Privacy policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: August 25, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how EverThread Studio LLC, operating the Lamplighter Kids and Lamplighter Kids Stories brands, collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects personal information.

In this Privacy Policy:

- “Lamplighter Kids,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to EverThread Studio LLC.
- “Site” refers to lamplighterkids.com and its Shopify storefront.
- “Services” refers to the Site, purchases, digital delivery, newsletters, forms, support, and other services that we directly operate.
- “Personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, can reasonably be linked with, or could reasonably be linked with an individual or household.

1. SCOPE

This Privacy Policy applies when you:

- Visit the Site
- Browse products or pages
- Place an order
- Download a digital product
- Create or use a customer account
- Join the email list
- Request Momo’s welcome gift
- Contact customer support
- Submit a family message through an adult-managed form
- Interact with another Lamplighter Kids feature that links to this Privacy Policy

Third-party platforms have their own privacy policies.

For example, Patreon, Kickstarter, BackerKit, YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Yoto, Storybutton, Storynest, social-media services, payment processors, and podcast applications may independently collect and process information when you use their services.

This Privacy Policy does not replace the privacy policy of a third-party platform.

2. WHO OPERATES THE SITE

The Site and store are operated by:

EverThread Studio LLC
California Entity No. B20260014402
Operating Lamplighter Kids and Lamplighter Kids Stories
Email: lamplighterkids@gmail.com
Mailing address: PO Box 2264 Orange, CA 92859

3. ADULT-MANAGED USE AND CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

Lamplighter Kids creates stories and family resources that children may enjoy with a parent or caregiver.

However, purchasing, customer accounts, subscriptions, membership management, marketing signups, contact forms, and customer-support features are intended to be managed by adults.

Children should not:

- Make purchases
- Create customer or membership accounts
- Subscribe to marketing emails
- Submit contact forms independently
- Send payment information
- Provide account credentials
- Provide sensitive personal information

Please do not submit a child’s:

- Full legal name
- Home or mailing address
- School name
- Birthday
- Telephone number
- Personal email address
- Photograph or video
- Precise location
- Account password
- Medical information
- Other sensitive or identifying information

A grown-up may send a general family message, but should share only the minimum information necessary.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from a child under 13 through our purchasing, marketing, account, or contact features without verifiable parental consent.

Technical information, such as device, browser, IP address, and cookie information, may be collected automatically when any visitor accesses the Site. We use Shopify’s privacy and consent tools and seek to limit nonessential collection where required.

Our policy is not to use personal information known to belong to a child under 13 for behavioral advertising, profiling, or marketing.

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16 for cross-context behavioral advertising.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate adult involvement or consent, contact lamplighterkids@gmail.com. Please identify the information and the place where it was submitted. We will review the request and delete or otherwise address the information as required.

4. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

Depending on how you use the Services, we may collect the following categories of information.

A. Contact and identifying information

This may include:

- Adult name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Billing address
- Shipping address
- Account username or identifier

B. Order and transaction information

This may include:

- Products ordered
- Order number
- Purchase date
- Payment status
- Refund status
- Shipping status
- Discount or promotional code
- Gift or campaign eligibility
- Customer-service history

Payment-card information is generally processed by Shopify and its payment providers. We do not ordinarily receive or store complete payment-card numbers.

C. Customer-account information

This may include:

- Login identifier
- Account preferences
- Order history
- Saved addresses
- Authentication and security information

D. Email and marketing information

This may include:

- Email address
- Date and source of consent
- Signup page or campaign source
- Email preferences
- Messages opened
- Links clicked
- Unsubscribe status
- Interests or audience tags
- Gift-claim status

E. Communications and support information

This may include:

- Emails
- Contact-form submissions
- Customer-support requests
- Order questions
- Membership-access questions
- Reviews
- Feedback
- Adult-submitted family messages

F. Membership and campaign information

When relevant, we may receive limited information from Patreon, Kickstarter, BackerKit, or another platform, such as:

- Adult account name
- Email address
- Membership or pledge level
- Reward eligibility
- Gift-access status
- Claim status
- Access period
- Support history

The platform’s own privacy policy also applies.

G. Device and usage information

This may include:

- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Time zone
- Approximate location derived from an IP address
- Pages viewed
- Referring page
- Search terms
- Cart activity
- Checkout activity
- Session information
- Cookie identifiers
- Interaction with embedded media
- Date and time of access

H. Information from service providers

We may receive information from companies that help us operate the Services, prevent fraud, fulfill orders, deliver email, host content, analyze use, or provide customer support.

5. HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

We may collect personal information:

- Directly from you
- Automatically when you use the Site
- From Shopify and payment providers
- From Mailchimp when you join or interact with the email list
- From Patreon when you join or use Kids Club
- From Kickstarter or BackerKit in connection with a campaign or reward
- From printing, fulfillment, and shipping partners
- From analytics, security, fraud-prevention, and embedded-media services
- From an adult who purchases or sends a gift for another person
- From publicly available sources, where lawful and appropriate

6. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use personal information to:

- Operate and maintain the Site
- Display products and content
- Process payments and orders
- Deliver digital products
- Print, fulfill, and ship physical products
- Confirm transactions
- Provide customer support
- Resolve missing, damaged, or inaccessible orders
- Create and maintain adult-managed accounts
- Provide Kids Club or campaign access
- Verify reward or gift eligibility
- Deliver Momo’s welcome gift
- Send emails after adult consent
- Provide new-story, product, mission, and membership updates
- Personalize the adult customer experience
- Understand Site and email performance
- Measure traffic, referrals, and conversion
- Improve products, stories, pages, and support
- Detect fraud, security threats, abuse, and technical errors
- Enforce our policies and agreements
- Protect our rights, customers, and business
- Meet legal, accounting, tax, regulatory, and recordkeeping obligations
- Complete a business transaction such as a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, or sale, subject to applicable law

7. LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING

Where applicable law requires a legal basis, we process personal information based on one or more of the following:

- Your consent
- Performance of a contract with you
- Steps requested before entering a contract
- Compliance with a legal obligation
- Protection of our rights or the rights of others
- Our legitimate interests in operating, securing, improving, and measuring the Services, provided those interests are not overridden by applicable individual rights

You may withdraw consent for future consent-based processing, including marketing emails, at any time.

8. WHEN WE DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose personal information to service providers and partners that help us operate the Services.

These may include:

A. Shopify and payment providers

Shopify powers the online store, checkout, order system, customer accounts, store analytics, and related commerce functions.

Payment providers process payment and fraud-prevention information.

B. Mailchimp

Mailchimp is used for adult email consent, newsletter signup, gift delivery, audience management, email automation, segmentation, and campaign measurement.

C. Printing, fulfillment, and shipping providers

We share the information necessary to produce and deliver a physical order.

Jerome’s Journey is currently printed and distributed through Ingram Lightning Source.

These providers may receive an adult customer’s name, shipping address, order details, contact information, and other information reasonably necessary for fulfillment.

D. Patreon

Patreon is used for Lamplighter Kids Club membership billing, member access, private posts, audio, video, notifications, and creator gifts.

When you use Patreon, Patreon’s privacy policy and terms also apply.

E. Kickstarter and BackerKit

When a campaign, reward, or pledge is involved, we may use Kickstarter, BackerKit, or a similar platform for pledge administration, surveys, reward eligibility, payment, addresses, updates, and fulfillment.

F. Hosting, technical, security, and support providers

These providers help with:

- Website hosting
- File storage
- Email delivery
- Account authentication
- Security
- Fraud prevention
- Customer support
- Backup and recovery
- Technical troubleshooting

G. Analytics and embedded-media providers

Shopify analytics and other enabled analytics services may collect device and usage information.

Pages may include or link to content from YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Patreon, or other media platforms. Those providers may receive technical information when their content loads or when you interact with it.

H. Professional advisers

We may disclose information to attorneys, accountants, insurers, consultants, auditors, and other professional advisers when reasonably necessary.

I. Legal and safety disclosures

We may disclose personal information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

- Comply with law
- Respond to a valid subpoena, court order, or government request
- Investigate fraud
- Enforce an agreement
- Protect a person’s safety
- Protect the rights, property, or security of EverThread Studio LLC, our users, or others

J. Business transfers

Personal information may be reviewed or transferred in connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar transaction, subject to applicable law.

9. SALE, SHARING, AND TARGETED ADVERTISING

We do not sell personal information to third parties for money.

Depending on the cookies, apps, analytics services, network features, or advertising tools enabled on the Site, limited disclosure of cookie, device, or browsing information may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or use for targeted advertising under certain privacy laws, even when no money is exchanged.

Where required, visitors may use:

- The Site’s cookie-preference controls
- A “Your Privacy Choices” or comparable opt-out link
- A legally recognized browser-based opt-out signal
- The contact information in this policy

We honor Global Privacy Control or another legally required opt-out preference signal where applicable and technically supported.

We do not knowingly sell or share personal information belonging to children under 16.

10. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

The Site may use cookies, pixels, local storage, tags, software development tools, and similar technologies.

These technologies may be used for:

- Essential storefront operation
- Cart and checkout functions
- Customer login
- Security
- Fraud prevention
- Site preferences
- Analytics
- Referral measurement
- Email and campaign attribution
- Embedded media
- Advertising or marketing, where enabled and permitted

Some cookies are necessary for the Site to function. Other cookies may be optional depending on location and consent settings.

You can manage cookies through:

- The Site’s cookie banner or preference center
- Your browser settings
- Device settings
- Applicable privacy-choice tools

Blocking cookies may prevent parts of the Site, cart, checkout, account, or embedded content from functioning properly.

11. DO NOT TRACK AND GLOBAL PRIVACY CONTROL

Because there is no universally accepted standard for ordinary “Do Not Track” browser signals, the Site may not respond to every Do Not Track signal.

Where legally required, we will treat a recognized Global Privacy Control signal or comparable universal opt-out mechanism as a request to opt out of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising for the browser or device sending the signal.

12. EMAIL MARKETING

We send marketing and story-update emails only to adults who have provided consent or when another lawful basis permits the communication.

Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe option.

You may also unsubscribe by contacting lamplighterkids@gmail.com.

Unsubscribing from marketing does not prevent us from sending non-marketing communications concerning:

- An order
- A digital delivery
- A refund
- A security issue
- A support request
- A membership or access issue
- A legal or policy notice

13. PROMOTIONAL GIFTS

We may offer an adult a digital gift, Momo audio message, promotional Kids Club access, or another benefit for voluntarily joining the Lamplighter email list.

The offer terms will be presented at the point of collection.

No child personal information is required to claim the offer.

Participation is optional. An adult may unsubscribe from future marketing at any time without being required to return a gift already delivered.

14. RETENTION

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including:

- Completing transactions
- Providing downloads and support
- Maintaining account and membership records
- Preserving consent and unsubscribe records
- Preventing fraud
- Resolving disputes
- Meeting tax, accounting, legal, and contractual obligations
- Enforcing agreements

Retention periods vary according to the type of information and applicable requirements.

We may retain limited information after a deletion request when necessary to:

- Complete an existing transaction
- Maintain an unsubscribe record
- Prevent fraud
- Establish or defend legal claims
- Comply with law
- Protect security

15. SECURITY

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect personal information.

No method of storage or transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

Customers are responsible for keeping account credentials secure and for contacting us promptly if unauthorized account use is suspected.

16. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

Our company is based in the United States.

Shopify, Mailchimp, Patreon, and other providers may process or store personal information in the United States, Canada, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or other jurisdictions.

Where required, service providers may use contractual or other recognized safeguards for international transfers.

17. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

Depending on where you live and which law applies, you may have the right to:

- Request access to personal information
- Request categories or specific pieces of information collected
- Request correction
- Request deletion
- Request a portable copy
- Opt out of sale or sharing
- Opt out of targeted advertising
- Restrict or object to certain processing
- Withdraw consent
- Appeal a denied request
- Receive equal service without unlawful discrimination for exercising a privacy right

To submit a request, email lamplighterkids@gmail.com with the subject line “Privacy Request.”

Please include:

- Your name
- The email address connected to your interaction with us
- The nature of the request
- Any order or account number necessary to locate the record

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

An authorized agent may submit a request where permitted by law, but we may require proof of authorization and identity verification.

We will not discriminate against a person for lawfully exercising a privacy right.

18. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY INFORMATION

California residents may have rights under California privacy law, including rights to know, access, correct, delete, and receive information about certain disclosures, as well as rights to opt out of sale or sharing when applicable.

Whether a particular California law applies to EverThread Studio LLC may depend on statutory thresholds and current business activity.

Regardless of whether a specific statutory threshold applies, we will review reasonable privacy requests submitted using the contact method above.

California residents may also use any privacy-choice controls displayed on the Site.

19. THIRD-PARTY LINKS

The Site contains links to services operated by third parties.

We are not responsible for a third party’s privacy, security, or content practices. Review that service’s privacy policy before providing information.

20. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in:

- Our practices
- Products
- Platforms
- Vendors
- Technology
- Legal obligations

The updated policy will be posted on the Site with a revised “Last updated” date.

Where required, we will provide additional notice or seek consent.

21. CONTACT

For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact:

EverThread Studio LLC
Operating Lamplighter Kids and Lamplighter Kids Stories
Email: lamplighterkids@gmail.com
Mailing address: PO Box 2264 Orange, CA 92859

Please use the subject line “Privacy Request” or “Child Information Request,” as appropriate.