This Statement of Privacy applies to Dad’s Ashes, LLC and its website, dads-ashes.com, data collection and usage. Protecting your private information is our priority.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Dad's Ashes include Dad's Ashes, LLC and dads-ashes.com. The Dad's Ashes website is an information and e-commerce site.

By using this website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

This policy is effective as of March 22, 2020.

Privacy and Cookie Policy

This Statement of Privacy applies to Dad’s Ashes, LLC and its website, dads-ashes.com, data collection and usage. Protecting your private information is our priority. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Dad's Ashes include Dad's Ashes, LLC and dads-ashes.com. The Dad's Ashes website is an information and e-commerce site. By using this website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. This policy is effective as of March 22, 2020.

Dad's Ashes collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

Dad's Ashes may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Dad's Ashes and its affiliates.

Dad's Ashes may collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age, gender, race, or religion.

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Dad's Ashes. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Dad's Ashes website.

Dad's Ashes may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Dad's Ashes, in order to determine what Dad's Ashes services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Dad's Ashes to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The Dad's Ashes website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Dad's Ashes pages, or register with a Dad's Ashes site or services, a cookie helps Dad's Ashes to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Dad's Ashes website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Dad's Ashes features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Dad's Ashes services or websites you visit.

Tracking site visitors using StatCounter

Statcounter is an online service which helps us to understand our visitors; for example, how visitors find our website, how long they spend on our site, which web pages they are most interested in etc. We use Statcounter because better understanding how visitors are interacting with our website helps us to improve the content, design and functionality of our site. This allows us to offer a better online experience to our visitors.

Statcounter uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on visitors and visitor activity on our website. This data includes:

* Time and date of visit (this can help us to identify and plan for busy periods on our website)
* IP address (this is a numerical label assigned to a device by an Internet Service Provider to enable the device to access the internet)
* Browser and Operating System (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the browsers/operating systems used to access our site)
* Device Information e.g. device type and screen size (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the devices used to access our site)
* Referring Data e.g. a search engine link (this can help us to understand which search engines are helping visitors to find our website)

Furthermore, when you visit our website a Statcounter cookie (called "is_unique") may be placed in your browser. This cookie is used only to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor and to estimate unique visits to the site.

You can learn more about cookies from Statcounter and set your browser to refuse same here:
http://statcounter.com/about/set-refusal-cookie/

For further details, please see the Statcounter privacy policy the:
https://statcounter.com/about/legal/#privacy

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on This Site

Dads-Ashes.com does not use artificial intelligence (AI) to generate the written content published on our website. Our content reflects our own knowledge, experience, and commitment to providing a respectful and meaningful service to families.

We have occasionally used AI tools, including ChatGPT, to refine existing images. These tools have been used for image enhancement only, not to create the original images.

We believe in honesty and transparency in how we present our services and communicate with the families we serve.

Refunds

Refunds are subject to limits of the requested services, timing, permit requirements, and conditions, some of which we can control and others that we cannot.

We are unable to fully refund payment for services if you change your mind after we have paid for permits, research, travel, or other nonrecoverable activity, except for circumstances due to our error.

If conditions beyond our control prevent us from fulfilling a scheduled scattering, such as (but not limited to) weather or local activity, we will inform you and offer alternate schedule(s) or location(s). If alternative options are not agreed upon, we will return materials received and refund payments for such requests, less any costs for research, permits, travel, or other unrecoverable expense. Alternate dates or locations may incur additional charges.

We are unable to fulfill requests that are unlawful or which require us to violate property owner rights or policies. If we determine that your request is not one that we can fulfill, we will inform you and offer alternate schedule(s) or location(s). If alternative options are not agreed upon, we will return materials received and refund payments for such requests, less any costs for research, permits, travel, or other unrecoverable expense.

We are unable to return cremains that have been scattered. Most scattering is an irretrievable venture, and it is highly unusual and unlikely that cremated ashes can be recovered after scattering.

We do not retain, store, or hold back any cremains placed in our care for scattering. We recommend that you retain a portion of the cremains if there is any possibility of a loved one wishing to have an ash pendant or other memorial item that requires a portion of the cremated remains. Once our scattering service is complete, we no longer have any portion of the cremains in our care.