Effective Date: September 29, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how https://michaeljthomas.net (the “Site”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit, interact with, or make a purchase from the Site.
When you visit the Site, interact with our content, or navigate the checkout process, we collect certain information necessary to process your retail purchases, manage your account, or deliver promotional updates. We refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual as “Personal Information.”
Below is the detailed layout of what Personal Information we collect, how it is handled, and why:
Members of our internal operations team have access to the information you provide us. Specifically, both site Administrators and Shop Managers can access the following records:
Our team members strictly utilize access to this information to help manufacture your custom merchandise, coordinate mailings, process refunds, and provide customer support.
A cookie is a small block of information downloaded to your device when you visit our Site. We use essential, functional, performance, and advertising cookies to track user interactions and personalize your experience.
WooCommerce sets temporary cookies to track shopping cart items, preserve your checkout session tokens, and coordinate secure payment processing. Deleting or blocking these specific cookies will cause the online store checkout to fail.
We use tracking tools to study audience behavior and deliver personalized marketing communications:
We generally store information about you for only as long as we need it for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For tax, legal, and accounting purposes, order information (including your name, email, billing, and shipping details) is safely retained for seven (7) years. If you leave a comment or a product review, that metadata is retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
If you create a customer account, we store your name, address, email, and phone number, which will be used to automatically populate the checkout for your future store orders.
Our systems do not engage in fully automated decision-making that carries a legal or significant effect on our customers. Our core WooCommerce system employs limited automated decision-making metrics purely for fraud prevention, such as temporarily denylisting an IP address or credit card numbers after multiple consecutive failed transaction attempts to secure our checkout architecture.
Depending on your global location, you possess specific legal rights over your personal data:
To exercise any of these privacy rights, please contact us using the communication metrics below.
Our Site is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we may have inadvertently collected personal information from your child, please contact us using the information below, and we will promptly delete such information from our records.
For more details about our data privacy practices, to resolve questions, or to submit a formal data erasure or correction request, please contact us at: