This notice explains in plain words what personal details the press room collects when you browse this site, when you commission a card, and when you contact us by the contact form or by email. The developer GeorgeCardfred builds and maintains this website, while the operating company behind every press run is George CardFred LLC, a studio based at 3810 S Redwood Rd APT 2191, West Valley City - 84119-6546, United States (US). We try to be as honest at the front counter as we are on the printed page: we collect little, we explain everything, and we delete what we no longer need.
Contents of this notice
- 1. Scope of this notice
- 2. The Company and the developer
- 3. Information we collect directly
- 4. Information collected automatically
- 5. Information from commissions
- 6. How we use your information
- 7. Lawful reasons we rely on
- 8. Who we share data with
- 9. Cookies and small files
- 10. Third party services
- 11. How long we keep records
- 12. Security of your data
- 13. Your rights and choices
- 14. Privacy for children
- 15. International transfers
- 16. External links
- 17. Changes to this policy
- 18. How to contact us
1. Scope of this notice
This privacy notice provides one document you can read from top to bottom to understand exactly how data travels through the press room website. It covers this website only, along with the contact form hosted on /contact and the mail address shared across every page. It does not cover any third party site that we might link to, and it does not cover offline paper records you hand to us in person unless we bring them into the same care standards described below.
A relationship with a print studio often begins with a small note and grows into a repeat customer who orders every season. For that reason the notice is built to stay useful whether you read it before your first order or after your tenth. If any clause feels unclear, the fastest route to an answer is an email at talk@georgecardfred.lol and a member of the press room staff will interpret the clause for you rather than hide behind it.
2. The Company and the developer
The person responsible for the data this site receives is the legal entity George CardFred LLC, with its registered location at 3810 S Redwood Rd APT 2191, West Valley City - 84119-6546, United States (US). When this policy uses the word the Company it refers to that entity, to the people who run the platen press and to the bench employees who answer the phone at +16816836587.
The website software, its layout and its pages are developed and maintained by the freelancer and developer GeorgeCardfred. That developer is bound by the same duty of confidentiality as the rest of the studio. If the developer needs to reach live order data to repair a fault or to refresh the site, access is granted only as far as is needed for the task and is logged. Neither the Company nor the developer ever sells mailing lists, paper names or art files to a broker.
3. Information we collect directly
Most visitors give us nothing at all. You can read this site without an account, without a cookie wall and without handing over a single detail. The only moment data flows to us through your own action is when you choose to send a commission query.
When a visitor submits the contact form on the /contact page, we receive the name given in the form, the email address typed for the reply, a subject line describing the order, and the text of the message itself. Depending on your message you might also share a business name, a paper reference, a rough count or a design idea. We treat everything you place in that message as confidential business correspondence, and we do not publicly repeat any verse, sketch or plan you describe.
If you later place a paid order, a member of our team may collect the details needed to invoice and dispatch: a posting name, a delivery street address, the studio name if wholesale, a phone contact and a billing record of the amount paid. We ask only for what a careful printer genuinely needs to run the job.
4. Information collected automatically
Like most websites, this one receives a small amount of technical data from your browser automatically. That data can include the internet address your device uses, the kind of browser and operating system you run, the rough region of the request, the page you opened, the amount of time spent reading, and the address of the site you came from. This information is read in aggregate so we can see which press pages matter and which floor of the site nobody walks into.
None of this automatic information reveals your name, your street address or the exact contents of your messages. We do not stitch a browser address together with a submitted form to build a profile. The automatic data is used to keep the press room stable, to diagnose a slow page and to improve a description that readers are skipping. This level of processing is a normal technical function of operating a modern public site and it does not put your design secrets at risk.
5. Information submitted through commissions
When the enquiry in the form turns into an edition, the amount of data rises with the scale of the job. For a short-run order of greeting cards we may hold the shop title, the chosen editions and the delivery city. For a fully bespoke design job we may hold a colour plan, reference imagery you choose to attach and a set of notes about your market. All of it exists so that the edition can be produced and delivered correctly.
Design files deserve special mention. You are never required to hand over original artwork to receive a quote, and you retain all rights to any file you bring to us unless we both sign an agreement that says otherwise. We copy an attached file only to the degree needed to press it, and we store it behind the same lock as our own dies. When a job ends we delete sketches and mock files tied to cancelled projects on request.
If a retail shop orders wholesale racks, we also keep a simple trade record: the shop address and phone, the agreed resale terms and the history of editions reordered. This lets us supply the paper merchant with a reliable refill rather than guessing at every reorder.
6. How we use your information
Every use of your data inside this studio points back to one of a few plain purposes. We use the details from your message to answer your question, to give a price, to hold an edition for you and to send the agreed approval proof. We use delivery details to post the finished box and to give you a tracking reference. We use the invoice record to keep the books correct for the tax year and to settle a dispute if a package is lost.
On a strictly optional basis we may ask whether you want a short seasonal note when a new edition matching your past orders is released. That kind of note is the only marketing we send, and you can turn it off with one word in a reply or by deleting our earlier mail. We never add you to a campaign list because you placed one order, and we never share your address with a mailing house that sells to many brands at once.
7. Lawful reasons we rely on
Where data protection rules require us to name a lawful reason, the Company draws on a few clearly stated ones. When you ask a question, we process your message because you have taken the step of asking and you expect an answer; that is the reason of consent plus a legitimate request for service. When you place an order, we process the details needed to perform the actual contract between you and the press room.
An invoice is kept because the law requires a business to retain financial records and because it is a legitimate step in operating a company honestly. The automatic browser data is processed under the legitimate interest of keeping the public site secure, measuring where the site succeeds and fixing anything that breaks. Where we ever ask for a detail that is not needed for any of these reasons, we say so at the time and you are free to refuse it.
10. Third party services and processors
Three outside services touch your data in the ordinary course of work. First the hosting provider that stores the public pages of the site and the encrypted copy of any form enquiry until we read it. Second the secure mail system that delivers talk@georgecardfred.lol and keeps a copy of received mail for a fixed window. Third the payment processor that records the payment if you settle an invoice by card.
The Company signs each of these processors to a short agreement requiring them to keep the data to a stated purpose, to protect it at a reasonable standard and to return or delete it when the task ends. We never select a processor on price alone; processing a greeting card order should never save a dime at the cost of a customer name leaking out of a weak database.
11. How long we keep records
Records are kept no longer than the reason for keeping them. A simple enquiry that never becomes an order is normally cleared from the active mailbox within about twelve months, because an old price query has little value to anyone. A completed order keeps its order note and its dispatch record while a customer might reasonably need to reorder the same edition, then is trimmed like a waste sheet when it no longer serves a purpose.
Financial records, which the law asks a business to hold for the tax reviewing window, are stored the full length of that window and no longer. Automated service logs are rolled over on a short cycle measured in weeks. If you write and ask us to delete your details earlier, we honour that deletion wherever the law allows us to, keeping only the slice of records that a tax rule still requires us to keep.
12. Security of your data
A press room that guards a paper grain also guards a data trail. Web traffic to this site is served over an encrypted connection so a message about your commission cannot be read in transit by a stranger sitting on the same network. The studio desk that holds live order notes is separated from the public web by access rules that allow a page to be read while the notes behind it stay private.
Mail is checked by named staff who use their own logins rather than a shared company mailbox without a trace. Passwords, where any exist, are long, unique and stored in an encrypted form. We take the reasonable steps of a small specialist studio rather than making promises a small studio cannot keep. If a breach ever did occur, the Company would tell the people affected plainly and promptly, and would tell regulators where the law directs.
13. Your rights and choices
Depending on where you live, you hold a toolkit of rights over your own data, and this Company honours them without a fight. You may ask for a copy of the details we hold about you. You may ask us to correct a wrong address or a misspelled email. You may ask us to delete your records where no law blocks that deletion. You may limit the seasonal note we would otherwise send, and you may object to any processing we justified as a legitimate business need rather than a necessity of the order itself.
No right is exercised by a hostile form with a ten-day wait; you send one line to talk@georgecardfred.lol, say which right you want, and the bench replies within a reasonable window that is far shorter in practice than in many large companies. We never punish choice. Declining a marketing note or asking for deletion has no effect on the plain duty of careful service you receive on the next order. Where the rules of your state or region grant a route of appeal, that route is stated in the local law that protects you.
14. Privacy for children
The website sells a specialist craft service and is aimed at adults who commission stationery, not at children as an audience. The Company does not knowingly gather personal data from a child, and the site does not run games, chats or comments that would invite a young visitor to type in a name. If a child reaches the site through a family search, the same pages are safe to read but we ask a parent or guardian to make any order and to submit any personal details.
If the press room ever learns that it has received personal data from a child without a parent in the room, it deletes that data as quickly as it comfortably can and cuts off any access involved. A parent who spots an older order on an account or a straggled bounce message with a young name is welcome to tell the Company, which will remove the entry without creating a fuss for anyone at the school desk behind it.
15. International transfers of data
Orders shipped within the United States move almost no data across a border at all. Where a client sends a commission from another country, the few details in that message travel to our servers in the United States simply because that is where George CardFred LLC keeps its bench. For a Canadian wedding suite or a London museum note, the data still follows the same protective rules stated on this page even as it crosses a boundary.
When a transfer crosses from a region with its own strict data law, the Company relies on the recognised safeguards the law allows, such as a named standard clause in the agreement with a processor, so that your rights follow your data rather than stopping at a border. In plain terms: the same locks that guard a Salt Lake City order guard an envelope posted from Melbourne, and a customer in another country holds the same deletion rights as a customer down the street.
16. External links
Occasionally an article, a press note or a partner page links out of this site to a paper mill, a stockist or a trade journal. The Company is responsible for the pages it prints and hosts, but it cannot vouch for the privacy practice of a site on another server. When you leave this website, the rules of the destination govern whatever you send there, and this notice stops at the boundary of our own doorstep.
That is not a way of dodging care; it is an honest division of duty. Before the studio shares a link it tries to link only to partners with a clear privacy page of their own. If you follow a link and feel a destination behaves poorly, tell the press room and it will drop the link as quickly as an order it had already marked late. Your complaint about a neighbour page is heard with the same courtesy as a complaint about a fold.
17. Changes to this policy
As the press room grows a new cabinet of services, this notice grows with it. When the Company changes what it collects, how long it keeps a record, or who may read it, the revised notice appears on this page with a fresh revision date at the top so a returning reader can tell at a glance whether anything moved.
Material changes that genuinely affect your rights will be announced plainly on the home page rather than buried in a silent edit. Unless a change is required by law without warning, the new text will not apply to data already gathered under an older edition before you have had a fair chance to read the newer one. You are always welcome to ask about a sentence in any revision; explaining a policy is part of the job of a studio that wants to be understood.
18. How to contact us
For any question about privacy, for a copy of your records, or for a deletion request, the single best address is the same one printed on every carton. Write to talk@georgecardfred.lol and put the word privacy in the subject if the request involves your records, so the note reaches the person who can act on it quickly. Calls are answered on the bench line at +16816836587 during the business hours on the contact page.
Postal correspondence may be sent to the registered address: George CardFred LLC, 3810 S Redwood Rd APT 2191, West Valley City - 84119-6546, United States (US). A data privacy officer here can also point you to the local authority a resident complaint might be raised with. Keeping this open line is part of the promise that a card company should be as easy to reason with as a card is to send.