1. Summary
This policy explains what personal information Paperverses collects when you visit paperverses.com or buy from us, what we do with it, and the choices you have. Paperverses is operated by Daniel Hwang as a sole proprietor based in Maryland, USA.
2. What we collect
When you place an order
- Name, email address, shipping address, billing address
- Payment information — processed by Stripe; we never see or store full card numbers
- Order details (the verses, frames, and sizes you bought)
When you sign up for our email list
- Email address only
When you contact us
- Whatever you tell us — name, email, message contents
Automatically, when you visit the site
- IP address, browser type, pages visited, referring URL — standard web traffic data
- Wall-photo uploads in the Find Your Match feature are processed entirely in your browser and never sent to our servers
3. How we use it
- To fulfill orders — share name and shipping address with Printful (our print and ship vendor)
- To accept payment — pass payment details to Stripe
- To send transactional email — order confirmation, shipping notifications, return correspondence
- To send marketing email — only if you opt in. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe
- To improve the site — aggregate, anonymized analytics
- To prevent fraud — Stripe and our hosting provider use IP and device data to flag suspicious activity
6. Retention
We keep your order history for as long as your account is active or as long as legally required for tax and accounting (typically 7 years in the US). Email-list subscribers are kept until you unsubscribe. Contact-form messages are kept in our email archive indefinitely unless you ask us to delete them.
7. Your rights
Regardless of where you live, you can ask us to:
- Tell you what data we have about you
- Correct anything that's wrong
- Delete your data (where we're not legally required to keep it)
- Stop sending you marketing email
If you're in California, the EU, the UK, or any other jurisdiction with specific privacy laws, you have additional rights — including the right to data portability and the right to object to certain processing. Email [email protected] with "Privacy" in the subject and we'll handle it within 30 days.
8. Children
Paperverses isn't directed at children under 13 and we don't knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has given us personal information, email us and we'll delete it.
9. Changes to this policy
If we make a material change to this policy, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top and — for substantive changes — email anyone with an account or active order. Routine clarifications and small edits won't trigger a notification.
10. Contact
Questions about privacy, requests under any privacy law, or just curiosity:
[email protected] — subject line "Privacy" routes it to the right inbox.