The Tattered Artist values your privacy.  We protect and safeguard your personal information by limiting the amount of personal information that we collect, by using secure connection technologies when receiving or sending personal information beyond internal networks, by destroying personal information that is no longer needed, by implementing comprehensive security policies and procedures, by maintaining up-to-date software and safeguards, and by implementing around the clock network security measures.  This Privacy Policy describes how thetatteredartist.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.  Your access to and use of the Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with this Privacy Policy.  This Privacy Policy applies to everyone, including, but not limited to visitors, users, and others, who wish to access or use the Website.  By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.  If you disagree with any part of the Privacy Policy, you do not have permission to access or use the Website.

Collecting Personal Information

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information about an identifiable individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”.  See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

• Device information
• Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
• Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
• Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify. 
• Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site. 
• Order information
• Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
• Source of collection: collected from you.
• Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify. 
• Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (example: credit card numbers and other sources of payment), email address, and phone number.
• Customer support information
• Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
• Source of collection: collected from you.

Minors

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.  We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. 

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as: www.allaboutcookies.org.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track is a preference you can set on your browser to inform websites that you do not wish to be tracked. You can either enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings of your browser.  Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

Using Personal Information

We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up-to-date on new products, services, and offers.

Retention

We retain all of the information that we collect until we no longer need the information.

Direct Marketing

We use the information that we collect about you for direct marketing purposes.  Direct marketing is the act of selling products or services directly to consumers rather than through retailers.  

Analytics Programs

This Website uses Google Analytics to collect information about you and your behaviors.  If you would like to opt out of Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. 

Sale of Your Information

We DO NOT sell your personal information.

Your Rights

You may have the following rights in regard to your personal information, depending upon where you reside:

• The right to access the personal information that is collected about you.
• The right to request that some or all of the personal information collected on you be deleted.
• The right to ask us to transmit your personal information that we have collected on you to another provider (where technically feasible).
• The right to request that we amend any of the information that we have collected about you.
• The right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your data.
• The right to request that we restrict the processing of your data.
• The right to lodge a complaint regarding our collection, sharing, and processing of data with competent authorities in the proper jurisdiction.
• The right to stop receiving unwanted direct marketing.

Exercising Your Rights

You may exercise the rights specified above by submitting a consumer request to:

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

Last updated:  October 31, 2025