Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 09-01-26
At Tea Phases, your privacy matters to us. We respect your personal information and are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, make a purchase, subscribe to our communications, enter a promotion or giveaway, or otherwise interact with Tea Phases.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
- Personal Information: Your name, email address, mailing address, payment details, and phone number when you voluntarily provide this information through purchases, newsletter signups, giveaway or promotion entries, questions, collaborations, or other interactions with Tea Phases.
- Giveaway and Promotion Information: Information necessary to administer a giveaway or promotion, such as your name, email address, eligibility confirmation, social media information when applicable, and mailing address if you are selected as a winner.
- Non-Personal Information: Browser type, device type, IP address, and other general site usage data for analytics purposes.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use the information you provide to:
- Process and fulfill your orders.
- Communicate with you about your order, product questions, collaborations, or other requests.
- Send newsletters, product updates, event announcements, promotions, and other Tea Phases communications when you have subscribed or opted in.
- Administer giveaways and promotions, including verifying eligibility, selecting and contacting winners, and fulfilling prizes.
- Improve our website, products, services, and communications.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in our emails.
We do not sell or rent your personal information or share it with third parties for their own marketing purposes.
3. Sharing Your Information
We may share information when reasonably necessary to:
- Fulfill your order or deliver a prize (for example, with shipping carriers).
- Process payments.
- Send email communications and manage subscriptions through trusted service providers.
- Administer services, promotions, or other business functions.
- Comply with legal obligations.
These service providers may receive information necessary to perform services on behalf of Tea Phases.
4. Email Communications
When you subscribe to the Tea Phases Newsletter or enter a promotion that clearly states newsletter subscription is part of the entry process, your email address may be added to our email marketing list.
You may unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in our emails.
For giveaways, unsubscribing from future marketing communications after submitting an otherwise valid entry will not invalidate your giveaway entry unless the applicable Official Rules expressly state otherwise.
5. Giveaways and Promotions
From time to time, Tea Phases may offer giveaways, sweepstakes, or other promotions. Information submitted through a promotion may be used to administer the promotion, verify eligibility, contact potential winners, fulfill prizes, and for other purposes disclosed at the time of entry.
Individual promotions may be subject to separate Official Rules, which will provide additional information about eligibility, entry requirements, prizes, and the use of information associated with that promotion.
6. Cookies
Our website and third-party services we use may use cookies or similar technologies to improve your browsing experience, remember preferences, understand site activity, and support analytics.
You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect some website functionality.
7. Data Security
We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or misuse. However, no method of transmission or storage over the Internet is 100% secure.
8. Your Choices and Rights
You may:
- Request information about the personal information Tea Phases maintains about you.
- Request corrections or deletion of your personal information, subject to applicable legal or business recordkeeping requirements.
- Opt out of marketing emails at any time by clicking “unsubscribe” in our emails.
9. Third-Party Services
Tea Phases uses third-party service providers to operate portions of our business, such as ecommerce, payment processing, email communications, analytics, shipping, and community or membership services.
Those services may process personal information according to their own privacy practices and policies.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our business practices, services, or applicable requirements. Any changes will be posted here with a new effective date.
11. Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to make a request regarding your personal information, please contact Tea Phases through the contact information provided on our website.