When you sign the photography waiver, you do provide the rights for us to use the photos taken of you during the event for marketing purposes. However, we understand that people change their mind, and so we make sure we have explicit consent first:
1. Before we use any photo, we will make sure that we have enthusiastic and informed consent from everyone in the image. That means we’ll tell them where it will appear and how it will be used. If we can’t contact them, we won’t use it. A simple “no” is all it takes; no reasons have to be given for why they don’t want it used.
2. Please email photos@ropecraft.net about pictures you do NOT want to have used. You can reference them by image number on the site, please, because “I’m that hot kinkster in the rope on the frame” won’t be enough to help us identify you. You can also request that they be removed entirely from the attendee gallery.
3. Also email photos@ropecraft.net about pictures you DO want to have used. These will be passed on to our Assistant Director also runs our instagram account, and like we said, enthusiastic consent is sexy. You can also let her know if you’re ok with any of your photos being used.
Any photo that falls in that gray area between 2 and 3 will not be used. Period. Attendees will still have access to the photos on the site via their password, and we can’t control where those images go or are used – but we encourage attendees to be considerate of other attendees and continue to treat photography like any other kink: only engaged in with the full consent of everyone involved.