Privacy Policy For BUG-A-SALT + SHOPIFY

Revised: 08/13/2025

Privacy Policy - Shopify

See link below for detailed Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy:
https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy/consumers

SHOPIFY requires we inform our customers. Please contact Shopify Customer Service HERE with further questions regarding the below:

Per SHOPIFY, we must inform you our store is hosted by Shopify and that Shopify processes your data when you visit and make purchases on our store, including to provide services based on your interactions with other merchants and with Shopify.
Also, we must explain to visitors, per SHOPIFY's compliance terms, that your information will be shared with Shopify and other third parties that may be located in other countries, in order to provide services to you, including those that incorporate data from your interactions with other merchants and with Shopify.
Unfortunately, this information above is the only data SHOPIFY provides us with (at this time 7/07/2025).

Privacy Policy BUG-A-SALT

Your information privacy is extremely important to us. We have prepared this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, protect, and disclose information and data when you use the Bug-A-Salt website (“Site”) and any other services offered by Skell Inc. dba Bug-A-Salt (“Services”). This Privacy Policy also explains your choices for managing your information preferences, including opting out of certain uses of your Personal Information (defined below). This Privacy Policy applies to all users of the Site and Services. The Site and Services are provided by Skell Inc. dba Bug-A-Salt (“Company” “we” “our” “us”).

BY USING THE SITE OR SERVICES, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.

Managing Your Information Preferences

You can review, correct, update, change, or delete your Personal Information or opt out of receiving certain e-mails by changing the relevant settings in your account or by e-mailing us at support@bugasalt.com. You are able to opt out of receiving marketing e-mails from us, however, you cannot opt out of receiving all e-mails from us, such as e-mails about the status of your account, unless you request to delete your account entirely. If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at the same address.

Information We Collect

Categories and Types of Personal Information

We collect the following categories and types of personal information (collectively, “Personal Information”):

Contact Information: your first and last name, home address, mailing address, phone number, and email address;
Other identifying information: IP address and other information that may identify you;
Financial Information: payment information;
Internet or other electronic activity: your time zone, web browser type, your browsing and click history, including information about how you navigate the Site and which elements of our Services you use the most;
Visual information: any photos or videos that you may provide to us;
Commercial information: products viewed or purchased on the Site;
Preferences: details that you provide to us about your interests, your communication preferences; and
Inferences: inferences drawn from the categories described above in order to create a profile about you to reflect your preferences, characteristics, behavior and attitude.

How We Use Information Collected

We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

Transactional Purposes: We may use your contact information, other identifying information, financial information, commercial information, and preferences to:
- Receive, process, confirm, send and track your Order or registration;
- Communicate with you about your account, Order or registration; and
- Process any registration you make to create an account.
Analytical Purposes: We may use your other identifying information, internet or other electronic activity, and inferences to analyze preferences, trends and statistics.
Marketing Purposes: We may use your contact information, other identifying information, visual information, commercial information, internet or other electronic activity, preferences, and inferences to:
- Inform you of our new products, services, opportunities and offers;
- Run promotions, such as sweepstakes and contests;
- Provide you with targeted advertising; and
- Provide you with other information from and about our Company, including personalized marketing communications.
Maintenance and Improvement of Services and Website: We may use your contact information, other identifying information, financial information, commercial information, visual information, preferences, and internet activity and browsing history to:
- Provide and maintain functionality on our websites;
- Improve our Site and Services;
- Provide more relevant search results from the search functions of the Site and Services;
- Handle your customer services requests, including direct your questions to appropriate individuals, and improve and monitor our customer support responses; and
- Help us diagnose technical and service problems and administer our websites.
Security and Fraud Prevention: We may use your contact information, other identifying information, financial information, internet activity and browsing history, commercial information, preferences, and inferences to protect the website, our Company, and others, and for, fraud detection, theft prevention, emergency response purposes, and legal compliance.
Business Purposes: We may use your information in any other way we may describe when you provide the information, to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, or for any other lawful purpose with your consent.

Sources of Personal Information

We collect information from the following sources:

We collect information directly from you. We collect visual, contact, financial and certain identifying information and directly from you.

We collect information about you from third parties. We collect your contact information and certain identifying data from third parties, such as social media sites, if you provide your information to such sites.

We collect information from you passively. We collect Internet or other electronic activity passively using tools like browser cookies, web beacons and tracking pixels, SDKs and other similar technologies. This activity is further described in the Cookies and Online Tracking section below.

When We Share Information with Third Parties

Our Service Providers

From time to time, we may establish a business relationship with other businesses whom we believe trustworthy and who have confirmed that their privacy practices are consistent with ours (“Service Providers”). For example, we may contract with Service Providers to provide certain services, such as search engine optimization, payment processing, hosting and maintenance, and marketing and promotions. We only provide our Service Providers with the information necessary for them to perform these services on our behalf. Each Service Provider must agree to use reasonable security procedures and practices, appropriate to the nature of the information involved, in order to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Service Providers are prohibited from using Personal Information other than as specified by us.

Our Affiliates and Corporate Transactions

We may share Personal Information (including Internet or other electronic activity) with businesses controlling, controlled by, or under common control with our Company. If our Company is merged, acquired, or sold, or in the event of a transfer of some or all of our assets, we may disclose or transfer Personal Information in connection with such transaction. You will have the opportunity to opt out of any such transfer if, in our discretion, it will result in the handling of your Personal Information in a way that differs materially from this Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement and Courts
In certain instances we may disclose your contact information when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities who may be causing injury to you, to our Company or to others. We may also disclose your contact information when we believe the law or legal process requires it.

For Business Purposes

We may disclose your information if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers, or others. This may include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction. We may also disclose your information to third parties we tell you about when you provide the information or to any other third parties with your consent.

Cookies and Anonymous Identifiers

We use cookies (a small text file placed on your computer to identify your computer and web browser) and may use anonymous identifiers (a random string of characters that is used for the same purposes as a cookie). We use cookies and other anonymous identifiers to analyze use of and improve the Site and Services and as described in the Advertising and Online Tracking Section of this Privacy Policy. Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, however, certain features of the Site or Services may not work if you delete or disable cookies. Some of our Service Providers (defined below) may use their own cookies, anonymous identifiers, or other tracking technology in connection with the services they perform on our behalf.

We use Google Analytics on the Site and Services to collect Internet or other electronic activity, to analyze how users use the Site and Services, and to provide advertisements to you on other websites. For more information about how to opt out of having your information used by Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Personal Information You Make Available to Others

By using the Site or the Services you may make certain of your Personal Information available to others. For example, when you post a comment or a photo on the Site other users may see your name (first name and last name initial), and other information that you choose to make available to others.

Advertising and Online Tracking

We may allow third-party companies to serve ads and collect certain anonymous information when you visit the Site and Services. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g. click stream information, web browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie to collect this information. Our systems do not recognize browser “Do Not Track” signals, but several of our Service Providers who utilize these cookies on our Site enable you to opt out of targeted advertising practices. To learn more about these advertising practices or to opt out of this type of advertising, you can visit www.networkadvertising.org or www.aboutads.info/choices/. We also provide you with additional tools to opt out of marketing from us. You can learn about this in the “Managing Your Information Preferences” section of this Privacy Policy.

Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement

We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We may disclose Personal Information and any other information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties if, in our discretion, we believe it is necessary or appropriate in order to respond to legal requests (including court orders and subpoenas), to protect the safety, property, or rights of our company or of any third party, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with the law.

Be Careful When You Share Information with Others

Please be aware that whenever you share information on any public area of the Site or Services, that information may be accessed by others. In addition, please remember that when you share information in any other communications with third parties, that information may be passed along or made public by others. This means that anyone with access to such information can potentially use it for any purpose, including sending unsolicited communications.

Security

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of information transmitted to us. However, no data transmission over the Internet or other network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect information transmitted on or through the Site or Services, we cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information you transmit on or through the Site or Services, and you do so at your own risk.

Links

Our Site and Services may contain links to other websites or allow others to send you such links. A link to a third party’s website does not mean that we endorse it or that we are affiliated with it. We do not exercise control over third-party websites. You access such third-party websites or content at your own risk. You should always read the privacy policy of a third-party website before providing any information to the website.

Children’s Privacy

The Site and Services are intended for users who are 18 years old or older. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 18. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received Personal Information from a child under the age of 18, we will delete such information from our records. California users under the age of 18 may request the removal of their content or information publicly posted on the Site or Services by e-mailing us at support@bugasalt.com. Please note that most of the content that appears on our Site or Services is stored and controlled by third party providers; thus, complete and comprehensive removal of the content may not be possible.

California Privacy Rights

This section applies to any California residents about whom we have collected personal information from any source, including through your use of our Site or by communicating with us electronically, in paper correspondence, or in person. This section also serves as our California notice at collection.

Any terms defined in the CCPA/CPRA have the same meaning when used in this section. This section only applies to non-California residents as may be required by applicable state law in your state of residence.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect. We have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months.

Category	Examples
Identifiers.	A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).	A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, [photograph, ]address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, membership in professional organizations, professional licenses and certifications, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law ("Protected Class Information").	Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, reproductive health decisionmaking, military and veteran status, or genetic information (including familial genetic information).
Internet or other similar network activity.	Activity on our website, such as internet browsing history, search history, system usage, electronic communications with us, postings on our social media sites.
Geolocation data.	Physical location or movements, such as the time and physical location related to use of our internet website, and GPS location data from mobile devices of consumers who visit our websites.
Professional or employment-related information.	Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
Inferences drawn from other personal information.	Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Sources of Collected Personal Information and Purposes of Collection and Disclosure. This section describes the sources we collect personal information from and why we collect and, if applicable, share personal information.

Source

Categories

Purposes

You

· Identifiers

· Financial information

· Protected Class Information

· Internet Activity

· Geolocation Data

· Professional or employment-related information

· Inferences

For all of the purposes identified in Section 2 above, including, without limitation:

· Process transactions and perform services;

· Market, advertise, and promote products and services;

· Provide customer service;

· Research and development;

· Protect against unauthorized access, security incidents, fraud, and other malicious or illegal activity; and

· Comply with legal and regulatory obligations

Service Providers

· Identifiers

· Financial information

· Protected Class Information

· Internet Activity

· Geolocation Data

· Professional or employment-related information

· Inferences

For all of the purposes identified in Section 2 above, including, without limitation:

· Process transactions and perform services;

· Market, advertise, and promote products and services;

· Provide customer service;

· Research and development;

· Protect against unauthorized access, security incidents, fraud, and other malicious or illegal activity; and

· Comply with legal and regulatory obligations

Nonaffiliated companies (e.g., promotional and joint marketing partners)

· Identifiers

· Financial information

· Protected Class Information

· Internet Activity

· Geolocation Data

· Professional or employment-related information

· Inferences

For all of the purposes identified in Section 2 above, including, without limitation:

· Process transactions and perform services;

· Market, advertise, and promote products and services;

· Provide customer service;

· Research and development;

· Protect against unauthorized access, security incidents, fraud, and other malicious or illegal activity; and

· Comply with legal and regulatory obligations

Other third parties (e.g., analytics service providers and other websites and mobile applications, online advertising partners, and other data suppliers)

· Identifiers

· Financial information

· Protected Class Information

· Internet Activity

· Geolocation Data

· Professional or employment-related information

· Inferences

For all of the purposes identified in Section 2 above, including, without limitation:

· Process transactions and perform services;

· Market, advertise, and promote products and services;

· Provide customer service;

· Research and development;

· Protect against unauthorized access, security incidents, fraud, and other malicious or illegal activity; and

· Comply with legal and regulatory obligations

Categories of Personal Information We May Share and With Whom We May Share It. This section describes the categories of personal information we may share, including personal information we have shared in the past twelve (12) months, and the parties we may share it with. We may share your personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise permitted or required by law.

Third Party	Categories
Service Providers	· Identifiers · Financial information · Protected Class Information · Internet Activity · Geolocation Data · Professional or employment-related information · Inferences
Advertising and Marketing Companies	· Identifiers · Financial information · Protected Class Information · Internet Activity · Geolocation Data · Inferences
Technology Companies	· Identifiers · Financial information · Protected Class Information · Internet Activity · Geolocation Data · Professional or employment-related information · Inferences
Social Media Companies	· Identifiers · Financial information · Protected Class Information · Internet Activity · Geolocation Data · Professional or employment-related information · Inferences
Business Partners	· Identifiers · Financial information · Protected Class Information · Internet Activity · Geolocation Data · Professional or employment-related information · Inferences
Non-Affiliated Companies (e.g., banks, insurance companies, third parties in connection with a proposed merger, acquisition, sale, or transfer of some or all of our assets)	· Identifiers · Financial information · Protected Class Information · Internet Activity · Geolocation Data · Professional or employment-related information · Inferences

Your Privacy Rights. If you are a California resident, subject to certain exceptions set forth under applicable law, you have the following rights under California law with respect to your personal information.

Right to Access. You may have the right to request what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and/or sell, as applicable, and request the information be provided to you in a portable format.
Right to Delete. You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information that is collected or maintained by us.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale. You have the right to request to be opted out from any sales of your personal information by us. This opt-out will not change your preferences with respect to the receipt of marketing and other communications from us.
Right to Non-Discrimination. You have the right not to be denied goods or services, charged different prices or rates for goods or services, or receive a differing level of quality of goods or services as a result of exercising the above rights.
Right to request information regarding third party direct marketing. We may elect to share information about you with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. California Civil Code § 1798.83 permits California residents who have supplied personal information (as defined in the law) to us to, under certain circumstances, request and obtain certain information regarding our disclosure, if any, of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If this law applies to you, you may obtain the categories of personal information shared by us and the names and addresses of all third parties that received personal information for their direct marketing purposes from us during the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2025 will receive information about 2024 sharing activities). To make such a request, please provide sufficient information for us to determine if this applies to you, attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. To make such a request (limit one request per year), please contact us via email at support@bugasalt.com or via mail at our address listed below and include your full name, email address, and postal address in your request.
Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information. You have the right to request a business that maintains inaccurate personal information about the consumer to correct that inaccurate personal information, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing of the personal information.

The rights described above do not apply to certain categories of personal information. The personal information excluded from coverage under the CCPA includes, among other things, (i) personal information we collect from or about you when you apply for or obtain a product or service for personal, family or household purposes; (ii) personal information about communications or transactions with you when you are acting on behalf of a company or government agency to do business with us; and (iii) personal information sold or bought from a consumer reporting agency for use in a consumer report in compliance with applicable law.

Exercising Your Rights. If you are a California resident and wish to seek to exercise any of the rights in above, please contact us at support@bugasalt.com with your request. You may also modify your cookie preferences by clicking here Manage Cookie Preferences or opt out of certain data sharing practices by filing out the form here: Your Privacy Choices.

You may also designate an authorized agent to submit an access, correction, or deletion request on your behalf. We may ask an authorized agent to submit proof of their authority to make a request, such as a valid power of attorney or proof that they have signed permission from the consumer who is the subject of the request. In some case, we may contact the individual who is the subject of the request to verify their own identity or confirm that the authorized agent has permission to submit the request. If you are an authorized agent seeking to make an access, correction, or deletion request on behalf of a California resident, please contact us at support@bugasalt.com.

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of receipt. If we require more time (up to ninety (90) days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we may deliver our written response to that account, otherwise we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the twelve (12)-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

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

U.S. State Privacy Rights

This section applies to you if you are a resident of other U.S. states where they have privacy laws with similar rights as in the previous section. These rights may include but are not limited to verification, access, correction, deletion, and opting out of selling/sharing. The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request. For more information or to exercise any of these rights, please e-mail us at support@bugasalt.com.

Supplemental Privacy Notice for Residents of the EU

This Supplemental Privacy Notice provides additional information on how we process personal data (as such term is defined by the GDPR) that we collect or receive from residents of the EU and provides information as relates to EU users’ rights and our responsibilities, under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Data Controller and Local Representative

We are the data controller of your personal data and we are based in the United States and located at Skell Inc. dba Bug-A-Salt, 2401 Lincoln Blvd., Suite C, Santa Monica, California 90405. If you are located in the EU and believe that your data protection rights under the GDPR have been infringed, please contact our privacy officer who can be reached at support@bugasalt.com. If you feel that your request or concern has not been satisfactorily resolved by us, you may also contact your local data protection authority, see: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/what-are-data-protection-authorities-dpas_en.

Legal Basis for Processing EU personal data

We may processes the personal data of EU users based on one (1) or more of the legal bases below:

Legitimate Interest. We may process your personal data as required to pursue our legitimate business interests, provided our legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights and interests. For example, we may process your personal data, to manage, develop and improve our products and services; support our customers and sales operations; protect our staff and assets; communicate information that supplements our products and services and ensure compliance with laws and regulations

Performance of an agreement. We may process your personal data to enter into agreements with you or to fulfil our obligations under agreements with you or your organization. This may include delivering and managing our products and services or allowing customers to use our products, services and supporting tools.

Legal obligation. We may process your personal data to comply with applicable laws and regulations, establish or exercise our legal rights. For example, in connection with legal claims, compliance, regulatory and investigative purposes.

Consent. In some instances, we may process your personal data based on your consent. This is most common where we cannot rely on an alternative legal basis or we are required by law to ask for your consent in the context of some of our sales and marketing activities, online data collection tools, or surveys. Where the processing of your personal data by us, is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent without detriment at any time by contacting us at this form

Data Retention Period

We retain transaction data and other personal data for a period of time that is necessary to fulfill a legitimate business purpose and deleting or de-identifying the information thereafter, except where longer retention periods are required by law. We retain unsubscribe requests permanently to comply with our obligation to refrain from sending marketing emails after receipt of an opt-out request.

Your Rights under the GDPR

You have the following rights under certain circumstances:

Request access or copies of the personal data we processes about you;
Correct or rectify your personal data, if inaccurate or incomplete;
Delete your personal data, unless an exception applies. For example, we may need to keep your personal data to comply with our legal obligations;
Restrict the processing of your personal data, in certain circumstances. For example, if you contest the accuracy of your personal data, you may request that we restrict the processing of your personal data for the time it takes us to verify the accuracy of the data;
Data portability, in certain circumstances. In order to deliver our products and services, however, we cannot transmit your personal data to another organization; and
Object to processing of your personal data, in certain circumstances. For example, you may object to direct marketing including the use of your personal data for direct marketing profiling or where we process your personal data because we have legitimate interest in doing so.

These rights may be limited in some situations where we can demonstrate that we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to process your personal data.

To exercise your rights explained above, please contact us via email at support@bugasalt.com or via mail at our address below with the details of your request.

Processing in the United States

Please be aware that your Personal Information and communications may be transferred to and maintained on servers or databases located outside your state, province, or country. If you are located outside of the United States, please be advised that we process and store all information in the United States. The laws in the United States may not be as protective of your privacy as those in your location. By using the Site or Services, you are agreeing to the collection, use, transfer, and disclosure of your Personal Information and communications will be governed by the applicable laws in the United States.

Privacy Policy Changes

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will inform you by posting the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. Those changes will go into effect on the “Revised” date shown in the revised Privacy Policy. By continuing to use the Site or Services, you are consenting to the revised Privacy Policy. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Site and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes

Please print a copy of this Privacy Policy for you records and PLEASE check the Site frequently for any changes.

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us via email at support@bugasalt.com, via telephone at (310) 392-3288, or via mail at Skell Inc. dba Bug-A-Salt, 2401 Lincoln Blvd., Suite C, Santa Monica, California 90405.