Privacy Policy – Design your moment. We’ll handle the ink.

Effective Date: December 2, 2025

At Connect In Ink, we respect your privacy as if it were our own. This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://www.google.com/search?q=ConnectInInk.com (the “Site”). As a WordPress and WooCommerce powered store, we are committed to the highest standards of data protection.

1. Personal Information We Collect

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including your web browser, IP address, time zone, and cookies installed on your device.

Additionally, when you make a purchase, we collect:

Order Information: Name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (processed securely via Stripe/PayPal), email address, and phone number.
User-Contributed Content: Photos, graphics, or text you upload to customize your stationery.

2. How We Use Your Personal Information

We use your information strictly to fulfill orders placed through the Site, including:

Processing payments and arranging for shipping.
Providing you with order confirmations and invoices.
Communicating with you regarding your design or order status.
Regarding Your Photos: We use your uploaded images solely for printing your custom products. We do not claim ownership of your images, and they are never shared for any purpose other than production and quality control.

3. Technologies and Third-Party Integration

As a self-hosted WordPress site, we use several trusted technologies to enhance your experience:

Cookies: We use WooCommerce cookies to keep track of your cart contents and account sessions.
Payment Gateways: Your payment is processed by Stripe or PayPal. We do not store your full credit card numbers on our WordPress servers.
Shipping Plugins: We share your address with USPS or UPS to calculate rates and generate shipping labels.
Security: We use security plugins that may process your IP address to protect our Site from cyber-attacks.

4. No Sale of Personal Data

Connect In Ink does not sell, rent, or trade your personal information, photos, or browsing data to third parties or data brokers. We believe that your personal data belongs to you.

5. Your Right to be Forgotten (Data Deletion)

We provide you with full control over your data:

Access & Deletion: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you or ask that we delete it entirely.
How to Request: Email us at market@connectinink.com with the subject “Data Deletion Request.”
Timeline: We will fulfill all valid deletion requests within 30 days, removing your account info and uploaded images from our active databases, except where we are legally required to retain records for tax or audit purposes.

6. Data Retention

Transactional Data: For U.S. tax and legal compliance, we retain basic order records for 7 years.
Custom Content: Uploaded photos are typically retained for 60 days following order fulfillment to facilitate any necessary reprints or quality claims, after which they are permanently purged from our production cache.

7. Security

To protect your personal information, we use industry-standard encryption (SSL) and follow best practices to ensure your data is not inappropriately lost, misused, or altered.