Privacy Policy
Last Updated: November 9, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from this website (the “Site”).
1. Information We Collect
A. Information Automatically Collected (Squarespace Analytics & Hosting)
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
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs this data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
B. Cookies & Tracking Technologies
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.
Functional and Required Cookies: Always used, allowing Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
Analytics and Performance Cookies: Used on this site only when you acknowledge our cookie banner (if enabled). These cookies view site traffic, activity, and other data to help us understand how visitors interact with the site.
C. Customer & Order Information (Include if selling products/services)
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
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.
D. Form Submissions & Communications
When you submit information to this website via webform or contact form, we collect the data requested in the form in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.
2. Emails and Notifications
Order and Account Emails: We may email you with messages about your order or account activity (e.g., account creation, order confirmation, shipping notices). You cannot unsubscribe from these transactional messages.
Marketing Emails: We may send you marketing communications if you have opted in. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email.
3. Fonts and Third-Party Assets
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive information about you, including your browser, network, device, the page viewed, and your IP address.
4. How We Share Your Information
We share your personal data with third-party service providers that help us operate our site and deliver services, including:
Hosting & Platform: Squarespace, Inc.
Payment Processors: (e.g., Stripe, PayPal) to securely process transactions.
Fulfillment & Shipping Partners: To process and ship orders (if applicable).
Legal & Regulatory Obligations: When required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulation.
5. Notice to Residents of the European Economic Area & United Kingdom (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom (UK), you have specific data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK Data Protection Act 2018.
Legal Bases for Processing Personal Data
We process your personal data under the following legal bases:
Consent: Where you have given explicit consent (e.g., opting in to marketing emails or accepting non-essential analytics cookies).
Contractual Necessity: Where processing is required to fulfill a contract with you (e.g., processing orders, providing customer support).
Legitimate Interests: Where processing is in our legitimate business interests, provided those interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms (e.g., maintaining site security, preventing fraud).
Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary to comply with applicable tax, corporate, or regulatory laws.
Your Rights Under the GDPR
You have the right to:
Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): Request deletion of your personal data when it is no longer necessary for the purposes collected.
Restrict Processing: Ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
Data Portability: Receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format or have it transferred directly to another controller.
Object to Processing: Object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.
Withdraw Consent: Withdraw previously given consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
Lodge a Complaint: File a complaint with your local Data Protection Authority (DPA) or Supervisory Authority.
International Data Transfers
Personal data collected through this website may be transferred to, stored, and processed in countries outside the EEA/UK, including the United States, by our service providers such as Squarespace. When transfers occur, we rely on standard contractual clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, or adequacy decisions to ensure equivalent levels of protection.
6. Notice to California Residents (CCPA / CPRA)
This section applies solely to California residents pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (collectively, the "CCPA").
Categories of Personal Information Collected and Disclosed
In the preceding 12 months, we may have collected and disclosed for a business purpose the following categories of personal information:
Identifiers: Name, email address, IP address, postal address, phone number.
Commercial Information: Records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered.
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity: Browsing history, search history, device and browser details, interaction with the Site.
Geolocation Data: General location derived from IP address.
Sale and Sharing of Personal Information
We do not sell your personal information for monetary consideration.
We do not share or process your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising unless you have opted in via tracking cookies.
We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about consumers.
Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you have the right to:
Right to Know / Access: Request disclosure of the specific pieces and categories of personal information collected, the sources, the business purposes, and the categories of third parties with whom it was shared.
Right to Delete: Request the deletion of personal information collected from you, subject to certain exceptions under California law.
Right to Correct: Request the correction of inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale / Sharing: Direct businesses that sell or share personal information to cease doing so. Because we do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, no opt-out is required beyond cookie preferences.
Right to Non-Discrimination: Exercise your privacy rights without being denied goods or services, charged different prices, or provided a different quality of service.
Exercising Your CCPA Rights
To submit a verifiable consumer request to know, delete, or correct your personal information, please reach out using the contact information below. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf by providing written authorization and proof of identity.
7. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, satisfy legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, or resolve disputes.
8. Contact Us
To exercise any of your rights or ask questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
Entity/Business Name: Through These Lenses
Email: tanganesu@gmail.com