Last Updated: September 11, 2026
Sarandipity’s respects your privacy and is committed to being transparent about how information is collected, used, and protected when you visit Sarandipity’s, shop in the store, create an account, join our email list, participate in community features, or otherwise interact with the website.
This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected, why it is collected, how it may be used, and the choices available to you.
Who We Are
Sarandipity’s is an online shop, content website, and digital community operated by Sara Trimble.
Throughout this policy, “Sarandipity’s,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Sarandipity’s and the services offered through this website.
Information We Collect
The information we collect depends on how you use Sarandipity’s.
Information You Provide
You may voluntarily provide information such as:
- Your name
- Email address
- Billing information
- Shipping information when applicable
- Account login information
- Order and purchase information
- Information submitted through contact forms
- Newsletter and email subscription information
- Reviews, comments, survey responses, or testimonials
- Community Garden submissions and other community contributions
- Contest, giveaway, beta-reader, contributor, or promotional submissions
- Information you provide when participating in the Neighbor Passport or other interactive features
- Any other information you choose to provide when communicating with Sarandipity’s
You are not required to provide personal information simply to browse most areas of the website.
Shopping, Orders, and Customer Accounts
When you make a purchase or create a customer account, information necessary to process your order and provide your account may be collected.
This may include your name, email address, billing or shipping information when applicable, products purchased, transaction details, account information, and order history.
Payment information may be processed by third-party payment processors. Sarandipity’s does not necessarily receive or store your complete credit or debit card information.
Information associated with your account may also be used to provide access to purchased downloads, subscriptions, customer features, and other services you request.
The Neighbor Passport and Interactive Features
Sarandipity’s includes interactive features such as the Neighbor Passport, secret codes, town activities, community submissions, and other participation-based experiences.
When you use these features, we may store information necessary to provide the experience, such as account identifiers, activities completed, codes redeemed, achievements, progress, or other interactions with the website.
This information may be associated with your account when you are signed in.
Email Communications
If you subscribe to the Sarandipity’s Gazette, request a free resource, join a promotion, sign up for a program, or otherwise choose to receive emails, we may collect your name, email address, interests, signup source, and information about your interactions with those emails.
We may use this information to:
- Deliver requested resources
- Send newsletters and town updates
- Provide information about products, events, promotions, or services
- Send transactional or account-related messages
- Better understand which content is useful to our readers
Marketing emails will include a way to unsubscribe. Transactional messages related to purchases, accounts, or services may still be sent when necessary.
Forms, Submissions, and Community Content
Sarandipity’s may offer forms that allow visitors to contact us, make suggestions, submit content, participate in surveys, join programs, enter contests, contribute to community features, or otherwise interact with the site.
Information submitted through these forms may be stored and used for the purpose described when the information is collected.
If you submit something intended for public display—such as a Community Garden contribution, testimonial, review, or other community content—some of the information you provide may be displayed publicly.
Please do not submit private or sensitive personal information through public community features.
Comments and Reviews
When visitors leave comments or reviews, we may collect the information entered into the form as well as technical information such as the visitor’s IP address or browser information to assist with spam prevention, security, and site administration.
Information you intentionally include in a public comment or review may be visible to other visitors.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Sarandipity’s and the services used to operate the website may use cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies are small files stored on your device that can help the website remember information and function properly.
They may be used for purposes such as:
- Keeping you signed into your account
- Maintaining shopping-cart contents
- Remembering preferences
- Processing purchases
- Providing interactive website features
- Measuring website traffic and performance
- Understanding how visitors use the site
- Preventing fraud, spam, and abuse
- Improving website security
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may prevent some website features from functioning properly.
Analytics
Sarandipity’s may use analytics tools to understand how visitors use the website.
These services may collect information such as pages visited, approximate location, device and browser information, referring websites, interactions with the site, and the date and time of visits.
This information helps us understand what visitors find useful, identify technical problems, and improve the website.
Security and Fraud Prevention
We may collect and process technical information such as IP addresses, browser information, device information, traffic patterns, login activity, and request data for security purposes.
This information may be used to:
- Protect customer accounts
- Detect suspicious activity
- Prevent spam and fraudulent transactions
- Block malicious traffic
- Diagnose technical problems
- Protect Sarandipity’s and its visitors from attacks or abuse
Security providers and website infrastructure services may process some of this information on our behalf.
Third-Party Service Providers
Sarandipity’s relies on third-party companies and platforms to operate portions of the website and business.
These may include services that provide:
- Website hosting and infrastructure
- Website security
- Ecommerce and shopping-cart functionality
- Payment processing
- Email marketing and delivery
- Analytics
- Forms and surveys
- Spam protection
- Digital-product delivery
- Printing or order fulfillment
- Cloud storage or productivity services
- Embedded media or website functionality
These providers may receive information necessary to perform their services.
Their handling of information is also governed by their own privacy policies and practices.
External Links and Affiliate Links
Sarandipity’s may contain links to websites, products, services, or resources operated by third parties.
Once you leave Sarandipity’s, the privacy practices of the destination website apply. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites.
Some external links may be affiliate links. This means Sarandipity’s may receive compensation if you make a purchase or take another qualifying action through the link, at no additional cost to you.
Affiliate relationships do not give Sarandipity’s access to your complete payment information from purchases made on another company’s website.
Embedded Content
Pages and posts may include embedded content such as videos, images, social media posts, forms, or other material provided by third-party websites.
Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. Those services may collect information, use cookies, or track interactions according to their own privacy practices.
How We Use Your Information
Information collected through Sarandipity’s may be used to:
- Operate and maintain the website
- Process purchases and deliver products
- Manage customer accounts
- Provide the Neighbor Passport and other interactive features
- Respond to questions and customer-service requests
- Deliver newsletters and requested resources
- Administer contests, surveys, programs, and community features
- Personalize or improve the visitor experience
- Analyze website performance
- Maintain website and account security
- Prevent fraud, spam, and abuse
- Maintain appropriate business and transaction records
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
Legal Bases for Processing Personal Information
Where applicable law requires us to identify a legal basis for processing personal information, Sarandipity’s may process your information on one or more of the following bases:
- Contract: When processing is necessary to provide something you requested, such as processing an order, delivering a digital product, maintaining your customer account, or providing access to a service.
- Consent: When you have given permission for a particular use of your information, such as subscribing to certain marketing communications. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
- Legitimate Interests: When processing is reasonably necessary to operate, protect, improve, and understand Sarandipity’s, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests. This may include website security, fraud prevention, customer service, site improvement, and understanding how visitors use the website.
- Legal Obligations: When information must be processed or retained to comply with applicable laws, regulations, tax requirements, court orders, or other legal obligations.
The specific legal basis used may depend on the information involved and the reason it is being processed.
International Visitors and Data Transfers
Sarandipity’s is operated from the United States and may use service providers located in the United States or other countries.
If you access Sarandipity’s from outside the United States, your personal information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in a country different from the country where you live.
Where required by applicable law, reasonable safeguards will be used for international transfers of personal information.
Additional Rights for Certain Locations
Privacy rights vary depending on where you live. In addition to the choices described elsewhere in this policy, applicable privacy laws may provide you with rights such as:
- Requesting access to personal information held about you
- Requesting correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
- Requesting deletion of certain personal information
- Requesting restriction of certain processing
- Objecting to certain processing
- Requesting a portable copy of certain information
- Withdrawing consent where processing is based on consent
- Opting out of certain marketing communications
- Lodging a complaint with an appropriate data-protection or privacy authority
These rights are not absolute and may apply only in certain circumstances.
Sarandipity’s will respond to valid privacy requests as required by applicable law and may need to verify your identity before completing a request.
EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may have additional rights under applicable data-protection laws, including the right to access, correct, erase, restrict, or object to certain processing of your personal information and, in some circumstances, the right to data portability.
You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data-protection authority responsible for your location.
Where Sarandipity’s relies on consent to process personal information, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
Automated Decision-Making
Sarandipity’s does not currently use personal information to make decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects on individuals.
If this changes, this Privacy Policy will be updated as appropriate.
When Information May Be Shared
Sarandipity’s does not sell or rent your personal information or email address to other businesses for their independent marketing purposes.
Information may be shared when reasonably necessary with service providers that help operate the website or provide requested services.
Information may also be disclosed when required by law, to respond to valid legal requests, to enforce our policies, to investigate suspected fraud or abuse, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of Sarandipity’s, our customers, or others.
How Long We Keep Information
Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to provide services, maintain customer accounts and transaction records, meet legal or tax obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, maintain security, and operate the business.
Different types of information may be retained for different periods depending on their purpose.
Your Privacy Choices
You may contact Sarandipity’s with questions or requests concerning personal information associated with you.
Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have rights concerning access to, correction of, deletion of, or other control over your personal information. Additional information about these rights appears in the sections above.
Some information may need to be retained when required for legal, tax, security, transaction-record, fraud-prevention, or other legitimate purposes.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe link included in those messages.
Children’s Privacy
Sarandipity’s includes family-friendly content and products, and some products or content may be designed for children or teens to use with a parent, guardian, teacher, or other responsible adult.
However, the website and its purchasing, account, email-subscription, and community-submission features are intended to be used by adults unless a particular feature specifically states otherwise.
Sarandipity’s does not knowingly collect personal information online directly from children under 13 without appropriate parental or guardian consent.
Parents or guardians who believe a child has submitted personal information without appropriate permission may contact Sarandipity’s to request that the information be reviewed or deleted.
Protecting Your Information
Reasonable administrative, technical, and security measures are used to protect information handled through Sarandipity’s.
However, no website, internet transmission, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You are responsible for keeping your account password confidential and should contact us if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time as Sarandipity’s grows, services change, or legal requirements evolve.
The current version will be posted on this page with an updated Last Updated date.
We encourage visitors to review this policy periodically.
Contact Sarandipity’s
Questions, privacy requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy can be submitted through the Sarandipity’s Post Office/contact page.
Please include enough information for us to understand and respond to your request.