Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how Sew Busty, LLC uses the information we collect from you when you use our website.

What data do we collect?

  • Personal information provided by you. This may include:
    • names
    • phone numbers
    • email addresses
    • mailing addresses
    • usernames
    • passwords
    • contact preferences
    • contact or authentication data
    • billing addresses
  • Payment data provided by you. When you make a purchase, we collect data necessary to process your payment. This may include your credit/debit card number and its security code. This payment data is stored by WooCommerce and PayPal, our third party payment processors. Their privacy policies are available here:

We have collected the following categories of personal data in the past year:

  • Identifiers, such as contact details, names, aliases, addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, email addresses, and account names
  • Personal information, as defined in the California Customer Records statute, such as names and contact details
  • Commercial information, such as transaction information, purchase history, and payment information
  • Geolocation data, such as device location
  • Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law, such as gender, age, date of birth, marital status, and other demographics
  • Audio, electronic, sensory, or similar information, such as images and audio, video, or call recordings created in connection with our business

We have not collected the following in the past year:

  • Biometric information, such as fingerprints
  • Internet or other similar network activity, such as browsing history, search history, and online behavior
  • Professional or employment information, such as business contact details, work history, or professional qualifications
  • Education information, such as student records
  • Sensitive personal information

We may collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances when you interact with us directly, such as by contacting us, or by participating in customer surveys or contests.

How do we collect your data?

For most data we collect, you provide it, such as by:

  • Registering for an account or placing an order
  • Provide feedback by email or social media
  • Using or viewing our website via your browser’s cookies

Some of this data, such as your IP address and browser cookies, is collected automatically when you visit sewbusty.com. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, like your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, location, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our services, as well as for internal analytics and reporting.

Information is also collected through cookies and similar technology. This information may include:

  • Log and usage data — service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access sewbusty.com. This information is stored in log files, and may include your IP address, device information, browser information, information about your settings and activity (such as time stamps associated with your usage of sewbusty.com, pages and files viewed, searches, and features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports, and hardware settings).
  • Device data — such as information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other device used to access sewbusty.com. Depending on what type of device you use, this data may also include information like your IP address or proxy server, device and application identification numbers, location, browser information, hardware information, ISP or mobile carrier information, operating system, and system configuration.
  • Location data — such as information about your device’s location, which may be precise or imprecise. How much information we collect depends on the type and settings of your device. For example, we may use GPS to collect geolocation data based on your IP address. You can opt out of allowing collection of this information by refusing access to the information or by disabling location settings on your device.

How will we use your data?

Our Company collects your data so that we can:

  • Process your orders
  • Manage your account
  • Respond to your inquiries and feedback
  • Email you with free resources, special offers, and other related content
  • Determine the effectiveness of our marketing and promotional campaigns
  • Request feedback
  • Save or protect an individual’s vital interest

Our Company will share your data with our partner companies, including vendors, consultants, and other third-party service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. We have contracts designed to help safeguard your personal information in place with our third parties. This means they cannot do anything with your data unless we have instructed them to do so. They will not share your personal information with any organization apart from us, and they commit to protecting the data they hold on our behalf and to retain it for the period we instruct. Third parties may include:

  • ad networks
  • communications + collaboration tools
  • data storage service providers
  • government entities
  • finance + accounting tools
  • order fulfillment service providers
  • payment processors
  • social networks
  • website hosting service providers

We may also need to share your personal data in the following situations;

  • Business Transfers: in connection with or during negotiations for a merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • Business Partners: to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.

What legal bases do we rely on to process your data?

If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain legal valid bases upon which we rely when processing your personal information. We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason to do so under applicable law. This includes:

  • Consent: Processing your information if you have given us permission to use your information for a specific purpose. You may withdraw this consent at any time, though withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing before withdrawal of consent. It also does not affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance upon other lawful processing grounds. To withdraw your consent, please contact us at lindsie@sewbusty.com
  • Performance of Contract: Processing your information when we believe it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, including providing our services or at your request prior to entering into a contract with you.
  • Legitimate Interests: Processing your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and those interests do not outweigh your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your data in order to:
    • Send you information about special offers or discounts on our products and services
    • Support our marketing activities
    • Understand how you use our website so we can improve your user experience
  • Legal Obligations: Processing your information when we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, like when we are legally required to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, to exercise or defend our legal rights, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
  • Vital Interests: Processing your information when we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as in situations involving potential threats to safety of any person.

If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you. We may process your information if you have given us permission to use your information for a specific purpose. You may withdraw this consent at any time, though withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing before withdrawal of consent. It also does not affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance upon other lawful processing grounds. To withdraw your consent, please contact us at lindsie@sewbusty.com.

In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent. For example:

  • If collection is clearly in the interest of an individual and consent cannot be timely obtained
  • For investigations and fraud detection and prevention
  • For business transactions provided certain conditions are met
  • If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim
  • For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin
  • If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse
  • If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or contravention of the laws of Canada or a province
  • If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to production of records
  • If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced
  • If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes
  • If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations

Is your information transferred internationally?

We may transfer, store, and/or process your information in countries other than your own. Our servers are located in the United States. If you are accessing our website from outside the USA, please be aware that your data may be transferred to, stored by, and/or processed by us in our facilities and in the facilities of the third parties with whom we may share your data in the USA and in other countries.

If you are a resident in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), or Switzerland, then these countries may not necessarily have data protection laws or similar laws as comprehensive as those in your country. However, we will take all reasonable measures to protect your data in accordance with this Policy and applicable law.

European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses: We have implemented measures to protect your personal information, including by using the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information between Sew Busty and Third Parties. These clauses require all recipients to protect all personal information that they process originating from the EEA or UK in accordance with European data protection laws and regulations.

How long do we keep your data?

We keep your information for as long as it is needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Policy, unless otherwise required by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the longer of six (6) months or six (6) months past the termination of the user’s account.

Once we have no ongoing legitimate business interest in processing your personal information, we will either delete of anonymize such data, or, if this is impossible (such as if your personal information is stored in backup archives), we will securely store your data and isolate it from further processing until deletion is possible.

How do we safeguard your data?

Our goal is for your personal data to remain private by employing appropriate security measures. That said, despite our best efforts and appropriate safeguards, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We unfortunately cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other nefarious third parties will not be able to defeat our security and illegitimately access or modify your information. No website can guarantee absolute security, and although we will do our best to protect your data, use of sewbusty.com is at your own risk, and you should transmit your information only in a secure environment.

Do we collect data from minors?

We do not intend Sew Busty for minors, and we do not knowingly collect data or market to children under 18. We certainly do not sell minors’ data. By using sewbusty.com, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to your dependent’s use of sewbusty.com. If we learn that personal information of minors has been collected, we will deactivate that account and take reasonable measures to delete this data from our records. If you become aware of data we may have collected from children, please contact lindsie@sewbusty.com.

What are your privacy rights?

Some countries (including, but not limited to, the UK, Switzerland, Australia and the EU) and US states give residents greater rights of access to and control over their data. This may include the following:

  • right to know whether we are collecting or processing your data;
  • right to request access or a copy of your personal information;
  • right to request rectification or erasure;
  • right to restrict the processing of your data;
  • right to data portability, if applicable;
  • right to opt out of processing of your personal data for the purpose of targeted advertising (or sharing as defined under California’s privacy law), the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects;
  • right to opt out of processing of your sensitive and personal data collected through operation of voice or facial recognition (as permitted by applicable law, including Florida’s privacy law)
  • right to obtain a list of categories of third parties to which we disclose personal data (as permitted by law, including California’s and Delaware’s privacy law);
  • right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (as permitted by applicable law, such as California’s privacy law);
  • right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights; and
  • right not to be subject to automated decision-making.

Depending on circumstances, you may also have the right to object to processing of your data. To initiate any of the aforementioned requests, contact us at lindsie@sewbusty.com, and we will consider and act upon your request in accordance with applicable laws and policies.

Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia may have the right to request access to and receive details regarding their personal data collected by Sew Busty. This may include the right to learn how we processed it, to correct errors, to receive a copy, or to delete your data. Applicable law may limit these rights in some circumstances.

Upon receiving such a request, we must verify your identity. We will use data conveyed during this authentication process for the purposes of identity verification. If we are unable to verify your identity by the data we maintain, we may request additional information for authentication, security, or fraud-prevention purposes. Under certain state laws, you may designate an authorized agent to make such requests on your behalf, though we may deny a request from an agent that does not remit proof of valid authorization to act on your behalf in accordance with applicable law. an agent must provide a written consent signed by you to submit a request on your behalf.

Certain US state data protection laws give you the right to appeal if we decline to act in accordance with your request. You may file this appeal at lindsie@sewbusty.com, and we will inform you in writing of our decision, including any action taken or not taken. This response will include a written explanation of the reasons for our decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may complain to your state attorney general.

If you reside in the EEA or UK and believe Sew Busty is unlawfully processing your data, you have a right to complain to your data protection authority. If you are located in Switzerland, you may complain to the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

This Policy satisfies the notice requirements defined by Australia’s privacy Act of 1988, including what information we collect from you, from what sources, for what purposes, and with whom we share this information. You have the right to request access or correction of your data. If you believe we are unlawfully processing your data, you have a right to complain about breach of the Australian Privacy Principles to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Residents of South Africa have a right to request access or correction of their data. If you are unsatisified with the way we address a complaint regarding your data, you may contact the South Africa Information Regulator, with general enquiries going to enquiries@inforegulator.org.za and complaints with complete POPIA/PAIA forms to PAIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za and POPIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 — the “Shine the Light” law — permits California resident users to request information about categories of personal information (if any) disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes, as well as the names and addresses of third parties with whom we shared personal data. This request may be made once per year, and includes information about the immediately preceding calendar year.

To exercise your rights, contact us at lindsie@sewbusty.com. You may opt out from the selling of your personal information, targeted advertising, or profiling by disabling cookies in your cookie preference settings. If you enact the Global Privacy Control opt-out signal on your browser, we will honor this request.

Marketing

Sew Busty sends occasional marketing materials to users about products and resources we think are useful to our audience. You can unsubscribe from these marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in our emails, or by contacting us at lindsie@sewbusty.com. If you unsubscribe, we will remove you from marketing lists, but may continue to communicate with you with communications necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to your requests, or for other, non-marketing purposes.

User Accounts

You may review or change the information in your account or terminate your account at any time by logging into your account. Upon your request for account termination, we will deactivate or delete your account and data per our retention policy.

How do we use cookies?

We may use cookies and similar technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to gather information when you visit sewbusty.com. These technologies allow us to:

  • maintain security of our website
  • maintain security of your account
  • prevent crashes and fix bugs
  • help with basic site functions
  • save your preferences, such as keeping you signed in
  • understand how you use our website

Third parties and service providers may also use cookies or other tracking technologies on sewbusty.com for analytics or advertising, or to send abandoned shopping cart reminders.

To the extent these cookies and other tracking technologies are deemed to be a “sale” or “sharing” (including targeted advertising, as defined under applicable laws) under applicable US state laws, you can opt out of these online tracking technologies by submitting a request to lindsie@sewbusty.com.

We may share your information with Google Analytics to track and analyze use of sewbusty.com. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Do-Not-Track Features

California law requires us to inform you about how we respond to Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) signals. While web browsers and other applications often include a DNT feature or setting that allows you to signal your wish that your browsing data not be collected, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized, so we are unable to respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that attempts to automatically communicate your wish not to be tracked online.

Privacy policies of other websites

The Our Company website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

Our Company keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on October 8, 2024.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about Sew Busty’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us at lindsie@sewbusty.com