Privacy

Last updated: August 6, 2026

Amanda Schoedel Creative respects your privacy and is committed to being transparent about how information is collected and used through amandaschoedel.com.

This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit the website, submit a form, create an account, purchase a product or subscription, or otherwise interact with Amanda Schoedel Creative.

By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

The information collected depends on how you use the website.

Information you provide

You may voluntarily provide information including:

  • Your name
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Business or organization name
  • Website URL
  • Mailing or billing address
  • Account username and password
  • Project details
  • Budget, timing, and service preferences
  • Content submitted through contact, inquiry, or support forms
  • Purchase and subscription information
  • Communications sent by email or through the website
  • Any other information you choose to provide

Please do not submit confidential, proprietary, financial, medical, or other sensitive information through a general website form unless specifically requested.

Purchase and payment information

When you purchase a Care Plan, recurring development add-on, or another product through the website, payment information is processed by a third-party payment provider.

Amanda Schoedel Creative does not directly receive or store your complete payment-card number. The payment provider may collect and process billing and transaction information according to its own privacy policy and terms.

Current payment provider: Stripe

Information collected automatically

When you visit the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically through cookies, analytics tools, server logs, and similar technologies.

This information may include:

  • Internet Protocol address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Referring website
  • Pages viewed
  • Links clicked
  • Date and time of visits
  • Approximate geographic location
  • Time spent on pages
  • Website errors and performance information
  • General interaction and conversion data

This information helps evaluate how the website is used, identify technical problems, and improve its content, performance, and user experience.

2. How Information Is Used

Information may be used to:

  • Respond to inquiries, questions, and support requests
  • Evaluate whether a project or service is a good fit
  • Communicate about services, proposals, purchases, and subscriptions
  • Create and manage customer accounts
  • Process payments and recurring subscriptions
  • Provide purchased products or services
  • Onboard and support Care Plan clients
  • Send transactional emails, invoices, receipts, and account notices
  • Maintain business and tax records
  • Provide customer service
  • Prevent fraud, misuse, or security incidents
  • Operate, maintain, analyze, and improve the website
  • Measure website traffic and completed inquiries or purchases
  • Comply with legal, accounting, contractual, and regulatory obligations
  • Enforce applicable agreements and protect legal rights
  • Send marketing emails when you have requested or consented to receive them

Amanda Schoedel Creative does not sell your personal information.

3. Legal Bases for Processing

Where applicable law requires a legal basis for processing personal information, information may be processed because:

  • You requested information or asked Amanda Schoedel Creative to take steps before entering into an agreement.
  • Processing is necessary to fulfill a purchase, subscription, or contract.
  • You provided consent.
  • Processing is necessary for legitimate business interests, such as operating and improving the website, preventing fraud, and responding to inquiries.
  • Processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

You may withdraw consent for future marketing communications at any time.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The website may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Remember account or checkout information
  • Keep the website secure
  • Maintain shopping-cart and subscription functionality
  • Understand how visitors use the website
  • Measure traffic and completed conversions
  • Improve performance and user experience
  • Remember privacy or cookie preferences
  • Support embedded content or third-party services

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Others may be used for analytics or marketing, depending on the tools active on the site.

You can adjust cookie settings through your browser. Disabling cookies may affect account, cart, checkout, form, or other website functionality.

Where required, a cookie-consent tool may allow you to accept, reject, or manage nonessential cookies.

5. Analytics

The website may use analytics tools to understand traffic and visitor behavior.

These tools may collect information such as pages viewed, referral sources, device information, approximate location, interactions, and completed conversions.

Current analytics provider(s): Google Analytics

Analytics providers process information according to their own privacy policies. Available browser settings, provider opt-out tools, or the website’s cookie controls may allow you to limit analytics tracking.

6. Email Communications

When you submit an inquiry, make a purchase, create an account, or request support, you may receive transactional communications relating to that activity.

Transactional messages may include:

  • Form confirmations
  • Responses to inquiries
  • Purchase receipts
  • Subscription notices
  • Billing communications
  • Account notifications
  • Onboarding instructions
  • Service or support updates
  • Security-related messages

You may also choose to receive marketing emails, resources, announcements, or service updates.

Marketing emails will include an unsubscribe option. Unsubscribing from marketing messages does not prevent necessary transactional communications relating to an active account, purchase, subscription, or service.

Current email marketing provider: Mailchimp

7. How Information Is Shared

Personal information may be shared with trusted service providers when reasonably necessary to operate the website and business.

These providers may include:

  • Website hosting providers
  • Domain and security providers
  • Website maintenance and backup services
  • Analytics providers
  • Form and spam-prevention services
  • Email and newsletter platforms
  • Customer-relationship or project-management systems
  • Payment processors
  • WooCommerce and related ecommerce providers
  • Accounting, bookkeeping, and tax providers
  • Cloud storage and productivity services
  • Professional legal or business advisers

These parties receive access only as reasonably necessary to perform their services and are subject to their own privacy and security obligations.

Information may also be disclosed:

  • When required by law, subpoena, court order, or legal process
  • To investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents
  • To enforce an agreement or protect legal rights
  • To protect the safety or property of Amanda Schoedel Creative, clients, users, or others
  • In connection with a sale, transfer, merger, reorganization, or other change involving the business

8. Third-Party Websites and Embedded Content

The website may link to or embed content from third-party websites and services.

Examples may include:

  • Videos
  • Social-media content
  • Scheduling tools
  • Payment services
  • Maps
  • Fonts
  • Plugins
  • Affiliate links
  • Client websites
  • Other external resources

These third parties may collect information, use cookies, or track your interaction with their services.

Amanda Schoedel Creative does not control the privacy, security, or content practices of third-party websites. Review the privacy policies of those providers before submitting information to them.

9. Affiliate Links

Some website content may contain affiliate links.

Amanda Schoedel Creative may receive a commission when you make a purchase through an affiliate link, at no additional cost to you.

Affiliate relationships do not grant the linked company access to information you submit directly to Amanda Schoedel Creative, although the affiliate or retailer may collect information when you visit or purchase through its website.

10. Customer Accounts

Certain purchases or services may allow or require you to create a customer account.

You are responsible for:

  • Providing accurate account information
  • Maintaining the confidentiality of your login information
  • Using a strong and unique password
  • Restricting unauthorized access to your account
  • Promptly reporting suspected unauthorized use

Account information may be retained as needed to manage purchases, subscriptions, billing records, and legal obligations.

11. Data Retention

Personal information is retained only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and for legitimate business, contractual, accounting, security, and legal purposes.

Retention periods may vary depending on the information.

For example:

  • General inquiries may be retained for business-reference and follow-up purposes.
  • Client and project records may be retained throughout the relationship and afterward for contractual, tax, portfolio, and legal purposes.
  • Transaction and payment records may be retained as required for accounting and tax compliance.
  • Account and subscription information may be retained while an account is active and for a reasonable period afterward.
  • Marketing information may be retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion, subject to suppression records used to honor that request.
  • Technical logs and analytics data may be retained according to the settings of the relevant service provider.

Information may be anonymized or aggregated and retained in a form that no longer reasonably identifies you.

12. Data Security

Reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards are used to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.

These measures may include secure website connections, access controls, software updates, backups, security monitoring, and trusted third-party providers.

No internet transmission, payment system, website, or storage method can be guaranteed completely secure. You provide information through the website at your own risk.

13. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights relating to your personal information.

These may include the right to:

  • Request access to personal information
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of certain information
  • Request a portable copy of certain information
  • Object to or restrict certain processing
  • Withdraw consent
  • Opt out of marketing communications
  • Lodge a complaint with an applicable privacy authority

Not every right applies in every location or circumstance. Some information may need to be retained for contracts, transactions, security, tax, legal, or recordkeeping purposes.

To make a privacy request, contact:

Email: hello@amandaschoedel.com

Reasonable steps may be taken to verify your identity before completing a request.

Amanda Schoedel Creative will not discriminate against you for exercising a legally available privacy right.

14. Do Not Track and Privacy Signals

Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” settings or other privacy signals.

Because there is not one universally accepted technical standard for all such signals, the website may not respond to every browser-based signal in the same way.

Where legally required and technically supported, recognized opt-out preference signals may be honored by applicable website tools.

15. Children’s Privacy

This website and its services are intended for adults and businesses.

Amanda Schoedel Creative does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has submitted personal information through the website, contact Amanda Schoedel Creative so the information can be reviewed and deleted when appropriate.

A person purchasing a product, creating a subscription, or entering into an agreement must be at least 18 years old and legally able to do so.

16. International Visitors

Amanda Schoedel Creative is located in the United States.

If you access the website from outside the United States, information may be transferred to and processed in the United States or other locations where service providers operate.

Those locations may have privacy laws different from the laws where you live.

17. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in the website, services, tools, or legal requirements.

The revised version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.

Your continued use of the website after an update constitutes acknowledgment of the revised policy.

18. Contact

Questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy may be submitted through the website contact page or sent to:

Amanda Schoedel Creative
Email: hello@amandaschoedel.com