Privacy Policy

Introduction and Summary

We want to make it easy for you to understand what information we collect from you, what we do with it, and how you can request access to this information. 

We believe this is a best practice to maintain transparency and trust with our website visitors and clients, and it just so happens that this complies with the laws of many countries around the world, too. If you have questions about this policy, you can contact us at info@sharonmarta.com. 

We collect as little information from you as possible for a specific and identifiable purpose, and then we commit to using this information only in the way we have specified. When you visit this site, you are agreeing to this Privacy Policy, the collection of information identified in this policy, and you always have the ability to opt out. 

What Personal Information We Collect and When

We collect information so that we can make our products and services better tailored to the people who visit our site and do business with us. We collect this information to (i) deliver products and services you have purchased from us, (ii) to notify you about our product or service offerings that you may be interested in, so long as you have given us consent to do so, [and (if you do this:) (iii) to keep track of visitor information to our site and/or or create retargeted and “lookalike” audiences for advertising purposes]. 

We collect information from you directly and indirectly through third-party services, as follows:

When you contact us...

  • With questions or comments in the contact form.

  • When you comment on a post directly on the website.

  • To request more information, schedule a telephone call, or sign up to the newsletter.

  • To place an order for products or services. 

  • To receive your product or services. 

When we contact you...

  • To provide the goods and services you requested. 

  • To request occasional feedback.

  • To provide news, updates, and offers through the newsletter, usually by email, [with a double opt in consent]. 

When we contact others...

  • We may see certain personal information from third party apps and services that allow us to complete your order.

  • We may see certain personal information from third party installations that allow us to remarket our services and products to you on other websites. 

  • We may see certain personal information from third party apps and services that allow us to monitor website traffic, email conversion, and other analytics data. 

  • We may see your personal information when we work with third party processors, like our email provider and web host. For EU residents, please note that this means we may transmit your data across international borders. 

Your Privacy Controls

We use third-party services on our websites to assist in communicating or interacting with the public, including social media services, widgets, apps, pixels, and plugins, as further identified below. These services may distinguish or trace your identity, through, for example, persistent, multi-session cookies. 

You can configure your system to delete cookies or disable them. In general, we do not collect or disseminate information collected by these services. When interacting with these third parties, their privacy policies apply. As of the time of this writing, we use: 

    • Google Analytics: Specifically, Google Analytics collects data about visitors to the Site via Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, in addition to other data which may be collected through a standard Google Analytics implementation. We do not merge personally-identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any Google advertising product or feature. Should you wish to opt out of any Google Analytics Advertising features, you are encouraged to change your Ad Settings and Ad Setting for mobile apps, through the NAI’s consumer opt-out, or by using any of the other opt-out options currently available: currently available opt-outs.

    • Facebook pixels. More information is available here and here.

    • Flodesk. More information is available here.

    • Pinterest. More information is available here.

    • Paypal. More information is available here.

 

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer to collect information about the pages you view and your activities on the site. They enable the site to recognize you by, for example, remembering your user name, offering a shopping cart, or keeping track of your preferences if you visit the site again. The cookie transmits this information back to the website's computer (or server) which generally is the only computer that can read it. You can set your Web browser to warn you about attempts to place cookies on your computer, or to limit the type of cookies you allow. 

  • This site uses single and multi-session cookies to enhance the visitor experience. Use the link above to opt out. 

  • This site does not sell or share its email list for use by third parties. 

If you choose to opt out of some or all of our data collection, you may not be able to access all features of this website or our services. 

Keeping Your Information Secure

We store personal information with third parties that use industry standard practices for data security. 

Your Rights to Your Information

You own your personal information and have rights to it. For example, you have the rights to: 

  • Withdraw your consent for us to market our products and services to you and otherwise use the personal information you have provided to us. Withdrawing consent is easy. Simply click “unsubscribe” in the footer of our emails, or [email (email address) or write to us on (contact page link)]. 

  • Request a copy of the information we have about you; 

  • Be forgotten (that is, have your data deleted and/or ask us to stop using your information for any purpose); 

  • Correct inaccurate information we have about you (and that means we will notify other service providers we use, and who hold your personal information for us, of those changes as well);

  • Object to direct marketing and profiling (for example, we will remove you from our email list and from any list we have uploaded for the purposes of creating custom or retargeted audiences). We also encourage you to disable data collection services on your browser; 

  • Make complaints about the use of your data to regulatory authorities. 

We will comply with these requests within 30 days. 

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses.

Customer Accounts

If you create a customer account on this website, we collect personal information to improve our checkout experience and customer service.

This information may include your:

  • Billing and shipping address(es)

  • Details about your orders (for example, your shirt size)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us.

Order and Account Emails

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

  • You’ve created a Customer Account

  • Your Customer Account password has been reset or updated

  • You’ve made a purchase

  • Your order has shipped

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

Visitor Data

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

For Website Visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Compliance

We make commercially reasonable efforts to work with data controllers (like our email provider) who guarantee compliance with privacy laws like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. 

We store your personal information only for as long as it is needed to use it for the reasons you have consented to. 

Occasionally we will revise this policy and will use your contact information to notify you of these changes if they reduce your privacy rights in any way. 

Updated 2/09/2024.