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PHOTO BOOTH PARTYHIRE

Privacy Policy

How We Handle Your Personal Information

This Privacy Policy explains how Photo Booth Partyhire collects, uses and protects personal information when you visit our website, contact us, make a booking or interact with our services. We are committed to handling personal information responsibly and in accordance with applicable UK data protection legislation.
Last updated: September 2026

About This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information processed by Photo Booth Partyhire through our website, enquiries, bookings and the delivery of our photo booth services.
It explains the types of information we may collect, why we use it, how long it may be retained, when it may be shared and the rights you have in relation to your personal information.
The information collected will depend on how you interact with us. For example, the information required to respond to a booking enquiry may be different from information processed as part of a corporate event or customer engagement activity.

Information We May Collect

Depending on how you use our website or services, we may process the following types of information.

Enquiries & Contact Information

When you contact us, we may collect information such as your name, email address, telephone number and the contents of your enquiry.

Event & Booking Information

When you enquire about or book an event, we may collect information including your event date, venue, location, event type, chosen photo booth and other information required to organise and deliver your booking.

Payment & Transaction Information

Where applicable, we may process information relating to payments, deposits, invoices and transactions connected with your booking. We do not need to retain complete payment card details where payments are processed by a third-party payment provider.

Website Information

When you use our website, certain technical information may be collected through cookies, analytics technologies and server logs. This may include information about your device, browser and how you interact with the website.

Photographs & Event Images

Our services involve creating photographs and other event images. These may be stored and processed as necessary to provide the service agreed with the person or organisation making the booking.

Corporate Events, Surveys & Data Capture

For some corporate events, brand activations or customer engagement activities, a photo booth may be configured to collect information, survey responses or other data. The information collected and its purpose will depend on the individual event and the requirements of the organisation responsible for the campaign or activity.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We only use personal information where there is a legitimate and secure reason to do so, strictly in accordance with standard legal procedures to provide and support our professional services.
Where information is collected for a specific purpose, we will aim to use it only in ways that are compatible with that purpose unless there is another lawful reason for processing it.

Our Lawful Basis for Processing Personal Information

We only collect and process personal data when we have a valid legal framework to do so. Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related data protection standards, our activities are governed by specific lawful bases to ensure your information is treated with absolute transparency, security, and fairness.

Contract

We may process personal information where it is necessary to take steps at your request before entering into a contract or to fulfil a booking or other agreement with you.

This may include responding to booking enquiries, providing quotations, managing your event and delivering the services you have booked.

Legitimate Interests

We may process information where it is reasonably necessary for our legitimate business interests, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

This may include operating and improving our services, responding to customers, protecting our business and understanding how our website is used.

Legal Obligations

We may need to process or retain certain information to comply with legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other obligations that apply to our business.

Consent

Where appropriate, we may ask for your consent before processing information for a particular purpose.

Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawing consent will not affect processing that was lawful before consent was withdrawn.

Data Capture at Corporate Events

Some corporate events, brand activations and customer engagement activities may use our photo booth technology to support surveys, feedback or other agreed forms of data capture.

The information collected, why it is collected and how it will subsequently be used will depend on the individual event and the requirements of the organisation running the activity.

In some circumstances, the corporate client or event organiser may determine what information is collected and the purpose for which it will be used. Photo Booth Partyhire may then provide the technology or services used to facilitate that collection.

Where appropriate, information about the collection and use of personal data should be made available to participants as part of the event or activity.

If you are a corporate client interested in data capture, we will discuss your requirements as part of planning the even

Photographs & Event Images

Photography is an integral part of our photo booth hire experience, capturing memorable moments for you and your guests. This policy details how photographs taken during your event are managed, shared, and stored.

Photographs Taken at Your Event

When guests use one of our photo booth experiences, photographs and other associated event content may be created and processed as part of delivering the booked service.

Depending on the photo booth and package selected, photographs may be printed, stored digitally, made available for digital sharing or supplied to the customer after the event.

Digital Copies

Where your package includes a digital copy of the event photographs, images may be stored for a reasonable period to allow us to prepare and provide those photographs to the customer.

Sharing Photographs

Some photo booth experiences may allow guests to share photographs digitally. Where this functionality is available, information may need to be processed in order to provide the requested sharing feature.

 

Marketing & Social Media

We may sometimes wish to feature photographs from events on our website, social media or other marketing channels.

Where the use of an identifiable individual’s photograph requires consent or another appropriate lawful basis, we will handle that use in accordance with applicable data protection requirements. If you have a question or concern about an image associated with one of our events, please contact us.

Personalised Booth print outs

Cookies & Website Analytics

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to operate correctly, understand how visitors use the website and improve the experience we provide.

Cookies are small files or pieces of information that may be stored on your device when you visit a website.

Depending on your choices and the technologies in use, these may include:

Essential Cookies

These help provide functionality necessary for the website to operate correctly.

Analytics Cookies

Where permitted, analytics technologies may help us understand how visitors find and use our website, which pages are visited and how the website performs.

Other Optional Technologies

Other cookies or technologies may be used where appropriate and subject to the consent choices presented to you.

Where consent is required for non-essential cookies, you can use the cookie controls provided on our website to manage your preferences.

Who We May Share Personal Information With

We do not share personal information unnecessarily. However, providing our services and operating our business may require information to be shared with appropriate third parties in certain circumstances.

Service Providers

Companies that help us operate our website, communications, IT systems, payments or other business services.

Professional Advisers

Accountants, insurers, legal advisers or other professional advisers where their involvement is reasonably necessary.

Corporate Clients & Event Organisers

Where information is collected as part of an agreed corporate event, survey, brand activation or customer engagement activity, information may be processed on behalf of or provided to the organisation responsible for that activity, as appropriate.

Legal & Regulatory Requirements

We may disclose information where required to comply with applicable law, a legal obligation, court order or legitimate request from an appropriate authority.

Where third parties process personal information on our behalf, we expect information to be handled appropriately and in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.

How Long We Keep Personal Information

We only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we actively evaluate the following key factors:

Keeping Your Information Secure

We take the security of personal information seriously and use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect the information we process.

These measures are intended to reduce the risk of personal information being lost, misused, altered, disclosed or accessed without appropriate authorisation.

Where third-party services are used to help operate our business or provide our services, we consider the need for those providers to handle personal information appropriately.

While we take reasonable precautions, no website, electronic communication or data storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on the circumstances and applicable data protection law, you may have rights in relation to the personal information held about you.

The Right to Be Informed

You have the right to receive information about how your personal information is collected and used.

Access

You may have the right to request a copy of personal information held about you.

Rectification

You may ask for inaccurate or incomplete personal information to be corrected.

Erasure

In certain circumstances, you may ask for personal information to be deleted.

Restrict Processing

You may have the right to ask for the use of your personal information to be restricted in certain circumstances

Data Portability

In certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive personal information you have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

Object

You may have the right to object to certain uses of your personal information.

Automated Decision-Making

You may have rights relating to decisions made solely through automated processing where those decisions have legal or similarly significant effects.

Withdrawing Consent

Where we rely on your consent to process information, you can withdraw that consent at any time.

Not every right applies in every circumstance. If you would like to exercise a data protection right, please contact us using the details below.

Contact Us About Your Personal Information

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, please contact us.

Photo Booth Partyhire

Email: info@photoboothpartyhire.co.uk

Website: photoboothpartyhire.co.uk

When contacting us about personal information, please make it clear that your enquiry relates to privacy or data protection and provide enough information for us to understand and respond to your request.

We may need to ask for additional information where reasonably necessary to confirm your identity before responding to certain requests.

Complaints & The Information Commissioner's Office

If you have concerns about how your personal information has been handled, we encourage you to contact us so that we have an opportunity to investigate and respond.

You also have the right to raise a concern with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s independent regulator for data protection.

You can find further information about data protection rights and making a complaint on the Information Commissioner’s Office website.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, business practices or applicable legal requirements.

When changes are made, the updated version will be published on this page and the Last updated date at the top of the Privacy Policy will be amended.

We recommend reviewing this page periodically if you would like to stay informed about how Photo Booth Partyhire handles personal information.