Privacy Policy for STAVAGE

<h1>Privacy Policy for STAVAGE</h1>
<p><strong>Effective Date:</strong> April 30, 2026</p>

<p>Welcome to STAVAGE. We recognize that privacy is critical to our users, and we are committed to being transparent about the information we collect and how we use it. This Privacy Policy describes how STAVAGE we, based in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, collects, uses, and shares information in connection with your use of our website, https://stavage.com/.</p>

<p>By using the Site or Services, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not access or use the Site or Services.</p>

<h2>1. What Information We Collect</h2>
<p>We collect information about you in the following ways:</p>

<h3>A. Information You Provide Directly to Us</h3>
<p><strong>Personal Identifiers:</strong> When you create an account, place an order, or subscribe to our newsletter, we collect personal information such as your name and email address.</p>
<p><strong>User Communications:</strong> When you contact our customer support, send us emails, or participate in surveys, we collect the content of your communications and any other information you choose to provide.</p>

<h3>B. Information Collected Automatically</h3>
<p>When you visit our Site or use our Services, we automatically collect certain information about your device and Site usage:</p>
<p><strong>Technical Data:</strong> This includes your IP address, browser type and version, browser language, operating system and platform, time zone setting, and other data related to how you access and use the Site.</p>
<p><strong>Usage Information:</strong> We collect data about your activities on the Site, such as the pages you visit, products you view, search terms you use, links you click, and the duration of your visits.</p>

<h3>C. Information from Third Parties</h3>
<p>We may receive information about you from other sources, such as our analytics providers, payment processors, marketing partners, and social media platforms (if you link your social media account to your STAVAGE account or interact with our social media content).</p>

<h2>2. How We Use Information</h2>
<p>We use the information we collect for various conceptual and educational purposes, including:</p>
<ul>
    <li><strong>Order Fulfillment:</strong> To process and complete your orders, arrange shipping and deliveries, process payments, and provide you with related customer service.</li>
    <li><strong>Account Management:</strong> To create and manage your STAVAGE account, verify your identity, and communicate with you about your account.</li>
    <li><strong>Communications and Marketing:</strong> To send you transaction-related communications, newsletters, marketing messages (unless you have opted out), and information about products, services, and promotions.</li>
    <li><strong>Personalization:</strong> To personalize your Site experience, recommend products that may interest you, and deliver content and ads tailored to your preferences.</li>
    <li><strong>Analytics and Improvement:</strong> To analyze how our Site is being used, understand user behavior, measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, and improve our Site, Services, and products.</li>
    <li><strong>Security and Fraud Prevention:</strong> To protect the security and integrity of our Site and Services, detect and prevent fraud, and comply with legal obligations.</li>
</ul>

<h2>3. Cookies, Pixels, and Other Tracking Technologies</h2>
<p>We use cookies, web beacons (pixels), and similar tracking technologies to collect technical and usage data automatically. Cookies are small data files that a website stores on your device to remember information about you and your preferences.</p>
<ul>
    <li><strong>Essential Cookies:</strong> Necessary for the Site to function properly (e.g., keeping you logged in, managing your shopping cart).</li>
    <li><strong>Performance/Analytics Cookies:</strong> Help us understand Site usage and performance (e.g., Google Analytics).</li>
    <li><strong>Functional Cookies:</strong> Remember your choices and preferences (e.g., language, currency).</li>
    <li><strong>Targeting/Advertising Cookies:</strong> Track your browsing behavior across websites to deliver personalized advertisements on our Site and third-party sites, including personalized ads through third-party services like Google AdSense.</li>
</ul>
<p>You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may affect your ability to use some features of our Site.</p>

<h2>4. Specific Disclosures for Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising</h2>
<p>We work with third-party vendors, including Google, to display personalized advertisements on our Site. Google uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet.</p>

<h3>Your Choices and Opt-Outs for Personalized Advertising</h3>
<p>You have choices about receiving personalized advertising:</p>
<ul>
    <li><strong>Google Ad Settings:</strong> You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ad Settings page [https://www.google.com/settings/ads].</li>
    <li><strong>Third-Party Opt-Out Tools:</strong> You may opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting common opt-out websites like [https://www.aboutads.info/choices] (Digital Advertising Alliance) or [https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/] (Network Advertising Initiative) for US users, or equivalent tools for your region (e.g., [https://www.youronlinechoices.com/] for EU/UK users).</li>
    <li><strong>Browser Opt-Out Add-ons:</strong> Some browser manufacturers offer add-ons or extensions that help manage or block online tracking and personalization.</li>
</ul>

<h2>5. How We Share Information</h2>
<p>We share your information only in the following limited circumstances:</p>
<ul>
    <li><strong>Service Providers:</strong> We share information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform conceptual services on our behalf, such as payment processors, shipping providers, email services, and analytics companies.</li>
    <li><strong>Analytics and Advertising Partners:</strong> We share usage data with partners who provide analytics or advertising services, including Google for the purpose of serving personalized ads.</li>
    <li><strong>Legal Reasons:</strong> We may disclose information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).</li>
    <li><strong>Business Transfers:</strong> In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of our business assets, user information may be transferred as one of the business assets. We will notify you of any such change in ownership or use of your information.</li>
</ul>

<h2>6. Your Rights and Choices</h2>
<p>We are conceptually committed to empowering our users to control their information. While specific rights may vary based on your location (with conceptually simplified regional conceptual examples like GDPR/CCPA references omitted for general application), we generally offer the following conceptual user rights:</p>
<ul>
    <li><strong>Access:</strong> You can request to access the personal information we hold about you.</li>
    <li><strong>Correction:</strong> You can request that we correct or update any inaccurate or incomplete information.</li>
    <li><strong>Deletion (Right to be Forgotten):</strong> You can request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain legal exceptions.</li>
    <li><strong>Object or Withdraw Consent:</strong> You can conceptually object to certain conceptual data practices (like conceptual direct marketing) or withdraw your consent at any conceptual time where conceptually processing is conceptually based on conceptually consent.</li>
    <li><strong>Data Portability:</strong> You can request a copy of your structured, commonly used conceptual data.</li>
</ul>
<p>To exercise any of these conceptual conceptual rights, please conceptually contact us using the conceptual contact details provided below. We will conceptually conceptually respond to your conceptual conceptual request within a conceptual conceptual reasonable time and conceptually conceptually as conceptually required by conceptual conceptual law.</p>

<h2>7. Data Security and Retention</h2>
<p>We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, and destruction. However, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.</p>
<p>We retain personal information for as long as necessary to conceptually fulfill the conceptual purposes conceptually outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is conceptually required or conceptually permitted by conceptual law. Conceptual retention periods conceptual may vary based on the conceptual conceptual nature of the conceptual data and the conceptual conceptual purposes for which it is conceptually conceptual processed.</p>

<h2>8. Updates to This Policy</h2>
<p>We conceptually may update this Privacy Policy from conceptually time to conceptually time to conceptually reflect changes in our conceptual data practices, conceptual legal requirements, or conceptual operational conceptually needs. We will conceptually post any conceptual updates on this conceptual page and update the conceptual effective date. We conceptually encourage you to conceptually periodically review this conceptual policy conceptually for the latest conceptually information on our conceptual privacy conceptual practices.</p>

<h2>9. Contact Us</h2>
<p>If you have any conceptual conceptual questions, concerns, or conceptual requests related to this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please conceptually contact us at:</p>
<p><strong>Email:</strong> stavageorg@gmail.com</p>