The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to summarize how we, thedrowsydeer shop, collect, use, and share the personal information of you, the customer, when you purchase an item from thedrowsydeer shop, contact us, or otherwise use our services through Etsy.com or its related sites and services. This is to provide full transparency to all customers, and to comply with GDPR regulations for customers withing the EU.
We, thedrowsydeer shop, must collect certain information from you, the customer, in order to fulfill orders and provide suitable customer service. The types of information we collect, and the circumstances under which we use that information, are outlined in this Privacy Policy.
The Information thedrowsydeer Collects:
To fulfil your order, you, the customer, must provide us, thedrowsydeer shop, with certain information (which you have authorized Etsy to provide to us), such as your name, email address, postal address, payment information, and the details of the product that you have ordered. You may also choose to provide us with additional personal information via the purchase form (i.e. size or color options) or, if purchasing a custom art piece that will need to be completed according to your exact specifications, via the Etsy messaging system (i.e. sending us a reference picture of the character you wish to receive art of).
How thedrowsydeer Legally Uses This Information:
We, thedrowsydeer shop, rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:
- as needed to provide our services, such as when we use your information to fulfil your order, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support;
- when you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time;
- 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; and
- as necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests, such as 1) providing and improving our services; we use your information to provide the services you requested and in our legitimate interest to improve our services; and 2) in compliance with the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use. We use your information as necessary to comply with our obligations under the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use.
Disclosure of Information Sharing Between thedrowsydeer and Trusted Legal Partners:
- Etsy: We share information with Etsy as necessary to provide you our services and comply with our obligations under both the Etsy Seller Policy and Etsy Terms of Use.
- Service providers: We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to our shop, such as delivery companies. We will share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.
- Business transfers: If we sell or merge our business, we may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
- Compliance with laws: We may collect, use, retain, and share your information if we have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce our agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of our customers, or others.
Data Retention:
We, thedrowsydeer shop, retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you, the customer, with our services and as described in our Privacy Policy. However, we may also be required to retain this information to comply with legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. We generally keep your data for the following time period: 4 years.
Transfers of Personal Information Outside the EU:
We, thedrowsydeer shop, may store and process your information through third-party hosting services in the US and other jurisdictions. As a result, we may transfer your personal information to a jurisdiction with different data protection and government surveillance laws than your jurisdiction. If we are deemed to transfer information about you outside of the EU, we rely on Privacy Shield as the legal basis for the transfer, as Google Cloud is Privacy Shield certified.
Your Rights:
If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, 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. We, thedrowsydeer shop, describe these rights below:
Access: You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you by contacting us using the contact information below.
Change, restrict, delete: You may also have rights to change, restrict our use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where we are required to store data for legal reasons) we will generally delete your personal information upon request.
Object: You can object to (i) our processing of some of your information based on our legitimate interests and (ii) receiving marketing messages from us after providing your express consent to receive them. In such cases, we will delete your personal information unless we have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
Complain: If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about our 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.
How to Contact:
For purposes of EU data protection law, we, thedrowsydeer shop, are the data controller of your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact us at thedrowsydeer@gmail.com. Alternately, you may mail us at:
thedrowsydeer
901 E 80th St
Stillwater, OK
74074
