Visiting the site
This site sets no cookies of its own. Its fonts and pictures come from this site itself, not from other companies.
Every visit reaches the site through the shop's own server at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which passes the encrypted connection through without opening it: it sees your internet address, not the pages you read.
Like any website, the site's server records each visit in its logs: your internet address, the page, the time and what your browser says it is. The logs are used to keep the site running; they are overwritten as they fill up, and older backup copies are replaced as they age out.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people look at. It sets cookies (named _ga and _ga_…) to tell one visit from another, and Google receives information about your visit, such as the pages you view, the page that sent you here, your browser and device, and your approximate location.
Order pages and RSVP confirmation pages have no analytics, and neither does the “Rent a booth” form.
How Google uses this: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. To turn Google Analytics off in your browser for every site: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
RSVPs for free events
When you RSVP for a free event, we keep the first name you give, for the list at the door, and how many spots you saved. We don't ask for an email or a phone number. The name is erased from the shop's system the day after the event, and older backup copies are replaced as they age out; the number of spots stays in our records.
Calling or messaging us
When you call us at (940) 228-6708 or message us on Instagram or message us on Facebook, it reaches the shop directly; this site records none of it. Messages on Instagram and Facebook are carried by Meta, under Meta's own terms, and a link to Instagram and Facebook from this site takes you to Meta's site.
Photos of our pieces and paperwork
We photograph the pieces we sell in ofsale, the shop's own system. Before a photo leaves it, ofsale looks for faces in it and blurs each one it finds, and removes the details the camera stored with it, such as where it was taken. A photo it can't check for faces isn't sent.
To identify a piece, a photo of it or a few frames of a short video go to OpenAI, and so do its photos when we draft its online listing. OpenAI doesn't train on them and keeps them up to 30 days to check for abuse.
Paperwork we photograph or upload, such as invoices and packing slips, goes to Google Gemini to be read. Google may keep it to improve its products, and people there may look at it. A PDF of paperwork goes as it is, once ofsale has looked for faces in every picture inside it; a PDF with a face in it, or a picture it can't check, isn't sent.
When we ask Google Lens what a piece is, a smaller copy of its main photo goes to Google through ofsale's own lookup computer; when that can't answer, through SerpApi or Apify instead, which fetch the copy from a link that works for a few minutes. Google may keep it to improve its products. SerpApi and Apify handle it under their own terms.