Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how BlackWhole Magazine (operated legally by BlackWholeMagazine LLC, "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from blackwholemagazine.com (the "Site").

1. Collecting Personal Information

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and the information strictly necessary to process your purchases.

Order Information: Collected to fulfill our commercial contract with you. This includes your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation details (processed securely via encrypted third-party gateways such as Shopify Payments or Google Pay), email address, and phone number.

Device Information: Collected automatically to load the site accurately for your browser and to perform general site analytics. This includes your web browser version, IP address, time zone, cookie data, and the specific products you view.

2. Sharing Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with legitimate third parties strictly to assist us in operating our business and fulfilling your orders:

  • We use Shopify to power our online commercial storefront. You can read more about how Shopify securely handles your data here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
  • We share necessary fulfillment data (strictly your Name, Shipping Address, and purchased SKUs) with our authorized print-on-demand manufacturing partners (including Tapstitch for apparel, Mixam for bound media, Printful for wall art, and our dedicated playing-card print facilities) solely for the physical manufacturing, packaging, and shipping of your goods.
  • We may share your information to comply with applicable local and international laws, regulations, or lawful requests for legal records.

3. Your Data Privacy Rights

Depending on your legal jurisdiction (such as the GDPR in Europe or state privacy laws in the United States), you may hold the right to access the personal information we hold about you, request that it be ported to a new service, or ask that your data be corrected, updated, or entirely erased. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us directly at support@blackwholemagazine.com.

4. Data Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our internal accounting and tax documentation unless and until you explicitly ask us to delete this information.