Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 05, 2025

Welcome to the privacy policy for this website — https://claiborneashby.com.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share your personal and technical information; tells you about your privacy rights; and how the law protects you.

This Privacy Policy applies to  https://claiborneashby.com (the “Website”), which is operated by CA Studio LLC, collectively referred to as “we”, “our,” and “us.” The Website includes a blog, newsletter, and store. These are collectively referred to as the “Services.”

A Personal Note

Your privacy is very important to us. 

We, through this website and related services, only gather the personal identifiable data you willingly provide. For instance, when you sign up for emails, submit a question through the contact form, or make a purchase. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

Though under some privacy laws, sell can mean share. 

We do, by necessity, share your information with third-party service providers. we use third-party applications to, for example, receive contact form messages, send newsletters, and process payments. We only use third-party applications that we trust with our own personal information. They are each bound by their own privacy policies not to share your information. 

You can find out more below in the section titled, “Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data.”

This website is built on the WordPress platform. We use WordPress’s secure and trusted ecommerce platform, WooCommerce, for the store. The entire website runs on a secure server and uses HTTPS to encrypt data sent between this website and your browser. While no method of internet data transfer or storage is guaranteed, We do everything we know to maintain website security.

When you make a purchase, your name, address, email, and purchase information are stored in this website’s database. Your credit card number, however, is sent directly to the payment processor (Stripe, PayPal, or Square) for processing. It never enters this website.

Like most websites, this one uses cookies for a variety of purposes, including to run more efficiently, provide a better user experience, and help us understand how people interact with the site and related services. 

You’re always welcome to turn off or delete cookies through your browser, but that may mean some aspects of this website won’t work for you. 

If you have questions about any part of this policy, you can contact us using the information at the end of this document.

And now continue reading for the official policy.

Your Consent to This Privacy Policy

We use your personal data to provide and improve our Services. By using these Services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data Provided by You

While using our Services, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information. For example, if you use our contact form, sign up for our newsletter, or make a purchase. This information includes:

Email address

First name and last name

Phone number

Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

Log Data

We automatically collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Services. This log data includes your device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), operating system version, device type, browser type, and browser version. It also includes the webpages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time you spend on those pages, and what you click on. This data does not reveal your specific identity, as in your name or contact information.

Data from Tracking Technologies

We use tracking technologies (called beacons, tags, and scripts) to collect usage data and user statistics. Certain sections of our Services may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs). 

They allow us, for example, to know how many users opened our latest newsletter, or clicked on the links within our latest newsletter.

Data from Cookies

Cookies are another tracking technology we use to collect and track the activity on our Services. 

Cookies are small pieces of data, stored in text files, that are stored on your computer or other device when websites are loaded in a browser. They are widely used to “remember” you and your preferences, either for a single visit (through a “session cookie”) or for multiple repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”). They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for visitors, and perform essential functions such as allowing users to register and remain logged in. Cookies may be set by the site that you are visiting (known as “first party cookies”), or by third parties, such as those who serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the website (“third party cookies”).

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the Website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these Cookies to provide you with those services.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember your preferences and various settings, so you can have a more personal experience and avoid having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Website.

Tracking and Performance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Third-Parties

Purpose: These Cookies give us information about Website traffic and how users interact with the Website. (For example, we use Google Analytics to track and report on website traffic.) The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. This information helps us optimize performance, for example, by knowing how many visitors are accessing the Website, which pages they visit most, and how they navigate through the Website.

• How to Control Cookies: You can restrict the use of Cookies or completely prevent them from being set. Most browsers provide for ways to control Cookie behavior such as the length of time they are stored – either through built-in functionality or by utilizing third party plugins. If you disable Cookies, please be aware that some of the features of our Services may not function correctly. 
• Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to prevent Cookies, our Services will use Cookies.

Use of Your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data for various purposes:

• To respond to your inquiries and offer customer support.
• To fulfill and manage your orders.
• To send you newsletters, emails, and updates about our Services.
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues with our Services.
• To evaluate and improve our Services through data analysis, identifying usage trends, and determining the effectiveness of our email newsletters.
• To comply with legal requirements.

Sharing of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal information with third-party service providers.

We use trusted third parties to provide services for us or on our behalf. For instance, we use third-party companies to process payments, to send you newsletters and postal mail, and to arrange for deliveries. These service providers have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

We work with the following third-party vendors:

Newsletter/Emails

If you have subscribed to our email list, we use your Personal Data to send you newsletters and other information that may be of interest to you. 

We use Flodesk to manage and send emails to you.

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://flodesk.com/privacy-policy

You can opt-out of receiving these communications from us by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our newsletters, or by contacting us directly.

Payments

We use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We do not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

Depending on which option you choose, we currently use:

Stripe

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy

PayPal

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Square

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://squareup.com/legal/privacy-no-account

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may disclose your Personal Data, without notice, as follows:

• If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
• If we have the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation; to protect the personal safety of users of the Services or the public; to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our Services; to protect and defend our rights or property; or to protect against legal liability.

Retention of Your Personal Data

We will only keep your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). 

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of your Personal Data is very important to us. We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards, no electronic transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

How to Delete or Update Your Personal Data

If you would like to review, correct, or delete the personally identifiable data we have collected about you, you have a couple of options:

Please note that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

GDPR Privacy

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR

We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:

• Consent: You have given us your consent to do so for one or more specific purposes.
• Performance of a contract: The use is necessary to perform our Services contract with you.
• Legal obligations: The use is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
• Vital interests: The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or of another natural person.
• Legitimate interests: The use is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests — for example, to provide, update, and improve our Services; to safeguard our Services; to communicate with you; and to personalize your experience.

In any case, we will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing.

Your Rights under the GDPR

We respect the confidentiality of your Personal Data and guarantee you can exercise your rights.

You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if you are within the EU, to:

• Request access to your personal data;
• Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
• Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
• Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
• Request portability of your personal data.

You also have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, if you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA.

Exercising Your GDPR Data Protection Rights

You may exercise your rights in the following ways:

• Unsubscribe from our newsletter using the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us to do it for you.
• You can contact us at [email protected]. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.

“Do Not Track” Policy (CalOPPA)

Our Services do not respond to Do Not Track signals.

However, some third party websites do keep track of your browsing activities. If you are visiting such websites, you can set your preferences in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of your web browser.

California Privacy Rights for Minor Users

California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 allows California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted.

Our Services do not currently accept publicly posted content or address users under the age of 18.

If at some point they do:

To request removal of such data, you can contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account.

Children’s Privacy

Our Services do not address “Children,” anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at [email protected]. 

If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, we will remove that information from our servers.

Links to Other Websites

Our Services contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We will most likely update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the new Privacy Policy on this page and update the “Last updated” date at the top of the page.

Be sure to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:

• By email: [email protected]
• By contact form: https://claiborneashby.com/contact/