This Privacy Policy describes how and when I collect, use and share information when you purchase an item from me, contact me, or otherwise use my services as BennyBoos, through Etsy.com or its related sites and services.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that I do not own or control, including Etsy or any other third party services you access through Etsy. I refer you to the Etsy Privacy Policy to learn more about its privacy practices.
Information I collect:
To fulfil your order, you must provide me with certain personal information (which you authorised Etsy to provide to me), such as your name, email address, postal address, payment information, Etsy username and details of the product that you are ordering.
You may also choose to provide me with additional personal information (such as that offered during a consultation about custom orders etc) when you contact me directly (email, phone or Etsy convo).
Why I need your information and how I use it:
I rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use and share your information including:
1. as needed to provide my services, such as when I use your information to fulfil your order, to settle disputes and to provide customer support.
2. when you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for my mailing list.
3. if necessary to comply with a legal claim, such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law. I do not share customer details of any sort with the Accountants or their staff that are retained to ensure my tax compliance or offer business advice to me.
4. as necessary for the purpose of my legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights and interests, such as a) providing and improving my services. I use your information to provide the service requested and in my legitimate interest to improve my services and 2) compliance with the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use. I use your information as necessary to comply with my obligations under the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use.
Information Sharing and Disclosure:
Your information is important to me and my business and your trust in offering it to me is fully respected as such. I share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows
1. Etsy. I share information with Etsy as necessary to provide you with my services and comply with my obligations under both the Etsy Seller Policy and Etsy Terms of Use. Please note that if you use Etsy payment options such as Etsy Gift Cards and/or Etsy Credits, for my services, your information is kept securely by Etsy. Etsy shops including my own, never receive your credit card information.
2. Service Providers. I engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to my shop. These include Paypal, used directly through Etsy if you have a Paypal account or with generation of a Paypal invoice by me and sent to you by email if so preferred and requested. I refer you to Paypal to learn more about its privacy policies and data usage and retention.
I also engage the postal service and occasionally, delivery companies to fulfil your order.
I will share your personal information with these relevant third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.
3. Business Transfers. If I sell or merge my business, I may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
4. Compliance with Laws. I may collect, use, retain and share your information if I have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to a) respond to legal process or to Government requests; b) enforce my agreements, terms and policies; c) prevent, investigate and address fraud and other illegal activity, security or technical issues; or d) to protect the rights, property and safety of my customers or others.
Data Retention:
I retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with my services and as described in my Privacy Policy. However, I may be required to retain this information to comply with my legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes and to enforce my agreements. I generally keep your data for the following period of time: 4 years
Transfers of Personal Information Outside the EU.
I do not currently but may in the future, process your information through third-party hosting services in the Us and other jurisdictions. As as result, I may transfer your personal information to a jurisdiction with different data protection and government surveillance laws than your jurisdiction. If I am deemed to transfer information about you outside of the EU (my location and jurisdiction), I rely on Privacy Shield as the legal basis for the transfer, as Google Cloud is Privacy Shield certified.
Your Rights.
If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited areas. I describe these rights below;
1. Access. You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information that I hold about you by contacting me using the contact information below.
2. Change, Restrict, Delete. You may also have the rights to change, retract my use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where I am required to store data for legal reasons), I will generally, and without prejudice, delete your personal information upon request.
3. Object. You may object to a) my processing some of your information based on my legitimate interests and b) receiving marketing messages from me after providing your express consent to receive them. In such cases, I will delete your personal information unless I have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
4. Complain. If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about my use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local Data Protection Authority.
How to contact me.
For the purposes of European Data Protection Law, I, Suzanne Curtin, am the Data Controller or your personal information. if you have any questions or concerns, you may contact me at bennyboos4baby@gmail.com. Alternatively, you may mail me at
Suzanne Curtin, 54 Old Kilmainham, Dublin 8, D08XV88, Ireland
Please also note that if you contact me to access, correct or delete personal information, I may contact Etsy at Etsy.com/help for assistance or request that you send a request to them directly.