This Privacy Policy outlines how PASSIONS CREATE WAVES (the “Site” or “we”) gathers, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase on the Site.

Contact

If you have any questions after reviewing this policy, require more information about our privacy practices, or would like to file a complaint, please contact us via email at passionscreatewaves@gmail.com.

Collection of Personal Information

When you visit the Site, we collect specific information regarding your device, your interactions with the Site, and the information necessary to process your purchases. Additional information may be collected if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can identify an individual (including the information listed below) as “Personal Information.” Please refer to the list below for details on the Personal Information we collect and the reasons behind it.

Device Information

• Purpose of collection: To ensure accurate loading of the Site for you and to perform analytics on Site usage to improve the Site.

• Source of collection: Automatically collected when you access the Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.

• Disclosure for business purposes: Shared with our processor, Squarespace.

• Personal Information collected: Web browser version, IP address, time zone, cookie data, the sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.

Order Information

• Purpose of collection: To fulfill our contract with you by providing products or services, processing payment, arranging shipping, and sending invoices or order confirmations. We may also communicate with you, screen for potential fraud or risks, and, based on your preferences, offer information or advertisements about our products or services.

• Source of collection: Collected directly from you.

• Disclosure for business purposes: Shared with our processor, Squarespace.

• Personal Information collected: Name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.

Sharing Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

• We use Squarespace to power our online store. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your Personal Information here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

• We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Behavioural Advertising

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:

We use Squarespace Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. 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.

Use of Personal Information

We use your Personal Information to provide the services you request, which include: offering products for sale, processing payments, fulfilling orders, and keeping you informed about new products, services, and special offers.

Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for record-keeping purposes unless you request its deletion. For more information on your right to request erasure, please refer to the ‘Your Rights’ section below.

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 The cookies Squarespace uses.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

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.

When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:

Stripe - payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.

Sift - fraud monitoring and detection services. You can read Sift’s privacy policy at https://sift.com/service-privacy.

Marketing E-mails

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider so that they can send these emails on our behalf.

Do Not Track

Please be aware that since there is no standardized industry approach for responding to "Do Not Track" signals, we do not change our data collection and usage practices upon detecting such a signal from your browser.

Changes

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

Complaints

As mentioned earlier, if you wish to file a complaint, please reach out to us.

Last updated: January 17 2025