Privacy Policy
Effective date: Jul 27, 2026
Girls in the Wind (“Girls in the Wind,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect information when you visit girlsinthewind.com, join our email list, submit a form, create a customer account, or purchase merchandise.
By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this policy.
1. Information We Collect
Information you provide to us may include:
Your email address when you join the Girls in the Wind email list.
Your name, email address, phone number if requested, message, and selected topic when you use a contact form.
Your name, email address, billing and shipping addresses, phone number, order details, and account information when you create a customer account or purchase merchandise.
Information you voluntarily include in a message, story idea, interview request, photograph, video, or other submission.
Other information you choose to provide when communicating with us.
Information collected automatically when you use the website may include:
Your IP address.
Information about your browser, network, and device.
Web pages you visited before arriving at this website and pages you view on this website.
Information about how you use the website, such as clicks, internal links, scrolling, searches, and timestamps.
Information collected through cookies and similar technologies.
2. How We Use Information
We may use information to:
Operate, secure, and improve the website.
Send email updates, new content, interviews, and other Girls in the Wind news when you have chosen to subscribe.
Respond to questions, story ideas, interview requests, partnership inquiries, and other messages.
Process payments, fulfill and ship orders, provide order updates, and offer customer support.
Understand website traffic and how visitors use the site.
Prevent fraud, protect our rights and users, comply with law, and enforce our policies.
3. Email Signups and Contact Forms
When you submit a form on this website, the information you enter is collected through Squarespace and made available to Girls in the Wind so we can respond to your submission or provide the service you requested.
If you join the email list, we may send you Girls in the Wind updates and marketing messages. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in an email. Unsubscribing from marketing messages will not prevent necessary transactional messages about an order or request.
Please do not include sensitive personal information in a contact-form message unless it is necessary for your request.
4. Orders, Payments, and Fulfillment
The online store is operated through Squarespace Commerce. When you place an order, Squarespace and its payment, fraud-prevention, tax, and commerce service providers process the information needed to complete the transaction. Girls in the Wind uses Squarespace Payments, which may involve service providers such as Stripe for payment processing and Sift for fraud monitoring.
Payment providers process your payment-card details under their own privacy policies. Girls in the Wind does not receive or store your complete payment-card number.
Girls in the Wind uses Printful to produce, package, and ship custom merchandise. We share the information Printful needs to fulfill your order, which may include your name, email address, phone number, shipping address, and order details.
5. Cookies and Analytics
This website uses cookies and similar technologies. Necessary cookies help Squarespace securely operate and serve the website. Analytics and performance cookies may help us understand site traffic, visitor activity, and how the website is used.
Squarespace may collect information such as your IP address, browser, network, device, referring pages, pages viewed, clicks, scrolling, searches, and timestamps. Where the website provides cookie choices, nonessential cookies are used according to the choices you make. You can also control cookies through your browser settings, although blocking some cookies may affect how the website works.
6. How We Share Information
We may share information only as reasonably necessary with:
Squarespace, which hosts the website and provides forms, analytics, customer-account, commerce, email, and related website services.
Payment, tax, fraud-prevention, and commerce providers involved in processing purchases.
Printful, which produces and ships merchandise.
Other service providers that help us operate the website, communicate with visitors, or provide requested services.
Government authorities or other parties when required by law, necessary to protect rights or safety, or needed to investigate fraud or misuse.
A successor organization if Girls in the Wind is involved in a merger, reorganization, sale, or transfer of assets.
We do not sell or rent your personal information.
7. Children’s Privacy
Girls in the Wind is created for a community that includes young sailors, but children under 13 should not submit personal information directly through this website.
If you are under 13, do not enter your own email address, submit the contact form, create a customer account, or place an order. A parent or legal guardian should subscribe, contact us, create an account, or place an order on your behalf.
We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from a child under 13 without appropriate parental involvement. If we learn that a child under 13 submitted personal information directly, we will take reasonable steps to delete it. A parent or guardian may contact us using the method in the “Contact Us” section.
Before Girls in the Wind publicly uses an interview, story, photograph, or video featuring a minor, we may require permission from a parent or legal guardian. A separate permission or media-release form may be used for this purpose.
8. Data Retention
We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including:
Email-list information until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it. We may keep a limited suppression record so we can honor an unsubscribe request.
Contact-form messages and other communications for as long as needed to respond, maintain appropriate records, and follow up on the request.
Order, account, payment, and fulfillment records for as long as needed to complete orders, provide support, maintain business and tax records, prevent fraud, and meet legal obligations.
Analytics and cookie information according to our settings and the retention practices of the service providers involved.
9. Your Choices and Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding your personal information. You may contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of information we control. We may need to verify your identity and may retain information when required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails using the link in any marketing email. You can manage available cookie choices through the website’s cookie banner and your browser settings.
10. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures, together with the security features provided by our service providers, to protect personal information. However, no website, transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
11. Third-Party Links and Embedded Content
The website may link to or display content from third parties, such as YouTube, Squarespace, Printful, payment providers, or other websites. Those third parties may collect information when you interact with their services. Their privacy policies, not this policy, govern their own data practices.
12. Processing in Other Locations
Some service providers may process or store information in the United States or other countries where they operate. Privacy protections may differ from those in your location.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as the website, our services, or legal requirements change. We will post the revised policy on this page and update the effective date at the top.
14. Contact Us
For privacy questions or requests, use the Contact page and write “Privacy Request” at the beginning of your message. If the request concerns a child under 13, a parent or legal guardian should submit it.