Monkey Type

Privacy Policy

Updated: August 3, 2021

This Privacy Policy describes how monkeytype.xyz (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, protects, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or otherwise interact with the Site.

Collecting Personal Information

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you buy or try out a font or email us. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

Device information

  • Examples of Personal Information collected:
    version of web browser, IP address, time zone, what pages you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
  • Purpose of collection:
    to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
  • Source of collection:
    Collected automatically when you access our Site using tracking technologies such as log files, web beacons, tags, and pixels.
  • Disclosure for a business purpose:
    We may share your Personal Information with our processor Quickbooks in order to process your purchases.

Order information

  • Examples of Personal Information collected:
    If you purchase one of our fonts, we may collect your name, billing address, payment information (including credit card numbers and PayPal or other payment account information), email address, and phone number.
  • Purpose of collection:
    to provide products or services to you, to process your payment information, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, and screen our orders for potential risk or fraud.
  • Source of collection:
    Collected from you.
  • Disclosure for a business purpose:
    Shared with our processor Quickbooks.

Customer Support Information

  • Examples of Personal Information collected:
    name, billing address, payment information (including credit card numbers and PayPal or other payment account information), email address, and phone number.
  • Purpose of collection:
    to provide customer support.
  • Source of collection:
    Collected from you.

Minors

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address below to request deletion.

Sharing Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

  • We use Quickbooks to generate invoices for your purchases.
  • We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Using Personal Information

We use your Personal Information to provide our services to you, which may include: offering products for sale, processing payments, fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.

GDPR

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation and the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (together, the “GDPR”) if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”), we may process your personal information under the following lawful bases:

  • Your consent;
  • The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
  • Compliance with our legal obligations;
  • To protect your vital interests;
  • To perform a task carried out in the public interest;
  • For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Retention

When you complete an order form on the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.

Automatic decision-making

If you are a resident of the EEA or the UK, you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.

We DO NOT engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.

Your rights under the GDPR

If you are a resident of the EEA or the UK, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information below.

Do Not Track

Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

Changes

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.

Contact

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at margot@monkeytype.xyz or by mail using the details provided below:

Monkey Type, LLC
425 Madison Ave # 901, New York, NY 10017

If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority, or our supervisory authority here: https://ag.ny.gov/internet/online-forms.