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<br />PhotoShelter Security and Proprietary Data Statement <br /> <br />For over 16 years, PhotoShelter’s underlying storage technology for marketing/creative teams and <br />photographers has provided 100% data durability for the billions of images, videos, and creative <br />objects we store. PhotoShelter’s visual media technology specializes in content workflow solutions <br />for businesses and photographers. We do this through two software services and a proprietary <br />cloud platform built for the unique needs of creative organizations and image-makers. <br /> <br />PhotoShelter provides the only solution in the market that is built and optimized to serve both <br />professional photographs and brand marketing teams on one underlying technology infrastructure. <br />The system is unique in the marketplace as an owned and operated private cloud that is available <br />only to the customers it serves and fully independently of any commercial cloud platform. The <br />durability of our system is unparalleled by commercial public clouds, including Amazon S3 and <br />Google Cloud. <br /> <br />PhotoShelter protects your data against loss through several important methods: <br /> <br />• PhotoShelter maintains 4 copies of all uploaded data across at least 2 geographically <br />distributed SOC2-audited datacenters. <br />• SHA256 checksums are calculated for your data before it is written to our distributed storage <br />system. <br />• Checksums are verified for every read and write of data stored in our system. Checksum <br />failures are automatically corrected by fetching known good copies. <br />• Checksums are regularly scrubbed — at least once a month all content is checked to make <br />sure that the on-disk content matches the original checksum. <br />• In addition to these protections, an automated disaster recovery is run every week that <br />simulates the loss of a full datacenter. <br /> <br />Beyond these automated systems, PhotoShelter conducts a full annual audit of our Disaster <br />Recovery Plan that includes: <br />• Failure of each of our primary datacenters, <br />• Incapacitation of our development/testing environment, <br />• Full loss of our HQ office, and <br />• Loss of our Critical Vendors. <br /> <br />Our most recent external audit was conducted by The Clover Group in March 2022, and we were <br />able to show our Disaster Recovery plans functioning for each of the major failures noted above. <br />The audit also verified our communication strategy both internally and externally in the case of said <br />failure. No critical processes or controls have been changed since this last audit. <br /> <br /> <br />Jeffrey Arnold <br />Co-founder/VP of Network Operations <br />PhotoShelter, Inc. <br /> <br />111 Broadway, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10006 <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: CD0FD970-80CE-4AFC-8C81-687F53A99423