Golden Ray Studio Privacy Policy 

Effective Date: April 2025

Golden Ray Studio, LLC (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share personal information when you visit our website, goldenraystudio.com, which is hosted on Squarespace. By accepting the following terms, you consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Website Visitors

We collect personal information in order to provide you with a safe, customized, and efficient experience. This allows us to offer the services that may accommodate your circumstances. We only collect the necessary information for achieving this purpose. This website is hosted by Squarespace, which collects personal data when you visit, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs this data to operate the website, protect and improve its services, and ensure performance. Most website visitors will enter and leave this website without providing any Personal Information, which is defined as data that would allow someone to identify you.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies. These are small files downloaded to your device to improve your experience. We use cookies to passively collect Non-Personal Information to help us understand website traffic and activity. All data on this website is processed based on current laws and regulations. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Golden Ray Studio only and does not cover the use of cookies by any third parties.

Form Submissions

When you submit a form on our website (for example, a contact or inquiry form), we collect the data requested in the form to respond to your message and manage our communication with you. We share this form submission data with:

  • Squarespace, to provide website services

  • Google Forms or Tally, for secure data storage

  • Notion, for organizing and porting submission information into our internal systems

We use this information solely for communication and service purposes. By filling out the forms on this website, you grant use of your Personal Information for no further purposes. We will not give, rent or sell your Personal Information to others. 

Analytics

We use analytics to understand how visitors use our website. The data collected may include your browser, network, and device information; web pages visited before arriving on this site;  your IP address; clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling behavior, searches, and timestamps.

We share this information with Squarespace, our analytics provider, to monitor website traffic and performance. This information is stored on Squarespace servers and never shared outside of our company. This information is used in the aggregate and is never linked back to any Personal Information. 

Fonts

This website uses fonts served by Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To display fonts correctly, these services may collect data such as your browser, network, device information, the page you're visiting on our website and your IP address. This information is necessary to render the fonts and ensure proper site functionality.

Email Marketing

If you sign up to receive updates from us, we may send you occasional marketing emails about our services, offerings, or news. You can unsubscribe anytime by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email. We use Squarespace Email Campaigns to send these messages and share your contact information with them for this purpose.

Payments on Squarespace

When you make a purchase on our website, we use Squarespace Payments as our secure payment processor. Squarespace Payments uses the following third-party service providers, who will also process your personal information:

These providers receive your payment data in accordance with their own privacy policies and terms.

Data Security

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information. Squarespace has a security team that employs security measures to protect your information.  However, no online platform is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data. Golden Ray Studio assumes no liability for the loss of any information that you transmit to us via the Internet.

Golden Ray Studio will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with judicial or legal process served on Golden Ray Studio, or the site such as a court order or subpoena; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Golden Ray Studio, and that of our site; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Golden Ray Studio, its websites, or the public.

Use of Site Material

This website contains material that is protected by law. This includes, but is not limited to, images, graphics, photos, and all other materials contained in this site. You are not allowed to use any of these materials for commercial purposes. 

Terms of Services

These Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule. Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms of Service shall be instituted exclusively in the federal or state courts located in Los Angeles County, California. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and venue in such courts.

You expressly agree that use of this site is at your sole risk. This site and all information and products described on this site are provided by Golden Ray Studio on an "as-is" basis. Neither Golden Ray Studio, nor any of its affiliates, employees, agents, or licensors make any representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied as to the operation of this site or the information and products made available to you through this site. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall Golden Ray Studio be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising out of or in connection with the use of the website or its contents.

Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to other websites. If you click on one of these links, you are leaving our site and entering another site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third party sites. Please review their privacy policies if you visit those sites.

Your Choices

You may opt out of cookies by adjusting your browser settings. You may unsubscribe from any email communications by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in our messages. If you would like to access, correct, or delete any personal information we have about you, feel free to contact us.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy occasionally. All changes will be reflected on this page with a revised “Effective Date.”

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this policy, you can contact us at:
jackie.mcastle@gmail.com