Privacy Policy for Highlander Stamps
Etsy Seller: HighlanderStamps, owner Kim Victoria and T.E. Watson

HighlanderStamps is owned and operated by wife and husband team Kim Victoria and T.E. Watson, artist and author respectively, and located in Utah, United States of America. T.E. Watson also has an Etsy Shop/TEWatsonBooks.

HighlanderStamps has been a shop on Etsy since 2017, which follows the history of Highlander Graphics and Celtic Stamps, their parent company, as an online presence since 1997. Kim Victoria has been a professional artist for over 50 years.

Kim and T.E. use one business computer at the shop to store some of the buyers’ personal information.
The GDPR requires that Kim and T.E. provide certain information to buyers in this privacy policy, including:

• the personal information they collects;
• the legal bases they relie on to collect, use, and share personal information;
• the third parties with whom they share personal information;
• the length of time they keep personal information;
• if they are transferring personal information outside of the United States (for example, if they move their business to Europe, or use a third party provider located outside of Europe, or use Google Cloud to host some of their buyers’ information), how the transfer will be handled;
• their buyers’ rights regarding the use of their personal information; and
• how their buyers can contact them with privacy-related requests.

This Privacy Policy describes how and when we collect, use, and share information when you purchase an item from us, contact us, or otherwise use our services through Etsy.com or its related sites and services.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including Etsy or any third party services you access through Etsy. You can reference the Etsy Privacy Policy to learn more about its privacy practices.

1. Information I Collect

To fulfill your order, you must provide us with certain information (which you authorized Etsy to provide to us), such as your name, postal address, payment information, and the details of the product that you’re ordering. You may also choose to provide us with additional personal information (for a custom order I might need your email address, for example), if you contact us directly.

2. Why we Need Your Information and How we Use It

We rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:

• as needed to provide our services, such as when we use your information to fulfill your order, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support;
• when you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for our mailing list (visit: www.KimVictoria.com to learn more about the mailing list);
• if necessary to comply with a legal obligation or court order or in connection with a legal claim, such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law; and
• as necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests, such as 1) providing and improving our services. We use your information to provide the services you requested and in our legitimate interest to improve our services; and 2) Compliance with the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use. We use your information as necessary to comply with our obligations under the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use;
• as necessary to send you our newsletter when you have voluntarily subscribed to it thus authorizing us to send you information and marketing materials.

3. Information Sharing and Disclosure

Information about our customers is important to our business. We share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:

• Etsy. we share information with Etsy as necessary to provide you our services and comply with our obligations under both the Etsy Seller Policy and Etsy Terms of Use.
• Service providers. We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to our shop, such as delivery companies. We will share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.
• Business transfers. If we sell or merge our business, we may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
• Compliance with laws. We may collect, use, retain, and share your information if we have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce our agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of our customers, or others.

4. Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with our services and as described in our Privacy Policy. However, we may also be required to retain this information to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements.

We only keep a limited amount of data (your name) because we rely on Etsy’s data storage and conversation capability should we need to contact a customer.

We have no control over Etsy’s data use or storage. Etsy is an independent data controller, and advises that users contact them directly regarding data access, correction or deletion of personal information held by Etsy. Please send your request to Etsy.com/help for assistance. To learn more about how Etsy handles and protects user personal information, please see their Privacy Policy. www.etsy.com/legal/privacy/

We retain only the personal information you provided when you voluntarily subscribed to our newsletter, and only for as long as you choose to remain subscribed. An unsubscribe link is always included in all newsletters. You may also email at the address below to request to be unsubscribed. We never send unsolicited newsletters.

5. Transfers of Personal Information Outside the EU

We do not store or process your information through any third-party hosting services.

Exception: If you have chosen to subscribe to our newsletter via either of our web sites, www.kimvictoria.com or www.TEWatsonOnline.com, the information you provided is stored by MailerLite.com, who uses TRUSTe Certified Privacy.

6. 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 cases. we describe these rights below:

• Access. You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you by contacting us using the contact information below.
• Change, restrict, delete. You may also have rights to change, restrict our use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where we am required to store data for legal reasons) we will generally delete your personal information upon request.
• Object. You can object to (i) our processing of some of your information based on our legitimate interests and (ii) receiving marketing messages from us after providing your express consent to receive them. In such cases, we will delete your personal information unless we have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
• Complain. If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about our 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 US

For purposes of EU data protection law, we are, Kim Victoria and T.E. Watson, the data controllers for HighlanderStamps on Etsy, TEWatsonBooks on Etsy, and Highlander Graphics and Celtic Stamps, of your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact us at: info@KimVictoria.com or TEW@TEWatsonOnline.com

Alternately, you may mail us at:
Kim Victoria and T.E. Watson, PO Box 2822 Cedar City, Utah USA