PRIVACY POLICY

WHO WE ARE

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from booniesbesties.com (the “Site”). The Site is owned and operated by Studio Bestie, LLC. Our website address is: https://booniesbesties.com

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, please contact us at tara@taraboone.com.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Device Information

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

  • “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
  • “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
  • “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Order Information

When you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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.

Email and Marketing Information

When you subscribe to our email list, including “Boonie’s Babble” or any other newsletter or marketing communication offered through our Site, we collect your name and email address. We use this information to send you marketing communications, product updates, and promotional offers. You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email we send you.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking about Device Information, Order Information, and any other information you provide to us directly.

COOKIES

If you leave a comment on our 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 our login page, we will set a temporary cookie 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, we will also set up several cookies 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 an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

You can control and manage cookies in your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our Site.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use the Order Information we collect to:

  • Fulfill any orders placed through the Site, including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and order confirmations
  • Communicate with you about your order and our products
  • Screen orders for potential risk or fraud
  • Provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services, where in line with the preferences you have shared with us

We use the Device Information we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site, for example by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns.

We use your email address to send you marketing communications where you have opted in to receive them. You may opt out at any time.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us operate our Site and fulfill your orders, as described below.

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can opt out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We use third-party payment processors, including Stripe and PayPal, to process payments made through our Site. These processors have their own privacy policies governing the use of your payment information. We do not store your full credit card information on our servers.

We use a third-party print-on-demand fulfillment partner to manufacture and ship your orders. Your name, shipping address, and order details are shared with our fulfillment partner solely for the purpose of fulfilling your order.

We use Kit (formerly ConvertKit) to manage our email marketing list and send marketing communications. Your name and email address are shared with Kit for this purpose. Kit’s privacy policy is available at https://kit.com/privacy.

We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

Articles and pages on this Site may include embedded content such as videos, images, and articles. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website directly. 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 if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISING

We may use third-party advertising services, including Meta (Facebook and Instagram) Ads, to serve advertisements to you on other platforms. These services may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your visits to our Site in order to provide you with targeted advertising. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting your ad preferences on those platforms.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information, subject to any legal obligations we may have to retain certain records.

If you leave a comment on our Site, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our Site, 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.

YOUR RIGHTS OVER YOUR DATA

Depending on where you are located, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:

  • The right to access the personal information we hold about you
  • The right to request correction of inaccurate personal information
  • The right to request deletion of your personal information
  • The right to object to or restrict our processing of your personal information
  • The right to data portability

If you have an account on our Site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. 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 any of these rights, please contact us at tara@taraboone.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

EUROPEAN UNION AND UNITED KINGDOM RESIDENTS — GDPR

If you are a resident of the European Union or United Kingdom, you have specific rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and UK GDPR, including the rights described above. We process your personal information on the following legal bases:

  • To fulfill contracts we have with you, for example when you place an order through our Site
  • To pursue our legitimate business interests, including fraud prevention, marketing, and improving our Site
  • With your consent, where required, for example for marketing communications

Please note that your information may be transferred outside of Europe, including to the United States and Canada, where data protection laws may differ from those in your country. We take reasonable steps to ensure your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS — CCPA

If you are a resident of California, you have specific rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), including:

  • The right to know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell
  • The right to request deletion of your personal information
  • The right to opt out of the sale of your personal information
  • The right to non-discrimination for exercising your CCPA rights

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. To submit a request under the CCPA, please contact us at tara@taraboone.com. We will respond to verifiable consumer requests within 45 days as required by law.

CANADIAN RESIDENTS — PIPEDA

If you are a resident of Canada, your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed in accordance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) and applicable provincial privacy legislation. You have the right to access your personal information held by us and to request corrections. To exercise these rights, please contact us at tara@taraboone.com.

AUSTRALIAN RESIDENTS

If you are located in Australia, your personal information is handled in accordance with the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles. You have the right to access and correct personal information we hold about you. To exercise these rights, please contact us at tara@taraboone.com.

SECURITY

We take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

MINORS

Our Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18 years of age, please do not use our Site or submit any personal information to us. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from someone under 18, we will take prompt steps to delete that information. If you believe we may have collected information from a minor, please contact us immediately at tara@taraboone.com.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated Privacy Policy on this page with a new effective date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of our Site after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.

CONTACT

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at:

tara@taraboone.com

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