Privacy Policy
Effective Date: May 29, 2025
This Privacy Policy explains how DataDon LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit, use, or make a purchase from our website, www.data-hat.com (the “Website”). Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to handling your data transparently and securely. We comply with all relevant data protection laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
By accessing or using our Website, you agree to the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use our Website.
1. Information We Collect
When you interact with our Website, we collect various types of information from and about you.
A. Personal Information You Provide to Us:
You may provide us with the following personal information directly:
– Email Address: When you subscribe to our newsletter, contact us, or create an account.
– First Name and Last Name: When you create an account, make a purchase, or communicate with us.
– Phone Number: When you make a purchase or seek customer support.
– Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City: Required for order fulfillment and billing.
– Social Media Profile Information: If you choose to connect or sign in using your social media accounts (e.g., “Connect with Facebook,” “Sign In With Twitter”), we may access information from your public profile, such as your name, email, profile picture, and any other data you’ve made public or authorized us to access.
– Other Information: Any additional information you voluntarily submit through forms, surveys, or direct communications.
B. Information Collected Automatically:
When you visit our Website, we automatically collect certain information about your device and Browse activity:
– Log Data: This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages you visit, and the dates and times of your visits.
– Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to track your Browse behavior, such as products viewed, items in your cart, and your interactions with our content. For more details, please see our “Cookies and Tracking Technologies” section.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for several purposes:
– Website Operation: To operate and provide you with access to our Website and its features.
– Order Processing: To process your purchases, ship products, and offer customer support related to your orders.
– Communication: To send you transactional emails (e.g., order confirmations, shipping updates), respond to your inquiries, and send you marketing communications (if you have opted in).
– Personalization: To tailor our Website content, product recommendations, and offers to your specific interests.
– Improvement: To understand how you use our Website, identify areas for improvement, and develop new features and services.
– Marketing & Advertising: To send you promotional materials, offers, and advertisements about our products and services, and those of our trusted partners (with your consent where required).
– Security & Fraud Prevention: To protect our Website, systems, and users from fraud, unauthorized access, and other security threats.
– Legal Compliance: To meet our legal and regulatory obligations, such as tax and accounting requirements.
3. How We Share Your Information
We may share your personal information with third parties under specific circumstances:
– Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers to perform services on our behalf, including payment processing, shipping, data analysis, marketing, and customer support. These providers are bound by agreements to protect your information and use it only for the purposes we specify.
– Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or bankruptcy, your personal information may be transferred as part of the transaction. We will notify you via email or a prominent notice on our Website of any such change in ownership or control.
– Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if legally required to do so, or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency request).
– Protection of Rights: We may disclose your information when necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to physical safety, violations of our Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.
With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when we have your explicit consent.
Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized data that cannot reasonably identify you with third parties for various purposes, including analytics, research, and marketing.
4. Your Privacy Rights
We respect your privacy rights and provide you with mechanisms to control your personal information.
For California Residents (CCPA + CPRA & CalOPPA)
As a California resident, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):
– Right to Know: You can request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources from which it was collected, the business purpose for its collection, sale, or sharing, the categories of third parties with whom we disclose it, and the categories of personal information we have sold or shared.
– Right to Delete: You can request the deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
– Right to Correct: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
– Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: You have the right to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information. While we do not “sell” your data in the traditional sense, certain uses of cookies and tracking technologies for advertising may be considered “sharing” under CCPA. You can exercise this right via our “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link (coming soon) or by adjusting your cookie preferences.
– Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information (SPI): If we were to collect “sensitive personal information” (as defined by CCPA), you would have the right to limit its use and disclosure to only what is necessary to provide the services you expect.
– Right to Non-Retaliation: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
– Exercising Your CCPA Rights: To exercise your CCPA rights, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us via email: info@data-hat.com. We will respond within 45 days and may require additional information to verify your identity.
For European Economic Area (EEA) and UK Residents (GDPR)
If you are located in the EEA or the UK, you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
– Right of Access: You can obtain confirmation of whether your personal data is being processed, and if so, access to that data and related information.
– Right to Rectification: You can request the correction of inaccurate personal data concerning you.
– Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You can request the deletion of your personal data under certain circumstances.
– Right to Restriction of Processing: You can request the restriction of processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.
– Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit that data to another controller without hindrance from us.
– Right to Object: You can object to the processing of your personal data, particularly where processing is based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing.
– Right to Withdraw Consent: Where our processing relies on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
– Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in your country of residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement if you believe the processing of your personal data violates GDPR.
– Exercising Your GDPR Rights: To exercise your GDPR rights, please submit a request to us via email: info@data-hat.com. We will respond without undue delay and typically within one month of receiving your request. This period may be extended by two further months if necessary due to the complexity or number of requests.
General Rights for All Users
– Opt-out of Marketing Communications: You can opt-out of receiving marketing emails from us by following the unsubscribe instructions in those emails or by contacting us directly. Please note that even if you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional communications regarding your account or orders.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor activity on our Website and store certain information. Cookies are small data files placed on your device. We use:
– Strictly Necessary Cookies: Essential for our Website’s basic functions (e.g., logging in, adding items to your cart).
– Performance Cookies: Collect data on how you use our Website (e.g., most visited pages) to help us improve its performance.
– Functionality Cookies: Allow our Website to remember your choices (e.g., username, language) to provide enhanced, personalized features.
– Targeting/Advertising Cookies: Used to deliver advertisements more relevant to your interests and to limit the number of times you see an ad, as well as to measure advertising campaign effectiveness.
You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, refusing cookies may prevent you from using some parts of our Website.
6. Data Security
We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include technical, administrative, and physical safeguards. However, no internet transmission or electronic storage method is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process it, and applicable legal requirements.
8. Children’s Privacy
Our Website is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we discover that we have collected personal information from a child under 16 without verifiable parental consent, we will promptly remove that information from our servers. If you believe a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, please contact us at info@data-hat.com.
9. International Data Transfers
DataDon LLC is based in San Jose, California, USA. If you are located outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States, where our servers are located and our central database is operated. Data protection laws in the United States may differ from those in your country. By using our Website, you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States.
For users in the EEA and UK, we ensure that any transfer of personal data outside the EEA or UK complies with GDPR, for instance, by relying on standard contractual clauses or other appropriate safeguards.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices or for operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any updates. Your continued use of the Website after any changes are posted signifies your acceptance of those changes.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your privacy rights, or our data practices, please contact us:
Company: DataDon LLC Location: San Jose, California USA 95135 Email: info@data-hat.com Website: www.data-hat.com