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If you would like to see more of our senior portrait work, please hop on over to our website. Thank you also to our amazing clients that allow us to document their lives. Thank you to Shutterbug and thank you to Steve Bedell that saw something in us and believed in us and wanted to highlight us in this article. It is a blessing just to be named with the rest of these in the article. The title of the article “High School Senior Photography…Four Top Photographers Share Tales of the Craft” was a article that partnered us with other leading senior photographers in the industry. We have had many opportunities to share our story, business tips and images with the world for many styles of our photography, but this time Shutterbug Magazine focused on Senior Portraits. For all others you might want to avoid a subscription to Shutterbug Magazine.It’s always a real honor to be published, but to be published in a national magazine like Shutterbug, is a REAL honor. If like a lot people you have no regard for the indiscriminate dissemination of your personal information there is no problem for you. That as opposed to looking up random numbers in the phone book. In that case, dishonest people are more likely to steal your identity as your information stands a better chance of making a lot of money for them. The information that someone is interested in photography and spends funds on a subscription bespeaks that this individual is more likely to be affluent. In considering this breach in regards to identity theft there is another problem.

In addition I will now be waiting for several other solicitations coming in the mail from this breach which I will have to be bothered with. That insures that if they sell my information it will bring a higher price as it is validated and certified. No other choice is given and I am wondering if they might charge me for not returning the CD that I didn’t ask for and don’t want as that would add additional information that my address is correct and valid etc. decline the offer and send the CD back to them. I told her that I receive Popular Photography as well as several other hobby magazines and have had subscriptions for as long as a quarter century and never had my information divulged or ever received a direct solicitation from any company that my information was given to, from any of those magazines.īesides from this breach of information the card enclosed with this solicitation offer gives you only two choices 1. Next Nichole told me that this was a common occurrence in the industry. Then I asked her if she could insure that the other company (Ultimate Photoguide) would honor protecting my information, if they haven’t sold it yet, and she said she could not assure me of that. Nichole mentioned that she will put a stop to any further dissemination of my personal information.

But even if this is legal it casts a lot of shadow on Shutterbug’s principles and whether they are giving due care to protect my information. Personally I believe that violates the privacy act of congress. They state that Shutterbug magazine gave them my personal information so that they could solicit my business via the US mail.

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Opening the package, I note that they address me by my first name. Shutterbug is a photo magazine for all levels of photographers including amateurs, advanced and professional photographers.

That was not my intent when I got the subscription. However, I now get a package with an offer that I do not want, did not ask for and am upset that my information has been sold to another company. I therefore assume that my privacy would stay intact and not be sold or disseminated. There was no privacy disclaimer anywhere on my application for the subscription. I don’t know about you but I m very protective of my private information. Just after the first issue came, I received a solicitation package from a company called Ultimate Photography. I recently purchased a subscription to Shutterbug Magazine. Shutterbug magazine disgraceful practice.