Privacy and Cookie Policy
Noir & Nonsense
Last updated: October 25, 2026
Noir & Nonsense respects your privacy. This policy explains what information we collect, why we collect it, how our website and service providers use it, and the choices available to you.
This policy applies to https://noirandnonsense.com, operated by Don Blinebry in the United States.
For privacy questions or requests, contact contact@noirandnonsense.com.
1. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with our website, we may collect:
Information you provide: Your name, email address, messages sent to us, newsletter signup details, and information provided when placing an order.
Purchase information: Products purchased, billing and shipping information as applicable, payment status, transaction records, and information necessary to deliver physical or digital products.
Website usage information: Pages viewed, referring websites, general geographic location, browser and device characteristics, and interactions with website features.
Technical information: IP addresses, cookie identifiers, browser information, and other technical data processed by our hosting provider and connected services for website functionality, security, and analytics.
You may browse much of our website without directly providing your name or email address.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use information for purposes including:
Operating, maintaining, and protecting our website.
Processing purchases and delivering physical and digital products.
Responding to questions and customer-service requests.
Sending requested email updates about our stories, videos, interactive experiences, and other content.
Analyzing website traffic and improving the visitor experience.
Maintaining business and transaction records.
Preventing misuse and meeting applicable legal obligations.
Where applicable, our reasons for processing personal information include performing a transaction or service you requested, fulfilling legal obligations, pursuing legitimate interests such as website security and improvement, and obtaining your consent for activities that require it.
3. Website Hosting — Squarespace
Noir & Nonsense is built and hosted on Squarespace.
Squarespace provides our website infrastructure, store functionality, checkout, security features, built-in analytics, and cookie-preference controls.
In delivering these services, Squarespace may process information about visitors, including IP addresses, browser and device information, website interactions, and transaction-related data.
For more information:
4. Email Subscriptions — Squarespace Email Campaigns
Visitors may voluntarily subscribe to receive email updates from Noir & Nonsense.
We use Squarespace Email Campaigns to maintain our subscriber list and send these communications.
We may process your email address, subscription status, and information about email delivery and engagement. Squarespace Email Campaigns provides reporting that may include message delivery, opens, clicks, and unsubscribes.
We use this information to manage our communications and better understand which updates interest subscribers.
You can unsubscribe at any time by using the Unsubscribe link included in our marketing emails.
Unsubscribing from marketing emails does not prevent us from sending necessary transactional messages, such as purchase confirmations or replies to requests you initiate.
We do not currently offer text-message marketing.
We do not sell our subscriber mailing list.
5. Purchases, Checkout, and Payments
Visitors may purchase physical products, such as merchandise, and digital products or downloads through our Squarespace store.
When you place an order, Squarespace and Stripe, our payment processor, may process information including your name, email address, billing information, shipping address where needed, purchase details, and payment information.
We use this information to process orders, fulfill purchases, deliver digital products, provide customer support, and maintain necessary records.
Payment information is handled through Squarespace's checkout and Stripe's payment-processing services. We do not independently maintain a database of customers' complete payment-card numbers.
Necessary communications about your order may be sent even if you have not subscribed to marketing emails.
For more information about how Stripe handles personal information, please review its Privacy Policy.
6. Website Analytics — Google Analytics 4
We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) through Squarespace's official Google Analytics integration.
Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors find and use Noir & Nonsense. Information processed may include website interactions, pages viewed, referral sources, device characteristics, approximate geographic information, and analytics identifiers.
We use these reports to evaluate website performance and improve our content and visitor experience.
Our Squarespace cookie-consent settings are configured to restrict nonessential analytics cookies until a visitor grants consent.
We do not intentionally send names, email addresses, or payment-card information to Google Analytics as analytics event data.
For additional information:
How Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services
7. Embedded Videos — Vimeo
Some Noir & Nonsense pages display videos hosted by Vimeo through embedded video players.
When a video page is loaded or a video is played, Vimeo may process information such as IP address, browser and device details, video interactions, and player preferences.
Depending on the circumstances and player configuration, Vimeo may use cookies or similar technologies for video functionality, security, preferences, and analytics.
Our website's consent controls may not govern every technology used independently by Vimeo. Visitors may also use browser privacy settings to restrict third-party cookies and tracking.
For additional information:
8. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your device. We use them, together with similar technologies, to support website functionality, remember preferences, and understand site usage.
The main categories associated with our website are:
Necessary cookies
These support essential functions such as website security, shopping carts, checkout, and cookie preferences. Necessary cookies may operate without optional analytics consent.
Analytics and performance cookies
These help Squarespace and Google Analytics measure website visits, traffic sources, and interactions. Our Squarespace consent controls restrict supported nonessential cookies until consent is provided.
Third-party video technologies
Embedded Vimeo videos may use their own cookies and technical identifiers for player operation, security, preferences, and analytics.
Cookie durations vary depending on the service, cookie purpose, browser settings, and visitor preferences. For further information about cookie purposes and retention, please refer to the Squarespace and Vimeo cookie documentation linked in Sections 3 and 7 and Google's privacy information linked in Section 6.
Your cookie choices
When you first visit our website, our cookie banner offers:
Accept All — Consent to optional cookie categories.
Decline All — Decline nonessential cookies controlled by our website's consent system.
Manage Cookies — Select your preferred optional cookie categories.
Essential cookies may remain active.
You may change your selection using the Cookie Preferences link in the website's footer.
You may also manage or delete cookies through your browser's privacy settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect some website features or embedded services.
9. Information Sharing
We disclose information to service providers when needed to operate Noir & Nonsense, deliver requested services, fulfill purchases, and maintain our website.
Our current service providers include Squarespace, Google Analytics, and Vimeo, as described in this policy. Payment processing is handled through Stripe.
We may also disclose information when legally required or reasonably necessary to protect our rights, visitors, website, or transactions.
We do not sell our email subscriber lists.
Third-party services may process certain website usage information or online identifiers according to their own privacy practices. Information about these services is provided above.
10. International Visitors and Data Transfers
Noir & Nonsense operates from the United States and may be accessible to visitors in other countries, including the United Kingdom and European countries.
Our website and service providers may process information in the United States or other countries.
Where applicable, international processing and transfers of personal information are subject to relevant data-protection requirements and any safeguards provided by the services we use.
11. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including managing subscriptions, fulfilling orders, responding to requests, maintaining records, protecting the website, and meeting legal obligations.
Different types of information may have different retention periods.
Visitors may contact us to request information about retention or deletion of personal information under our control.
12. Security
We take reasonable measures to safeguard information under our control and use established service providers for website hosting, checkout, and related operations.
No method of internet transmission or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
13. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and which laws apply, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.
We will consider requests concerning access, correction, deletion, or other applicable privacy rights in accordance with relevant laws.
Some requests may be subject to legal exceptions, including obligations to retain transaction or business records.
To make a request, email contact@noirandnonsense.com.
You may also change your cookie preferences independently through the link in our footer.
14. Children's Privacy
Noir & Nonsense is a general-audience fiction and entertainment website intended primarily for adults. It is not directed to children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take appropriate steps to delete it or otherwise address the situation in accordance with applicable law.
If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information through our website, please contact us at contact@noirandnonsense.com.
15. External Links
Our website may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.
Those services maintain their own privacy practices. We encourage visitors to review their policies before providing personal information.
16. Changes to This Policy
We may revise this policy when our services, website features, providers, or legal requirements change.
The date at the top of this page indicates the most recent update.
17. Contact Information
For privacy questions, requests, or concerns:
Noir & Nonsense
Operated by Don Blinebry
Email: contact@noirandnonsense.com
Website: https://noirandnonsense.com
We will review privacy-related inquiries and respond as required by applicable law.