Terms and conditions of sale

1. Purpose and acceptance

These terms apply to every photography service ordered from Steevy Studio, Entreprise individuelle, 26 route du val des castagnins, 06500 Menton, France, SIRET 102 127 149 000 15.

Booking a service constitutes an order and unreserved acceptance of these terms, save for particular conditions agreed in writing. Any other document — a pricing page, a post, an exchange of messages — is indicative only. These terms form an indivisible whole with the accepted quote.

They may be amended at any time; each order remains governed by those in force on the day it was placed.

2. Ordering

Bookings are made through the site's form, by email or by telephone. The order is firm once the accepted quote and the deposit have been received; the quote may be accepted electronically.

If the quote is not accepted and the deposit not paid within 30 days of it being sent, the date is no longer held and the quote lapses.

3. Prices, deposit and payment

Prices are stated in euros, all taxes included, and are those in force on the day of the order. A later change to the price list has no effect on a service already confirmed. TVA non applicable, article 293 B du CGI.

A deposit of 30% is required to hold the date. It binds both parties firmly: I undertake to carry out the work, you to pay for it. Payment is made by virement bancaire ou espèces. The balance falls due le jour de la prestation pour un règlement en espèces, et au plus tard 30 jours après la facture pour un virement.

Cash payments are capped at €1,000 per service for a client resident in France, under article L. 112-6 of the French Monetary and Financial Code. Above that, bank transfer is the only accepted means.

Until the balance is paid, the photographs are not delivered. The delivery period set out in article 9 runs from receipt of the balance. Failure to pay within the agreed period cancels delivery without refund of the deposit.

Late payment incurs interest at the statutory rate in force, together with a fixed recovery charge of €40.

4. Travel costs

Travel is included in the prices within a radius of 35 km of Nice. Beyond that it is charged at €0,30 per kilometre, there and back, on the basis of the shortest route.

For work more than a hundred kilometres away involving late hours or continuing the next day, accommodation costs near the location are payable by you. These costs appear on the quote before any confirmation.

5. Changes, withdrawal and cancellation

5.1 Changes

Any request to change the booking must reach me in writing at least 7 days before the scheduled date. It will be accommodated so far as my availability allows.

5.2 Right of withdrawal

A consumer client who has ordered at a distance has fourteen days to withdraw, running from the day after the order. This right does not apply to leisure services supplied on a specified date — a session or a shoot scheduled for a particular day falls within this, under article L. 221-28 of the French Consumer Code — nor to a service fully performed before the end of the period with your express agreement and your waiver of that right.

5.3 Cancellation by you

Any cancellation must be notified in writing. The deposit is retained. Where you withdraw late, the full price remains due, the date no longer being one I can offer to anyone else:

• less than 72 hours before a session;
• less than two weeks before an event;
• less than three months before a wedding.

5.4 Cancellation by me

If I withdraw other than in a case of force majeure, I refund every sum paid in full and pay you compensation equal to the deposit. I will also do what I can to find you a colleague who is available.

5.5 Force majeure

Force majeure means any external, unforeseeable and irresistible event making the service impossible: hospitalisation, the death of someone close, a natural disaster, an administrative restriction. Either party may rely on it.

Where you rely on it, every sum paid is returned to you. Where I rely on it, the service is postponed to an agreed date; if no date within the year suits, every sum paid is returned to you. In both cases, without damages on either side.

5.6 Weather

Where weather conditions make a service planned outdoors impossible, I cannot be held liable. A new date is agreed at no cost where the nature of the service allows. For a wedding, whose date does not move, a couple session may be arranged at a preferential rate.

5.7 Equipment failure or accident

In the event of equipment failure or an accident occurring during the service and preventing me from delivering the work ordered, every sum paid is refunded in full, without damages. Where files are lost or destroyed before delivery, refunding the service is the only remedy owed.

6. Your obligations

You warrant that the people photographed have given their permission, as have the owners of the places and property shown.

For a wedding or an event, you undertake to tell your guests and the other suppliers that I will be present, and to obtain the agreement of those officiating at civil, religious or private ceremonies. If they refuse, I cannot be held liable and no reduction for partial performance may be claimed.

You undertake to make my work possible: to point out the people who must appear in the shoot, to tell me about delicate situations, to give me the running order. For my part, I undertake to carry out my work discreetly, keeping the disturbance caused by my movements and my equipment to a minimum.

7. Execution and style

When shooting outdoors or at your premises, I work with the conditions of the place — light, colours, setting. The quality of the images depends on them in large part.

You were familiar with my work before approaching me. The photographs may not therefore be rejected on the ground that they do not match your taste, my style being the one you chose. I am bound to an obligation of means, not of result.

8. Post-processing

Processing the images is an integral part of my work and of my world, just as taking them is. I decide on it alone, as I do on the selection of the frames I consider worth delivering.

Only processed photographs may be used by either party. Raw files are never delivered.

9. Delivery

Photographs are delivered as high-resolution JPEGs through a private online gallery, within the periods stated on the site: 48 to 72 hours for property, food and portraits, up to three weeks for weddings and events. These periods run from receipt of the balance.

Late delivery cannot ground termination of the contract, a claim for damages, or any other claim.

10. Keeping the files

Your photographs are backed up for at least 12 months after delivery, on several separate media.

After that, keeping them is your responsibility alone: back them up across several media — an external drive, an online service, prints. I cannot be held liable for the loss or corruption of the files handed over to you.

11. Intellectual property

Delivering the photographs transfers none of the intellectual property rights attaching to them — article L. 111-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code. I remain their author.

For a private client, the photographs are delivered for private and family use, understood broadly. You may publish them on your social media and your personal blog, on three conditions: credit me in one form or another, do not alter them — cropping, filters, colour — and make no commercial use of them.

For a business client, web and social media usage rights are granted without time limit. Any use in large-format display, in mass-circulation press or in an advertising campaign is the subject of a separate grant and separate invoicing.

Any publication beyond these limits constitutes infringement within the meaning of article L. 335-2 of the French Intellectual Property Code.

12. Image rights

Unless you refuse in writing, you agree that certain photographs may be used to promote my work: website, social media, portfolio, photography competitions. That refusal may be expressed at any time, without having to be justified, and the images concerned are then withdrawn.

No image will be transferred to a third party without your permission. Image rights do not cover photographs in which no person is identifiable.

13. Personal data

The processing of your data is described in the privacy policy, which sets out what is collected, why, for how long, and how to exercise your rights.

14. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by French law. In the event of a disagreement, an amicable solution will be sought before any legal action; write to me at contact@steevystudio.fr.

If you are a consumer, you retain the right to bring proceedings before the court of your domicile, that of the place where the work was carried out, or that of my registered office, as you choose. If you are a business, the competent court is that of Nice.