(Last updated 11/01/2024)

Protecting your private information is our priority at Girl Ball 22. This Privacy Policy informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data of Users of the Web site and/or Products. Girl Ball 22 attaches great importance to ensuring that your personal data and crawled data are collected, used, processed and erased in accordance with the current applicable regulations as stipulated by local, state, national, federal, and other data protection legislation. Protecting your data is a matter of great importance to our company.

Agreement to be Bound

The following Privacy Policy governs the collection and use of private information via the Web site and the Products. By accessing the Web site and/or purchasing one of our Products you represent that you have read and understand the Privacy Policy and that you agree to be bound by thereby. This Privacy Policy may be additionally subject to our Terms and Conditions and Cookie Policy.

Collection of your Personal Information

We collect both personally-identifiable information or personal data and non-personally-identifiable information from you. Often, you choose what information to provide to us, but, sometimes, we may require certain information for you to use and for us to provide the Products. Specifically, we collect the following:

Product Delivery. In order to process your transactions, provide you with support, process your transactions, or allow you to participate in contests, promotions, surveys, or other features, we will collect personal data, which may include your full name; telephone number; email address; and purchase histories. At this time, we do not collect or store sensitive information, such as financial information, as that is collected and stored by the third-party merchants through whom we offer our Products, including but not limited to Amazon and Etsy.

Automated Information. Girl Ball 22 automatically receives and records information from each User’s browser or your mobile device when you visit the Web site or use certain other Products, such as your IP address in an anonymized fashion or unique device identifier, cookies and data about which pages you visit in order to allow us to operate our Web site and provide the Products, and data about the type of device you use to connect to our Web site. This information is stored in log files and is collected automatically. We may combine this information from your browser or your mobile device with other information that we or our partners collect about you, including across devices. This information is used to prevent fraud and to keep the Web site secure, to analyze and understand how the Web site works for our Users, and to provide advertising, including across your devices, and a more personalized experience for members and visitors.

Location Information: We may collect information about your use of the Web site for advertising, analytics, to serve content and to protect the Web site, including your IP address, browser information (including referrers), device information (such as iOS IDFA, IDFV for limited non-advertising purposes, Android AAID, and, when enabled by you, location information provided by your device). We may obtain location information you provide or your IP address. With your consent, we may also determine location by using other information from your device, such as general location information from GPS or information about wireless networks or cell towers near your mobile device. We may use and store information about your location to provide features and to improve the Products we offer, for example, for our internal analytics and performance monitoring; localization, regional requirements, and policies for the Products; for local content, search results, and recommendations; for mapping services; and (using non-precise location information) marketing. If you have consented to share your precise device location details but would no longer like to continue sharing that information with us, you may revoke your consent to the sharing of that information through the settings on your mobile device. Certain non-precise location services, such as for security and localized policies based on your IP address or submitted address, are critical for the site to function. We will only share your geo-location details with third parties (like our mapping, payments, or, to the extent applicable, advertising providers) in order to provide you the Web site and process your transactions.

Analytics Information: We use data analytics to ensure Web site functionality and improve the Products. We do not link the information we store within the analytics software to any personally identifiable information that you submit.

Use of your Personal Information

We may use your personally-identifiable information to process transactions; to provide and improve customer service administration; to personalize your User experience; to contact Users via e-mail or telephone; to respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions; to send company news, updates and other related info via our mailing list; to facilitate delivery of our Products; and to provide “review copies” or “digital editions” of Products. We may use your non-personally identifiable information to create traffic statistics for our Web site; to create User statistics for our Products; to improve customer service; and to personalize your User experience.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Girl Ball 22 does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Girl Ball 22 may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or provided marketing services. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Girl Ball 22, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. Girl Ball 22 may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Girl Ball 22 or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Girl Ball 22; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Girl Ball 22, or the public.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Girl Ball 22. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Girl Ball 22 website.

Use of Cookies

To enhance your online experience, we may use “cookies” or similar technologies, such as Web beacons or clear .gifs, targeted advertising, and activity tracking. Cookies are text files placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies do not contain personally identifiable information; however, once you choose to furnish a Web site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. We use cookies to understand Web site and Internet usage and to improve or customize the content, offerings, or advertisements on our Web site and for our Products. For example, we may use cookies to enable us to detect and report security issues affecting our Web site and Users; personalize your experience at our Web site (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to the Web site); save your password in password-protected areas (if applicable); and enable you to use shopping carts on our Web site (if available.) We also may use cookies to help us offer you products, programs, or Products that may be of interest to you and to deliver relevant advertising. We, our third-party service providers, advertisers, and our partners also may use cookies to manage and measure the performance of advertisements displayed on or delivered by us and/or other networks or sites. This also helps us, our service providers, and partners provide more relevant advertising. In addition, we may track your activity on the site using third-party plugins and widgets, such as Google Analytics, Google Web site Optimizer, Google Adwords, Google Remarketing, and Facebook’s tracking pixel, which allow us to collect statistics on how our users use our Site and, in return, offer better Products. You can change your privacy preferences regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies through your browser. You may set your browser to accept all cookies, block certain cookies, require your consent before a cookie is placed in your browser, or block all cookies. Blocking all cookies will affect your online experience and may prevent you from enjoying the full features offered by us. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information.

Security of your Personal Information

Girl Ball 22 uses reasonable methods to secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. In addition, access to your data is restricted to need-to-access individuals. We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.Please note that non-encrypted communication using email is not secure. Thus, we cannot guarantee data security in email communication and, therefore, recommend using physical mail for confidential information.

Children’s Privacy

Girl Ball 22’s Web site and Products are not intended to knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Minors For users between the ages of 13 and 18 (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction), you may only use our Web site and Products with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian. By using our Web site and Products, you represent that you are at least 13 years old and that you have obtained parental consent if you are under 18 years old.

Retention

Girl Ball 22 will retain your information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this policy or as needed to provide the Products to you and any marketing materials you have opted-in to receive. Girl Ball 22 will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your information to comply with applicable tax/revenue laws), resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and as otherwise described in this policy. We also retain log files for internal analysis purposes. These log files are generally retained for a brief period of time, except in cases where they are used for site safety and security, to improve site functionality.

E-mail Communications: How to Opt-Out.

From time to time, Girl Ball 22 may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Products, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Girl Ball 22 or click on a link therein. Please note that our marketing and promotional communications are opt-in. If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Girl Ball 22, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE link. Email marketing campaigns published by us may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include but shall not be limited to: the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity. This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the User with more relevant content based around their activity.

Other Web Sites

Our Web site may contain links to other Web sites, mobile software applications, services, products, or software, which are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. This may include Amazon, Redbubble, Lulu, and others for any Product purchases made through those platform and their respective payment processors. If you access other Web sites, mobile software applications and/or software or otherwise use any third-party products or services using the links provided, the operators thereof may collect information from you, which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policies, which may differ from ours.