Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
At Cutesy Coded LLC ("us," "we," "our," or the "Company"), we value your privacy and the importance of safeguarding your data. This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") describes our privacy practices for the activities set out below. We'll explain how we collect, store, access, and otherwise process information that can identify an individual (referred to as "Personal Data").
We're committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the highest level of privacy regulation. As such, we follow the obligations under the following regulations:
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California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) / California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
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Colorado Privacy Act (CPA)
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Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA)
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Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA)
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Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)
What This Policy Covers
This Policy applies to Cutesy Coded LLC websites, domains, applications, services, and products.
Third-Party Websites
This Policy does not apply to third-party applications, websites, products, services, or platforms that you might access through links we provide. These sites are owned and operated independently from us, and they have their own separate privacy and data collection practices. Any Personal Data you provide to these websites will be governed by the third party’s own privacy policy. We can't accept liability for the actions or policies of these independent sites, and we're not responsible for their content or privacy practices.
2. Personal Data We Collect
When you interact with us, we collect various types of Personal Data.
Data You Provide Directly
When you make a purchase, attempt a purchase, use our products or features, or interact with us, you might provide us with the following types of Personal Data:
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Account Information: Such as your name, email address, and password.
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Payment Information: Such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card, or other payment method details.
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Financial Information: Including credit card numbers.
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Purchase Information: Specifically if personalized or unique to your order.
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Demographic Data: (If you collect this, clarify what it is, e.g., age, gender. If you don't, remove this.)
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Content: Any content you create through our products or services, or submit to us (e.g., comments, reviews).
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Feedback: Any feedback you provide to us.
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Product Information: (If this refers to specific product details you collect from users, clarify. Otherwise, consider removing.)
You may give us this Personal Data by filling in forms, using our products or services, entering information online, or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes Personal Data you provide, for example, when you:
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Create an account or purchase products on our website.
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Use our products or services.
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Create content through our products or services.
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Express interest in our products or services.
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Download software and/or our mobile application.
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Subscribe to our newsletter.
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Complete a voluntary market research survey.
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Contact us with an inquiry or to report a problem (by phone, email, social media, or messaging service).
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Log in to our website via social media.
Sensitive Personal Data
We do not collect any categories of Sensitive Personal Data as defined by applicable privacy laws (such as health data, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, or biometric data for identification purposes). (If you do collect sensitive data, you must list the specific types here and explicitly describe how you obtain explicit consent for each.)
Data Collected Automatically
As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect the following types of data:
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Device Data: Information about your equipment, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and unique device identifiers.
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Usage Data: Information about your Browse actions and patterns, such as pages viewed, time spent on pages, clickstream data, and referral URLs.
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Contact Data (for uncompleted tasks): Where tasks carried out via our website remain uncompleted, such as incomplete orders or abandoned baskets, we may collect contact information you previously provided to us.
We collect this data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookiessection (below) for further details.
Data Collected from Third Parties
We may receive Personal Data about you from various third parties, including:
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Account Information and Payment Information from another individual when they purchase a gift for you on our website.
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Device and Usage Data from analytics providers such as Google Analytics.
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Account Information (like your name and email) from social media platforms when you log in to our website using such social media platforms.
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Content from communication services, including email providers and social networks, when you give us permission to access your data on such third-party services or networks.
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Account Information, Payment Data, and Financial Data from third parties, including organizations (such as law enforcement agencies), associations, and groups, who share data for the purposes of fraud prevention and detection and credit risk reduction.1
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Account Information, Payment Data, and Financial Data from providers of technical, payment, and delivery services.2
If you provide us, or our service provide3rs, with any Personal Data relating to other individuals, you represent that you have the authority to do so and acknowledge that it will be used in accordance with this Policy. If you believe that your Personal Data ha4s been provided to us improperly, or to otherwise exercise your rights relating to your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information set out in the “Contact Us” section below.
Data from Third-Party Websites and Services5
Our websites and services may contain links to other websites, applications, and services maintained by third parties. The information practices of such other services, or of social me6dia networks that host our branded social media pages, are governed by third parties’ privacy statements, which you should review to better understand those third parties’ privacy practices. We do not have any control or input on how your Personal Data is handled by these independent third parties. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such sites.
3. Purpose and Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
We collect and use your Personal Data for the following purposes, relying on different legal bases:
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To deliver your product or service: This includes fulfilling orders (both electronic and non-electronic shipments).
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Legal Basis: Necessary for the performance of a contractual obligation with you.
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To operate, maintain, and develop our products and services and understand how to improve them: This includes activities like fraud prevention, security, and analyzing website usage.
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Legal Basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests in providing effective products and services, maintaining our relationship with you, protecting our business against fraud, and improving user experience.
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To send you marketing communications: If you have opted in to receive them.
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Legal Basis: Your consent.
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When required, we will ask for your explicit consent to process your Personal Data for specific purposes. If any changes are made to the type of data collected or the purposes for which it is used, new consent will be required. Please note that if you choose not to provide consent for certain data processing, some services or features may not be available to you.
4. International Data Transfer and Storage
Where possible, we store and process data on servers within the general geographical region where you reside (note: this may not be within the country in which you reside). Your Personal Data may also be transferred to, and maintained on, servers residing outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.
We will take appropriate steps to ensure that your Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy as well as applicable data protection law. We rely on recognized legal mechanisms for international data transfers, such as standard contractual clauses. More information about these clauses can be found here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021D0914
5. Sharing and Disclosure
We will share your Personal Data with third parties only in the ways set out in this Policy or as explicitly stated at the point when the Personal Data is collected.7
Legal Requirement8
We may use or disclose your Personal Data in order to comply with a legal obligation, in connection with a request from a public or government authority, or in connec9tion with court or tribunal proceedings, to prevent loss of life or injury, or to protect our rights or property. Where possible and practical to do so, we will tell you in advance of such disclosure.
Service Providers and Other Third Parties
We may use third-party service providers, independent contractors, agencies, or consultants to deliver and help us improve our products and services. We may share your Personal Data with categories of service providers such as:
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Marketing agencies
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Database service providers
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Backup and disaster recovery service providers
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Email service providers
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Payment processors
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Website analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics)
This sharing is solely to maintain and improve our products and services. We require any third party who processes your Personal Data on our behalf to have security measures in place to protect your data and to treat such data in accordance with the law and our instructions. For further information on the specific recipients of your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information in the “Contact Us” section below.10
6. Cookies11
What are Cookies?12
A cookie is a small file with information that your browser stores on your device. Information in this file is typically shared with the owner of the site, in addition to potential partners and third parties to that business. T13he collection of this information may be used in the function of the site and/or to improve your experience.
How We Use Cookies
To give you the best experience possible, we use the following types of cookies:
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Strictly Necessary: As a web application, we require certain necessary cookies to run our service. These are essential for the website to function and cannot be switched off.
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Preference/Functional: We use preference cookies to help us remember the way you like to use our service. Some cookies are used to personalize content and present you with a tailored experience. For example, your general location could be used to provide you with services and offers in your area.
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Analytics/Performance: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This allows us to measure and improve the performance of our site. (Added common category)
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Marketing/Targeting: These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. (Added common category)
How to Control Your Cookies
So long as the cookie is not strictly necessary, you may opt in or out of cookie use at any time. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help Feature on most browsers will provide information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies, or to notify you when receiving a new cookie. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
To alter the way in which we collect information from you through cookies, visit our Cookie Manager(Ensure this link or tool is active on your site).
7. Data Retention & Deletion
We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary for the purpose for which that data was collected and to the extent required or permitted by applicable law. For example, we generally retain purchase data for [X years - e.g., 7 years for tax/accounting purposes] from the date of purchase. When we no longer need Personal Data, we will remove it from our systems and/or take steps to anonymize it.14
8. Merger or Acquisition15
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We16 will provide notice before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy. Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
9. How We Keep Your Data Safe
We have appropriate organizational safeguards and security measures in place to protect your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. The communication between your browser and our website uses a secure encrypted connection wherever your Personal Data is in17volved. We require any third party who is contracted to process your Personal Data on our behalf to have security measures in place to protect your data and to treat such data in accordance with the law. In the unfortunate event of a Personal Data breach, we will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so.
10. Your Rights for Your Personal Data
Depending on your geographical location and citizenship, your rights are subject to local data privacy regulations. You may have the following rights regarding your Personal Data:
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Right to Access: You have the right to learn whether we are processing your Personal Data and to request a copy of the Personal Data we are processing about you.
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Right to Rectification: You have the right to have incomplete or inaccurate Personal Data that we process about you rectified.
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Right to be Forgotten (Right to Erasure): You have the right to request that we delete Personal Data that we process about you, unless we need to retain such data in order to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
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Right to Opt Out: You may have the right to opt out of the processing of your Personal Data for purposes of: (1) Targeted advertising; (2) The sale of Personal Data; and/or (3) Profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. Under CPRA, you have the right to opt out of the sharing of your Personal Data to third parties and our use and disclosure of your Sensitive Personal Data to uses necessary to provide the products and services reasonably expected by you.18
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Nondiscrimination and Non-retaliation: You have the right not to be denied service or have an altered experience for exercising your rights.1920
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File an Appeal: You have the right to file an appeal based on our response to you exercising any of these rights. In the event you disagree with how we resolved th21e appeal, you have the right to contact the attorney general located here:
Withdrawing Consent
If you have consented to our processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge, such as where you wish to opt out from marketing messages that you receive from us. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us using the information found in the "Contact Us" section below.
How to Exercise Your Rights
You can make a request to exercise any of these rights in relation to your Personal Data by sending the request to our privacy team by using the form below (or describe another method, e.g., sending an email). For your own privacy and security, at our discretion, we may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may modify this Policy at any time. If we make changes to this Policy then we will post an updated version of this Policy on this website. When using our services, you will be asked to review and accept our Privacy Policy. In this manner, we may record your acceptance and notify you of any future changes to this Policy.
12. Complaints
If you have a complaint about this Policy or any element of your personal information that we hold then please contact us at the address provided below. If you are not satisfied, then you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
13. Contact Us
To request a copy of your information, unsubscribe from our email list, request for your data to be deleted, or ask a question about your data privacy, we've made the process simple:
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Email: [email protected]
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Mailing Address:
Cutesy Coded LLC
3419 Virginia Beach Blvd #5294
Virginia Beach, Virginia, 23452, US