Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Emsalay Rosary (the “Site”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from our website (the “Site”) or otherwise communicate with us regarding the Site (collectively, the “Services”). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “you” and “your” means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the “Last updated” date, and take any other steps required by applicable law.

How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

To provide the Services, we collect and have collected over the past 12 months personal information about you from a variety of sources, as set out below. The information that we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use information we collect about you to communicate with you, provide or improve the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

What Personal Information We Collect

The types of personal information we obtain about you depends on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. When we use the term “personal information”, we are referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes or can be associated with you. The following sections describe the categories and specific types of personal information we collect.

Information We Collect Directly from You

Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may include:

• Order and shipping information, including your full name, email address, phone number, and shipping address, collected at checkout and used to fulfill your order and generate shipping labels.
• Account information, including your email address and password, if you choose to create an account to sign in and view your orders. Creating an account is optional.
• Customer support information, including the information you choose to include in communications with us, for example when sending us a message.

Some features of the Services may require you to directly provide us with certain information about yourself. You may elect not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.

Information We Collect about Your Usage

We may also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services (“Usage Data”). Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, information about your network connection, your IP address, and other information regarding your interaction with the Services.

Information We Obtain from Third Parties

We work with trusted third-party service providers to operate the Site and provide the Services, and these providers may collect or process information on our behalf, including:

• Supabase, which hosts our database, powers account creation and login, and stores product photos;
• Stripe, which processes payments and collects payment information (e.g., card details and billing address) needed to complete your purchase; and
• Shippo, which calculates shipping rates and generates shipping labels using the shipping address you provide.

These providers process personal information on our behalf in order to provide the Services, subject to their own privacy policies. Any information we obtain from third parties will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Also see the section below, Third-Party Websites and Links.

How We Use Your Personal Information

• Providing Products and Services. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services in order to perform our contract with you, including to process your payments, fulfill your orders, send notifications related to your account, purchases, returns, or exchanges, create and maintain your account (if you choose to create one), and arrange for shipping.
• Marketing and Advertising. We do not currently run advertising or marketing campaigns. If this changes in the future, we may use your contact information to send promotional communications, and you will be able to opt out at any time.
• Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate, or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, or malicious activity. If you register an account, you are responsible for keeping your login credentials safe. We recommend that you do not share your password with anyone else. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately.
• Communicating with You and Service Improvement. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support and improve our Services.

Cookies

We use minimal, functional-only cookies and browser storage: a session cookie to keep you signed in if you create an account, and your shopping cart, which is stored in your browser’s local storage rather than sent to our servers. We do not currently use third-party advertising or tracking cookies.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but you can choose to set your browser to remove or reject cookies through your browser controls. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your experience, such as being unable to stay logged in or keep items in your cart between visits.

How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for contract fulfillment purposes, legitimate purposes, and other reasons subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

• With vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., database hosting and account management, payment processing, cloud storage, order fulfillment and shipping label generation).
• When you direct, request us, or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship you products.
• In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or sale, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including to respond to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

We have in the past 12 months disclosed the following categories of personal information for the purposes set out above:

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information without your consent or for the purposes of inferring characteristics about you. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not currently run third-party advertising or marketing partnerships that would involve “sharing” your personal information as those terms are defined under applicable privacy laws.

Third-Party Websites and Links

Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators.

Children’s Data

The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted.

Security and Retention of Your Information

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” In addition, any information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use insecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.

Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances, and, in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.

• Right to Access / Know: You may have a right to request access to personal information that we hold about you, including details relating to the ways in which we use and share your information.
• Right to Delete: You may have a right to request that we delete personal information we maintain about you.
• Right to Correct: You may have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
• Right of Portability: You may have a right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
• Right to Opt out of Sale or Sharing or Targeted Advertising: You may have a right to direct us not to “sell” or “share” your personal information or to opt out of the processing of your personal information for purposes considered to be “targeted advertising”, as defined in applicable privacy laws.
• Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information.
• Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent.
• Appeal: You may have a right to appeal our decision if we decline to process your request. You can do so by replying directly to our denial.
• Managing Communication Preferences: If we send you promotional emails, you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in the email. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders.

You may exercise any of these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided below.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, such as your email address or account information, before providing a substantive response to the request. In accordance with applicable laws, you may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required under applicable law.

Complaints

If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, depending on where you live you may have the right to lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority.

International Users

Please note that we may transfer, store, and process your personal information outside the country you live in, including in the United States. Your personal information is also processed by staff and third-party service providers and partners in these countries.

Contact

Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please email us at sandybasaka@gmail.com or write to us at 13244 Goldentop Drive, Lakeside, CA 92040, United States.

For the purpose of applicable data protection laws and if not explicitly stated otherwise, we are the data controller of your personal information.