Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 19, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how PMBV Digital (“PMBV Digital,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information when you visit usermanualforanemptyplanet.com, subscribe to communications, submit material, make a purchase, or otherwise interact with the website and related services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Site”).

PMBV Digital is located in New Mexico, United States. By using the Site, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not provide personal information through the Site.

1. Personal Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with the Site.

Information you provide directly

We may collect:

• Contact information, such as your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, and other information you provide when contacting us.
• Account information, such as a username, password, saved preferences, order history, and account settings, if account features are offered.
• Order and transaction information, such as products purchased, personalization instructions, billing and shipping addresses, order totals, payment status, delivery details, returns, refunds, and customer-service communications.
• Payment information. Payment details are generally submitted directly to a third-party payment processor. We may receive limited information such as payment status, transaction identifiers, card type, or the last digits of a payment card rather than the complete payment-card number.
• Newsletter and marketing information, such as your email address, subscription status, communication preferences, and interactions with messages we send.
• Submissions and user content, such as comments, reviews, messages, “user logs,” stories, images, files, contest entries, feedback, or other material you choose to submit.
• Communications, including information contained in emails, contact forms, support requests, surveys, or other correspondence with us.
• Other information you voluntarily provide, including information supplied through forms, promotions, or interactive features.

Please do not provide sensitive personal information that is not necessary for your interaction with the Site. Do not include private information about yourself or another person in a Submission intended for public display.

Information collected automatically

When you use the Site, we and the technology providers that support it may automatically collect:

• your Internet Protocol (IP) address;
• browser type and version;
• device type, operating system, language, and general device settings;
• referring and exit pages or URLs;
• pages, products, links, and Site features viewed or used;
• search queries and interactions with Site content;
• dates, times, duration, and approximate location derived from an IP address;
• shopping-cart activity and checkout progress;
• email engagement information, such as whether a message was delivered, opened, or clicked, where permitted; and
• diagnostic, performance, security, fraud-prevention, and error data.

This information may be collected through cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, server logs, software development kits, and similar technologies.

Information from third parties

We may receive information from third parties that help operate the Site or fulfill your requests, including:

• ecommerce, payment, fraud-prevention, and order-management providers;
• shipping carriers, manufacturers, printers, and fulfillment partners;
• newsletter and email-delivery providers;
• hosting, security, analytics, and technical-service providers;
• social-media platforms and embedded-content providers;
• advertising and affiliate partners; and
• publicly available sources or information you authorize another party to provide.

We may combine information received from these sources with information collected directly through the Site.

2. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

• provide, operate, maintain, and improve the Site;
• process and fulfill orders, payments, personalization requests, shipping, returns, and refunds;
• create and administer accounts, shopping carts, and saved preferences;
• respond to questions, messages, support requests, and legal notices;
• manage newsletter subscriptions and send requested communications;
• send marketing or promotional communications where permitted, subject to your right to unsubscribe;
• receive, review, edit, publish, attribute, and administer Submissions in accordance with our Terms & Conditions and any submission-specific terms;
• personalize content and understand how visitors use the Site;
• measure Site performance, audience engagement, campaigns, and affiliate activity;
• detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, abuse, security incidents, prohibited conduct, and violations of our policies;
• debug errors and protect the integrity and availability of the Site;
• comply with legal, tax, accounting, recordkeeping, and regulatory obligations;
• establish, exercise, or defend legal claims;
• enforce our Terms & Conditions and other agreements; and
• carry out another purpose disclosed when the information is collected or with your consent.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Site may use the following types of cookies and similar technologies:

• Strictly necessary technologies support essential functions such as security, network management, shopping carts, checkout, account access, and remembering privacy choices.
• Preference technologies remember settings such as language, display, region, or other selections.
• Analytics technologies help us understand visits, traffic sources, popular content, Site performance, and errors.
• Advertising and affiliate technologies may measure referrals, attribute purchases or commissions, limit repeated advertising, or help deliver and evaluate promotional content.
• Embedded-content technologies may be set when you interact with video, audio, social-media, maps, fonts, or other content provided by third parties.

You can control many cookies through your browser settings and, where available, the Site’s cookie or privacy-preference tool. Blocking some cookies may cause Site features — particularly shopping-cart, account, checkout, or embedded-media functions — to operate incorrectly.

Some browsers and extensions transmit “Do Not Track,” Global Privacy Control, or similar signals. Because industry responses to these signals are not uniform, the Site may not respond to every signal. Where applicable law requires recognition of a particular opt-out signal and the Site’s practices are subject to that law, we will process the signal as required.

4. How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose personal information in the following circumstances.

Service providers and contractors

We may provide information to companies and individuals that perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, ecommerce, payment processing, fraud prevention, customer support, email delivery, analytics, security, data storage, printing, manufacturing, shipping, and order fulfillment. They may use the information only to provide services to us or as otherwise permitted by their own notices and applicable law.

Payment and transaction partners

Payment processors, banks, card networks, ecommerce platforms, tax services, and fraud-prevention providers may process information needed to complete or protect a transaction. Their handling of payment information may be governed by their own privacy policies.

Fulfillment and delivery partners

We may provide a recipient’s name, shipping address, contact information, order details, and personalization information to manufacturers, printers, fulfillment providers, and carriers as needed to produce and deliver an order.

Analytics, advertising, and affiliate partners

Analytics, advertising, and affiliate partners may receive device identifiers, cookie data, IP addresses, referral information, Site activity, and purchase-attribution information. Depending on the technology and applicable state law, some disclosures for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted-advertising activity even when no money is exchanged for personal information.

Public Submissions

Information you intentionally submit for publication may be displayed publicly. For example, a published User Log, comment, review, credited story, or image may include the name, username, attribution, or other information you chose to provide. Public information may be copied, indexed, or redistributed by other people or services beyond our control.

Legal, safety, and rights-protection purposes

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to comply with law, regulation, court order, subpoena, or lawful government request; protect the rights, property, or safety of PMBV Digital, visitors, customers, or others; investigate fraud, abuse, or security threats; enforce agreements; or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Business transfers

Information may be disclosed or transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar business transaction, including during related due diligence.

At your direction or with your consent

We may disclose information when you direct us to do so, request an integration or transaction involving another party, or otherwise consent to the disclosure.

5. Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

We do not sell personal information in exchange for money. As described above, however, certain analytics, affiliate, embedded-content, or advertising technologies may disclose online identifiers and activity to third parties. Some U.S. state privacy laws may define particular disclosures as a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information or as processing for targeted advertising.

Where these laws apply, eligible residents may request to opt out by using any “Your Privacy Choices,” “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information,” cookie-preference, or similar control made available on the Site, or by contacting us through the method described below.

We do not knowingly sell or share for cross-context behavioral advertising the personal information of anyone under 16.

6. Marketing Communications

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time by selecting the unsubscribe link in the message or using another opt-out method we provide. We may still send transactional or administrative messages concerning an order, account, Submission, security matter, policy update, or request you made.

Unsubscribing from our messages does not automatically unsubscribe you from communications sent independently by a third party under its own relationship with you.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide the Site, fulfill orders, maintain business and tax records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, comply with legal obligations, and protect against fraud or abuse.

Retention periods vary according to the type of information and why it was collected. For example:

• order and transaction records may be retained for accounting, tax, warranty, fraud-prevention, and legal purposes;
• account information may be retained while an account remains active and for a reasonable period afterward;
• newsletter information may be retained until you unsubscribe, after which limited suppression information may be kept to honor the opt-out;
• customer-service communications may be retained while an issue is active and for a reasonable recordkeeping period;
• public Submissions may remain available for as long as they form part of the Site or related archives; and
• technical logs may be retained for shorter periods unless needed for security, fraud prevention, diagnostics, or legal compliance.

We may retain deidentified or aggregated information that cannot reasonably be linked to you.

8. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

You are responsible for protecting account credentials and for notifying us if you believe an account or transaction involving you has been compromised.

9. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live and subject to legal exceptions, you may have the right to:

• request access to or confirmation of personal information we process about you;
• request correction of inaccurate personal information;
• request deletion of personal information;
• obtain a portable copy of certain personal information;
• opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information;
• opt out of targeted advertising or certain profiling;
• limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information;
• withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
• appeal a decision concerning a privacy request where applicable; and
• receive equal service and pricing without unlawful discrimination for exercising a privacy right.

To make a privacy request, use the contact information or contact form available on the Site and clearly identify the request as a “Privacy Request.” Describe the right you wish to exercise and provide enough information for us to locate the relevant records.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Verification information will be used only for that purpose. If we cannot verify your identity or authority, we may be unable to fulfill the request. An authorized agent may submit a request where permitted by law, but we may require proof of the agent’s authority and direct verification with the consumer.

We will respond within the period required by applicable law. Certain information may be exempt from a request, including information we must retain for legal, security, fraud-prevention, transactional, or recordkeeping purposes.

10. Additional Information for Residents of Certain U.S. States

Some U.S. state privacy laws require additional disclosures. This section applies only to residents and businesses covered by those laws.

During the preceding 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information, depending on how a person interacted with the Site:

Category	Examples	Sources	Purposes and recipients
Identifiers	Name, email, IP address, account name, mailing address, device identifiers	You, your device, service providers, transaction partners	Site operation, accounts, communications, orders, security; disclosed to operational, payment, fulfillment, communications, and analytics providers
Customer and transaction records	Contact, billing, shipping, purchase, payment-status, customer-service, and personalization information	You, payment and ecommerce providers	Transactions, fulfillment, support, accounting, fraud prevention; disclosed to payment, ecommerce, production, fulfillment, carrier, and professional-service providers
Commercial information	Products viewed, cart activity, purchase history, returns, affiliate referral data	You, cookies, ecommerce and affiliate providers	Orders, support, analytics, attribution, personalization, and marketing; disclosed to operational, analytics, and affiliate providers
Internet or electronic activity	Browsing activity, interactions, referral URLs, searches, device and log data	Your browser or device, cookies, hosting and analytics providers	Site functionality, security, diagnostics, analytics, and advertising or affiliate measurement
Approximate geolocation	General location inferred from an IP address	Your device or technical providers	Security, localization, analytics, fraud prevention, and legal or tax purposes
Audio, visual, or creative content	Images, recordings, artwork, stories, reviews, User Logs, and other Submissions	You	Review, publication, attribution, moderation, promotion, and project participation; public disclosure where submitted for publication
Inferences	General interests or preferences inferred from Site activity	Site activity and analytics	Content improvement, personalization, audience analysis, and marketing
Account or payment credentials	Account login information and payment information handled through relevant providers	You and account, ecommerce, or payment providers	Account access, payment processing, security, and fraud prevention

We collect and use these categories for the business and commercial purposes described in Sections 2 and 4. We may disclose them to the categories of recipients described in Section 4. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about an individual beyond purposes permitted by applicable law.

We do not sell personal information for money. Our use of some analytics, affiliate, advertising, or embedded-content technologies may constitute sale, sharing, or targeted advertising under certain state laws, as explained in Section 5.

11. Children’s Privacy

The Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13.

If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe a child under 13 has provided personal information through the Site, please contact us. We will take reasonable steps to investigate and delete the information where required.

12. Third-Party Websites and Services

The Site may contain links to or integrations with websites, social networks, payment services, ecommerce tools, embedded media, or other services operated by third parties. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review their notices before providing personal information or using their services.

13. International Visitors

PMBV Digital is located in the United States, and the Site is primarily intended for a U.S. audience. If you access the Site from another country, your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate. Privacy laws in those locations may differ from the laws where you live.

Nothing in this section limits rights that cannot lawfully be waived. If our activities become subject to additional international privacy requirements, we will provide any additional notices and safeguards required by applicable law.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the Site, our practices, technology, vendors, or legal requirements. The “Last updated” date indicates when the Policy was most recently revised. If required by law, we will provide additional notice of material changes.

15. Contact Us

PMBV Digital operates the Site from New Mexico, United States. To ask a privacy question, exercise a privacy right, or submit a privacy complaint, please use the contact information or contact form provided on the Site and identify the communication as a “Privacy Request.”