This Privacy Policy describes how and when we collect, use, and share information when you purchase an item from Whimsical Windchimers, contact us, or otherwise use our services through Etsy.com or its related sites and services.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including Etsy or any third party services you, the customer, access through Etsy. You can reference the Etsy Privacy Policy to learn more about its privacy practices.

1. Personal Information We Collect

To fulfil your order, you must provide us with certain information (which you authorized Etsy to provide to our shop), this includes your name, email address, postal address, payment information, and the details of the product that you’ve purchased. You may also choose to provide us with additional personal information (for a custom ordered windchime, or larger seed quantity, for example), if you contact us directly.

2. The Legal Bases We Rely On To Collect, Use, And Share Personal Information

Why we need your information and how we use it

We 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 fulfill an order, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support;
- when you have provided your affirmative consent, like when signing up for emails from our shop
- 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 you, the customer's 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 my services-such as posting about a review on social media; and 2) compliance with the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use. We will use your information as necessary to comply with our obligations under the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use.

3. The Third Parties With Whom We Share Personal Information

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Information about our customers is important to our small business. We share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:

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 with 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 the intended services.

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 you, our customers, or others.

4. The Length Of Time We Retain Personal Information

Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with our services and as described in our Privacy Policy. However, we may also be required to retain this information to comply with any legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. We generally keep your data for the following time period: 7 years. We need to keep information about your purchases in order to confirm the origin of the money we've received upon request from the Internal Revenue Service. The above mentioned time period is the period we are required by law to present all kind of documents and data connected to our business.


5. Buyers’ Rights Regarding My Use Of Their Personal Information And Our Contact Details

Your Rights

If you reside in certain countries, including EU nations, 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 further 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 I am 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 our shop 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 Us

You may contact us at whimsicalwindchimers@gmail.com

Alternately, you may mail us here on etsy, by sending a messago to our shop - Whimsical Windchimers.