Privacy Policy of Aetherium Studios
Effective Date: October 26, 2025
Aetherium Studios ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website aetheriumstudios.com (the "Site") or use our services. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Site or use our services.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
- Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, phone number, and demographic information, which you voluntarily give to us when you register on the Site, subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us via the contact form. We collect this data when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our services, when participating in activities on the Site, or otherwise contacting us.
- Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site. This data helps us understand how users interact with our site and improve its functionality.
- Financial Data: Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services from the Site. We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment processor, Stripe, and you are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions.
- Third-Party Data: Information from third parties, such as social networking sites, if you connect your account to the Site. We may receive your name, profile picture, and email address from these third-party platforms, according to the privacy settings you have enabled on those services.
- Data From Contests, Giveaways, and Surveys: Personal and other information you may provide when entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys. We use this data to administer the contest or survey and to improve our services.
2. How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
- Administer contests, giveaways, and surveys.
- Assist law enforcement and respond to subpoenas.
- Compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for use internally or with third parties.
- Create and manage your account.
- Deliver targeted advertising, coupons, newsletters, and other information regarding promotions and the Site to you.
- Email you regarding your account or order.
- Enable user-to-user communications.
- Fulfill and manage purchases, orders, payments, and other transactions related to the Site and our services.
- Generate a personal profile about you to make future visits to the Site more personalized.
- Increase the efficiency and operation of the Site.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
- Notify you of updates to the Site and our services.
- Offer new services and/or make recommendations.
- Perform other business activities as needed.
- Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.
- Process payments and refunds.
- Request feedback and contact you about your use of the Site.
- Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.
- Respond to product and customer service requests.
- Send you a newsletter.
- Solicit support for the Site.
3. Sharing and Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
- By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
- Marketing Communications: With your consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
- Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Other Third Parties: We may share information with advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. We may also share your information with such third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
4. Data Security
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.
5. Cookie Policy
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and use information about your use of our website, including to serve interest-based advertising. For more information about the types of cookies we use, why, and how you can control cookies, please see our Cookies Policy.
6. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information. To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].
7. Children's Privacy
Our Site and services are not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will take steps to delete such information from our records.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on our Site and update the "Effective Date" above. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates or changes.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Aetherium Studios
Privacy Department
123 Creative Lane, Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98101
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (206) 555-0123
This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the State of Washington, without regard to its conflict of law principles.
Policy authored by: Dr. Anya Sharma, Privacy Compliance Officer, Aetherium Studios.