:

Payment records
Refunds
Disputes
Security
Agreement history
Another authorized adult's legitimate access
An unresolved service issue
Applicable recordkeeping requirements

20. Public-image revocation

If you revoke a public-image permission, Stories by Annaliz will process the request prospectively under the active Permissions and Model Release.

That may include:

Blocking new public use
Removing controlled website placements
Stopping future scheduled posts
Stopping future advertising uses
Recording the revocation in the asset-rights record

We cannot promise universal deletion from:

Copies already downloaded by others
Screenshots
Previously distributed printed materials
Third-party resharing
Search-engine caches
Platform caches outside our immediate control

21. Security

Stories by Annaliz uses administrative and technical measures intended to protect private customer information and photographs.

Version 1.0 security practices are intended to include:

Secure transport
Account authentication
Restricted staff access
Role-based access
Private image storage
Time-limited or authenticated downloads where appropriate
Backup and integrity checks
Security logging
Staff access revocation
Redaction of sensitive information from routine logs where practical

No online system can guarantee absolute security.

If we identify a material security issue, we will work to contain it, investigate it, and take appropriate follow-up action.

22. Third-party services

Stories by Annaliz relies on third-party systems to operate some parts of the service.

These may include services for:

Payments
Hosting
Cloud storage
Email
Authentication
Monitoring
Image processing
Gallery delivery
Maps or directions
Analytics

A third-party provider may process information under its own privacy and security practices as well as its agreement with Careryn LLC.

We should choose providers appropriate for the information and function involved.

23. International processing

Some service providers may process or store information in locations outside the state where a customer lives.

When a provider is used, Stories by Annaliz should configure and use that provider in a manner appropriate to the information being processed and the service being delivered.

24. Accessibility and privacy

You do not need to disclose a disability or medical diagnosis to request accessibility assistance.

If you need help making a privacy request, accessing your account, downloading your photographs, or using another customer feature because of an accessibility barrier, you may contact the same monitored support channel.

25. Changes to this Privacy Notice

Stories by Annaliz may update this Privacy Notice as the service, technology, vendors, or information practices evolve.

Each material version should include:

Version
Effective date
Last-updated date
Approval ID

Material changes should be published as a new version rather than silently rewriting historical records associated with earlier customer activity.

Where a new practice requires separate permission or affirmative acceptance, updating this notice alone should not be treated as that permission.

26. Contact

For privacy questions or requests:

Stories by Annaliz A family photography experience by Annaliz Photography Operated by Careryn LLC Maryland