Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to Mare Media (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We value your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal information of our website visitors and customers (collectively, “you”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and disclose your personal information when you visit or make a purchase from MareMediaCo.com (the “Site”).

By accessing or using our Site, you acknowledge you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

For any questions or concerns, please contact us at: hi@maremediaco.com

2. Scope and Compliance

  • California Residents: We comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) as amended, and other applicable California privacy laws.

  • United Kingdom Visitors: We comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018, ensuring the lawful processing, storage, and transfer of your personal data.

3. Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following types of personal information:

  1. Personal Identifiers: Such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, or any identifiers you provide when filling out contact forms, subscribing to newsletters, or making purchases.

  2. Payment Information: If you purchase any services or products from us, we may collect payment information (such as credit/debit card details). Payment processing may be handled by a third-party service, and we do not store your full credit card details on our servers.

  3. Usage Data: We automatically collect certain information about how you access and use the Site. This may include IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, access times, and pages viewed.

  4. Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities, to help us improve the Site, and for analytics or advertising purposes. For more details, see Section 7.

  5. Communications: If you contact us via email or other channels, we may keep a record of that correspondence, including any information you provide.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

  1. To Provide Our Services: Processing transactions, managing your account, providing customer support, and delivering any other services you request.

  2. To Communicate With You: Sending administrative or promotional emails, newsletters, or notifications about new products, services, or updates. You can opt out of marketing communications at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in those emails.

  3. To Improve Our Site: Monitoring and analyzing usage trends, behaviors, and preferences to enhance Site performance, user experience, and security.

  4. To Comply With Legal Obligations: Responding to lawful requests, court orders, and legal processes, or enforcing our agreements and policies.

  5. For Security and Fraud Prevention: Protecting against, identifying, and preventing fraud, security risks, and other illegal or harmful activities.

5. Legal Bases for Processing (UK Visitors)

For UK visitors, our legal bases under the UK GDPR may include:

  • Consent: You have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.

  • Contractual Necessity: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

  • Legal Obligation: Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation.

  • Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, except where your interests or fundamental rights override those interests.

6. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal information under the following circumstances:

  1. Service Providers: We engage third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Site or provide certain services on our behalf (e.g., payment processing, data analysis, email delivery). They are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to perform these services for us.

  2. Business Transfers: In connection with or during negotiations of any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another entity, user information may be transferred as a business asset.

  3. Compliance with Law: We may disclose personal information to comply with applicable law, regulation, or legal process, or to protect our rights or the rights of others, and to respond to lawful requests from public authorities.

7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movements around the Site, and gather demographic information about our user base.

  • What Are Cookies?
    Cookies are small data files placed on your device to help websites and apps remember things about you.

  • Types of Cookies We Use:

    • Strictly Necessary Cookies: Required for the Site to function properly (e.g., enabling core functionality).

    • Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how the Site is being used so we can improve user experience (e.g., Google Analytics).

    • Functional Cookies: Remember your preferences and choices (e.g., language selection).

    • Advertising Cookies: Used to serve relevant ads to you and track ad performance.

  • How to Control Cookies:
    Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you choose to disable cookies, some features of our Site may not function properly.

8. Data Retention

We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Once the retention period expires, we securely delete or anonymize your personal data.

9. Your Rights (CCPA and UK GDPR)

California Residents (CCPA)

Under the CCPA, California residents have the right to:

  1. Know: You can request the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, as well as the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.

  2. Delete: You can request we delete any personal information about you that we have collected (subject to certain exceptions).

  3. Opt-Out of Sale: We do not “sell” personal information as defined by the CCPA. However, if that practice changes, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide a mechanism to opt out.

  4. Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

To exercise your rights under the CCPA, please contact us at hi@maremediaco.com.

United Kingdom (UK GDPR)

UK residents have the right to:

  1. Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

  2. Rectify: Request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data.

  3. Erase (“Right to Be Forgotten”): Request deletion of your personal data under certain circumstances.

  4. Restrict Processing: Ask us to limit the processing of your data in certain cases.

  5. Data Portability: Receive the personal data you provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

  6. Object: Object to the processing of your data in certain situations, such as direct marketing.

  7. Withdraw Consent: If processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time.

To exercise your UK GDPR rights, please contact us at hi@maremediaco.com.

10. International Data Transfers

If you are located in the UK or another country outside the United States, the personal information we collect may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which we or our service providers maintain facilities. We will ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal information in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

11. Third-Party Links and Services

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites, plug-ins, or applications. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party before you interact with them or submit personal information.

12. Children’s Privacy

Our Site is not directed to individuals under the age of 16 (or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe that a child under 16 (or relevant age) has provided us with personal information, please contact us at hi@maremediaco.com, and we will take steps to delete such information.

13. Data Security

We implement and maintain commercially reasonable security measures to protect the personal information we collect from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of our databases.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make changes, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about our data practices.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at: hi@maremediaco.com