Last updated: July 21, 2026
 
This Privacy Policy describes how Beautiful Sawdust collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information when you visit our website, purchase from our website, contact us, sign up for communications, or otherwise interact with our business.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including payment processors, shipping providers, email marketing platforms, analytics providers, or other third-party services. Those third parties may have their own privacy policies and terms.
 
Information We Collect
We collect information that you provide directly to us or through platforms we use to operate our business. This may include your name, email address, postal address, order details, custom order information, messages you send to us, and any other information you choose to provide when contacting us directly.

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, analytics tools, server logs, or similar technologies. This may include your IP address, browser type, device information, pages viewed, referring website, general location information, and interactions with our website.

If you sign up for our mailing list or promotional communications, we may collect your email address and related communication preferences. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in an email or by contacting us directly.
 
Why We Need Your Information and How We Use It
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
• To fulfill and ship orders, process returns or exchanges, provide customer support, and communicate with you about your purchase or inquiry.
• To create or complete custom orders, including using details you provide for personalization, design, or production purposes.
• To send marketing emails or promotional updates when you have signed up to receive them, subject to your right to unsubscribe at any time.
• To operate, secure, analyze, and improve our website, products, customer service, and business operations.
• To comply with legal, tax, accounting, marketplace, and regulatory obligations; to respond to lawful requests; and to protect our rights, property, customers, and business.

Where applicable privacy laws require a legal basis for processing, we rely on performance of a contract, consent, compliance with legal obligations, and our legitimate interests in operating and improving our business, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.
 
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We share personal information only as needed to operate our business, provide our services, comply with legal obligations, and protect our rights. We do not sell personal information in the ordinary meaning of that term.

• Service providers. We may share information with trusted third parties that help us operate our business, such as shipping carriers, payment processors, website hosting providers, analytics providers, email marketing services, accounting tools, and customer support tools. We share only the information reasonably necessary for those services.
• Legal compliance and protection. We may collect, use, retain, or share information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to respond to legal process or government requests, enforce our agreements and policies, prevent or investigate fraud or security issues, protect the rights and safety of customers or others, or comply with tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations.
• Business transfers. If we sell, merge, reorganize, or transfer all or part of our business, personal information may be disclosed as part of that transaction, only as permitted by law.
 
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies, analytics tools, pixels, or similar technologies to operate the site, understand how visitors use it, improve performance, remember preferences, and support marketing or advertising activities. Some cookies are necessary for site functionality, while others may help us analyze traffic or measure the effectiveness of promotions.

You can control cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through cookie controls on our website. If our website uses advertising or analytics tools that qualify as a sale or sharing of personal information under applicable privacy laws, eligible users may have the right to opt out of that sale or sharing.
 
Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services, fulfill orders, communicate with you, maintain business records, comply with legal and tax obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect our rights. We generally keep order-related records for up to 5 years unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
 
International Data Transfers
We are based in the United States, and the information we collect may be processed and stored in the United States or other jurisdictions where we or our service providers operate. These jurisdictions may have data protection laws that differ from those in your location.

Where required, we rely on legally recognized transfer mechanisms, such as adequacy decisions, participation by applicable providers in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, Standard Contractual Clauses, or other safeguards permitted by applicable data protection law. We no longer rely on the former EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework.
 
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include the right to request access to personal information we hold about you, request correction of inaccurate information, request deletion of personal information, object to or restrict certain processing, withdraw consent where processing is based on consent, or request a copy of your information in a portable format.

If you are a resident of California or another U.S. state with applicable privacy laws, you may also have rights to know what categories of personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell, or share; to opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information; to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable; and to be free from discrimination for exercising privacy rights.

We do not knowingly sell personal information. If our use of cookies, pixels, analytics, or advertising tools is considered a sale or sharing under applicable law, eligible users may contact us to request opt-out instructions or use any privacy controls made available on our website.

To exercise your rights, please contact us using the contact information below. We may need to verify your identity before completing your request.

If you receive marketing emails from us, you may unsubscribe at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in the email or by contacting us directly.

If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or another region that provides a right to complain to a supervisory authority, you may have the right to raise a concern with your local data protection authority.
 
Children’s Privacy
Our website and Etsy shop are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can take appropriate steps to delete it.
 
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our business, website, legal requirements, or privacy practices. The “Last updated” date at the top of this policy indicates when it was most recently revised.
 
How to Contact Us
For purposes of applicable data protection law, Myra McPherson of Beautiful Sawdust is responsible for the personal information handled by this business. If you have questions, concerns, or privacy requests, you may contact us at mmcpherson@beautiful-sawdust.com.