This policy is effective as of 01/01/2024.

At iGottaBuddy.com, we understand the importance of protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how I GOTTA BUDDY LLC (referred to herein as either, "Company", “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and safeguards your personal information in connection with our online services (the “Services”), which are made available to you through our website, https://igottabuddy.com/ (the “Site”). Please take a moment to read through this policy to understand how we handle your data.

Information We Collect

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”.

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. In addition, you are not permitted to use our Services if you do not meet the minimum age requirement applicable to our Services in your jurisdiction. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address below to request deletion.

Device Information

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.

●  Examples of Digital Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.

●  Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.

●  Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify.

●  Data files (commonly known as "Cookies"): Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.

Personal Information

If, upon visiting our Site, your use is limited to browsing our Site, we will not collect any personal information from you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. When you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.

We will process personal information for which we have a legitimate interest, such as fraud protection or compliance with legal obligations, or any other purpose disclosed to you at the time you provide personal information or with your consent.

How We Use Your Information

We use your Personal Information to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our website. We may, at times, also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

We may share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Security

The security of your personally identifiable information is important to us and the Company is committed to handling such information carefully. We take reasonable precautions to protect your Personal Information and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. We use secure socket layer technology to protect the security of your payment information and we encrypt your personally identifiable information when it is sent over the Internet.

Unfortunately, notwithstanding any of the steps taken by us, it is not possible to guarantee the security and integrity of data transmitted over the Internet. We cannot guarantee and do not warrant the security of our databases, nor the guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to and from us over the Internet. All such transmission of information is at your own risk.

CCPA Compliance

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) gives consumers more control over the personal information that businesses collect about them. If you are a resident of California, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know’), to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased.

Right to access personal information: You may be entitled to receive the specific pieces of your personal information we have collected in the 12 months preceding your request.

Right to data portability: You may be entitled to receive a copy of your electronic personal information in a readily usable format.

●  Right to know: You may be entitled to receive information regarding the categories of personal information we collected, the sources from which we collected personal information, the purposes for which we collected and shared personal information, the categories of personal information that we sold and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, and the categories of personal information that we disclosed for a business purpose in the 12 months preceding your request.

●  Right to deletion: You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we retain, subject to certain statutory exceptions, including, but not limited to, our compliance with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations. We will notify you in writing if we cannot comply with a specific request and provide an explanation of the reasons.

●  Right to opt-out of certain sharing with third parties: You may request that businesses stop selling your personal information (“opt-out”). With some exceptions, businesses cannot sell your personal information after they receive your opt-out request unless you later provide authorization allowing them to do so again. Businesses must wait at least 12 months before asking you to opt back in to the sale of your personal information.

If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information below. If you would like to designate an authorized agent to submit these requests on your behalf, please contact us at the address below.

Please note that California law requires us to verify the requests we receive from you when you exercise certain of the rights listed above. We (or third parties we engage to assist us) may ask you to provide certain information to us in order for us to verify the request.

Do Not Track

Please note that because there is no consistent industry standard of how to respond to a “Do Not Track” signal from your browser, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such signals.

Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at privacy@igottabuddy.com or by mail using the address provided below:

I Gotta Buddy, LLC
900 Commonwealth Pl, Ste 200-1055
Virginia Beach, VA 23464

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

Conclusion

Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us. By using our website, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy.