Privacy Policy

1. Data Collection

When you visit Stage IV, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.

Order Information: When you attempt to make a purchase, we collect certain information from you, including:

• Name and Billing/Shipping Address
• Payment Information (processed via secure gateway, not stored locally)
• Email Address
• Phone Number (Strictly required for carrier delivery coordination)

2. Consent & Compliance Logging

To comply with international digital privacy laws and contract law, we maintain a secure Audit Log of your acceptance of our Terms. When you enter the site and accept our protocols, we record:

• Your IP Address
• Browser User-Agent String
• Timestamp of Consent
• Unique Session ID (Anonymized hash)

This log is immutable and is used solely for legal verification of the binding agreement between you and Stage IV.

3. Use of Information

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

• Communicate with you;
• Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
• When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

4. Data Sharing & Third-Party Vendors

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us fulfill our contracts with you. As a modern headless commerce platform, we utilize specific vendors for operations:

• Printful: We transmit your name, shipping address, phone number, and order details to Printful, our print-on-demand fulfillment partner, solely for the purpose of manufacturing and shipping your artifacts.
• Advanced Shipment Tracking (AST): Tracking numbers and carrier data are processed to provide you with real-time updates on your order status.
• PayPal / Stripe: Financial data is processed directly by our payment gateways. Stage IV does not store full credit card numbers on our servers.
• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site.

5. Security

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

6. Cookies & Session Storage

This site uses cookies and local session storage to improve your experience and to generate anonymous usage statistics.

• Session Storage: We use browser sessionStorage to maintain your "Session ID" and "Consent Status" (`stage_iv_session_id`, `stage_iv_session_consent`) while you navigate the site.
• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to measure how you interact with our website to improve our user experience. Google Analytics may use a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google.
  Opt-out of Google Analytics here.
• Functional Cookies: Necessary for the shopping cart and checkout processes to function correctly.