Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for Cosmic Threads and Sip
Effective Date: August 29, 2025
Welcome to the cosmic journey at Cosmic Threads and Sip! As the official merchandise home for QuirkScience, our mission is to fuel curiosity and explore the universe's wonders. That mission includes being transparent and committed to protecting the privacy and personal information of our community members and customers. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your data.
1. What type of information do we collect?
We receive, collect, and store information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. This includes:
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Personally Identifiable Information: Your name, email address, shipping address, billing address, and phone number. When you make a purchase, we also collect payment details (including credit card information), but this is processed securely by our payment gateway.
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Non-personal Information: We automatically collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; computer and connection information; and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect any comments, feedback, and product reviews you may provide.
2. How do we collect information?
We collect your information through the following actions:
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When you make a purchase: When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address, and email address.
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When you contact us: We collect information you provide when you send us a message through a contact form, email us directly, or otherwise communicate with us.
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When you subscribe to our newsletter: We collect your email address when you voluntarily sign up for updates and promotional content.
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Automatically through browsing: Our website, through Wix and its integrated apps, uses monitoring tools to collect data about your browsing session and device.
3. Why do we collect such personal information?
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:
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To provide and operate our Services;
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To process your transactions, ship your orders, and provide you with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
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To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages (only with your explicit consent);
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To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
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To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
4. How do we store, use, share and disclose your site visitors' personal information?
Our company, Cosmic Threads and Sip, is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases, and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
We may share your information with trusted third-party services as necessary to conduct our business, such as:
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Shipping Carriers (e.g., USPS, FedEx) to deliver your orders.
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Payment Processors to securely handle your payment information.
We will only disclose your information if required to do so by law.
5. How do we communicate with our site visitors?
We may contact you for the following reasons:
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To notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, or to collect fees or monies owed.
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To send you updates about your order, such as order confirmation and shipping notifications.
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To respond to your inquiries via our contact form or email.
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To send you marketing emails and promotional offers, only if you have subscribed to our mailing list. If you do not want to receive such promotional messages, you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email or by contacting us directly.
6. How do we use cookies and other tracking tools?
Our website uses cookies and other tracking technologies. Cookies are small data files placed on your device that are essential for our site to function properly and securely.
Wix uses cookies for many important reasons, such as:
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To provide a great experience for our visitors and customers.
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To monitor and analyze the performance, operation, and effectiveness of Wix's platform.
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To ensure the platform is secure and safe to use.
Furthermore, third-party services, such as Google Analytics or other applications offered through the Wix App Market, may place cookies or utilize other tracking technologies through Wix's services. These services may have their own policies regarding how they collect and store information. As these are external services, such practices are not covered by the Wix Privacy Policy or ours. You can view which cookies are stored on your site visitors' computers by consulting the Wix help documentation.
7. How can your site visitors withdraw their consent?
You have the right to control your personal information. If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, or if you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us.
8. Privacy policy updates
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
9. Questions and your contact information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please do not hesitate to contact us at: