Privacy Policy
Last updated May 13, 2026
TL;DR
- ·We collect what we need to ship you a sofa and run the business — name, address, order details, plus standard analytics.
- ·We don’t sell your data. We share it with payment, shipping, and email providers who help us deliver.
- ·EU/UK: You have GDPR rights (access, correction, deletion, portability, objection). Email privacy@pumela.com.
- ·US: You have CCPA/state-law rights, including a Do Not Sell or Share option.
- ·Honor GPC: if your browser sends Global Privacy Control, we read it as an opt-out automatically.
Information we collect
We collect information you give us directly (name, shipping address, email, phone, payment details processed via Stripe) and information collected automatically when you use the site (device type, browser, pages viewed, referring URL, approximate location from IP).
How we use it
- Fulfill orders, process payments, ship products, and handle returns.
- Send order confirmations, shipping updates, and customer-service responses.
- Send marketing emails — only with your consent. Unsubscribe at any time.
- Improve the site, prevent fraud, and meet legal obligations.
EU/UK legal bases (GDPR Art. 6): contract (orders), legitimate interest (fraud prevention, analytics), consent (marketing emails, non-essential cookies), legal obligation (tax, accounting).
Your rights — EU, UK, and EEA (GDPR)
If you're in the EU, UK, or EEA, you have the right to:
- Access a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Rectify inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Erase your data (the “right to be forgotten”) where applicable.
- Restrict or object to processing — including direct marketing.
- Port your data to another service in a machine-readable format.
- Withdraw consent at any time, where processing is based on consent.
- Lodge a complaint with your local Data Protection Authority (e.g. CNIL in France, ICO in the UK, BfDI in Germany).
To exercise these rights, email privacy@pumela.com. We respond within 30 days.
Your rights — US residents (CCPA & state laws)
If you live in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Virginia, or other US states with comprehensive privacy laws, you may have the right to:
- Know what personal information we collect and how we use it.
- Access, correct, or delete your personal information.
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information (see Do Not Sell page).
- Opt out of targeted advertising and certain profiling.
- Appeal a denied request.
- Not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
Submit requests at privacy@pumela.com or via the Do Not Sell or Share page.
International data transfers
Pumela is based in the United States. If you're in the EU, UK, or EEA, your data is transferred to and processed in the US. We rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) adopted by the European Commission (and the UK Addendum, where applicable) to ensure your data receives equivalent protection.
Children
Pumela is not directed to children under 16 (EU) or under 13 (US). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in those age groups. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us so we can delete it.
Contact
Questions about this policy? Reach the privacy team at privacy@pumela.com.
EU representative (Art. 27 GDPR): appointed representative details will be listed here once finalized. Contact via privacy@pumela.com in the meantime.
This page is a working template. Final language — especially GDPR and CCPA disclosures, EU representative, and SCC references — must be reviewed by counsel before going live to customers.