Privacy Policy

Effective Date: February 2, 2021

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to https://www.indiecollaborative.com (“the Site” or “The Site”) as well as the Wix.com app used on mobile devices to access certain features of the Site and The organization known as The Indie Collaborative, LLC, and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to The Indie Collaborative include the Site. The purpose of the Site is to be the official website of the organization known as The Indie Collaborative. By using the Site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, the Site may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
- Your Name
- Your Mailing Address
- Your E-mail Address
- Your Phone Number

If you purchase products and services on the Site, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Use of your Personal Information
The Site collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested. The Site may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the Site and its affiliates.

Member Supplied Information
The Site maintains a Members Only section which is entirely optional for you to use or not use. If you join the Site as a registered member you will gain access to member’s only pages and content on the Site, and in such pages you are allowed to share information about yourself, and such information can be seen by the operators of the Site and other registered members. Content which the operators of the Site consider to be offensive in any way will be removed. Members who post offensive content will be removed from the Site. The decisions about what constitutes offensive content are entirely up to the operators of the Site to make, and their decisions are final. The Site is intended to be a safe space for all.

Sharing Information with Third Parties
The Site does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

The Site may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Site, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The Site 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 Suburban Cowboy or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Suburban Cowboy; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Suburban Cowboy, or the public.

Automatically Collected Information Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by the Site. 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 Site.

Use of Cookies
The Site may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize  pages on the Site, or register with the Site or any of its services, a cookie helps the Site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Site features that you have customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the the Site or its services, or other websites you visit.

Links
The Site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security of your Personal Information
The Site secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Site uses the following method for this purpose:

• TSL / SSL Protocol - this is indicated by the HTTPS:// that precedes our website domain. The SSL/TLS protocol encrypts internet traffic of all types.

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

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.

Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
• Delete your personal information from our records; and
• Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us; Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity; Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law; Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act; Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent; Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us; Comply with an existing legal obligation; or Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Thirteen
The Site does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail and Chat Communications
From time to time, the Site may contact you via email or the Site’s Chat function for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from the Site or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from the Site, you may opt out of such communications by replying to any email with a request to be opted-out of future email communications.

External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to this Statement
The Site reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We may notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page.

Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information
The Indie Collaborative welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the Indie Collaborative has not adhered to this Statement, please us at:
The Indie Collaborative at our email Address:  privacy@indiecollaborative.com