Dog Photography & Gallery Policy

Effective and last updated: August 8, 2026 · Version 1.0

1. Participation and notice

Dogoboca may make dog-only photographs at a public-park session and select them for the public session gallery or continuing archive even when no handler is identified and no contact information is collected. This Policy does not permit us to publish recognizable people or owner contact details.

If the photographer invites an owner or handler to stop and pose or present a dog, or asks for an email to deliver a gallery, the photographer first gives a brief courtesy notice. It explains the gallery, archive and ordinary Dogoboca social-post uses. The owner or authorized handler may decline the posed portrait or contact collection and walk away without charge or consequence.

By voluntarily presenting a dog after that notice, the owner or authorized handler confirms they are at least 18, have authority over the dog for the session, and understand that Dogoboca may select, crop, color-correct and display the resulting dog-only images for those stated purposes. The notice acknowledgement does not subscribe the owner to general marketing and is not permission for automated marketing texts.

2. Dogs only

Dogoboca intentionally photographs and publishes dogs, not people. The photographer frames the shot to exclude owners and bystanders. If a recognizable person nevertheless appears, that frame is cropped, withheld from public view or deleted during review. Readable owner details on a collar tag, house, vehicle plate or similar background element are cropped, blurred or withheld. No facial-recognition technology is used.

3. Public gallery and metadata

Dog-only previews may be publicly visible so owners can find their dogs and so the archive can document the local project. A preview may include the dog’s first name, breed, approximate age or color and the named park/session. We do not publish the owner’s name, email, phone, ZIP, home address, access notes, exact GPS coordinates or camera EXIF location. We do not imply that the owner endorses Dogoboca.

Public viewers may not scrape, bulk-download, resell, use for machine-learning training, identify an owner, or use an image commercially. Access to a preview is not a transfer of copyright or an invitation to use it outside normal viewing and sharing of the Dogoboca page.

4. Claims, delivery and owner licence

Claiming a photo is a statement that the dog is yours or that you are authorized by its owner. We may verify the session email or ask for a reasonable description before releasing a private original. Conflicting claims are held for manual review. False claims or attempts to obtain another household’s files may result in account restriction and other available remedies.

Once a claim is approved, Dogoboca gives the owner a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free licence to use the delivered images of that dog for personal, noncommercial purposes, including prints and personal social posts. The owner may crop the image but may not sell it, license it to a business, remove a visible copyright mark from a preview, or present it as another photographer’s work without written permission.

5. Dogoboca use and copyright

Copyright belongs to Dogoboca or the photographer who has authorized Dogoboca to manage and license the work. This Policy covers Dogoboca-controlled galleries and the archive. A dog-only portrait made after the courtesy notice may also appear in ordinary posts about the project on Dogoboca-owned social accounts.

We will not sell a dog image as stock, license it to an unrelated third party, place it on merchandise, or use it in paid advertising creative without a separate written permission describing that additional use. General marketing email or SMS requires its own choice; participation in a photo session is not that choice.

6. Removal requests

An owner or authorized handler may ask Dogoboca to stop future display of an image on channels we control. Email [email protected] with the gallery URL or a screenshot, the session/park if known, and enough information to verify the dog. We aim to review a complete request within 10 business days and ordinarily remove or restrict the controlled copy within 30 days.

Removal does not require Dogoboca to recover personal copies an owner already downloaded, copies independently reposted by others before removal, expired print material or temporary search/cache and backup copies that disappear in the ordinary cycle. We will not make new uses after an approved removal request, except where retention is reasonably needed for a dispute, security record or legal obligation.

7. Safety and park rules

The owner or handler remains responsible for the dog, leash, behavior and compliance with park rules. A session does not create a boarding or custody relationship. The photographer may stop or decline a shot for animal welfare, aggression, crowding, weather, park restrictions or permit conditions. Sessions take place only where Dogoboca has confirmed the permission or permit required for that location and use.

8. Privacy and contact

Owner contact details collected after the courtesy notice are used to deliver the gallery, authenticate a claim and send necessary session messages. They are handled under the Privacy Policy, not published with the dog. This Policy governs participation, claims and downloads and is incorporated into Dogoboca’s Terms of Service where those Terms are accepted.

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