Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

The Creative Boutique respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices available to you when you use our website, create an account, join as a creator, or contact us.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information that you provide directly, including:

• Your email address and account information.
• Creator shop information, including shop name, biography, banner, logo, website links, social links, and shop tags.
• Listing information, including titles, descriptions, images, prices, categories, tags, and external purchase links.
• Messages and information you provide when contacting us.

We may also collect information about how you use the website, such as favorites, followed shops, listing interactions, device information, browser information, and security-related activity.

3. Membership Payments

Creator membership payments are processed securely by Stripe. Payment card information is entered on Stripe's secure checkout page and is not stored directly by The Creative Boutique.

We may receive limited payment-related information from Stripe, such as your Stripe customer identifier, subscription status, membership plan, billing period, and whether a subscription is scheduled to cancel.

4. How We Use Information

We may use information to:

• Create, maintain, and secure user accounts.
• Display creator shops and product listings.
• Process and manage creator memberships.
• Provide favorites, follows, and account features.
• Respond to questions and provide customer support.
• Review creator shops and enforce website policies.
• Prevent fraud, abuse, and unauthorized activity.
• Maintain and improve the website.
• Comply with legal obligations.

5. Public Information

Creator shop profiles and published listings are intended to be publicly visible. This may include shop names, biographies, logos, banners, social links, website links, listing images, and listing information.

Creators should not publish private or sensitive personal information in their shop profiles or listings.

6. Service Providers

We use third-party service providers to operate The Creative Boutique. These providers may process information on our behalf for services such as website hosting, account authentication, database storage, email delivery, payment processing, security, and website performance.

7. Information Security

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards designed to protect personal information. However, no online service or method of electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for protecting access to your email account and any login links sent to you.

8. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the website, provide memberships, maintain business and financial records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and meet legal obligations.

9. Your Choices

You may contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information associated with your account. Some information may need to be retained for legal, security, payment, or recordkeeping purposes.

Creators may update their shop and listing information through their Creator Dashboard.

10. Children's Privacy

The Creative Boutique is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

11. External Websites

Creator shops and listings may link to external websites, marketplaces, or social-media pages. The Creative Boutique is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external websites.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as our services or legal obligations change. The updated date at the top of this page will show when the policy was most recently revised.

13. Contact Us

Questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy may be sent to: