Privacy

How kanuck.studio handles your information.

What we collect

Your email address and your name.

For race and other events you may also be asked for your bib number, an optional timing-chip id, and the event organizer's signup questions (for example which distance you rode, or your expected pace). Those answers go only to that event's organizer and photographers, to match and deliver your photos.

How we use it

To match you to the photos you appear in, email you when they're ready, and let you view, download and — where the photographer offers it — buy them. Nothing else. We never sell your data or show ads. We use basic analytics (Google Analytics) to understand how the site is used in aggregate.

GPS ride files — only if you choose to share one

On race events you can optionally upload a GPS ride file (GPX / TCX / FIT). If you do, it is used for exactly one thing: matching photos to where you were on course when the shutter fired. The file is clipped to the official event window before anything is stored — the parts of your ride before and after the event (like the route to your home) are discarded and never saved. Uploading is entirely optional, you can replace the file at any time, and deleting your data removes it.

Grouping photos by person

A photographer can switch on "group by person" for an album. The photos are then analysed for how each person looks — clothing, build — so a viewer can tap a person and see every photo of them. With the separate face-recognition add-on, faces are compared too. Nothing is matched to names or accounts automatically: a photographer may label a person by hand. This data stays inside the album, is used for nothing else, and the photographer can delete all of it at any time; so can we on request.

Purchases

If you buy hi-res photos, payment is handled by Stripe — card details never touch our servers. We keep the order record so your purchases stay unlocked.

Your controls

• Unsubscribe anytime via the link in any email.
• Delete your data — removes your email, name, sign-ups, bib registrations, answers and any ride files from our system. Use the unsubscribe link, then "Delete all my data", or the button in your photo view.
• Ask a photo to be removed or blurred — open any photo and tap "Remove me" or "Blur my face". Photos found by bib search can be taken down the same way.

Retention

Albums may be set to auto-delete after a period. Verification codes expire in 15 minutes. Ride files and signup answers live only as long as your membership in that event — deleting your data removes them immediately.

Contact

Questions or deletion requests? Email hello@kanuck.studio.

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