Privacy Policy

This policy was last updated on 06/04/2021.

Awkward Styles (“we”, “our”, “us”, or “Awkward Styles”) respects the privacy of its users and is fully committed to protect their personal data and use it in accordance with data privacy laws. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and process any personal data that we collect from you—or you provide to us—in connection with your use of our website (www.awkwardstyles.com) and our print-on-demand, artist and merchant services (collectively, “Services”). By accessing or using our Services, you signify your understanding of the terms set out in this Privacy Policy.

We do not knowingly collect, maintain, disclose, or sell the personal information about users under the age of sixteen (16). If you are under the age of 16, please do not use our Services. If you are under the age of 16 and have used our Services, please contact us at the email address below so that we may delete your personal information.

If you use our Services only for your personal use, you are to be considered as the “User” and for the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), we are the data controller.

Note that while our Services may contain links to other websites or services, we are not responsible for each respective website’s or service’s privacy practices and encourage you to be aware of this when you leave our Services and carefully read the privacy statements of each and every website and service you visit. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites and services. If you wish to contact Awkward Styles regarding your personal data or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@awkwardstyles.com.

1. Information we collect

1.1. Information collected about Users and Merchants and how we use it

Where you are a User and it is necessary to fulfil our contract with you for the purposes of providing, maintaining, or improving our products and Services (including, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any matters in our legitimate interests with respect to the Services), we will confirm your identity, contact you, provide customer support, operate your account with us and invoice you. For the aforementioned purposes, we collect information that may contain the following personal data:

  • Name;
  • Company name;
  • Shipping information;
  • Email address and phone number;
  • Payment and billing information (payment method details, first and last digits of your payment card);
  • Order handling information

If you have given your consent when registering your account or shared your email address or other personal data with us to receive any other information (for example, not limited to but including our list of sub-processors, newsletter etc.), we will process your email address to send you the informative and/or promotional materials, to which you have subscribed to, for example, newsletters, advertisements of our Services and other information about our Services that you have requested. At any point in time, you can unsubscribe from receiving the above-mentioned information in our email footers and through your notification settings on our website or by emailing support@awkwardstyles.com. For Merchants, we will not use the contact details of your customers to directly market or advertise our Services to them.

When you call Awkward Styles, we may monitor or record the call to ensure the quality of our customer support. If you have an Awkward Styles account, we will retain the recording for as long as you have an account. If you do not have an account, we will delete the recording within 12 months or retain it, if it will be needed to resolve disputes between you and us.

By using cookies and similar technology on our website, we may collect data such as information on your device, your preferences and information filled while visiting our website, your interaction with the website, and other information used for analytical, marketing, and targeting activities (including unique visits, returning visits, length of the session, actions carried out in the webpage).

As it is in our legitimate interests to ensure our network security, give you access to and to improve our Services, we also collect the following technical usage data:

  • How and when you access your account;
  • Information about the device and browser you use;
  • IP address and device data.

1.2. Information collected about our Merchant’s Customers

Where we act on a Merchant’s behalf to fulfil an order with regard to the Merchant’s customer (i.e. an end user of our Services), we are a data processor and we collect information relating to the Merchant’s customer, such as personal data relating to the end user of our Services, any personal data in the printing content (where applicable), personal data revealed during the use of any Awkward Styles services, including name, email address, phone number, shipping address, and other information about the Merchant's customers.

If you are a customer of the Merchant (an end user of our Services), the Merchant is the data controller with regard to your personal data and should provide you the information on how your personal data is collected and processed when using our Services. Please read the Merchant’s privacy policy for further information. The Merchant is your contact for any questions you have about how it handles your personal data.

2. Sharing personal data with third parties

In order for Awkward Styles to provide you with our Services, we work with third parties (“Third Party Service Providers”) with whom we share personal data to support these Services.

Information you have provided to us during the use of our Services, including technical usage data, is shared with third parties who provide hosting and server co-location services as well as data and cyber security services.

Information you have provided to us during the use of our Services may be shared with third-party manufacturing services whom we engage to provide any Services.

Your email address and other contact details you have provided to us and your messages to our customer service is shared with communication, email distribution, and content delivery services as well as customer support system providers.

Information regarding your purchases and payments is shared with billing and payment processing services, fraud detection and prevention services, accounting and financial advisors.

Information regarding your use of our website and other information received from cookies and similar technology is shared with web analytics, session recording, and online marketing services.

Information on your account, purchases and preferences can be shared with marketing services.

Insofar as reasonably necessary to defend our legal rights, we may share your personal data with our legal advisors.

We will only share personal data to Third Party Service Providers that have undertaken to comply with obligations set out in applicable data protection laws.

In certain circumstances, we are required to share information with third parties to comply with legal requirements or requests, as well as to protect our, or a third party’s, lawful interests. We will also disclose your information to third parties in and outside your country only to the extent allowed by applicable law, including:

  • to a prospective purchaser or purchaser that acquires all or substantially all of us or our business;
  • to a third party in the event that we sell or buy any business or undergo a merger, in which case we may disclose your information to the prospective buyer of such business; and
  • to a third party if we sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses, undergo a reorganization, bankruptcy, or liquidation; or otherwise undertake a business transaction or sell some or all of our assets. In such transactions, your in

3. Retention periods

We may retain your personal data for as long as you have an Awkward Styles account or any of the abovementioned legal basis for personal data processing still exists. For example, if you unsubscribe from our marketing, newsletter, or blog emails, we will stop the processing of the personal data for such purposes. If you have used our Services without creating an Awkward Styles account, we will keep your personal data as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligation to retain information relating to provision of services, for example, for tax purposes.

After terminating your relationship with us by deleting your Awkward Styles account or otherwise ceasing to use our Services, we may continue to store copies of your (and in regard to Merchants, your customers' personal data) as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes between you and us (or you and your customers), to prevent fraud and abuse, to enforce our agreements, and/or to protect our legitimate interests (to the extent that we are permitted by the applicable law to continue to store copies to protect our legitimate interests).

4. Data subject's rights

If you are a User or Merchant located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, in accordance with European Union and United Kingdom data protection regulations, you have certain rights with respect to your personal data. You have the right to request access to your personal data; in certain circumstances to correct, amend, delete, or restrict the use of your personal data by logging into your Awkward Styles account or by reaching us using the contact information provided below. In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances (in particular, where we are not required to process your data to meet a contractual or other legal requirement). These rights may be limited, for example, if fulfilling your request would reveal personal data about another person, or if you ask us to delete information which we are required by law to retain, are permitted by law to retain, or have compelling legitimate interests in retaining (to the extent that applicable law permits us to retain such information based on our legitimate interests).

Furthermore, if you believe that we have unlawfully processed your personal data, you have the right to submit a complaint to the contact information provided below, or to your respective data protection supervisory authority. If you are a customer of a Merchant (an end user of our Services), please direct your concern to the relevant Merchant in the first instance.

5. Information security

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of personal data. We encourage you to take care of the personal data in your possession that you process online and set strong passwords for your Awkward Styles account, limit access to your computer and browser by signing out after you have finished your session and avoid providing us with any sensitive information.

6. California privacy rights

Under California Civil Code sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to ask us for a notice describing what categories of Personal Information we share with third parties or corporate affiliates for those third parties or corporate affiliates' direct marketing purposes. That notice will identify the categories of information shared and will include a list of the third parties and affiliates with which it was shared, along with their names and addresses. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit an email request to the following email address: support@awkwardstyles.com and include the words “CALIFORNIA PRIVACY” in the subject line, and you must put the statement “Your California Privacy Rights” in the body of the request and state the name of our specific website with respect to which you are requesting the information as well as your name, street address, city, state, and zip code.

Please note the following:

  • Users can visit the Sites anonymously without providing their Personal Information, but we may collect Personal Information, such as IP addresses, automatically through the use of cookies or other tracking technologies;
  • We will add a link to this Privacy Notice on our home page, or at a minimum, on the first significant page after entering the Sites;
  • Our Privacy Policy link includes the word “Privacy” and can be easily be found on the page specified above;
  • Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on our Privacy Policy page;
  • Users are able to change their Personal Information by emailing us or updating their Personal Information in their online accounts with us;
  • Some Internet browsers include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” signals that give you control over the collection and use of web browsing information. Because uniform standards for “Do Not Track” signals have not yet been adopted, we do not process or respond to such signals in users’ web browsers at this time; and
  • We allow the collection of users’ behavioral tracking by third parties. We do not authorize the collection of Personal Information on the Sites by third parties, except for the collection of IP addresses, which may be considered Personal Information.

6.1 Your Rights and Choices

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides consumers who are California residents with specific rights regarding their Personal Information.

Right to Know About Personal Information Collected, Disclosed, or Sold

As a California consumer, you have a right to request what Personal Information we collect, use, disclose, and sell.

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request as described below, we will disclose to you:

  • The categories of Personal Information we collected about you
  • The categories of sources for the Personal Information we collected about you
  • Our business or commercial purpose(s) for collecting or selling that Personal Information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom we shared that Personal Information.
  • The specific pieces of Personal information we collected about you

In addition, if we sold or disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, we will provide you with two separate lists disclosing:

  • Sales, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of each category of recipient obtained; and
  • Disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the Personal Information categories disclosed that each category of recipient obtained.

Right to Request Deletion of Personal Information

As a California consumer, you have the right to request that we delete any or all of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request to delete your Personal Information if retaining the Personal Information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

  • Complete the transaction for which we collected the Personal Information, provide a service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you
  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities
  • Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.)
  • 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 the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent
  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us
  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it

Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Personal Information

AS A CALIFORNIA CONSUMER, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OPT-OUT OF THE “SALE” OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. WHILE WE DO NOT SELL PERSONAL INFORMATION IN A TRADITIONAL SENSE, WE DO SHARE SOME PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED A “SALE” UNDER THE CCPA. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO OPT-OUT OF THE SALE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE EMAIL US AT SUPPORT@AWKWARDSTYLES.COM

Right to Non-Discrimination if You Exercise any of Your Rights

As a California consumer, you have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, if you exercise any of your California rights, we will not:

  • Deny you goods or services.
  • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
  • Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
  • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of services.

How to Exercise Your Rights to Know and to Delete

To exercise your rights to know and/or to delete described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing us at support@awkwardstyles.com

Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

  • Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or your authorized representative.
  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with Personal Information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the Personal Information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use Personal Information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We will confirm receipt of your verifiable consumer request within ten (10) days and provide you with information about how we will process the request, describing our verification process and when you should expect a response. We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period immediately preceding our receipt of your verifiable request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your Personal Information that is usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

6.2 INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS

We collect Personal Information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device.

Within the last twelve (12) months, we have collected the following categories of Personal Information from California consumers. Some of the categories may overlap with each other:

Category

Examples

Collected

A. Identifiers

A real name, postal address, unique personal or online identifier, Internet Protocol (IP) address, email address, telephone number

Yes

B. Personal Information described in the California Customer Records statute (Cal.Civ.Code §1798.80(e))

All of the Identifiers listed above, plus: Credit card number, debit card number

Yes

Signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information

No

C. Legally Protected Characteristics

Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information)

No

D. Commercial information

Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies

Yes

E. Biometric information

Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.

No

F. Internet or similar network activity

Browsing history, search history, information regarding a consumer's interaction with a website, mobile application, or online advertisement

Yes

G. Geolocation data

Physical location or movements

Yes

H. Sensory data

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information

No

I. Employment information

Professional or employment-related information

No

J. Education information, defined as nonpublic personally identifiable information under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g and 34 C.F.R. Part 99)

Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records

No

K. Inferences drawn of other categories of Personal Information

A profile created about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes

No

Personal Information does not include:

  • Publicly available information that is lawfully made from federal, state, or local government records
  • Deidentified or aggregated consumer information
  • Medical information or protected health information governed by California and federal health information privacy laws
  • Clinical trial information subject to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (the Common Rule)
  • Personal information regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)

We obtain the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following categories of sources:

  • Directly from our Users. For example, from information that you provide to us through our online forms, email, or other means
  • Indirectly from activity on our Sites. For example, from website usage details collected automatically

6.3 Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

  • To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided. For example, if you provide us with Personal Information in order for us to contact you in answer to an inquiry that you have made
  • To provide you with information or services that you request from us
  • To provide you with email alerts that may be of interest to you
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us
  • To improve our website and present the contents to you
  • For testing, research, analysis and product/service development
  • As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users, or others
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations
  • As described to you when collecting your Personal Information or as otherwise set forth in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us is among the assets transferred

We may also use or disclose the Personal Information we collect for the following commercial purpose (“Commercial Purpose”): to advance our commercial or economic interests, such as by inducing another person to buy, rent, lease, join, subscribe to, provide, or exchange products, goods, property, information, or services, or enabling or effecting, directly or indirectly, a commercial transaction.

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

6.4 Sharing Personal Information

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of Personal Information to our service providers for a Business Purpose:

Category A: Identifiers.

Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories

Category D: Commercial information

Category F: Internet activity

Category G: Geolocation Data

Category H: Sensory Data

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of Personal Information to third parties for a Commercial Purpose:

Category A: Identifiers.

Category D: Commercial information

Category F: Internet activity

Category G: Geolocation data

We disclose your Personal Information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

  • Our affiliates.
  • Our service providers
  • Any other parties to whom you authorize us to disclose your Personal Information in connection with products or services we provide to you

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold any Personal Information for monetary consideration. We do, however, disclose Personal Information for a Commercial Purpose by providing Personal Information to a trusted third party for the purpose of that third party’s marketing efforts. If you do not wish to have your Personal Information used for this purpose, please email us at support@awkwardstyles.com when you set up an account with us.

We do not sell Personal Information of minors under 16 years of age without affirmative authorization from a parent or legal guardian.

6.5 Grievances and Complaints

Under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, residents of California who use this Website are entitled to know that they may file grievances and complaints with: the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs, in writing at 400 R Street, Suite 1080, Sacramento, California 95814, or by telephone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210, or by email at dca@dca.ca.gov.

6.6 Contact for More Information

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or this Notice regarding your privacy or Personal Information, please contact us at support@awkwardstyles.com

7. Privacy Shield Notice

Awkward Styles is located in the United States, so your information may be processed in the United States.

We are subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

Awkward Styles commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. Inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Policy can be directed to support@awkwardstyles.com

8. Privacy Policy changes

Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page. Therefore, we encourage you to check this page frequently from time to time.

9. Contact information

If you have any questions about your personal data or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to file a complaint about how we process your personal data, please contact us by email at support@awkwardstyles.com or by using the contact details below:

Awkward Styles
Attn: Data Protection Officer

Address: 9830 Bell Ranch Dr
Ste 101
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
United States