Albany Lane Paperie is a brand of Albany Lane, LLC (“Albany Lane,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We respect your privacy and are committed to handling your personal information thoughtfully and responsibly.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, when we may share it, and the choices available to you when you visit our website, contact us, submit an inquiry, or purchase products or services from Albany Lane Paperie.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The information we collect depends on how you interact with us.
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US
You may provide personal information when you:
- Submit an inquiry or contact form
- Purchase stationery, products, or services
- Complete a design or wording questionnaire
- Submit guest names or mailing addresses
- Request a proposal or custom quote
- Review or approve proofs
- Subscribe to email communications
- Contact us by email or through another communication platform
- Participate in a promotion, survey, or other offering
This information may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Billing and shipping address
- Event date and location
- Wedding or event details
- Stationery wording and personalization information
- Guest names and mailing addresses
- Order history and product selections
- Communications with Albany Lane
- Photographs, artwork, logos, or other materials you choose to provide
PAYMENT INFORMATION
When you make a purchase, payment information is processed through our payment and ecommerce service providers.
Albany Lane generally does not directly receive or store complete credit or debit card numbers. Payment providers may collect information necessary to process your transaction, prevent fraud, and comply with applicable financial and legal requirements.
INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies.
This information may include:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Pages viewed
- Referring website
- Approximate geographic location
- Date and time of visits
- Interactions with our website
- Information regarding how you navigate or use the site
We may use this information to operate our website, understand how visitors use it, improve the user experience, maintain security, and measure the effectiveness of our marketing.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use personal information to:
- Respond to inquiries and communicate with you
- Prepare proposals, quotes, and recommendations
- Personalize your stationery and other products
- Create and deliver digital proofs
- Process and fulfill orders
- Process payments
- Coordinate printing and production
- Prepare guest addressing and mailing-related services
- Ship and deliver products
- Provide customer service
- Maintain records relating to your order
- Prevent fraud or misuse
- Maintain and improve our website and services
- Analyze website performance and customer experience
- Send marketing communications when permitted
- Comply with legal, accounting, tax, or regulatory obligations
- Protect the rights, property, and security of Albany Lane and others
We do not use guest lists or guest contact information provided for stationery production to market Albany Lane services directly to those guests.
GUEST NAMES & ADDRESS INFORMATION
Wedding stationery often requires clients to provide personal information belonging to their guests, such as names, titles, relationships, mailing addresses, meal selections, or other event-related information.
When you provide information about another person, you represent that you are authorized to provide that information to Albany Lane for purposes related to your order.
Guest information is used only as reasonably necessary to design, personalize, address, produce, or otherwise fulfill your stationery order and related services.
Albany Lane does not claim ownership of your guest list and does not use guest mailing information to independently market to your guests.
HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION
We do not sell your personal information for monetary consideration.
We may provide information to trusted companies that help us operate our business and fulfill your order.
These providers may include:
- Website and ecommerce platforms
- Payment processors
- Proofing and project-management platforms
- Email and communication providers
- Printers and production partners
- Envelope addressing or fulfillment providers
- Shipping and delivery carriers
- Cloud storage and business software providers
- Analytics providers
- Marketing and advertising service providers
- Accountants, attorneys, insurers, and professional advisors
We provide these parties only with information reasonably necessary for them to perform services on our behalf or as otherwise permitted by law.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law, court orders, subpoenas, or other legal processes
- Detect or prevent fraud, security threats, or illegal activity
- Protect the rights, safety, or property of Albany Lane, our customers, or others
- Enforce our agreements or policies
- Complete a merger, acquisition, sale, financing, restructuring, or transfer of some or all of our business assets
COOKIES & SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Our website and the services used to operate it may use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies.
Some cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. Others may help us:
- Remember preferences
- Understand website traffic
- Measure site performance
- Understand how visitors interact with our content
- Improve our website
- Measure the effectiveness of advertising or marketing
Your browser may allow you to block or delete cookies. Doing so may affect the functionality of certain portions of the website.
Where required by applicable law, we may provide additional cookie controls that allow you to manage non-essential cookies or certain uses of your information.
ADVERTISING & TARGETED MARKETING
We may use analytics or advertising services that help us understand how visitors find and interact with our website or measure the performance of advertisements.
Although Albany Lane does not sell personal information for money, certain uses of cookies, pixels, or similar advertising technologies may be considered “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or similar activity under some state privacy laws.
Where applicable, you may have the right to opt out of these activities through the privacy or cookie controls available on our website or by contacting us.
EMAIL MARKETING
If you choose to subscribe to Albany Lane emails, we may send you news, inspiration, product announcements, promotions, or other marketing communications.
You may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in a marketing email.
Even if you unsubscribe from marketing emails, we may continue to send transactional or service-related messages concerning an inquiry, order, payment, proof, production status, or other active business relationship.
DATA RETENTION
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including fulfilling orders, maintaining business and transaction records, resolving disputes, protecting our legal rights, and satisfying tax, accounting, and other legal requirements.
Different types of information may be retained for different periods.
When information is no longer reasonably required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.
DATA SECURITY
We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, internet transmission, electronic storage system, or method of communication can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee absolute security of personal information transmitted to or stored by us or our service providers.
YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES & RIGHTS
Depending on where you live and the laws applicable to Albany Lane, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.
These may include the right to:
- Request access to personal information we maintain about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of certain personal information
- Request information about how your information has been used or disclosed
- Obtain a copy of certain personal information
- Withdraw consent where processing is based upon consent
- Opt out of certain targeted advertising or sharing activities
- Opt out of marketing communications
These rights are subject to applicable legal limitations and exceptions.
To submit a privacy request, contact us using the information at the end of this Privacy Policy.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
Albany Lane will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right provided by applicable law.
THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES & SERVICES
Our website may contain links to websites, platforms, social networks, or services operated by third parties.
Once you leave an Albany Lane website or interact directly with a third-party service, that company's privacy practices and policies apply.
We are not responsible for the privacy, security, or content practices of third-party websites or services.
SOCIAL MEDIA
If you interact with Albany Lane through social media, information you submit or make publicly available through that platform may be visible to Albany Lane and others in accordance with the privacy settings and policies of the applicable social media platform.
Your interactions with those platforms are governed by their respective privacy policies.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Albany Lane's website, products, and services are not directed toward children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information online directly from children under 13.
If we learn that we have unintentionally collected personal information directly from a child under 13, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information.
BUSINESS TRANSFERS
If Albany Lane or Albany Lane, LLC is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, restructuring, or similar business transaction, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our business practices, technology, services, or legal requirements.
When we update the policy, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to submit a request regarding your personal information, please contact:
Albany Lane Paperie
Albany Lane, LLC
hello@albanylanepaperie.com
www.albanylanepaperie.com