Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 23, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how Affordable U ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit or make a purchase from www.affordableu.com (the "Site").

This Site is hosted by Squarespace, which provides us with the online platform to serve you and process transactions.

1. Information We Collect and How We Use It

A. Visitors to the Website

When you visit our website, this site collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

B. Order & Commerce Information

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Maps API and presenting suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

C. Payments & Financial Data

When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use integrated payment solutions (such as Squarespace Payments, Stripe, or PayPal).

These payment providers will receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:

D. Form Submissions & Inquiries

When you submit information to this website via webform (such as a contact form or inquiry form), we collect the data requested in the form in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

E. Customer Accounts

If you create a customer account on this website, we collect personal information to show you your order history and populate your address details at checkout. We may collect information like your:

  • Name

  • Billing and shipping address(es)

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • Order history

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

2. Communications

A. Order & Service Emails

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

  • You’ve created a customer account

  • Your customer account password has been reset or updated

  • You’ve made a purchase

  • Your order has shipped

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these transactional messages, as they are essential to service delivery. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

B. Marketing Emails

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

C. Abandoned Cart Emails

If you select an item, initiate checkout, and leave without completing your order, we may send you an automated abandon cart email. You can unsubscribe from these messages at any time using the link provided in the email.

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.

  • Functional and Required Cookies: These functional and required cookies are always used, which allows Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

  • Analytics and Performance Cookies: These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

For a full list of cookies used by Squarespace websites, you can view Squarespace’s Cookie Policy.

4. Fonts and External Services

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you are viewing on it

  • Your IP address

5. Data Sharing & Third-Party Service Providers

We do not sell your personal data. We only share personal data with third parties in the following scenarios:

  1. Service Providers: To operate our site, process transactions, host forms, manage customer accounts, and deliver emails (such as Squarespace, Stripe, PayPal).

  2. Legal Compliance: If required by law, subpoena, or government order to protect legal rights or safety.

6. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction (e.g., California, European Economic Area), you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • The right to access the personal information we hold about you.

  • The right to request correction or deletion of your personal data.

  • The right to opt out of marketing communications.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information below.

7. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us:

Affordable U

Website: www.affordableu.com

Email: info@affordableu.com

Mailing Address: 660 Quince Orchard Road #1047, Gaithersburg, MD 20878