Privacy Policy

Effective: September 22, 2025

WebDev & Design LLC (“WebDev & Design,” “we,” “us”) respects your privacy and protects the information you share with us. This policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and your choices.

Information We Collect

• Voluntary info: name, email, phone number, mailing address.
• Automatic info: site usage, cookies, device/browser data.
• Marketing/analytics data: Google Analytics, Google Search Console, SEMrush, and sometimes third-party SEO tools (e.g., Ahrefs, Moz).
• Payments: We process payments securely through Stripe, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Venmo, Afterpay, and Affirm.

How We Use Your Info

• To provide and improve services.
• To communicate with you (emails, texts if you opted in).
• To send updates, offers, and newsletters (you can opt out anytime).
• For internal analysis and marketing.
• To communicate with you via email, phone, text, or messaging platforms such as WhatsApp when you initiate contact through those channels. WhatsApp communications are also subject to Meta’s own privacy terms.

SMS Consent

If you opt in to text messaging, you may receive occasional updates. You can opt out at any time by replying STOP.

Sharing Your Info

We do not sell your data. We only share:

• With trusted service providers, including: hosting partners (such as Bluehost or HostGator), our website platform (WordPress and WooCommerce), payment processors (Stripe, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Venmo, Afterpay, and Affirm), analytics and marketing tools (Google Analytics, Google Search Console, SEMrush, and similar), and communication platforms (such as WhatsApp/Meta) when you use those channels to contact us.
• If required by law or legal process.

Cookies

We use cookies (small text files stored on your device) to keep our website functional and to understand how visitors use it. Here’s what we use:

Payment processor cookies: When you proceed to checkout, payment providers (Stripe, Afterpay, Affirm, Google Pay, Apple Pay) may set their own cookies for session continuity and fraud prevention. These are governed by each provider’s own privacy policy.

Functional cookies: Required for core features like shopping cart sessions, login authentication (for account holders), and checkout. Disabling these will break the shopping and checkout experience.

Preference cookies: Remember settings and UI choices for logged-in users.

Analytics cookies: We use Google Analytics to understand site traffic and user behavior in aggregate. These cookies (such as _ga and _gid) collect anonymized data and do not identify you personally.

Advertising & Tracking Technologies

From time to time, we run paid advertising campaigns through Google Ads and Meta (Facebook/Instagram). When active, these platforms may place tracking technologies on our website (including the Meta Pixel and Google Ads conversion tags) to measure ad performance and, where applicable, show our ads to people who have previously visited our site (remarketing).

These tools may collect information such as pages visited, actions taken on our site, and general device/browser characteristics. This data is processed by Google and Meta under their respective privacy policies and is used solely to measure and optimize our advertising campaigns.

We do not use these tools to build personal profiles or sell your data. When advertising campaigns are not active, these tracking tags may not be present on our site.

If you prefer not to be tracked for advertising purposes, you can opt out through:

• Google’s ad settings
• Meta’s ad preferences
• Your browser’s privacy settings or an ad blocker

Data Retention

• Project/order data is retained as long as legally or operationally necessary.
• Customer accounts, orders, and transaction records created through our website shop are retained as long as operationally or legally required. Account holders may request deletion of their personal data at any time, subject to applicable legal retention requirements (such as financial record-keeping obligations).

Children

Our services are not directed at anyone under 18.

Security

We use SSL, encrypted payment gateways, and secure hosting. No system is 100% secure, but we take industry-standard precautions.

Your Rights

• Opt out of marketing emails/SMS at any time.
• California residents: you have the right to access or request deletion of your info (subject to legal exceptions).

Changes

We may update this policy and will notify you by email or website notice.

Contact: hi@webdev-design.com