Last update: August 03, 2023
Sttark Group, Inc., a South Carolina corporation (hereinafter sometimes referred to as “Sttark”, “us”, or “we”), is a digital printer and provider of self-adhesive labels and stickers. Our pressure-sensitive labels are used in hundreds of applications worldwide, and our customers range from entrepreneurs launching their first product to Fortune 100 companies. Sttark’s goal is to produce high-quality custom labels and stickers for our customers. We offer products and services to our customers that may be accessed, ordered, and/or interacted with via Sttark’s website (the “Sttark Site” or “Site”) and/or Sttark’s mobile application(s) (the “Sttark App” or “App”) (collectively, the “Sttark Services”).
We are committed to protecting your Personal Information (described below) and subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose your Personal Information to any third party without your consent.
This Privacy policy describes what Personal Information Sttark receives or collects from you, how Sttark uses and shares your Personal Information with others, and your choices and obligations regarding your Personal Information.
Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Sttark Terms of Use.
By using or accessing the Sttark Services, you agree to be legally bound by this Privacy Policy and the Sttark Terms of Use (collectively, the “Agreements”) found at www.sttark.com/terms as amended from time to time. If you do not agree with the Agreements without limitation or qualification, you should not access or use any of the Sttark Services. Your continued use of or access to the Sttark Services following any changes made to the Agreements will mean that you also accept and agree to be bound by the changes or any then-current Agreements. Because we reserve the right to modify the Agreements at any time without notice to you, please check them regularly for changes.
This Privacy Policy applies to the Sttark Services and does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of any third party website, the Internet, or any other network via which the Sttark Services are used or accessed as such third party websites, the Internet, and the other networks may be covered by other terms of use or privacy policies that are beyond our control and which may be inconsistent with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy or the Term of Use. This Privacy Policy is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.
Sttark is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any third party websites or services with which the Sttark Site and/or App communicates or is linked. By clicking on a link, logo or any item associated with a third party site, please note that you may be exiting the Sttark Services and the protections afforded by this Privacy Policy and the Term of Use. These third party websites or entities may be governed by their own privacy policies, may send their own cookies to you, or may collect and/or distribute your Personal Information. We urge you to review carefully the privacy policy of any such third party website or entity prior to accessing or using their services, or providing any of your Personal Information to them.
Your correspondence or business dealings through such third party websites or entities, including payment for and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are made at your own risk and are solely between you and such third party websites or entities. Please note that we do not guarantee and are not responsible for the content of such third party websites or entities. You acknowledge and agree that Sttark is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with your use of or reliance on any such content, advertising, products, services or other materials available on or through any such third party websites or entities.
Sttark, through the Sttark Site and/or the Sttark App, collects Personal Information from you when you use and/or access the Sttark Services. We also collect Personal Information that you provide to us. We use the Personal Information to provide a variety of Sttark Services to you and other Users and Subscribers, and to improve the Sttark Services over time.
1. When Creating Your Account. When you register or update your Account, you will provide your contact information that we will use to set up or update your Account. Contact Information may include without limitation your email address, name, postal address, website address, and telephone number (collectively, your “Contact Information”). You will also provide Access Credentials that we will use for security purposes, such as to authenticate your identity or the identity of your user device each time you visit or log into the Sttark Site or App, including information that identifies one or more of the following: your email address, a password, a personal identification number (“PIN”), or responses to one or more security questions (collectively, your “Access Credentials”).
2. When Creating Your Profile. After your account is set up, you may provide information that Sttark will use to create or update your Profile. Your Profile may include some or all of your Contact Information as well as information that identifies a pending order that you have placed, your purchase history (e.g., previous orders that you have placed, dates of prior orders, etc.) or permissions that you specify relating to the collection of Personal Information or use of your Profile. Your Profile may also include context information that identifies one or more of the following: the type of business with which you are associated, a typical size of previous orders, any issues that arose in connection with prior orders, types of products you normally purchase, permission regarding user device location accuracy, etc. (collectively, “Context Information”).
3. When You Provide Subscriber Content. Additionally, you may provide toSttark certain Subscriber Content as such term is defined in the Sttark Terms of Use. For example, you may provide or upload Subscriber Content that includes without limitation images of artwork, label designs, information relating to font type or size, a shipping address, payment information (e.g., a credit card number, a bank account number, a bank routing number, a response to a customer satisfaction survey, a response to a message from Sttark, a posting on the Sttark Blog, a posting to the Sttark Live Chat, a question to Sttark in connection with the Sttark Services,, and/or information that you provide to or post to Sttark after your Account is registered.
4. Personal Information. Your Profile, Subscriber Content or any portions thereof are hereinafter individually or collectively be referred to as “Personal Information.” Sttark will not permit your Profile or Contact Information to be made publicly accessible. However, Sttark expressly reserves the right to de-identify your Profile and/or Contact Information and may make such de-identified Profile and/or Contact Information public.
We may also collect Personal Information when you access the Sttark Services including the following:
1. Device Information. When you use or access the Sttark Services, we may collect information associated with the device from which you are communicating such as your wireless mobile device, tablet computer, laptop computer, desktop computer, or the like. Such device information may identify the make and model of your device; the type or version of your operating system; unique device identifier(s), an Internet Protocol (IP) address, or a media access control (MAC) address or information associated with your service provider or mobile carrier.
2. Usage Information. When you use and/or access the Sttark Services, we may automatically collect or store certain Personal Information regarding your usage patterns or habits, such as:
• Details of which Sttark Services you use and how often you use them (e.g., Live Pricing Tool, Blog, Live Chat, etc.)
• Routing information including application names, access point names (APNs), or packet data networks (PDNs).
• Information associated with your messaging habits with Sttark including Blog or Live Chat postings and the time, date, and/or bandwidth associated with your communications with the Sttark Site or App.
• Information regarding websites visited, prior purchases of goods or services, promotional materials, discounts offers, uniform resource locators (URLs) relating thereto; time, date, or bandwidth of an electronic transaction, etc.
• Device, Site, or App performance information such as type or version of browser used, browser protocols, data rates, or information identifying Quality of Service exhibited during a session, dropped communications, etc.
• Location Information. When you access the Sttark Services, we may collect and process information about your device’s actual location using Global Positioning System (GPS) signals sent by your device, from a third party location service, or from terrestrial network signals that identify via which network device, cell, Wi-Fi access point, etc. your device is communicating.
• Cookies/Beacons. We may collect and store information when you access the Sttark Services that includes sending one or more cookies or anonymous identifiers to your device. We may also use cookies and anonymous identifiers when you interact with the Sttark Services or other services offered by our partners, such as advertising services. We may use web beacons (also known as web bugs, clear Graphics Interface Format pixel (or “clear GIFs”), 1 x 1 pixel, etc.) in combination with cookies or other Site functions to understand how you interact with the Sttark Services (e.g., Site webpages, advertising content, etc.), or perform web analytics or other administrative functions. Beacons do not collect Personal Information.
• Other Data and Changes to this Privacy Policy. We may also require other information for tracking or verifying compliance with our policies, abiding by federal, state and local laws and for editorial and feedback solicitation purposes. In addition, from time to time, we may use your Personal Information for new, unanticipated uses, such as notification of new services, announcements and general communications. If our information practices materially change at some time in the future, we will post such change to the Sttark Site and App before we use your Personal Information for these new purposes, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and the Sttark Terms of Use, by accessing or using the Sttark Services, you acknowledge, consent to, and hereby grant to Sttark a perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid-up, and royalty-free license to use, display, modify, make derivative works of, obfuscate, de-identify, encode, translate, copy, transmit, or sublicense your Personal Information throughout the universe for our own commercial, research, and quality improvement purposes.
Your Consent. By accessing the Sttark Services, registering or updating your Account, and/or creating or updating your Profile, you are voluntarily and unconditionally accepting the terms and conditions of the Agreement and are freely accepting and agreeing to our use of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge and agree that your use of the Sttark Services or providing your Personal Information to us, including any information deemed “sensitive” by applicable law, is entirely voluntary on your part.
Withdrawal of Consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent by requesting that your Account be terminated and discontinuing access and use of the Sttark Services.
1. Our Internal Use. We use your Personal Information for our own internal purposes including providing the Sttark Services to you, improving such Services, and monitoring Service usage and traffic.
2. Creating De-identified Personal Information. We may encode or obfuscate your Personal Information to create de-identified Personal Information that removes any information that enables Users and Subscribers from being identified. We may use the de-identified information for our own internal purposes, for data aggregation and analytics, and/or improving the Sttark Services.
3. Our Communications to You. We communicate with you through email, text messages, short message service (SMS) messages, notices of promotions, notices posted via the Sttark Site and App. We may also, from time to time, send you messages to inform you about how to best use the Sttark Services, new features or functionality, security warnings, planned Service disruptions, or Sttark’s promotional and advertising content. Furthermore, we may send to your device promotional or advertising content, new versions or updates to the Sttark Services, software patches or scripts (e.g., to improve security, performance, etc.), and new security enhancements.
4. Your Communications to Us. Communications that you initiate through the Sttark Site or App including placing orders, uploading artwork, providing payment information, posting or responding to a blog entry, posting to Live Chat, responding to a quality survey, etc. may include all or a portion of your Personal Information including without limitation your name, your email address, a network address, your telephone number, etc. Messages you initiate may also provide the recipient with aggregate information about you (such as names, email addresses, and location information).
5. No Communications with other Users or Subscribers. Sttark will not share your Personal Information with other Users or Subscribers, or with any other third party. However, Sttark reserves the right to analyze such Personal Information in order to provide its Services to you and improve its Services.
6. Third Party Communications. We do not share your Personal Information with any third parties, except as described in this Privacy Policy. Except as specified to the contrary in paragraphs 7 – 9 of this Section, we will not disclose your Personal Information without your consent or unless carrying out your instructions (e.g., to process your payment information).
7. Change in Control or Ownership. If Sttark Group, Inc. or any of its assets, including without limitation the Sttark Site, the Sttark App, or the Sttark Services are acquired by or transferred to a third party, we will attempt to notify you so that you may make an informed decision about a new use (if any) of your Personal Information.
8. Communications in case of Harm or Compliance with Applicable Law. We may disclose your Personal Information in special cases when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property or the rights or property of our Subscribers, Users, or others. We also may disclose your Personal Information when we believe in good faith that the law, legal process or a lawful investigation requires it.
9. Security. We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of your Personal Information between your device and our servers or those of a third party. We also take great care to protect your Personal Information that is stored offline. Your Personal Information is handled by Sttark authorized personnel or third parties that are authorized by us. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be secure, and we will not be held liable should a third party illegally obtain your Personal Information following Delivery (described below) or prior to Receipt (described below) of your Personal Information by Sttark. While we work hard to protect your Personal Information, we cannot ensure and do not warrant the security of any Personal Information you transmit to or from us, and you do so at your own risk.
You expressly acknowledge and agree that Sttark, its members, directors, officers, employees, and agents shall have no responsibility or liability whatsoever associated with any Personal Information prior to the Receipt of such Personal Information by the Sttark Site or App from any Subscriber or User, or following the Delivery of Personal Information by the Sttark Site or App to any Subscriber or User.
“Receipt” shall be defined as the instant at which any portion of your Personal Information, is detected or received by the Sttark Site or App from a communication path (for example, a wired and/or wireless communication path) over which your Personal Information was transmitted by a Subscriber or User that is authorized to access or use the Sttark Services.
“Delivery” shall be defined as the instant at which any portion of your Personal Information, has been transmitted by the Sttark Site or App and enters a communication path (for example, a wired and/or wireless communication path) over which the Personal Information will travel to a Subscriber or User that is authorized to access or use the Sttark Services.
You expressly acknowledge and agree that Sttark shall have no responsibility for any breach, loss, or theft of any Personal Information on any device of Subscriber or User that can access or use the Sttark Services, or during transmission of such Personal Information to or from the Sttark Site or App.
You agree to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law to forever defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Sttark Group, Inc. and its respective employees, members, directors, officers, successors, and assigns (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from any and all loss, cost, liability, and expense (including reasonable attorneys’ and experts’ fees) arising out of or in connection with any User, Subscriber, their Internet service provider, or your use, storage, duplication, copying, modification, transmission, loss, or theft of any Personal Information (i) following the Delivery from the Sttark Site or App of such Personal Information to User, Subscriber, or third party including any Internet service provider, or (ii) prior to the Receipt by the Sttark Site or App of such Personal Information.
The Indemnified Parties reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you. In that event, you shall have no further obligation to provide defense to the Indemnified Parties in that matter, but shall remain responsible to reimburse Sttark and each of the Indemnified Parties for its defense expenses. This section shall survive the termination or cancellation of this Privacy Policy or any termination or suspension of your use of or access to all or any aspect of the Sttark Services.
Rights to Access, Change, or Delete Your Personal Information.
You may review or modify your Personal Information including your Profile, Contact Information, Access Credentials, or Context Information. To ensure that we can continue to provide the Sttark Services, perform necessary security functions (for example, authenticating your identity) and maintain your Account, you are not permitted to delete certain Personal Information including your Contact Information, Access Credentials, device information and usage information.
You may terminate your Account at any time. When you request to terminate your Account, your Profile including your usage history will be deleted from the Sttark Site, App and from Sttark’s servers and equipment. Because of the way we maintain the Sttark Site and App, such deletion may not be immediate, and residual copies of your Profile (including your usage history) may remain on backup media for up to ninety (90) days. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Sttark reserves the right to retain some or all of your Personal Information if, in our sole discretion, we determine that it is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, meet our legal obligations, comply with regulatory requirements, resolve disputes between Subscribers and/or Users, prevent fraud and abuse, or enforce this Privacy Policy and the Sttark Terms of Use. Furthermore, Sttark reserves the right to retain a copy of a de-identified version of your Profile for its own business purposes.
You have certain obligations to other Subscribers and Users under this Privacy Policy and in accordance with applicable law and regulations. Accordingly, you shall, at all times, abide by the terms and conditions of the this Privacy Policy and the Sttark Terms of Use as they may be amended from time to time, as well as other policies of Sttark including respecting all intellectual property rights that may belong to third parties, such as trademarks or copyrights. You agree not to upload or otherwise disseminate any information that may violate the rights of others including infringing any intellectual property of others, or which may be deemed to be injurious, defamatory, slanderous, libelous, untruthful, violent, offensive, racist, or xenophobic, or which may otherwise violate the purpose and spirit of the Sttark Services and its community of Users and Subscribers. You further agree to keep your Access Credentials strictly confidential and to not share them with others.
Any violation of your obligations, this Privacy Policy, or those set forth in the Sttark Terms of Use or elsewhere may lead to the restriction, suspension, or termination of your Account at the sole discretion of Sttark.
Sttark, the Sttark Site and App, and the Sttark Services are not a website or service directed toward children under thirteen (13) years of age (the “Minimum Age”) within the meaning of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). If you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, please contact us at support@sttark.com. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children below the Minimum Age. If we become aware that a child under the Minimum Age has provided us with Personal Information, we will take steps to promptly remove such Personal Information and terminate the account associated with the child. You can find additional resources for parents here.
