Privacy Policy
Last Updated: May 18, 2025
Welcome to Tariff-y! This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our website and services (collectively, the “Service”). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the Service.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect via the Service includes:
a. Personal Data
Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, that you voluntarily give to us when you register an account or when you choose to participate in various activities related to the Service, such as online chat and message boards.
b. Derivative Data
Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Service, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Service. This also includes the product URLs you submit for tariff calculation.
c. Financial Data
If you choose to support Tariff-y through donations or payments for premium features, we may collect financial data, such as data related to your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you make a purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services from the Service. We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment processor (e.g., Stripe, PayPal), and you are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions.
2. Use of Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Service to:
- Create and manage your account.
- Process your tariff calculation requests.
- Email you regarding your account or order.
- Process payments and refunds.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Service.
- Notify you of updates to the Service.
- Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.
- Respond to product and customer service requests.
3. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
a. By Law or to Protect Rights
If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
b. Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis (e.g., Oxylabs for web scraping, LLM providers for HTS classification), email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
4. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
5. Policy for Children
We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 13, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
6. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date.
7. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: support@tariff-y.com