Privacy Policy

Who we are

TY-RODS Club (“TY-RODS,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide when you visit our website at www.ty-rods.org, purchase merchandise through our online store, or otherwise interact with us.

This Privacy Policy explains the types of information we may collect, how we use and share that information, and the choices available to you regarding your information.

1. – Information We Collect

When you use our website or purchase merchandise through our online store, we may collect information that you provide directly to us, including:.

• Name
• Billing address
• Shipping address
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Items purchased and order details
• Information you provide when contacting us

Our website may also automatically collect certain technical information when you visit, such as:

• IP address
• Browser and device information
• Pages visited
• Referring website
• General website usage and interaction information
• Information collected through cookies and similar technologies

TY-RODS does not currently allow customers to create individual customer accounts through our online store.

2. – How We Use Your Information

TY-RODS may use personal information collected through the website to:

• Process and fulfill merchandise orders
• Process payments and refunds
• Prepare and ship merchandise
• Send order confirmations and other transaction-related communications
• Provide shipping and tracking information
• Respond to customer questions or requests
• Prevent or investigate fraudulent or unauthorized transactions
• Maintain the security and proper operation of our website
• Understand website usage and improve website performance
• Maintain appropriate accounting, tax, transaction, and organizational records
• Comply with applicable legal obligations

TY-RODS does not currently collect email addresses through the online store for email marketing or newsletter purposes.

3. – Payment Processing

TY-RODS uses third-party payment services, including PayPal and WooPayments, to process purchases made through our online store.

When you make a purchase, certain information necessary to complete the transaction may be provided to the applicable payment processor. This may include your name, email address, billing information, shipping information, transaction amount, and other information necessary to process or support your payment.

WooCommerce notes that stores using payment gateways may share information necessary to process payments, including purchase and billing information.

PayPal may provide merchants with information necessary for a transaction, such as a customer’s name, email address, shipping address, telephone number, and transaction information.

TY-RODS does not directly store complete credit or debit card numbers. Payment information is processed by our third-party payment providers in accordance with their respective privacy and security practices.

WooPayments uses Stripe infrastructure for payment-related services.

4. – Shipping and Order Fulfillment

To fulfill merchandise orders, TY-RODS may share information necessary for shipping and delivery, including your name, shipping address, email address, telephone number, order information, and other information reasonably necessary to prepare, manage, track, and deliver your shipment.

TY-RODS may use Pirate Ship as a third-party shipping platform to purchase and manage shipping labels and facilitate order fulfillment. When Pirate Ship is used, information necessary to create and manage a shipment may be transmitted to Pirate Ship. Pirate Ship states that address and private data provided for shipping are used to purchase requested shipping labels and provide related services.

TY-RODS primarily ships merchandise through the United States Postal Service (USPS) and may also use UPS, depending on availability, cost, or shipping requirements.

Shipping and fulfillment providers receive information reasonably necessary to provide shipping, delivery, tracking, and related services.

6. – Cookies and Analytics

The TY-RODS website uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the website and online store, support shopping cart and checkout functionality, maintain website security, understand website usage, and improve website performance.

TY-RODS uses Google Site Kit to connect our website with Google Search Console, Google Analytics, and PageSpeed Insights.

Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors find, navigate, and interact with our website. Depending on Google’s technologies and our configuration, information collected may include browser and device information, pages visited, website interactions, approximate geographic information, and other website usage information.

Google Search Console provides information about how our website appears and performs in Google Search, while PageSpeed Insights provides information that can help evaluate and improve website performance.

We use this information to monitor website performance, understand how visitors use our website, and improve the website and online shopping experience.

TY-RODS does not currently use the Meta/Facebook Pixel on our website.

TY-RODS may maintain pages or profiles on third-party social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. If you interact with TY-RODS through a social media platform, that platform may collect information about your interaction in accordance with its own privacy practices.

7. – How We Share Information

TY-RODS does not sell customer personal information.

We may share personal information when reasonably necessary with third parties that help us operate our website, store, and fulfillment activities, including:

• Payment processors, including PayPal and WooPayments
• Shipping and fulfillment providers, including Pirate Ship, USPS, UPS, and FedEx
• Website hosting and technology providers
• Website security and technical-support providers
• Analytics providers, including Google
• Professional advisers or other service providers when reasonably necessary

We may also disclose information if required by applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, or when reasonably necessary to protect TY-RODS, our website, our customers, or others.

8. – Data Retention

TY-RODS retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including processing and documenting orders, maintaining transaction records, satisfying accounting or tax requirements, resolving disputes, preventing fraud, and meeting applicable legal obligations.

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, TY-RODS may delete, anonymize, or otherwise securely dispose of it in accordance with our record-retention practices and applicable law.

9. – Data Security

TY-RODS takes reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

We also rely on third-party providers, including our website platform, payment processors, and shipping providers, to maintain appropriate safeguards for information processed through their services.

However, no website, electronic transmission, payment system, or data-storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

10. – Your Privacy Choices

You may contact TY-RODS if you have questions regarding personal information that we maintain about you or if you would like to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information.

We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

Certain information may need to be retained when required or reasonably necessary for legal, tax, accounting, transaction, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, or other legitimate purposes.

Privacy questions or requests may be submitted to:

TY-RODS Club
Email: info@ty-rods.org

11. – Children’s Privacy

The TY-RODS website and online store are intended for a general audience and are not directed toward children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under age 13. If we become aware that personal information has been collected from a child under age 13 without appropriate authorization, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information.

12. – Third-Party Websites and Services

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, payment providers, shipping providers, or other external services.

If you follow a link to or interact with a third-party website or service, that third party’s privacy policy and practices will apply to information it collects.

TY-RODS is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or services. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of those third parties before providing personal information.

13. – Changes to This Privacy Policy

TY-RODS may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, online store, technology, services, service providers, or applicable legal requirements.

When we update this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of the policy.

We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

14. – Contact Us

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy or TY-RODS’s privacy practices, please contact:

TY-RODS Club
Email: info@ty-rods.org