Effective Date: January 1, 2025

Privacy Policy

Blue Oceans Sand Dollar (“Blue Oceans Sand Dollar”, the “Site”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy.  When it comes to your personal information, we believe in transparency.  That’s why we’ve set out here what personal information we collect, what we do with it, and your choices and rights.

 

By buying from us, you confirm you have agreed to the Terms of Service and read and understood this Privacy Policy.

 

Certain jurisdictions require us to provide you with specific additional information.  Please read further on this page for such additional information if you are in: (i) California; or (ii) Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, or Utah.

Contact

After reviewing this policy, if you have additional questions, want more information about our privacy practices, or would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at blueoceans.sanddollar@gmail.com or by mail using the details provided below:

Blue Oceans Sand Dollar

c/o Lisa M King

44715 Prentice Dr #222

Ashburn, VA 20146

Collecting Personal Information

When you visit us, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with Blue Oceans Sand Dollar, and information necessary to process your purchases using the site analytics provided by Squarespace whose Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

 

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 collection: Collected automatically when you access Blue Oceans Sand Dollar using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags or pixels.

    • Disclosure for a business purpose: we share this information with Squarespace,  our website analytics provider, to learn about Site traffic and activity.

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

      Our payment processors, PayPal and Stripe, will also collect payment information from you.  You can read their Privacy Policy at PayPal https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/privacy-full and Stripe https://stripe.com/privacy.


      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.  You can read their Privacy Policy at https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/policies.

    • Personal Information collected: when you buy something on this website, we may collect the following:

      • Billing and shipping address

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

      • Email address

      • Name

      • Phone number

  • Customer support information

    • Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.

    • Source of collection: collected from you.

    • Disclosure for a business purpose: we share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider so that they can provide website services to us. This information provided through various forms on Blue Oceans Sand Dollar is also shared with our email blueoceans.sanddollar@gmail.com, which we use to send you our response.

    • Personal Information collected: Name, order number in question – if provided, email address, and, when asked, shipping address for item exchange requests.

  • Product reviews and blog comments

    • Blue Oceans Sand Dollar includes commenting functionality on some pages, which enables you to post a comment or product review.  The following Personal Information is collected when you post a comment or review:

      • Your name (which may be displayed as part of your posted comment)

      • Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

      • Your website URL (optional)

    • We also include “likes” functionality on some blog posts, which enables you to “like” a post.  The following Personal Information is collected when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit:

      • Information about your browser, network, and device

      • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

      • Your IP address

    • Disclosure for a business purpose: we share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider so that they can provide website services to us.

  • Member site subscribers

    • When you subscribe and purchase a membership with Blue Oceans Sand Dollar, we collect Personal Information from you to enable your member site access.  We may collect the following information:

      • Billing and shipping address

      • Details relating to your subscription

      • Email address

      • Name

      • Phone number

    • As you go through checkout, this Site may auto-complete your shipping address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.  For more information on their privacy policy, click here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/policies

    • Disclosure for a business purpose: we share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide exclusive member site hosting services to us.

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 at the address above in the “Contact” section to request deletion.

 

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 at: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

  • We use PayPal as one of our payment options.  You can read more about how PayPal uses your Personal Information at https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/privacy-full.

  • We use Stripe as one of our payment options.  You can read more about how Stripe uses your Personal Information at https://stripe.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.

 

Using Personal Information

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

 

Lawful Basis

  1. Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your Personal Information under the following lawful bases:

    • Your consent

    • The performance of the contract between you and Blue Oceans Sand Dollar

    • Compliance with our legal obligations

    • To protect your vital interests

    • To perform a task carried out in the public interest

    • For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms

 

Your Rights

GDPR

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased.  If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information above.

 

Squarespace relies upon a number of means to transfer your Personal Information, which is subjected to: (a) the GDPR in accordance with Chapter V of the GDPR; or (b) applicable to UK data privacy laws in accordance therewith. For more information on how data transfers comply with the GDPR, look under “Section 10. Data Transfers” in Squarespace’s Privacy Policy at https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

 

CCPA and Other Specified States

If you are a resident of California, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you (also known as the “Right to Know”), to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased.  If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information above.

If you are a resident of Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and Utah, you have the right to ask us to confirm we are processing your Personal Information and you can opt out of processing or sharing your Personal Information for online targeted advertising purposes.  If you would like to opt-out, you can contact us using the information above. 

For more information regarding your rights as a California resident or resident of other specified states, please see Squarespace’s Specific Privacy Notices at https://www.squarespace.com/privacy-specific.

 

Retention

When you place an order with Blue Oceans Sand Dollar, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information.  For more information on your right of erasure, please see the “Your Rights” section above.

 

Cookies

The 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 https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507-The-cookies-Squarespace-uses#toc-check-your-cookies.

 

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.

 

Complaints

As noted above, if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email or by mail using the details provided under “Contact” above.  If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority in your area.