Privacy

One advertising cookie. Nothing sold.

One cookie, from Meta, so I can tell which enquiries come from my adverts — and in Europe only if you say yes. Nothing is sold. Here is exactly what is recorded, and why.

What is recorded

When you open a page, this site records which page it was, roughly where in the world the request came from (country only), whether you are on a phone or a computer, and which site you came from if you followed a link. That is all.

Those page views are grouped into a single visit so that an enquiry can be answered usefully — if you have been reading about honeymoon sessions at one particular resort in March, the reply can start from there instead of asking you to explain it again.

The one cookie

This site uses the Meta Pixel, which sets a cookie and tells Meta that a browser visited a page here. It exists for one reason: so I can tell whether an advert on Instagram or Facebook actually led to an enquiry, rather than guessing. If you are in the UK, the EEA or Switzerland you will be asked first, and nothing is requested from Meta unless you agree — saying no costs you nothing on this site. Elsewhere it loads with the page; you can still refuse it with the browser settings below.

If you would rather Meta did not receive this at all, your Facebook and Instagram settings have an Off-Facebook activity control that disconnects it at their end, and any tracker-blocking browser will stop it here.

What is never recorded

Beyond that one cookie, nothing is kept in your browser's storage except your answer to the question above. Your IP address is never stored: it is combined with your browser's name and a secret that changes every midnight, turned into an unreadable string, and discarded within the same request. Because that secret changes daily, yesterday's visits cannot be matched to today's — not by me, and not by anyone with the data.

Nothing is shared with, or sold to, anybody. There is no third-party advertising network involved in this site at all.

How long it is kept

A visit is held for thirty minutes after your last page, then deleted automatically. If you do not send an enquiry, nothing identifying that visit survives — only an anonymous count of how many people read which pages, which is what tells me which parts of the site are worth improving.

If you do send an enquiry, the short summary of what you were reading is attached to your enquiry, because that is what makes a useful reply possible. It lives with your enquiry and is deleted when that is.

What you send me

The enquiry form asks for your name, email, and whatever you choose to tell me about your dates, your island and the session you have in mind. It is used to answer you and to arrange the shoot. It is never sold, never added to a marketing list without your asking, and never passed to anyone beyond the resort when your booking requires it.

Traffic measurement

The site also uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies and without building a profile of anyone. That is why this site has never shown you a cookie banner: there is no cookie to ask about.

Opting out

If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, your visit is counted but never read for intent — the measurement described above is skipped entirely. Both are a setting in every major browser, and nothing on this site behaves differently if you turn them on.

Your photographs

Photographs from your session are yours. Nothing from a private session is published without your consent, and consent once given can be withdrawn — write to me and the frames come down.

Asking about your data

Write to [email protected] to see what is held about you, correct it, or have it deleted. No forms, no process — I will answer within a few days.

Asad Photo · Malé, Republic of Maldives. Last updated 10 October 2026.

Tell me the dates and the island.

A session, a campaign, a private stay or a conference — send the dates, the island and what you need. I come back within six hours with options and hold the date for five days.

Enquire

I reply personally — 07:00–22:00 Maldives time.