Privacy Policy

Coots Taxidermy ("we," "us," or "our") operates the website cootstaxidermy.com (the "Site"). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you visit the Site, contact us, request a quote, or engage our taxidermy services. We collect analytics and operational data so we can understand how visitors use the Site, respond to inquiries, improve our marketing, protect the Site, and operate the business. By using the Site or communicating with us, you acknowledge the practices described below.

1. Information We Collect

Information You Provide Directly

When you submit our contact or quote-request form, call us, text us, email us, visit our shop, or otherwise communicate with us, you may provide:

• Your name
• Your phone number
• Your email address
• Your address or general location when needed for scheduling or service coordination
• Details about your taxidermy inquiry, including species, type of mount, hunt details, requested pose, photos, project preferences, timeline, and budget information
• Payment status, deposit records, pickup records, and service notes related to an order
• Any other information you choose to include in a message or form submission

We do not intentionally collect payment card numbers through this website. If payments are handled through a third-party payment processor, that processor may collect and process payment information under its own terms and privacy policy. Please do not send sensitive financial, health, government identification, or unrelated personal information through our website forms.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit or interact with the Site, we and our service providers may automatically collect analytics, device, and usage information. This may include IP address or truncated IP address, approximate location derived from IP address, browser type, operating system, device type, referring page, pages viewed, links clicked, visit time, session duration, form submission metadata, error logs, performance data, and other diagnostic information. We use Vercel Analytics to measure page views and aggregate usage patterns. We also use hosting and security logs to keep the Site reliable, identify technical problems, and protect against spam, fraud, and abuse.

Photos, Project Records, and Finished Work

If you provide photos of a specimen, or if we photograph completed work, we may retain those images and related project notes for service records, quality control, portfolio purposes, and marketing, subject to any written request you make at drop-off or before publication. We avoid publishing personal contact information with portfolio images.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use personal information, service records, and analytics data to:

• Respond to your inquiry or quote request
• Schedule drop-offs, pickups, and follow-up communications
• Fulfill taxidermy service orders
• Prepare estimates, invoices, receipts, project notes, and customer records
• Send service-related messages about quotes, deposits, completion, pickup, and care instructions
• Operate, monitor, debug, secure, and improve the Site
• Measure traffic, page performance, marketing effectiveness, and visitor interest through analytics
• Detect spam, abuse, unauthorized access, security incidents, or misuse of our forms
• Comply with applicable legal obligations

We do not sell your personal information for money. We do not rent or trade customer contact information to unrelated third parties for their own direct marketing. We may disclose information to service providers and as otherwise described in this policy.

3. Third-Party Service Providers

We use third-party service providers to operate the Site, deliver forms, understand analytics, display content, and support business operations. These providers may process information on our behalf or collect information directly under their own policies:

4. Legal Bases and Business Purposes

Depending on where you live, privacy laws may require us to identify the legal basis or business purpose for processing information. We process information for the following purposes:

• Performance of a service: to respond to quote requests, schedule work, complete taxidermy services, and communicate about orders.
• Legitimate business interests: to operate the Site, measure analytics, improve user experience, prevent abuse, keep records, and promote completed work.
• Consent: when you voluntarily submit a form, request communication, or agree to optional uses such as certain promotional photos.
• Legal obligations: to comply with tax, accounting, wildlife, law enforcement, dispute, and recordkeeping obligations.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

The Site may use cookies, local storage, pixels, scripts, or similar technologies where needed for site functionality, analytics, embedded content, security, or performance. Vercel Analytics is designed to provide privacy-conscious analytics and may operate without traditional tracking cookies, but it still collects usage and device data as described above. Third parties such as Google may set or read their own cookies when Google Fonts, Google Maps, or other embedded services load. You can manage cookies and some tracking technologies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies or scripts may affect how parts of the Site work.

6. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including responding to inquiries, maintaining customer and project records, completing services, resolving disputes, improving the Site, complying with legal obligations, and maintaining security logs. Inquiry records that do not become orders may be retained for follow-up and business reference. Order records, invoices, tax records, and project notes may be retained longer where needed for accounting, legal, warranty, dispute, or business purposes. Analytics and server logs may be retained in aggregated, de-identified, or provider-controlled forms according to our providers' retention settings.

7. When We Share Information

We may share information in the following limited circumstances:

• With service providers who host the Site, provide analytics, process forms, support communications, maintain security, or help operate the business.
• With professional advisors, insurers, accountants, attorneys, or similar parties when reasonably necessary for business, legal, or financial purposes.
• With law enforcement, wildlife agencies, regulators, courts, or other authorities if required by law or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect rights, safety, property, or legal compliance.
• In connection with a business transaction, such as a sale, merger, transfer of assets, reorganization, or similar event involving Coots Taxidermy.
• With your direction or consent, including when you ask us to coordinate with another person about your project.

8. Your Privacy Rights

Nevada Residents

Under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A, Nevada residents may request that we refrain from selling their covered information. We do not sell personal information; no further action is required. To submit a request for any other reason, contact us at the information below.

California Residents (CCPA / CPRA)

California residents may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, and obtain a copy of certain personal information; to opt out of sale or sharing of personal information; to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information; and to be free from discrimination for exercising privacy rights. We do not knowingly sell personal information for money. Some analytics or advertising-related technologies can be considered "sharing" under California law depending on how they are configured. To make a request, contact us using the information in Section 14. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request and will respond as required by applicable law.

Other U.S. State Privacy Rights

Residents of states with applicable consumer privacy laws may have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of personal information, and to opt out of certain processing activities. These rights vary by state and may not apply to every small business or every type of information we process. We will honor requests where required by applicable law.

How to Exercise Rights

To submit a privacy request, contact us at the phone number or address below. Please describe the request and provide enough information for us to verify and locate the relevant records. We may deny or limit requests where allowed by law, such as when records must be retained for legal, security, accounting, dispute, or service purposes.

9. Children's Privacy

This Site is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us immediately so we can delete it.

10. Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the information we collect. The Site is served over HTTPS, and contact form data is transmitted using industry-standard encryption. No method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure; we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. International Visitors

Coots Taxidermy is based in Nevada, United States, and the Site is intended primarily for customers in the United States. If you access the Site from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate, and privacy laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

12. Links to Other Websites

Our Site may contain links to external websites (such as our Instagram and Facebook pages). We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing any personal information.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this page periodically. Continued use of the Site after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.

14. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or the personal information we hold about you, please contact us:

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through cootstaxidermy.com and to related communications and service records, unless a separate written agreement or notice applies.