PRIVACY
 POLICY

This Privacy Policy describes how we, the operators of the website www.chrisbenchetler.com (collectively, "we" or "us") collect, use and share personal information about you and the choices that are available to you with respect to our handling of your information. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information we collect when you interact with us online  (“Services”) or otherwise interact with us as described below.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date of the Privacy Policy and such changes will become effective upon the publication thereof on our website. In some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to the homepages of our website or sending you an email notification). We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you interact with us to stay informed about our personal information practices and the choices available to you.

Collection of information

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

We collect the following Categories of Personal Information:

  • Contact Information: your email address and other information provided by you when submitting an email inquiry.

Our e-commerce platform is hosted by Shopify.  Shopify collects or may collect the following information from you.  You should review their privacy policy found at https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy for more information.  We also use Klavio for certain marketing and communication services.  You should refer to their privacy policy at www.klavio.com. Personal information that is collected and stored by these entities is as follows:

  • Ordering information, including name, address, email address and phone number
  • Payment Information: name, card issuer and card type, credit or debit card number, expiration date, CVV code, and/or billing address;
  • Information you may provide about a third party: name, surname, address and contact details of recipient for delivery of goods or services (such as sending a gift or virtual gift card), if different from yours;
  • Location Data: we may learn your geographic location through various technologies, including by collecting your IP address or other device information, which may depend on your device’s settings for location services;
  • Internet or Other Electronic Activity: your browsing history, including information about how you navigate within our services and which elements of our services you use the most;
  • Commercial information:  products purchased or viewed on our websites and records and transcripts of communications with us, such as communications with our customer service team
  • Inferences: inferences drawn from the categories described above in order to create a profile about you to reflect your preferences, characteristics, behavior and attitude

WHAT SOURCES DO WE USE TO OBTAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Directly From You

We  and Shopify collect contact, demographic, personal preference, and payment information directly from you. You may provide us with such information through our website, at events, through marketing efforts, including contests, sweepstakes and events, and through third parties, or any other way we interact with you.

From Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies

We (and our service providers) use cookies, and similar tracking technologies to automatically collect information about you and use it for various purposes, such as improving our websites and your online experience, understanding which areas and features of our sites are popular, counting visits, understanding campaign effectiveness, tailoring our communications with you, determining whether an email has been opened and links within the email have been clicked and for other internal business purposes.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use personal information about you for various purposes, including to:

  • Provide, maintain and improve our Services, including to facilitate and improve your shopping experiences;
  • Deliver the products and Services you request, or that are reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship, complete transactions, perform our contractual obligations and send you related information, including confirmations and receipts;
  • Process your orders, payments and account adjustments and initiate, render, bill and collect payment for our products and Services;
  • Respond to your comments, questions and requests and provide customer service;
  • Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards and events and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you (for information about how to manage these communications;
  • Manage your online account(s) and send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages;
  • Personalize your online experience and provide advertisements, content or features that match your profile and interests;
  • Process and deliver contest, promotion and sweepstakes entries and rewards;

SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Where disclosure of personal information is necessary to satisfy the purpose, or a directly related purpose, for which the personal information was collected, we may share personal information about you as follows:

  • With vendors, consultants, contractors and other service providers who access personal information to carry out work on our behalf and improve the products and services they provide to us (e.g., companies that assist us with web hosting, shipping and delivery, payment processing, fraud prevention, customer service, analytics, marketing and advertising);
  • In response to a request for personal information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with any applicable law, regulation or legal process or as otherwise required by any applicable law, rule or regulation;
  • If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies or to protect the rights, property and safety of us or any third party;
  • With our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests;
  • By publicly posting, at our discretion, your product review or other user content if you provide one
  • With your consent or at your direction; and
  • With third parties to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet and to provide analytics services.
  • We allow our e-commerce platform, Shopify, to directly collect personal information from you for the purposes of facilitating ordering and shipping internationally. This information collected by this e-commerce platform will be treated in accordance with their privacy policy. We may also share aggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS

We may engage third parties to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet and to provide analytics services. These entities may use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect personal information about your use of our websites, such as your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked and conversion information. This personal information may be used by us and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our websites and other websites and better understand your online activity.

We may also work with third parties (such as Facebook and Instagram) to serve ads to you as part of a customized campaign on their platforms. If you prefer not to see customized ads from us, you can usually opt out by changing your account settings or preferences on such platforms.

DATA RETENTION

Our retention periods for personal information are based on business needs and legal requirements. We retain personal information for as long as is necessary for the processing purpose(s) for which the personal information was collected and any other permissible, related purpose, and as permitted or required by the applicable laws. For example, we may retain certain transaction details and correspondence until the time limit for claims arising from the transaction has expired.

CHILDREN

We do not, in providing the Services, knowingly collect personal information from children who are under the age of 16 without prior consent from such child’s parent or guardian. We do not have actual knowledge about selling or sharing personal information of consumers under the age of 16. If you have reason to believe that a child has provided personal information to us via the Services, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that personal information from our databases unless the prior consent from such parent or guardian has been obtained.

YOUR CHOICES

OPTING OUT OF PROMOTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS

It is our intention to only send you communications that you may want to receive. When you opt in or do not opt out from receiving promotional materials in a form in which we collect the personal information from you, we will contact you regularly via post and/or e-mail. We intend to use your name, contact details and demographic information and market or promote the events offered or arranged by us or third parties. We may not use your personal information for such purpose unless we have received your consent.

You can opt out of receiving promotional communications from us at any time by doing the following:

Please note that “opting-out” of receiving promotional emails will not stop marketing or advertising content that is generated for distribution or is otherwise queued for transmission to you prior to the time when we can implement your request. We may continue to send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.

COOKIES

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually set your browser to remove or reject cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our website. By continuing browsing on our website, you consent to our use of cookies and agree that we can store and access cookies, IP addresses and use other methods in order to collect website usage data and improve your on-line experience. We have established processes by which you can submit requests regarding your personal information.

YOUR U.S. PRIVACY RIGHTS

Depending on where you reside and in accordance with applicable law, you may have additional rights related to the personal information collected from and/or about you, subject to certain exceptions and limitations. If you are a resident of a state that provides these additional rights, you may exercise them in accordance with this section. For purposes of this section, the term “personal information” includes “personal information” and “personal data” as defined by applicable law.

If your personal information is subject to a consumer privacy law in your state, you may have the right to:

  • Confirm whether we process your personal information, know what information we have collected, and access your personal information.
  • Obtain your personal information in a portable and readily usable format.
  • Delete the personal information we have about you, subject to exceptions under applicable law.
  • Correct inaccuracies in your personal information, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing.
  • Opt-out of the use or processing of your personal information for profiling or targeted advertising.
  • Opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.

Under certain state laws, you may also have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of any of these privacy rights.  We will not discriminate against you because you have exercised any of your rights or change the price and quality of our products or services.

Certain state laws may also provide you the right to appeal our decisions regarding your rights requests if we do not respond to your requests or do not take action regarding your requests.  Additionally, if you are a resident of the state of California, you may have a right to pursue legal action for improper handling of your Personal Data.

Submitting a Request

If you wish to exercise the rights listed above, and are a resident of a state that provides such privacy rights, you may submit a request by emailing INFO@CHRISBENCHETLER.COM. If you choose to submit your request via email, you must include “Privacy Rights Request” in the subject line and clearly provide us with the following information: what type of request you are making, your full name, email address, and physical address.  You may only make one request per email.

We are required to provide you with access to your personal information or delete your personal information only in response to a verifiable request. When you exercise these rights and submit a request to us, we will verify your identity by asking you to provide us with additional information such as your email address, order numbers of previous orders of our products and services, or the last four digits of a credit or debit card used to make a purchase. We also may use a third-party verification provider to verify your identity. We will endeavor to honor your requests unless such a request falls under certain exemptions afforded by law. Please note that the number of requests you may submit may be limited by applicable law. If you request that we provide you with specific pieces of information about you, or that we delete sensitive personal information, we may apply heightened verification standards than what we would apply to other types of requests. The information you provide must match the information we have in our possession. This measure is in place to help ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who does not have the right to receive it. The information collected through this process will be used for verification purposes only.

Deletion Rights

Under applicable law, we may decline a request to delete your information, in part or in whole, if we determine that there is a lawful basis for retaining the information, including because the information is necessary to (i) complete a transaction or perform a contract between us; (ii) ensure security; (iii) debug or repair errors; (iv) exercise a legal right; (v) comply with another law or a legal obligation; (vi) conduct research; (vii) enable internal uses that are reasonably aligned with our consumers’ reasonable expectations; or (viii) otherwise use the information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Categories of Personal Data Disclosed for a Business Purpose

We disclose personal information about you to our service providers and third parties for business purposes, such as operational purposes and other purposes related to providing you with the Services. For more information about the business purposes for which we disclose personal information, see “Use of Personal Information” and see “Collection of Information” for what types of information may be shared.

Categories of Personal Data Sold or Shared

We do not sell consumers’ personal information for the exchange of money. Instead, there are instances where we share personal information in order to provide our customers with personalized services or customized offers to improve your shopping experiences through our Services or elsewhere. We may also share personal information with our third-party marketing affiliates that may use personal information for marketing and commercial purposes. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information or sensitive data, as defined in applicable laws, for any purposes other than those permitted by applicable law.

California’s Shine the Light Law

This Privacy Policy describes how we may share your information for marketing purposes, as described above. If you are a California resident, the Shine the Light law permits you to request and obtain from us once per calendar year information about any of your personal information shared with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, including the categories of information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we have shared such information. To request this information and for any other questions about our privacy practices and compliance with California law, please contact us through the contact form on our website.

DATA TRANSFERS

We are located in the United States and we process and store the information we collect from you, regardless of your location, in the U.S. If you are based outside the U.S., we transfer your personal information to, and process your personal information on, servers located in the U.S., a jurisdiction that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction.

DATA SECURITY MEASURES

We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information.  Security arrangements will also be reviewed regularly to ensure that personal information is protected against loss and unauthorized or accidental access, use, disclosure, modification and erasure.

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites which are operated by third parties.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party websites. We have no control over the content of the linked websites or how they deal with your personal information. You should review the privacy policy for such third-party websites to understand how your personal information may be used by them.

YOUR CONSENT

By using the internet service provided by us, you consent to your personal information being used in the manner set out above. You further consent to us using your personal information for the purposes as stated and for ancillary purposes.

Dated: September, 2025