Last updated: 03 July 2025
While I do not collect information for any use, WordPress, Bluehost, Woo Commerce, and other 3rd party plugins do. This Privacy Policy describes how these parties collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use these services, or make a purchase, or otherwise communicate with me. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “you” and “your” means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information has been collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy will happen from time to time, to reflect changes to my practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. The most revised will be posted here with the “last updated” date.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any of the Services. For more detailed information, please see below.
How Your Personal Information is Collected
To provide the Services, personal information is collected from a variety of sources as set out below. The information collected and used varies depending on how you interact with the website. In addition to the specific uses set out below, I may use information I collected about you to communicate with you to provide services, fulfill orders, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, my rights, and the rights of my users or others.
What Personal Information Is Collected
The types of personal information obtained about you depends on how you interact with this Site and use of Services. The term “personal information”, is referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes or can be associated with you. The following sections describe the categories and specific types of personal information collected.
Information Collected Directly from You
Information that you directly submit through the Services provided may include:
- Basic contact details including your name, address, phone number, email.
- Order information including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, phone number.
- Account information including your username, password, security questions.
- Shopping information including the items you view, put in your cart or add to your wishlist.
- Customer support information including the information you choose to include in communications, for example, when sending a message through the Services.
Some features of the Services may require you to directly provide certain information about yourself. You may elect not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.
Comments
The Services may enable you to post product reviews and other user-generated content. If you choose to submit user generated content to any public area of the Services, this content will be public and accessible by anyone.
I do not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make available to others, and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. I am not responsible for the privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available, or for the accuracy, use or misuse of any information that you disclose or receive from third parties.
When visitors leave comments on the site the data shown in the comments form is collected, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
Cookies
A certain of information is automatically collected about your interaction with the Services (“Usage Data“). To do this, cookies, pixels and similar technologies (“Cookies“) may be used. Usage Data may include information about how you access and use this Site and your account, including device information, browser information, information about your network connection, your IP address and other information regarding your interaction with the Services.
Like many websites, Cookies are used on this Site. Cookies are used to power and improve the Site and Services (including to remember your actions and preferences), to run analytics and better understand user interaction with the Services (legitimate interests to administer, improve and optimize the Services). Third parties and services providers may also be permitted to use Cookies on this Site to better tailor the services, products and advertising on this Site and other websites.
Most browsers automatically accept Cookies by default, but you can choose to set your browser to remove or reject Cookies through your browser controls. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking Cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the Services, including certain features and general functionality, to work incorrectly or no longer be available. Additionally, blocking Cookies may not completely prevent how information is shared with third parties.
If you leave a comment on this site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, several cookies will also be set up to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish a comment, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the comment you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Information Obtained from Third Parties
Finally, information may be obtained about you from third parties, including from vendors and service providers who may collect information on my behalf, such as:
- Companies who support Site and Services, such as Woo Commerce, Bluehost, Shippo, and Kit.
- Payment processors, who collect payment information (e.g., bank account, credit or debit card information, billing address) to process your payment in order to fulfill your orders and provide you with products or services you have requested, to fulfill your order.
- When you visit the Site, open or click on emails sent to you, or interact with our Services or advertisements, I, or third parties I work with, may automatically collect certain information using online tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, software developer kits, third-party libraries, and cookies.
Any information obtained from third parties will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible or liable for the accuracy of the information provided to us by third parties and are not responsible for any third party’s policies or practices. For more information, see the section below, Third Party Websites and Links.
How Your Personal Information Is Used
Providing Products and Services. Your personal information is used to provide you with the Services in order to fulfill the contract with you, including to process your payments, fulfill your orders, to send notifications to you related to your account, purchases, or other transactions, to create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, to arrange for shipping, facilitate any exchanges and to enable you to post reviews.
Marketing and Advertising. Your personal information may be used for marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send marketing, advertising and promotional communications by email, text message or postal mail, and to show you advertisements for products or services. This may include using your personal information to better tailor the Services and advertising on this Site and other websites. The marketing and advertising would be done by third party vendors and not myself.
Security and Fraud Prevention. Your personal information can be used to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal or malicious activity. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. It is highly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other access details with anyone else. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact me immediately.
Communicating with you. Your personal information may be used to provide you with customer support and improve Services. This is a legitimate interest in order to be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you, and to maintain a business relationship with you.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so the website can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on the website (if any), also stored is the personal information provided in the 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.
How Personal Information Is Disclosed
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
In certain circumstances, your personal information may be disclosed to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:
- In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including to respond to subpoenas, search warrants and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, my rights, and the rights of the users or others.
- With vendors or other third parties who perform services on my behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping).
- With business and marketing partners, including Woo Commerce, Bluehost, Shippo, Kit, and banking services to provide services and advertise to you. The business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices.
When you direct, request or otherwise consent to disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship you products or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations, with your consent.
With affiliates or otherwise within the corporate group, for legitimate interests to run a successful business.
Security and Retention of Your Information
Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and I cannot guarantee “perfect security.” In addition, any information you send may not be secure while in transit. It is recommended that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information.
How long your personal information is retained depends on different factors, such as whether the information is needed to maintain your account, to provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.
Third Party Websites and Links
This Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by this Site, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. This Site does not guarantee and is not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. The inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances and, in certain cases, your request may be declined as permitted by law.
- Right to Access / Know. You may have a right to request access to personal information held about you, including details relating to the ways in which your information is used and shared.
- Right to Delete. You may have a right to request that your personal information maintained about you is deleted.
- Right to Correct. You may have a right to request correcting inaccurate personal information maintained about you.
- Right of Portability. You may have a right to receive a copy of the personal information held about you and to request it be transffered to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
- Right to Limit and/or Opt out of Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. You may have a right to direct to limit our use and/or disclosure of sensitive personal information to only what is necessary to perform the Services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average individual.
- Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to ask to stop or restrict processing of personal information.
- Withdrawal of Consent: Where it is relied upon consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent.
- Appeal: You may have a right to appeal the decision if declined to process your request. You can do so by replying directly to the denial.
- Managing Communication Preferences: If you sign up for the newsletter through the Kit form, you may unsubscribe at any time.
You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on this Site or by contacting me through the “Contact Me” link at the bottom of the page.
You will not be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights. Collection of information may be needed from you to verify your identity, such as your email address or account information, before providing a substantive response to the request. In accordance with applicable laws, you may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, it is required that the agent provide proof you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and you may need to verify your identity directly. Your request will be answered in a timely manner as required under applicable law.