Privacy Policy: Bear Sized
Effective Date: March 28, 2026
Website Address: https://bearsized.com
At Bear Sized, we take your privacy seriously. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you browse our site or purchase from our store.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://bearsized.com. We are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our visitors and customers.
2. Information We Collect
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. You can view their privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
- Comments: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These last for one year.
- Login: If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
- Account Persistence: When you log in, we set cookies to save your login info (2 days) and screen display choices (1 year). If you select “Remember Me”, your login persists for two weeks.
- Store Functionality: We use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.
3. Shopping and Payments
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve viewed: We’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed.
- Location, IP address, and browser type: We’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping.
- Shipping address: We’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
Payments: We accept payments through third-party gateways (e.g., PayPal, Stripe). When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to the respective payment provider, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
4. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles or product descriptions on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, especially if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
5. Data Retention & Sharing
- Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
- Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
- User Profiles: For users that register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
- Spam Detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
6. Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Need help with your data?
If you have questions regarding your data or wish to make a deletion request, please fill out our contact form.