The following privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") sets forth Rachael Pullin Studio LLC ("Company" or "our" or "we") policy with respect to information, including personally identifiable data ("Personal Data"), and other information, Company collects from visitors ("User" or "you") from the Company website located at rachaelpullinstudio.com, any other Company website, any related blog, and/or other Company affiliated site that links to this Privacy Policy ("Website"). The Company, owner, and operator of the Website is a limited liability company formed under the laws of the state of New York, United States.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it.  The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what Personal Data we may collect and how it may be used.  This statement only applies to this Website.  This Privacy Policy does not apply to information of any kind that we collect by means (including offline means) or from sources other than those specified herein.  If you choose to use the Website, your use is hereby deemed as acceptance of the Company's practices described in this Privacy Policy.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently for such modifications.  By your continued use of the Website, you agree to abide by any such modifications to the Privacy Policy, which are binding on you.  Any unauthorized use or violation of the Privacy Policy automatically terminates your right to access the Website immediately.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: It is not necessary to provide any Personal Data to use the Website. You can visit much of the Website without telling Company who you are or submitting any Personal Data. However, in order to take advantage of certain features available through the Website, it may be necessary to provide Personal Information.  We collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily provide such information, such as when you contact us with inquiries, send a comment or question or enroll in a feature.

Personal Data may include, but is not limited to, the below:  

●      First name

●      Last name

●      Your email address

●      Location information, including state and country of residence

●      Zip code

●      Phone number

●      Month of Birth

●      Age range

Our legal basis for processing this information is your consent, and by voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you consent to our use of it per this Privacy Policy.  If you provide Personal Data to us, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred and stored from your current location to the offices and servers of the Company and the authorized third parties referenced below.

Automatically Collected Information and Information We Collect from Others.

We may receive information about you from other trusted sources, such as information that validates or supplements information automatically collected.  We collect information about the device you are using, tools, and protocols, such as IP (Internet Protocol) addresses and device's geolocation, and other similar data for the purpose of optimization only.

When you use the Website, we may log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website.  We may also collect usage data, which is information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.  

Please see the sections about how your information is used and third-party providers to see how this data is used and shared.

Cookies. We use and allow certain other companies to use, cookies on the Website to analyze our traffic and to recognize your device.  We also share information about your use of our Website and our services with our social media, advertising, and analytics partners.  This section explains what cookies are, how we use cookies and similar technologies on our Website and our services, and what you can do to manage how cookies are used.

We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.  Our legal basis for processing this information is your consent and our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving the Website and services.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website and through the services.  The cookie will collect information relating to your use of our Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at our Website and services via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.

In addition to cookies, our Website may use web beacons.  Web beacons allow us to count the number of users who have visited or accessed the Website and to recognize users by accessing our cookies.  We may employ web beacons to facilitate Website administration and navigation, to track the actions of users of the Website, to compile aggregate statistics about Website usage and response rates, and to provide an enhanced online experience for visitors to the Website.  We may also include web beacons in HTML-formatted e-mail messages that we send to determine which e-mail messages were opened.  A web beacon is often invisible because it is only a 1 x 1 pixel in size with no color.  A web beacon can also be known as a web bug, 1 by 1 GIF, invisible GIF, and tracker GIF.

What are the different types of cookies and how do we use them?

Essential/Necessary - These are cookies which are essential for the running of our Website and services. Without these cookies, parts of our Website and services would not function.  These cookies do not track where you have been on the internet and do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes.

Examples of how we may use essential cookies include:

●      Setting unique identifiers for each unique visitor, so that Website numbers can be analyzed.

●      Optimizing user experience.

●      Storing user consent for data collection.

Functional – These cookies are used to remember your preferences on our Website and services and to provide enhanced, more personal features.  The information collected by these cookies is usually anonymized, so we cannot identify you personally.  Functional cookies do not track your internet usage or gather information which could be used for selling advertising.

Examples of how we may use functional cookies include:

●      Gathering data about visits to our Website and services, including numbers of visitors and visits, length of time spent on the site, pages clicked on, or referring URL.

●      Eliminating the need for returning users to re-enter their login details.

●      Confirming browser language.

Analytical Performance - Analytical performance cookies are used to monitor the performance of our Website, for example, to determine the number of page views and the number of unique users our Website and services have.  We use this information to improve the user experience or identify areas of the Website and services which may require maintenance.  The information is anonymous (i.e., it cannot be used to identify you and does not contain personal information such as your name and email address) and is only used for statistical purposes.

Examples of how we may use analytical cookies include:

●      Measuring users’ behavior.

●      Analyze which pages are viewed and how long for.

●      Analyze which links are followed to better develop our Website and services.

●      Determining whether a visitor the Website is new or returning.

Third Party Cookies - You may notice on some pages of our Website and services that cookies have been set that are not related to us.  When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Facebook, these third-party service providers may set their own cookies on your device.  We do not control the use of these third-party cookies and cannot access them due to the way that cookies work, as cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them.  Please check the third-party website for more information about these cookies.

How can you manage or opt-out of cookies?

Cookies, including those which have already been set, can be deleted from your hard drive.  You can also change the preferences/settings in your web browser to control cookies.  In some cases, you can choose to accept cookies from the primary site but block them from third parties.  In others, you can block cookies from specific advertisers or clear out all cookies. Deleting or blocking cookies may reduce the functionality of the Website and the services.  To learn more about how to reject cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or go to the help menu within your internet browser.  If you experience any problems having deleted cookies, you should contact the supplier of your web browser.

Opting out of Analytical Performance Cookies.

If you would like to opt out of Analytics cookies, please do so by clicking on the links below:

Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED

The Website may use the information collected in the following ways:

●      To operate and maintain the Website;

●      For order fulfillment;

●      To oversee contests or promotions;

●      To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;

●      To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;

●      To respond to your comments or inquiries;

●      To provide you with user support;

●      For internal training and quality control;

●      To track and measure advertising on the Website; or,

●      To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

The Company may use your Personal Data that you submit for only limited purposes.  Company uses Personal Data you provide to provide you with the information and services that you request.  Also, Company may use your Personal Data in aggregate form to help evaluate and modify existing services and to help develop additional services that are likely to be of interest to visitors of the Website.

Non-Identifiable Data: When you use the Website, we receive and store certain personally non-identifiable information.  Such information, which is collected passively using various technologies, cannot presently be used to identify you specifically.  Company may store such information itself, or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by Company affiliates, agents, or service providers.  We may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, user behavior.  It is important to note that no Personal Data is available or used in this process.

Aggregated Personal Data: In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Website, Company may conduct research on its customer demographics, interests, and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to us.  Company may use this non-personal information in aggregate form for product and service development, for market analysis, and to understand how to improve the quality of the Website.  This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and Company may share this aggregate data with its affiliates, agents, and business partners.  This aggregated information does not identify you personally.  Company may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our customers to current and prospective business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.

Anonymous Data: From time to time, Company may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties.  This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.  Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies. 

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Company may share your Personal Data with certain third parties as set forth below:

Third Party Vendors: We may share your information with third-party vendors or service providers who help us provide our products or services or the Website, including database hosting and data processing services, and assist us in responding to requests by you for information that you request. 

Parent Companies and Affiliates: We may share your information with a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, "Affiliates"), provided that we require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.

Business Transfers: As we develop our business, we may sell or buy businesses or assets.  In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.  We may also share Personal Data with potential buyers.  Usually, information will be anonymized, but this may not always be possible.  The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.

Related Companies: We may also share your Personal Data with our related companies for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Third Parties with Permission: We may share your information with third parties to whom you ask us to send your information.

Agents, Consultants, and Related Third Parties: Company, like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions.  Examples of such functions include mailing information, maintaining databases and processing payments.  When we employ another entity to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function.

Legal Requirements: Company may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation or to respond to requests from law enforcement or other government officials relating to investigations or alleged illegal activity or in connection with our own investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity, in which case we may (and you hereby authorize us to) disclose information without subpoenas or warrants served on us, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of Company, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability including to resolve disputes, investigate problems, or enforce our customer contracts.

The Website may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.  Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website.  Each third-party service provider's use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.  The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

●      Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website.  Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but Google Analytics captures no other personal information.

 ●      Stripe – this service is used for processing payments for safely and securing sending and receiving money online.  No banking information is transferred and we only use this information for order fulfillment.

●      Paypal – this service is an online payment system that may be used to process payments, such as safely and securely sending and receiving money online. No banking information is transferred and we only use this information for order fulfillment.

●      Mailchimp – this service is used to collect information from users who sign up for Company’s mailing list.  We store the information you provide to us to provide the requested services.

 ●      Hootsuite – this service is used to collect social media posts and messages from users online.  We store customer satisfaction data to help us improve our products.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party service providers.  This list may be amended from time to time at the Website's sole discretion.

Except when required by law, Company will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, Company may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

ADVERTISING

Newsletters.

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes.  All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels.  The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns.  Because of these tracking pixels, Company may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click.  Also, this allows Company to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user.  This behavior will not be passed on to third parties. 

HOW LONG WILL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION BE KEPT

We will keep your personal information while you subscribe to your mailing list, or we are providing products or services to you.  Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary: 

      •    To respond to any questions, complaints, or claims made by you or on your behalf.

      •    To show that we treated you fairly.

      •    To keep records required by law.

We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.  Different retention periods apply for different types of personal information.  When retaining your personal information is no longer necessary, we will delete or anonymize it.

RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Under laws in certain countries in which we operate, customers and other visitors to our Website from those countries have a right to access Personal Data about themselves and to amend, correct, or delete Personal Data that is inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated.  We will, upon request, provide you with confirmation regarding whether we are processing Personal Data about you, consistent with applicable law.  In addition, upon your request, we will take reasonable steps to correct, amend, or delete your Personal Data that is found to be inaccurate, incomplete, or processed in a manner non-compliant with this Privacy Policy or applicable law, except where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to your privacy, where the rights of persons other than you would be violated or where doing so is otherwise inconsistent with applicable law.  Unless prohibited by applicable law, we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee to cover costs for providing copies of the Personal Data that you request.

Please note that while any amendments, corrections, or deletions will be reflected in active user databases (as updated within a reasonable period of time), we may retain all Personal Data for backups, archiving, prevention of fraud and abuse, analytics, and satisfaction of other legal obligations we reasonably believe applicable.

You authorize us to use and disclose any new or modified information that you provide in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and you agree that we are under no obligation to delete or modify information that you have previously chosen to provide us as to which you have not instructed us to take such action. Please remember, however, that if we have already disclosed some of your Personal Data to third parties, we cannot access that Personal Data any longer and cannot force the deletion or modification of any such information by the parties to whom we have made those disclosures.

We may retain your Personal Data to comply with laws, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our contracts, and take other actions otherwise permitted by law.

Opt-out – If you send us an email with questions or comments, we may use your personally identifiable information to respond to your questions or comments, and we may save your questions or comments for future reference.  For security reasons, we do not recommend that you send non-public personal information, such as passwords, social security numbers, or bank account information, to us by email. You may "opt-out" of receiving future commercial email communications from us by clicking the "unsubscribe" link included at the bottom of most emails we send, or as provided below; provided, however, we reserve the right to send you transactional emails such as customer service communications.  You may also notify us at connect@rachaelpullinstudio.com to be removed from our mailing list.

Access – You may request access to the personal information we have about you by submitting a request toconnect@rachaelpullinstudio.com.

Amend – You may contact us at connect@rachaelpullinstudio.com to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your Personal Data. To do so, please submit a request to connect@rachaelpullinstudio.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website.  This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships.  If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.  

NOTICE TO CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13 AND THEIR PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS

THE WEBSITE IS ONLY INTENDED FOR ADULTS AND IS NOT DIRECTED TOWARD CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13.  COMPANY DOES NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13.  IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 13 AND WOULD LIKE TO CONTACT COMPANY, PLEASE DO SO ONLY THROUGH YOUR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN.  IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 13, PLEASE DO NOT SEND COMPANY ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, NAME, AND/OR CONTACT INFORMATION.  IF YOU ARE THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF 13 WHO YOU BELIEVE MAY HAVE PROVIDED PERSONAL INFORMATION TO COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT COMPANY, AND COMPANY WILL PROMPTLY DELETE SUCH INFORMATION FROM ITS FILES.

ARBITRATION

This Privacy Policy will be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to the Privacy Policy, or the breach thereof, shall be settled by arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, and judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof.  The place of any such arbitration shall be in or near Kings County, New York. The parties also agree that the AAA Optional Rules for Emergency Measures of Protection shall apply to the proceedings.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Website.  The Website may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Company (the "Third-Party Sites").  The policies and procedures described here do not apply to the Third-Party Sites.  The links from the Website do not imply that Company endorses or has reviewed the Third-Party Sites.  Such links do not constitute an endorsement of those third parties, or the content displayed on their sites.  Company provides these links to you only as a convenience, and any information you provide to those third parties will be used as described by the third parties in their own privacy policies.  Company does not have any liability for your use of such websites.  You acknowledge and agree that your use of such websites is at your sole option and risk.

OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Your access to and use of the Website may also be subject to any separate agreements or terms and conditions you have signed or agreed to with Company.  Please refer to those agreements as needed.

Regardless of any other provision in this Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to disclose any personally identifiable or non-personally identifiable information about you to: (a) fulfill a government request; (b) conform with the requirements of the law or legal process; (c) protect or defend our legal rights or property, our Website, or other users; or (d) protect, in an emergency, the health and safety of our customers or the general public.  This includes exchanging information with third parties and organizations in connection with credit risk reduction and fraud protection.

Updates to Privacy Policy.

Company reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time.  If Company decides to change this Privacy Policy, Company will post those changes at the Website.  You are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.  Your continued use of this Website will be subject to the then-current Privacy Policy.  If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at connect@rachaelpullinstudio.com.

Last updated: August 18, 2022