Hi, You’ve found Savage Studio’s privacy policy.

Hold on. Hold on. There, that’s better.

Well, because we take your privacy seriously. And we’re not just saying that.

And, well, because we’re legally required to have a privacy policy. But still. We do care.

Yes, please. Because we really want you to know what we’re doing about your privacy. Also, because we paid our lawyers a lot for this, and we’d like to get our money’s worth.

No, you don’t have to read it out loud. But if you’d prefer to (say, in the bantering voices of Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter) that’s entirely up to you. You can also read it to yourself while moving your lips. We don’t judge.

All things change. Change is good. Just look in the mirror.

If we do something small, like fix a speling mistake, we won’t do anything. If we do something important, like become really evil, we’ll put a notice on this website, telling you all about it. That way you can see what changes we made and decide if you still like us.

You will.

If you don’t, we must part ways. Our house, our rules.

Nah. We love getting email, but you’ve got better things to do. (Water your plants, maybe?) If you go on using our sites after we publish the notice, it means you’re okay with the policy changes. No need to tell us, just keep on truckin’.

Sorry.

Here below, we (“Savage Studio”) will explain to you (“you”) how we (“Savage Studio”) treat the personal information (“Personal Information”) we collect from visitors (“Visitors”).

Glad you asked. A “Visitor” is someone who visits our site. Like you. “Personal Information” is information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name, address, email address, or phone number, and information that is not otherwise publicly available.

Don’t worry about it.

We know, right?

In general, we use the personal information we collect for four things:

• to improve our service,
• to respond to inquiries,
• to send newsletters to people who want them (nudge, nudge), and
• to customize our user’s experience of our sites.

Excellent question. We don’t rent, sell, or share the personal information we collect with other people or non-affiliated companies, except:

• If you provide us with payment information for something you buy from us, in which case we submit your payment information to a third party payment processor (required by credit card issuers to meet specific security requirements) which collects, stores, and processes your credit card and other payment information on our behalf using industry-standard security measures.

• If disclosure is reasonably necessary to investigate, or prevent, illegal action,

• If disclosure is necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims, or to enforce the Savage Studio Terms of Service (if any),

• If you specifically request we share the Personal Information you have provided, or

• If Savage Studio merges or is acquired by another company.

When reasonable, we will make reasonable efforts to notify of such disclosure before it happens.

Yeah, that happens sometimes.

If you’re still reading this you would probably have made a good one, frankly.

It’s never too late.

We protect your information by requiring the employees who have access to the personal information to treat it as confidential. They will never share it with anyone or use it for a purpose we have not authorized.

Yes, dear?

It’s a big world. Enjoy it.

Ah, we see what you mean. Our servers are in Europe, so if you’re visiting the Savage Studio site from outside of Europe, you’re sending Personal Information to Europe, with all that entails. That information, including Personal Information, may be transmitted within Europe or to other countries outside your country of residence. These countries may not have privacy and data protection laws as comprehensive as those in your country of residence. Your Personal Information, however, will at all times remain governed by this Privacy Policy.

We know everything.

Just kidding.

Basically we know and store three types of things:

First, there’s the stuff you send us using the contact forms on our sites — your name, your email address, and whatever else you choose.

Then there’s payment information that you send us if you buy something from us (which, by the way, we really think you should, because we are building good stuff). That would be things like your billing address, your shipping address, and your payment information, including credit card number, security code and expiration date. Now, just because we collect your payment information doesn’t mean we store it, because, frankly, we’ve got other things to do. We simply submit it to a third-party payment processor, who are required by credit card issuers to meet specific security requirements. They in turn store and processes your payment information on our behalf using industry-standard security measures.

Finally there are the things your computer and browser tell us (your IP address, software and hardware attributes, the pages you request, and information from our cookie).

Not so fast. A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer by the user’s web browser while the user is browsing, to identify that browser during interaction on websites. Cookies may be used to store things like identifiers and user preferences. A website may set a cookie to the browser if the browser’s preferences allow it. If you don’t want Ueno to use cookies you may change your browser settings to prevent receiving them.

Yes, don’t worry. This is just how lawyers talk.

We may use cookies to keep track of whatever preferences you’ve told us about. We may also use them to deliver ads to you. Plus we eat them, sometimes.

Yes, we use a little something we like to call “Google Analytics” to help us understand what people are doing on our website, and to make everything better. The Google Analytics privacy policy can be found at Google Privacy & Terms, and — abracadabra, hocus-pocus — is hereby made a part of this privacy policy.

You’re welcome.

You have the right to see the personal information you’ve provided to us, and to request we delete it from our database within a reasonable time.

Why? What’s wrong with it?

What do you mean?

Ok, so why would you bring that up?

Okay sure. If you want to talk to us about this privacy policy, please email us at info@thesavagestudio.com. That should work.