Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (this “Policy”) describes how the Weird Elephant, Hammock Dave, LLC. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, "Weird Elephant," "we," "our," or “us”), collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards personal information that a Weird Elephant prospective or existing customer (“you” or “your”) provides on the Platforms (as defined below) or when you communicate or interact with Weird Elephant, including our customer service team..

This Policy applies to all Weird Elephant websites that link to this Policy, including weirdelephant.com hammockdave.com (the “Sites”), any Weird Elephant mobile applications (the “Apps”) and other software and internet-enabled programs and services sponsored by Weird Elephant (collectively, the “Platforms”).

By accessing the Platforms on any computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device (collectively, “Device”); making a purchase from Weird Elephant; or otherwise communicating or interacting with Weird Elephant, you agree to the terms of this Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, please do not use the Platforms.

We may modify this Policy at any time and will post the current version on the Sites as further detailed in the “Changes to the Privacy Policy” section below. We encourage you to periodically review this Policy to stay informed about how we are using the information we collect.

1. Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information

Below is a summary of the categories of information we collect, the source of the information and how we use it.

• Contact Information
  • Name, address, phone number, e-mail
  • Collected from you
  • The purpose is for shipping products as well as communicating information about your account as well as occasional marketing correspondence
• Personal/Preference Information
  • Interests, hobbies, opinions, etc.
  • Collected from you
  • We use this information for the purpose of determining the best products to send to you. As this is a 'random' service, we aim to include some relevancy of products to your interests.
  • While we do not sell or distribute your personal information, we may send marketing correspondence with your interests in mind.
• Purchase and Order Information
  • Invoices, e-receipts, order information, payment and billing information.
  • Collected from you
  • We use this information to properly pick, package, and ship items to you.
  • We do NOT store payment information on our servers. Recurring credit card transactions are handled by Braintree Payments. (A PayPal company)
• Other Delivery Information
  • Name, address, e-mail if delivery is intended for another person(s) other than the account holder
  • Collected from you
  • This information is SOLELY used for the purpose of fulfillment and shipping based on the premise of a gift or assignment of shipment from the original account holder.
  • This information will never be sold or distributed
• Payment Information
  • Name, card issuer, payment type, card type, card number, expiration date, CVV code, billing address
  • Collected from you and/or your payment method issuer if you sign up for a paid subscription.
  • This information is handled and stored on Braintree Payments. Information about Braintree and PCI compliance can be found here.
• Device Information
  • Your IP Address, internet provider, operating system and browser used. Your device cookie settings and other details such as MAC address and geolcation (if permitted via app used) are also collected.
  • This information is provided by you and/or your device.
  • This information is used to present data in the most effective manner to you as well as tailor your website experience to include offers that may be of interest to you.
  • We also use this information to protect the security and integrity of our platform to help mitigate exposure to potential hackers and unauthorized users.

Aggregated information does not personally identify you or any other visitor or user. We use aggregated information such as demographic or statistical data for analytics and research to provide a better product and service.

Cookie Policy

Like many commercial websites, we analyze how visitors use the Platforms through what is known as "cookie" technology. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer when you access the Weird Elephant platforms and allows us to recognize you each time you visit the Sites. We may use cookies to (1) allow you to use the Weird Elephant platforms without having to reenter your username; (2) enhance or personalize your Weird Elephant platform usage and shopping experience; (3) monitor Weird Elephant platform usage; (4) manage the Weird Elephant platform; and (5) improve the Weird Elephant platform and our products and services, including providing you with interest-based ads. For more information on our advertising, see the “Interest-Based Advertising" section below.If you choose, you can set your browser to reject cookies or you can manually delete individual cookies or all of the cookies on your computer by following your browser’s help file directions. However, if your browser is set to reject cookies or you manually delete cookies, you may have some trouble accessing and using some of the pages and features that are currently on the Weird Elephant platform, or that we may put on the Weird Elephant platform in the future. Note that browser-management tools for cookies are outside of our control and we cannot guarantee their effectiveness.

We may also use web beacons on the Weird Elephant platform, in our emails, and in our advertisements on other websites. Web beacons are tiny graphic images that are used to collect information about your visit to the Weird Elephant platform, such as the pages you view and the features you use, as well as information about whether you open and/or act upon one of our emails or advertisements. We may also collect the URL of the website you visited immediately before coming to the Weird Elephant platform. Web beacons help us analyze the Weird Elephant platform visitors’ behavior and measure the effectiveness of the Weird Elephant platform and our advertising. We may work with service providers that help us track, collect and analyze this information.

We may combine the information we collect through cookies and web beacons with other information we have collected from you or information from other sources.

3. Internet-Based Advertising

We may use on the Platforms third-party advertising companies such as those provided by Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok that use tracking technologies to serve our advertisements across the Internet. These advertising companies may collect information about your visits to the Platforms and other websites and your interaction with our advertising and other communications. These advertising companies serve ads on behalf of us and others on nonaffiliated sites, and some of those ads may be personalized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on information collected about your visits to the Platforms and elsewhere over time. Other companies may also use such technology to advertise on the Platforms.

You have the choice to tell us not to collect and use this information, and in some jurisdictions we will only engage in interest-based advertising if you opt-in. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices concerning interest-based ads, visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/ or

 https://youradchoices.com/control .

• In Canada, please visit http://youradchoices.ca/choices/
• In the EU, please visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/

4. Security

Weird Elephant uses commercially reasonable physical, technical, and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, and alteration. When you enter sensitive information (such as your credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer (SSL) technology. Please be aware, however, that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. You remain responsible for protecting your username and password and for the security of information you transmit to us over the internet.

5. Children’s Privacy

The Weird Elephant platforms are not directed to children under the age of 13, and Weird Elephant will never knowingly collect personal or other information from anyone it knows is under the age of 13. Persons over 13 but under 18 years of age may use the Weird Elephant platforms only in conjunction with and under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian.

6. Third-Party Websites and Accounts

The Weird Elephant platforms may contain links to third-party websites, such as social media sites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not in any way responsible for the activities and practices that take place on these websites and platforms. Accordingly, we recommend that you review the privacy policy posted on any external site before disclosing any personal information. Please contact those websites and platforms directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies.

You may choose to create accounts on websites or platforms owned or controlled by third parties to purchase our products. These third parties may use your information for their own purposes, including for behavioral advertising and analytics purposes. We do not control and are not responsible for the collection, use or other processing of your information by these third parties through the accounts you create with them. Please refer to their privacy policies to learn about how they handle your personal information.

7. Your Privacy Rights

You can stop email marketing from us by using the “opt out,” or “unsubscribe” mechanism at the bottom of our email marketing messages. We may give you a choice about stopping just one kind of email or opting out of all email marketing from us.

If you want to learn more about the personal information that Weird Elephant has about you, or you would like to update or change that information, or deactivate your account, please contact us by email at info@weirdelephant.com. Note that deactivating your account does not cause your account information to be deleted from our servers.

8. Your California Privacy Rights

In addition to the rights described in the “Your Privacy Rights” section above, if you are a California resident, you may request information about our disclosure of personal information to third parties or affiliated companies for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us as set forth in the “Contact Us” section below. Please allow up to 30 days for us to process your request. You may submit such a request once per year.

If you are a California resident, California law also provides you with the following rights with respect to your personal information:

• The right to know what personal information we have collected, used, disclosed and sold about you. To submit a request to know, you may call us at (805) 881-3283, or email us at info@weirdelephant.com. You also may designate an authorized agent to make a request for access on your behalf.
• The right to request that we delete any personal information we have collected about you. To submit a request for deletion, you may call us at (805) 881-3283, or email us at info@weirdelephant.com. You also may designate an authorized agent to make a request for deletion on your behalf.
• The right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information by emailing us at info@weirdelephant.com. You also may designate an authorized agent to make a request to opt-out of the sale of your personal information on your behalf. Please see below for the categories of personal information we have sold about you in the preceding 12 months.

When you exercise these rights and submit a request to us, we will verify your identity, which may include asking you to log in to your account if you have one with us. If you do not have an account with us, we may ask for your email address, order numbers of previous orders of our products and services, the last four digits of a credit or debit card or a bank account number used to make a purchase, the date of your last purchase from us, or other information that we believe you will know that will allow us to verify that the request is coming from the person named in the request.

Your exercise of these rights will have no adverse effect on the price and quality of our goods or services.

For the 12-month period prior to the date of this Policy, we have sold the following categories of personal information:

• identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier (such as a device identifier; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers and similar technology; customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias; telephone number and other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers), online identifier, IP address, email address, account name, and other similar identifiers;
• commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, and other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies;
• internet and other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with websites, applications or advertisements; and
• inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

a. Right to Removal of Posted Information – California Minors

inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

9. European Residents’ Privacy Rights

In addition to the rights described in the “Your Privacy Rights” section above, if you are a European resident individual, you have certain rights in relation to your personal information under the applicable European data privacy laws.

a. Your Rights to Control Your Personal Information

Applicable European data privacy laws give certain visitors the right to access their personal information. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the European data privacy laws. If you would like to request a copy of your personal information being held by us or request that it be deleted, or to update and/or correct your personal information or request that we provide a copy to another data controller of your personal information that you have provided to us, please contact us as detailed in the “Contact Us” section below. We will need enough information to ascertain your identity as well as the nature of your request. We will aim to respond to your request within one (1) calendar month of receipt of the request. Where we were unable to do so within the calendar month, we will notify you of the soonest practicable time within which we can respond to your request (and within three (3) months from the date of your request).

There are certain exemptions and restrictions of these rights under the European data privacy laws that enable personal information to be retained, processed or withheld from access and we will inform you of these exemptions and restrictions, if applicable. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us as detailed in the “Contact Us” section below.

b. We Use Your Personal Information for the Following Key Purposes:

1. to contact you: subject to applicable law, we or our third-party service and business providers may send you communications; especially if you have subscribed to one of our services. Such communications are designed to make your experience of with Platforms more efficient and may include, but are not limited to, communications about us and other notifications, including important news that could affect your relationship with us. Where required under applicable data privacy laws, we will not send you marketing communications without your prior consent;
2. for legal purposes: we may use and share personal information for legal purposes, including financial, regulatory, tax and other legal obligations and to respond to governmental or regulatory requests or subpoenas or for litigation purposes;
3. for our legitimate interests and those of a third party: we may use your personal information to manage our legal, regulatory, financial and business requirements, including obtaining legal advice, in the course of disputes and litigation, internal and/or regulatory investigations and other legitimate interests; we also use your personal information for our legitimate marketing purposes and we may share your personal information with third parties, such as our commercial partners and vendors, where we consider this meets our legitimate interests or those of our commercial partners and vendors, whilst respecting our visitors’ data privacy rights;
4. for our business purposes: we may use your personal information to help us manage the objectives of our organization;
5. for other purposes: subject to applicable law, we may use your personal information for additional purposes in connection with the Platforms, where you have provided your prior consent.

c. Sharing Your Personal Information

We share your personal information with third parties to help us use your personal information, as described in this Policy and in addition we may need to share your personal information with our professional tax, legal, audit or financial advisors as well as sponsors, members, and other organizations in the proper course of our business. We may also share your personal information when we receive requests for information in the context of legal disputes, investigations regulatory enquiries or similar requests.

d. Retention of Personal Information

We will only retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of your personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and applicable legal requirements.

e. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

f. Complaint Process

We are transparent about the ways in which we collect and use personal information and welcome your questions and concerns. If you have any concerns or complaints about the way we handle your personal information, please contact us as detailed in the “Contact Us” section below. To the extent you believe we have not addressed your concerns or otherwise choose to do so, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country of residence under the European data privacy laws.

10. Do No Track

Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. At the present time, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has not yet established universal standards for recognizable DNT signals and therefore, Weird Elephant and the Weird Elephant platforms do not recognize DNT.

11. Visitors from Outside the United States – Cross Border Transfer

The Weird Elephant platforms are intended for use of residents of the United States. If you are visiting the Platforms from outside the United States, you understand and agree that your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or other countries in accordance with this Policy. The data protection and other applicable laws of the United States or other countries may not be as comprehensive as those laws or regulations in your country or may otherwise differ from the data protection or consumer protection laws in your country. Your information may be available to government authorities under lawful orders and law applicable in such jurisdictions. By using the Platforms and/or providing personal information to us, you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States or other countries as described in this Policy.

12. Changes to this Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Policy at any time. We will post all changes to this Policy on the Sites, so you should review this Policy periodically. Any such amendments to this Policy may apply to information we collect in the future as well as any information we obtained prior to such amendment. If we make a material change to this Policy, we will provide appropriate notice as required by law.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments regarding the Policy or how we collect and use your information, please contact us at:

17404 Meridian Ave E, Ste F, PMB 186
Puyallup, WA 98375
Phone: (805) 881-3283
E-mail: info@weirdelephant.com

If we need, or are required, to contact you concerning any event that involves your information, we may do so by email, telephone, or mail. If you make a purchase, we will send you a confirmation email.

Last Updated Feb 2022