Privacy policy

Effective Date: April 3, 2026

Botany Books & Booze, a DBA of Botanical Book Bar, LLC (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit our website, place an order, sign up for emails, contact us, or otherwise interact with us online.

By using our website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, or could reasonably be linked to you, including:

  • Contact information, such as your name, email address, phone number, shipping address, and billing address
  • Order information, such as items purchased, transaction details, and fulfillment information
  • Account information, if you create an account on our website
  • Communications, such as messages you send through contact forms, email, or customer service requests
  • Payment information, which is processed through our payment providers and ecommerce platform
  • Technical and usage information, such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, and interactions with our website
  • Marketing preferences, such as whether you subscribed to our newsletter or promotional emails

2. How We Collect Information

We collect information:

  • Directly from you, when you place an order, complete a form, subscribe to emails, contact us, or otherwise provide information
  • Automatically, through cookies, analytics tools, and similar technologies as you navigate our website
  • From service providers or platform partners, such as our website host, payment processors, shipping providers, and email marketing tools

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use your information to:

  • process and fulfill orders
  • provide customer service and respond to inquiries
  • send order confirmations, shipping updates, and service-related communications
  • send newsletters, promotions, or marketing emails if you opt in
  • improve our website, products, and customer experience
  • monitor website performance, traffic, and usage trends
  • prevent fraud, misuse, or unauthorized activity
  • comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms & Conditions

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies, pixels, web beacons, analytics tools, and similar technologies to improve website functionality, remember user preferences, understand visitor behavior, and measure the effectiveness of marketing efforts.

You can usually control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect certain website features or functionality.

5. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information in the ordinary sense of directly exchanging it for money.

We may share your information with trusted third parties who help us operate our business, such as:

  • website hosting and ecommerce platform providers
  • payment processors
  • shipping carriers and fulfillment partners
  • email marketing or customer communication tools
  • analytics and security providers
  • professional advisors or legal authorities when required

We may also disclose information:

  • to comply with legal obligations
  • to protect our rights, property, or safety
  • in connection with a sale, merger, acquisition, or transfer of business assets

6. Email Marketing

If you sign up for our newsletter or promotional emails, we may send you updates about products, restocks, offers, events, or other shop news. You can unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting us directly.

7. Payment Information

Payment information is processed through our third-party payment providers and ecommerce platform. We do not store full payment card information on our own servers unless expressly stated otherwise by the platform or processor.

8. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information. However, no internet transmission, website, or electronic storage system is ever completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including processing transactions, maintaining records, complying with legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing agreements.

10. Children’s Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under 13 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected such information without appropriate consent, we will delete it.

11. Third-Party Links and Services

Our website may include links to third-party websites, services, or platforms. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third parties. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing them with personal information.

12. California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may have rights under applicable California privacy laws, including the right to request access to certain personal information we collect, request deletion of personal information in certain circumstances, request correction of inaccurate personal information where applicable, and request information about how your personal information is used or disclosed.

You may also have the right to opt out of certain types of data sharing or use that may be considered “sharing” or “selling” under California law, if applicable.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any privacy rights available to you under California law.

To make a privacy-related request, please contact us using the information listed below. We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.

13. Your Choices

You may choose to:

  • update or correct certain account information
  • unsubscribe from marketing emails
  • adjust cookie settings in your browser
  • contact us to request access, correction, or deletion where applicable by law

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with the updated effective date. Your continued use of the website after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

15. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to make a privacy-related request, please contact:

Botany, Books, & Booze LLC
Email: info@botanybooksandbooze.com
Website: botanybooksandbooze.com