Privacy Policy.
Your data is not a product. Here is exactly what we collect, why, and how ruthlessly we protect it.
1. Kentucky Privacy Law Disclosures
In strict compliance with Kentucky's privacy laws, we define "personal data" as any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable natural person. To maintain complete transparency, we disclose the following regarding your data:
- Types of Personal Data Processed: We process names, email addresses, project details, and IP addresses.
- Reasons for Processing: This data is processed exclusively to provide requested graphic design and marketing services, facilitate project communication, and maintain legally binding logs of your acceptance of our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
- Third-Party Data Sharing & Categories: We share necessary routing data exclusively with Hostinger, our web hosting and server security provider, to ensure secure data transmission.
- Sale of Personal Data: Grim Grin Graphics LLC does not, under any circumstances, sell your personal data. You may officially opt out of any future data sale by contacting us directly.
- Targeted Advertising: We do not currently use your contact form data for targeted third-party advertising. You retain the right to opt out of any future targeted advertising initiatives.
- Exercising Your Rights & Appeals: You maintain the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data. Furthermore, you have the explicit right to appeal any privacy rights decision we make. To submit a request or file an appeal, you must use our secure channel by emailing Social.media@grimgringraphics.com.
2. Client Asset & Retention Policy
Your intellectual property and internal business data remain strictly yours. Grim Grin Graphics enforces a ruthless retention protocol to protect your brand:
- Limited Tool Assistance: We may use approved production tools sparingly for repetitive or administrative tasks. Creative direction and final design work remain human-led and completed by hand. Client materials are not used to train public models, and confidential information is not entered into unapproved systems.
- Strict Isolation: Your files are never shared with, utilized for, or exposed to other clients.
- Post-Project Destruction: Upon the completion of our working agreement and final delivery of assets, all files pertaining to your project will be securely destroyed.
- Active Client Vaulting: We securely hold and continuously work from brand kits and files only for ongoing, active clients in a safe, legally compliant manner.
3. Third-Party Vendor Disclosures & Form Routing
When you submit a project inquiry through our website, we execute a precise, closed-loop data handoff:
- Secure Transmission: Data submitted via our contact form is encrypted and protected by Hostinger's server security protocols during transmission.
- Delivery: The data is routed directly to Social.media@grimgringraphics.com.
- The Acceptance Log: Upon receipt, your Name, Date, Email, and Project Description are transferred into a secure internal log. This log is retained permanently as our official record of your acceptance of our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and legal standings.
- Email Destruction: Once your data is logged and our initial response is dispatched, the original transmission email is permanently destroyed to minimize exposure points.
4. Cookies & Analytics
This site enables no analytics or marketing storage without your consent. See our Cookie Declaration for the full list, your current consent status, and controls to change or withdraw consent at any time.
5. Data Breach Notification Protocol
If Hostinger servers or our internal email infrastructure is ever compromised, every person recorded in the Acceptance Log will be notified within 72 hours using a legally structured Notice of Data Breach. That notice will identify what happened, what information was involved, what we are doing about it, and the concrete steps you can take to protect yourself, including:
- Placing a free fraud alert with any of the three major credit bureaus — Equifax (1-800-685-1111), Experian (1-888-397-3742), or TransUnion (1-888-909-8872). As soon as one bureau confirms your fraud alert, the others are notified.
- Requesting free credit reports after the alert is placed and reviewing them for accounts or inquiries you don't recognize.
- Reporting any misuse of your information at IdentityTheft.gov and following the FTC's recovery steps.
- Considering a free credit freeze, which prevents potential creditors from accessing your credit report until you lift it.
Questions, requests, or appeals: email Social.media@grimgringraphics.com. Updates to this policy will be posted on this page at grimgringraphics.com/privacy.