Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for GritandBeskar

Effective Date: 04/01/2025

This Privacy Policy describes how and when I collect, use, and share information when you purchase an item from my shop, contact me, or otherwise use my services through Gritandbeskar.com or its related sites and services.

To fulfill your order, you must provide certain information, such as your name, email address, postal address, payment information, and the details of the product that you’re ordering. I may also collect your IP address for basic analytics and fraud prevention purposes.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, 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.

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.

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.

I rely on several legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:

– As needed to provide my services, such as when I use your information to fulfill your order, settle disputes, or provide customer support.

– When you have provided your affirmative consent (which you may revoke at any time), such as by signing up for a mailing list.

– If necessary to comply with a legal obligation or court order or in connection with a legal claim, such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law.

I share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:

– **Service providers**: I engage trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to my shop, such as delivery companies. I will share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.

– **Compliance with laws**: I may collect, use, retain, and share your information if I have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to:

– respond to legal process or to government requests;

– enforce my agreements, terms, and policies;

– prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or

– protect the rights, property, and safety of my customers, or others.

I retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with my services and as described in my Privacy Policy. However, I may also be required to retain this information to comply with my legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce my agreements. I generally keep your data for the following time period: 7 years (to comply with tax laws).

I may store and process your information through third-party hosting services in the US and other jurisdictions. As a result, I may transfer your personal information to a jurisdiction with different data protection and government surveillance laws than your jurisdiction. If I am deemed to transfer information about you outside of the EU/UK, I rely on Privacy Shield and/or standard contractual clauses as the legal basis for the transfer.

If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, UK, or some US states, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. These rights include:

– **Access**: You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information I hold about you.

– **Change, restrict, delete**: You may also have rights to change, restrict my use of, or delete your personal information (absent exceptional circumstances for legal reasons).

– **Object**: You can object to my processing of some of your information based on my legitimate interests.

– **Complain**: If you reside in the EU or UK and wish to raise a concern about my use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.

For purposes of EU and UK data protection law, I, Catherine Noriega, am the data controller of your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact me at catherine@gritandbeskar.com.

Alternatively, you may mail me at:

Grit and Beskar

3818 Iron Ore Drive

Denison, Texas 75020

Email: grit@gritandbeskar.com

Etsy Shop: gritandbeskar.etsy.com