Nicole Edwards Privacy Policy
1. Introduction and business identity
This Privacy Policy explains how SL Independent Publishing, LLC, including its Nicole Edwards Limited and Nicole Edwards Author brands, collects, uses, stores, and shares personal information when you visit nicoleedwards.me, shop through Nicole’s Naughty & Nice Shop, join Nicole Nation, subscribe to Nic News, enter a giveaway, or otherwise interact with us.
Mailing Address:
Nicole Edwards Limited
19101 Limestone Commercial Dr. Ste 150 PMB 320
Pflugerville, Texas 78660
Email:
Nicole@NicoleEdwards.me
2. Information you provide
- Contact-form submissions
- Newsletter signups
- Nicole Nation registration and profiles
- Store orders and customer accounts
- Reviews and comments
- Surveys, giveaways, and ARC applications
- Gift-card sender and recipient information
3. Information collected automatically
- IP address: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
- Browser and device information
- Cookies: See Section 7 below for full details on cookies.
- Pages and products viewed
- Cart activity
- Referring pages
- Recommendation clicks
- Analytics
- Spam and security checks
- Embedded social-media content
4. How the information is used
- Processing and shipping orders
- Managing customer and member accounts
- Delivering newsletters and requested communications
- Responding to messages
- Administering giveaways
- Preventing fraud and spam
- Calculating taxes
- Improving the website and store
- Complying with accounting and legal obligations
- Sending marketing only when the visitor has opted in
5. When information is shared
Website hosting: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
WooCommerce and store extensions:
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
- Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
- Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds, and support you.
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you, such as Shippo, USPS, UPS, FedEx. The only information that is shared is what is required to ship your order to you.
WooCommerce Back In Stock Notifications
This plugin stores the following information when customers sign up to receive back-in-stock notifications:
- Customer e-mail.
- Sign-up date.
- Notification date.
This information can be used to personally identify customers and is stored in the database indefinitely.
WooCommerce Gift Cards:
This plugin stores the following information, as provided by gift card buyers:
- Sender name.
- Recipient name.
- Recipient email.
- Message from sender to recipient.
This information can be used to personally identify the sender and recipient(s), and is stored indefinitely.
Full access to all gift card data is restricted to Store Administrators only. Store Managers may view and search by sender, recipient and gift card code. However, gift card messages cannot be viewed by Store Managers.
WooCommerce Product Recommendations
This plugin uses cookies to track the following visitor activity:
- Viewed products.
- Viewed recommendations.
- Clicked products in recommendations.
The extension also stores aggregate information based on the recommendations that visitors view and click while browsing your site. This information cannot be used to personally identify any visitor.
WooCommerce Product Bundles
This plugin does not collect, store, or share any personal data.
AutomateWoo
If you opt in to receive marketing updates, we may use your personal information to provide you with product updates or marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you. Personal data may also be used by our internal system to automate processes of our store.
We store your communication preferences such as whether you have opted in to receive marketing communications. This data is retained until you request the removal of your data.
Zapier for WooCommerce
This website utilizes Zaps to move data from one application to another when necessary to perform a function that will benefit the overall process:
- Nicole Nation member email and first name are transferred to MailerLite for newsletter groups.
- Nicole Nation member email and first name are transferred to Google Sheets for tracking.
Please see the Zapier Privacy Policy for more details.
- Contact Information: Customer name, shipping address, email address, and phone number.
- Order Details: Order numbers, items purchased, quantities, and package weights/dimensions.
- Shippo shares this information with underlying carriers (like USPS, UPS, or DHL) to complete the physical delivery.
- To generate shipping labels and customs forms.
- To validate shipping addresses.
- To provide tracking updates and shipping confirmation emails to buyers.
- To handle returns or shipping insurance claims.
See Shippo’s Privacy Notice to see how Shippo handles your data directly.
Email marketing provider:
MailerLite
Nicole Edwards uses MailerLite to manage our email subscriber list, send newsletters, and process marketing communications.
What Data is Collected:
Data Collected and Shared:
- Name and email address
- Optional profile details (such as company, location, or custom fields)
- Technical data captured automatically by forms (such as your IP address, geographical location, date, time, and source of subscription)
This data is used strictly to deliver newsletters, updates, or promotional content you have explicitly consented to receive.
To see how MailerLite uses your personal information, you can see their privacy policy here.
MailerSend
This site uses MailerSend as a third-party email delivery and processing provider.
We share recipient information such as email addresses, names, phone numbers, IP addresses, and interaction data (such as email opens and clicks) with MailerSend in order to provide email communication related to transactional purchases.
This data is shared to send operational notifications, transactional messages, or email campaigns, and to track email deliverability and engagement analytics.
MailerSend processes data under its own security standards and complies with frameworks like GDPR.
You can find MailerSend’s Privacy Policy here.
WP Fusion
When you register, log in, or update your profile on this site, data (such as names, email addresses, and custom field metadata) is synchronized with our third-party CRM (MailerLite).
Purchases and form submissions may be tracked and pushed to our CRM to manage access and marketing automation.
This site uses a membership plugin for Nicole Nation:
Source: MemberPress
Website address: MemberPress
The MemberPress Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy
- MemberPress collects information about you during the signup process as well as some basic activities such as the dates you make purchases, login to the site, or cancel/pause/resume your subscriptions with us.
When you subscribe with us, we’ll ask you to provide an email address. We’ll use this information for purposes such as:
- Send you information about your account and subscriptions. This may include payment receipts, password reset emails, and payment reminders.
- Create your membership account
We store information about you for as long as your account exists.
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, site Owner/Administrators can access:
- Order information such as your membership subscriptions, payment dates and amounts, and username/email address.
- Any additional information added in your Member Profile can also be visible to the Administrator(s).
We share information with third parties who help us provide additional contact services to you; for example, MailerLite provides email services.
RafflePress:
For giveaways run on this site, we connect RafflePress data to external email marketing services (MailerLite) and may utilize automation platforms via Zapier
Types of Data Collected:
- Names and email addresses entered to join the giveaway or verify entries.
- IP addresses used for fraud prevention and entry limits.
- Social network IDs or profile data if you enable Facebook or other social logins.
- Tracking data if you use integrated pixels (like Google Analytics, Meta, or TikTok pixels) within RafflePress.
Purpose of Collection:
- To run, administer, and pick random winners for the contest.
- To prevent spam, bot entries, and duplicate signups via fraud detection tools like reCAPTCHA.
- To send marketing or newsletter emails only if the participant explicitly opted in via a consent checkbox.
Buy Me a Coffee:
Credit card processing for Buy Me a Coffee is handled by Stripe, which collects financial data, card types, expiration dates, and billing details.
Buy Me a Coffee shares supporter names, email addresses (if provided), support frequency, support levels, and attached messages with the creator.
Platform Analytics: Information regarding the interaction with widgets, buttons, or embedded links on your site.
I use Buy Me a Coffee and Stripe to process financial transactions.
When users donate or buy a coffee, their transaction data and messages are processed by these external platforms according to their respective privacy terms.
You can find the privacy policy for Buy Me a Coffee here to see full details on how they handle direct user data.
Import/Export for WooCommerce:
Store administrators may use import/export tools to process, migrate, or back up store data, which can include personal data such as customer names, email addresses, billing/shipping addresses, and order histories.
This data processing is done for legitimate administrative interests—such as store migration, platform backups, data analysis, or synchronizing information with external systems (like a CRM or fulfillment service).
Exported files (CSV, XML, XLS) containing personal information are generated and transferred securely via FTP/SFTP.
Downloaded export files containing sensitive user data are protected with restricted admin access and are securely deleted or stored in compliance with your general data retention schedule.
Jetpack:
Jetpack syncs site content, settings, configuration data, and site activity back to Automattic’s servers to enable features, notifications, and content management.
Because this site utilizes accounts, Jetpack captures user email addresses, user roles, logins, display names, WordPress.com user IDs, IP addresses, and timestamps for site management and activity logging.
This site utilizes search and analytics, which track visitor metrics, IP addresses, user agents, and set tracking cookies (such as anonymous identifiers).
Automattic is the third-party processor. You can find Automattic’s Privacy Notice here.
WooCommerce Product Recommendations:
We store aggregate information based on the recommendations you view and click while browsing our site. This information cannot be used to personally identify you.
MyWorks for WooCommerce:
MyWorks Software and Intuit (QuickBooks Online) are third-party data processors/service providers that help operate our business accounting. The data is automatically synced to process orders, manage inventory, maintain financial records, and comply with tax laws. Data is transferred via secure API connections and encrypted during transit.
What data is used:
- Names, billing/shipping addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers.
- Transaction information: Order histories, invoices, purchase amounts, tax details, and shipping costs.
- Payment methods and gateway references
- Secure payment tokens or raw credit card numbers are handled directly by payment processors and Intuit/QuickBooks. They are not stored by MyWorks.
You can find the MyWorks Privacy Policy and Intuit Privacy Statement for how they handle data on their side.
WPC Product Recommendations, WPC Smart Wishlist:
We use these plugins to provide customers with targeted information related to products they are interested in. Data used by these plugins:
- Information regarding products viewed, clicked, or searched on your site (co-view and co-purchase tracking algorithms).T
- Purchase history used to determine frequently bought together items or order-based recommendations.
Akismet, an Anti-spam service, collects information about visitors who comment on this site. The information collected typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
WP Forms
- Fields tracked through WP Forms include: email address, name, and information provided directly by the submitter.
- Cookies & UUIDs: Unique identifiers assigned to visitors for features like form abandonment or entry tracking.
The form data goes:
- Form entries are saved directly to our WordPress website’s database
- Form submissions are sent to the site’s administrative email address.
NotificationX Pro
- Names, purchase times, comments, or review details submitted via forms, checkouts, or comments are captured to display real-time notification popups.
- The plugin interacts with the Google Analytics API (Universal Analytics and GA4) to query property stats directly from your site.
- The plugin uses cookies or local storage to manage notification frequency, visitor consent, and cookie preference settings.
6. Payments
Payments are processed by third-party payment providers. We receive information needed to confirm and manage the transaction, but we do not directly receive or store complete payment-card numbers.
Information shared with a payment provider typically includes:
- Name
- Address
- Phone
- City/State/ZIP
- Unique payment identifier
- Payment provider identifier
The privacy policies below are for payment processors that we use on this site.
7. Cookies and similar technologies
Account and login cookies:
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
- WooCommerce (Naughty & Nice Shop):
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
- Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
- Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.
WooCommerce Product Recommendations: While browsing our site, we will set temporary cookies to track:
- Recommendations you have viewed.
- Product recommendations you have clicked.
These cookies contain no personal data and expire after 1 day.
AutomateWoo: We use cookies to remember who you are when browsing our site and to store the contents of your cart for the purpose of reminding you. These cookies will only be set when you consent to allowing additional cookies on our website.
- wp_automatewoo_visitor – Used to store a secure key that is unique to you – Expires after 2 years
- wp_automatewoo_session_started – Used to flag when you begin interacting with our website – Expires when you end the browser session
- automatewoo_do_cart_update – Used to store flag when your stored cart needs to be updated – Expires when you end the browser session
WP Fusion: Auto-Login and Activity Tracking: cookies or tracking scripts are used to monitor page views, identify visitors via auto-login links, and apply tags/segments based on user behavior on this site.
8. Retention
We retain order records for seven years after the transaction to support tax, accounting, fraud-prevention, and legal obligations.
- WooCommerce (Naughty & Nice Shop) data:
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for XXX years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
We store a copy of your cart in our database for 60 days for the purpose of reminding you when your cart is abandoned. - Member accounts:
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
- Giveaway entries: Occasionally, our site may request information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary, and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address) and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. To see rules around contests and giveaways, see the fine print.
9. Your privacy choices and rights
Directions for:
- Unsubscribing from Nic News: you have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data at any time—and you can instantly opt out or unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of any email sent via MailerLite.
- Updating a store or Nicole Nation account: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
- You can change your cookie preferences on the Opt-out Preferences page
- You can contact us with a privacy request by emailing Nicole@NicoleEdwards.me
10. Children’s privacy
This site is not directed to children under the applicable age, and I do not knowingly collect their personal information.
11. International visitors
Nicole Edwards Limited is based in the United States. If you access this website, join Nicole Nation, subscribe to Nic News, make a purchase, enter a giveaway, or otherwise provide personal information from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States and other countries where our service providers operate.
Privacy and data-protection laws in those countries may differ from the laws in your country of residence. Where required by applicable law, we and our service providers use recognized safeguards for international transfers of personal information.
Visitors from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and other jurisdictions may have additional privacy rights under local law. Instructions for exercising those rights are included in the Your Privacy Choices and Rights section of this Policy.
12. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure.
13. External links and embedded content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
14. Affiliate disclosure
This site utilizes affiliate links that provide commissions for referring to sites such as Amazon.com, Apple Books, Google Books, and others. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
15. Changes and contact information
- Updates to this policy will be made here.
- Effective date of policy: August 26, 2026
- Privacy questions or requests should be sent to: Nicole@NicoleEdwards.me
