Photo consent
Capture, consent, post
Before/after photos are the highest-converting marketing content a beauty artist can produce: and the most legally fraught if you mishandle consent. Goldenhour ships a two-moment consent flow + automatic watermark + optional face-blur so you can post legally without thinking about it.
Moment 1: Intake
The customer pre-agrees at booking
The intake form on every booking includes a Photo Consent question with three explicit options:
- Yes: anywhere. Body + face photos may be used in marketing (Instagram, your booking page hero, ads).
- Body only: no face. Body photos may be used in marketing; face photos are kept in the file but not posted.
- No. Internal-record only. Nothing goes anywhere public.
The answer lands in the client’s intake record. Future appointments reuse it; goldenhour’s photo-publishing gate reads this flag before allowing a photo to be marked public.
Moment 2: Per-photo capture
One-tap consent dialog
When you capture a post-appointment photo from the iOS app or the appointment detail page, goldenhour surfaces a one-tap dialog. The customer sees the photo, taps their consent choice, and the dialog closes. No paper, no DocuSign, no friction.
Capture
Photo taken
Show
Client reviews
Tap
Consent logged
The consent snapshot is timestamped + immutable in the audit log. If a client later disputes, the audit-log entry is your defense.
Defaults
What goldenhour applies automatically
Watermark
Every photo marked for marketing use gets a corner watermark with your business name + the goldenhour wordmark. Turn it off in Settings → Photos if you use external editing tools.
Face blur (opt-in)
A one-tap action runs an on-device blur over detected faces. Useful for “body-only” consent + for clients who later change their mind without you having to re-shoot the photo.
Publication gate
Before any photo is marked as public-facing, goldenhour checks the client’s intake consent. “No” or unanswered → blocked with an explainer. Compliance by default.
Delete and forget
When a client later changes their mind
People’s comfort changes. A client who said yes to marketing photos a year ago may want them down today. Goldenhour’s photo gallery has a delete-and-forget path: tap the photo → Remove from public → confirm.
- Photo is unpublished from your booking page hero + gallery immediately.
- The original capture is moved to an archive directory, not deleted: you can restore if the client changes their mind again, but it’s not actively served.
- The audit log records who initiated the takedown + when, so disputes have a clear trail.
- External copies (your Instagram, your portfolio site) are yours to take down. We surface the photo’s public URLs in the takedown dialog as a reminder.