Privacy Policy for StrangeOutdoors

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data. Cookies are used by Squarespace, Meta and Google.

To see the full StrangeOutdoors Cookie Notice, click here.

Customers

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us and also with our payments provider. Stripe. You can see Stripe’s privacy policy, here.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

Form blocks

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

Member only areas

When you subscribe and purchase a membership on this website, we collect personal information from you to enable your member areas access. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your subscription

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide exclusive member area hosting services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience. Payments are processed thorough our payments provider. Stripe. You can see Stripe’s privacy policy, here.

Website visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Blog comments

This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

  • Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

  • Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

  • Your website URL (optional)

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

  • Your IP address

Emails

We may send you marketing emails if you have subscribed to our newsletter, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with MailChimp, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf. See the Mailchimp, Privacy Policy, here.

Google Privacy and Terms

This site uses Google Adsense to deliver personalized ads and uses the analytics tool, Google Analytics. Your web browser automatically sends certain information to Google. This includes the URL of the page that you’re visiting and your IP address. They may also set cookies on your browser or read cookies that are already there. Read more about the Google privacy policy here. For information on how Google retains data, please click here.

Meta Privacy and Terms

This site uses code from Meta called Pixels to track visits from Facebook and Instagram. You can read Meta’s privacy policy here.

How we protect your personal information

While no service is completely secure, our provider, Squarespace have a security team dedicated to keeping personal information safe. They maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards that are intended to appropriately protect against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse and any other unlawful form of processing, of the personal information in our possession. They employ security measures such as using firewalls to protect against intruders, building redundancies throughout their network (so that if one server goes down, another can cover for it) and testing for and protecting against network vulnerabilities.

How we retain your personal information

We will retain personal information regarding you or your use of our website for as long as our Account with Squarespace is active. They also retain personal information for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes described in their Privacy Policy, for example, to comply with their legal obligations, to protect them in the event of disputes and to enforce their agreements and to protect their and others’ interests.  To read more about how Squarespace store data and their Privacy Policy please click here.

Data administrator

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please email us at [email protected]