Privacy Policy

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

We collect various types of information for different purposes to provide and improve our service to you.

Information You Provide Directly

Comments: When you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam. An anonymized string (or hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
User Accounts: If you create an account, we collect information such as your name, email address, password, and any other details you provide to manage your account and facilitate future purchases.
Purchases & Transactions: When you make a purchase, we collect necessary information to process your order, including your billing and shipping address, contact details, and purchase history. Please note we do not directly store your credit card details; these are securely processed by our third-party payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal).
Communications: If you contact us via email, contact forms, or other means, we collect the content of your communications and our responses to assist with your inquiries and provide customer support.
Newsletter Subscriptions: If you opt-in to our newsletter, we collect your email address to send you updates, promotions, and news.

Information Collected Automatically

Cookies: Our website uses cookies to enhance your Browse experience. These include:
- Functional Cookies: To remember your shopping cart contents, user preferences, and for WordPress functionalities like saving your name, email, and website in cookies for comments (lasting one year).
- Login Cookies: If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie determines if your browser accepts cookies. When you log in, several cookies save your login information (lasting two days) and screen display choices (lasting one year). If you select “Remember Me,” your login persists for two weeks.
- Analytics Cookies: We use services like Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our site, which helps us improve it. These services may place their own cookies.
Embedded Content from Other Websites: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Analytics & Usage Data: We may collect information about your device and how you interact with our website, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referral sources, pages viewed, and access times.

How We Use Your Data

We use the information we collect for various purposes:

To process and fulfill your orders, including shipping and managing returns.
To provide and maintain our services, manage your account, and offer customer support.
To improve our website and services by analyzing usage patterns and addressing technical issues.
To send you marketing and promotional communications (if you have opted in).
To detect and prevent fraud and other illegal activities.
To comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms and conditions.

Who We Share Your Data With

We may share your personal data with third parties in the following circumstances:

Service Providers: We engage trusted third-party service providers to perform functions on our behalf, such as payment processing (e.g., Stripe, PayPal), shipping (e.g., USPS, UPS), website hosting, analytics (e.g., Google Analytics), and email delivery. These providers only have access to the personal information needed to perform their functions and are obligated to maintain its confidentiality.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your data if required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency). If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Spam Detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How Long We Retain Your Data

Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
User Accounts: For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Transaction Data: We retain data related to your purchases and transactions for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right to Access: You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete data we hold about you.
Right to Erasure: You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at [Your Contact Email Address Here].

Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a visitor under the age of 13, we will delete the information from our records.

Security Measures

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.