Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 20, 2026

Hedgehog’s Corner respects the privacy of our customers and website visitors. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect through HedgehogsCorner.com (the “Site”), why we collect it, how we use and share it, and the choices that may be available to you.

Hedgehog’s Corner is a Florida-based independent retailer and personal shopping service. In this Privacy Policy, “Hedgehog’s Corner,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Hedgehog’s Corner.

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the Site and in connection with orders and customer-service interactions with Hedgehog’s Corner. Third-party services that you choose to use, such as PayPal, Stripe, social-media platforms, shipping carriers, and other service providers, may also process information under their own privacy policies.

1. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with our Site and services.

Information You Provide to Us

When you place or attempt to place an order, contact us, request customer service, join a product waitlist, create an optional customer account, submit information relating to a return or other order issue, or otherwise communicate with us, we may collect information such as:

• Your name.
• Email address.
• Telephone number.
• Billing address.
• Shipping address.
• Products ordered or requested.
• Order notes and other instructions you provide.
• Order, refund, return, shipment, and transaction information.
• Communications between you and Hedgehog’s Corner.
• Photographs, videos, documents, or other information you voluntarily provide in connection with customer service, delivery issues, returns, or other requests.
• Account information if you choose to create a customer account.
• Your email address if you voluntarily request a back-in-stock or waitlist notification.

Customers may check out as guests without creating a customer account.

Payment Information

Payments are processed through third-party payment providers such as PayPal and Stripe.

Depending on the payment method selected, the payment provider may collect payment-card information, bank or payment account information, billing information, transaction details, device information, and other information necessary to process and secure the transaction.

Hedgehog’s Corner receives information necessary to manage the order, such as payment status, transaction identifiers, payment method information, and other transaction details made available by the payment provider.

Hedgehog’s Corner does not intentionally store complete payment-card numbers on our own website systems.

Payment providers process payment information according to their own privacy and security practices.

2. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, security tools, cookies, and other technologies.

Depending on your device, browser, consent choices, and the services currently enabled on the Site, this information may include:

• IP address.
• Browser type and version.
• Device or platform information.
• General geographic information derived from technical data.
• Referring website or source.
• Pages or products viewed.
• Date and time of visits.
• Website interaction information.
• Cookie and similar technology identifiers.
• Website performance and page-load information.
• Information used to identify security threats, fraud, errors, or technical problems.

We use this information primarily to operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the Site.

3. Cookies and Consent Management

The Site uses cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as basic website operation, shopping-cart functionality, customer preferences, security, performance monitoring, integrations, and, when enabled, analytics or advertising.

We use CookieYes as a consent-management platform to display our cookie notice and manage cookie preferences. CookieYes may maintain information relating to consent choices, such as a consent identifier, consent status, date and time, and other information used to document the visitor’s cookie preferences.

Where consent is required, non-essential cookies or tracking technologies should be used in accordance with the consent choices made through our cookie-management system.

You may be able to review or change cookie preferences through the cookie controls available on the Site. You can also manage cookies through your browser settings, although disabling necessary cookies may interfere with shopping-cart, checkout, login, or other Site functions.

Our use of cookies and third-party technologies may change as our Site and services change. We periodically review our website integrations and cookie-management settings.

4. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

• Process, fulfill, and manage orders.
• Process payments and refunds.
• Provide invoices, receipts, and order confirmations.
• Obtain shipping rates and create shipping labels.
• Provide tracking and delivery information.
• Communicate with you about an order.
• Respond to questions and customer-service requests.
• Manage returns, refunds, exchanges, delivery inquiries, carrier claims, and other order issues.
• Provide requested back-in-stock or waitlist notifications.
• Prevent, identify, and investigate fraud, unauthorized transactions, security incidents, and other misuse.
• Document and respond to payment disputes or chargebacks.
• Comply with tax, customs, accounting, recordkeeping, consumer-protection, and other legal obligations.
• Maintain and improve our Site and checkout process.
• Diagnose website errors and performance problems.
• Maintain website and account security.
• Manage cookie consent and privacy choices.
• Administer customer reviews when a customer has chosen to participate.
• Protect our legal rights and the rights of customers and others.
• Operate and administer our business.

We do not automatically enroll customers in a marketing email list or newsletter merely because they make a purchase.

We primarily use customer email addresses for transactions, requested notifications, customer service, and other communications related to a customer’s interaction with Hedgehog’s Corner.

5. Customer Reviews

Hedgehog’s Corner voluntarily participates in an independently verified customer-review program provided by CusRev.

Customers are given an optional choice during checkout to consent to receiving a post-purchase review invitation. The review-reminder option is separate from the required acceptance of our Terms and Conditions.

If you choose to receive a review invitation, limited order and contact information may be processed by CusRev for purposes such as sending the invitation, confirming that the review relates to an actual purchase, and collecting and publishing the review.

Verified reviews submitted through the independently verified system may be published on both HedgehogsCorner.com and CusRev.com.

Customers who submit a review may receive a discount coupon. The coupon is provided for participating in the review process and is not conditioned on the review being positive. A negative review is eligible for the same incentive as a positive review.

CusRev operates under its own privacy practices and policies.

6. Website Performance Monitoring

We use website-performance monitoring services, including Pingdom Real User Monitoring, to help us identify slow pages, errors, outages, and other technical problems affecting visitors.

Performance monitoring may process technical and usage information such as page-load performance, pages visited, browser, device or platform type, and general geographic information.

We use this information to maintain and improve the performance, reliability, and usability of the Site.

7. Pinterest and Social-Media Integrations

The Site may include Pinterest functionality that allows visitors to save or share products and content on Pinterest.

We may also use Pinterest integrations for product-catalog synchronization, product discovery, advertising, or conversion measurement. The specific Pinterest features enabled on the Site may change over time.

If Pinterest conversion tracking or similar advertising features are enabled, Pinterest may receive information concerning visits, interactions, purchases, or other conversion activity. Certain features may use pseudonymized or hashed identifiers to help associate activity with Pinterest users.

Use of Pinterest technologies is subject to your applicable cookie-consent choices and Pinterest’s own privacy practices.

The Site also contains links to social-media services such as Facebook, Instagram, X, and Pinterest. If you follow those links or communicate with Hedgehog’s Corner through a social-media platform, that platform independently processes information according to its own privacy practices.

Hedgehog’s Corner does not currently use a Meta/Facebook advertising pixel on the Site.

8. Advertising

From time to time, Hedgehog’s Corner may display third-party advertising on portions of the Site, including blog or informational pages.

We may use advertising services such as Google AdSense. When advertising services are enabled, third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers to provide, measure, secure, or personalize advertising.

Google and its advertising partners may use advertising cookies to serve advertisements based on a visitor’s prior visits to this Site or other websites.

Where required, advertising technologies will be subject to applicable consent choices through our cookie-management system.

Visitors may manage personalized advertising through Google’s advertising privacy controls and other privacy-choice tools offered by applicable advertising providers.

The presence of an advertisement on the Site does not mean that Hedgehog’s Corner endorses the advertiser or advertised product or service.

9. How We Share Personal Information

We do not disclose personal information indiscriminately. We share information when reasonably necessary to operate our store, fulfill a customer request, protect our business, or meet legal obligations.

Website and Hosting Providers

Our Site operates using WordPress, WooCommerce, SiteGround, and related website services and extensions. Information may be stored or processed through our website and hosting infrastructure as necessary to operate the store.

Payment Providers

Information necessary to process and support payments may be provided to payment processors such as PayPal and Stripe.

Payment providers independently collect and process certain financial and transaction information under their own privacy policies.

Shipping and Logistics Providers

We provide information such as recipient name, shipping address, telephone number when necessary, email address when used for delivery notifications, shipment contents or customs descriptions, and other shipment details to shipping carriers, postal services, customs processors, shipping-platform providers, and related logistics services when needed to deliver an order.

These providers may include USPS, UPS, international postal or delivery carriers, and shipping technology providers used by Hedgehog’s Corner.

Customer Review Provider

When a customer voluntarily opts in to a review invitation, relevant contact and order information may be provided to CusRev for the independently verified review process.

Cookie and Performance Providers

Technical and consent-related information may be processed by CookieYes, Pingdom, and other providers that help us operate, secure, measure, and troubleshoot the Site.

Social, Product-Discovery, and Advertising Services

When applicable integrations are enabled, certain information may be processed by services such as Pinterest or Google in connection with product discovery, sharing features, advertising, consented tracking, or related functions.

Professional and Legal Services

We may provide relevant information to accountants, attorneys, insurers, financial institutions, payment providers, fraud-prevention services, or other professional advisers when reasonably necessary.

Legal Requirements and Protection of Rights

We may preserve or disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, a valid subpoena, court order, legal process, government request, tax or customs requirement, or to establish, exercise, or defend legal rights.

We may also disclose relevant transaction information in connection with suspected fraud, payment disputes, chargebacks, theft reports, carrier claims, or other investigations.

Business Changes

If Hedgehog’s Corner is involved in a merger, sale, restructuring, transfer of assets, or similar business transaction, relevant information may be transferred as part of that transaction where permitted by law.

10. Selling and Sharing Personal Information

Hedgehog’s Corner does not sell customers’ personal information for money.

Certain advertising, analytics, or tracking activities can be defined as a “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” under some privacy laws even when no money is exchanged for the personal information.

If we engage in activities that are subject to such requirements, we will provide privacy choices or consent mechanisms as required by applicable law.

11. Legal Bases for Processing for EEA and UK Visitors

Where European Economic Area or United Kingdom data-protection law applies, our legal basis for processing personal information depends on the purpose.

We may process information:

• To perform a contract or take steps at your request before entering into a contract, such as processing and delivering an order.
• To comply with legal obligations, such as accounting, tax, customs, or legally required recordkeeping.
• For our legitimate interests, such as securing the Site, preventing fraud, maintaining business records, improving website performance, responding to customer requests, and establishing or defending legal claims, where those interests are not overridden by your rights.
• With your consent, such as certain non-essential cookies, optional review invitations, or advertising technologies where consent is required.
• Under another lawful basis where permitted or required by applicable law.

When processing relies on consent, you may withdraw that consent for future processing, subject to applicable law.

12. International Processing and Transfers

Hedgehog’s Corner is based in the United States.

Information collected through the Site may therefore be processed and stored in the United States and in other countries where our service providers operate.

Privacy laws in those locations may differ from the laws where you live.

Where applicable law requires additional safeguards for an international transfer of personal information, we and our service providers may rely on legally recognized transfer mechanisms or other permitted safeguards.

13. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and for legitimate business, accounting, tax, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, legal, and recordkeeping needs.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it is needed.

For example:

• Order and transaction records may be retained for accounting, tax, customer-service, fraud-prevention, chargeback, and legal purposes.
• Shipping and delivery information may be retained as part of the order record.
• Communications and documentation relating to a dispute, return, carrier claim, chargeback, or other issue may be retained while the matter is active and for a reasonable period afterward.
• Optional customer-account information may be retained while the account remains active and as otherwise reasonably necessary.
• Waitlist information may be retained while needed to provide the requested stock notification or until it is removed.
• Customer-review information may be retained and published according to the review provider’s applicable policies.
• Cookie-consent records may be retained according to our consent-management settings and applicable requirements.

A request to delete personal information does not necessarily require deletion of information that we must or are permitted to retain for legal, accounting, fraud-prevention, dispute, or other legitimate purposes.

Where possible, information may instead be anonymized when identifiable information is no longer required.

14. Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live and the law that applies to you, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including rights to:

• Request access to personal information we hold about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate information.
• Request deletion of eligible personal information.
• Request restriction of certain processing.
• Object to certain processing.
• Request a portable copy of certain information.
• Withdraw consent when processing is based on consent.
• Opt out of certain targeted advertising or data-sharing activities where applicable.
• Lodge a complaint with an applicable data-protection authority.

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions.

For example, we may need to retain transaction information even after a deletion request when the information is reasonably required for accounting, tax, fraud-prevention, chargeback, legal, or other permitted purposes.

To submit a privacy request, contact us at admin@hedgehogscorner.com.

We may need to verify your identity before providing, correcting, or deleting information so that we do not disclose personal information to an unauthorized person.

Requests relating specifically to information independently processed by PayPal, Stripe, CusRev, Pinterest, Google, or another third party may also need to be directed to that provider.

15. Guest Checkout and Customer Accounts

Hedgehog’s Corner allows customers to complete purchases without creating a customer account.

Creating an account is optional unless a particular feature specifically requires one.

If you create an account, the Site may retain account information necessary to provide account features such as viewing orders or managing account details.

16. Email and Communications

We use email primarily for customer-service and transactional purposes, including:

• Order confirmations.
• Payment and refund information.
• Shipping and tracking notifications.
• Questions or updates concerning an order.
• Return or exchange communications.
• Delivery or carrier issues.
• Requested waitlist or stock notifications.
• Optional review invitations when the customer has specifically consented to receive one.

Purchasing from Hedgehog’s Corner does not automatically enroll you in a promotional newsletter or general marketing email list.

If we introduce an optional promotional email program in the future, participation will be handled separately and any applicable unsubscribe choices will be provided.

17. Security

We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect personal information and maintain the security of our Site and business systems.

We also use third-party services for website hosting, security, payment processing, and other functions that maintain their own security controls.

No internet transmission, computer system, or method of electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot promise absolute security.

Please protect your own account credentials and contact us if you believe there has been unauthorized activity involving an account or transaction with Hedgehog’s Corner.

18. Children’s Privacy

Hedgehog’s Corner is a general-audience retail website and is not directed to children under 13.

We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information directly from children under 13 without appropriate parental or guardian involvement.

Children under 13 should not submit personal information, create an account, or place an order on their own.

Parents or guardians who believe that a child under 13 has provided personal information to us should contact admin@hedgehogscorner.com so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.

Products depicting characters or subjects that appeal to children do not mean that the Site itself is directed to children.

19. Third-Party Websites and Services

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, social-media platforms, payment providers, shipping carriers, advertisers, or other services that Hedgehog’s Corner does not control.

This Privacy Policy does not govern the independent privacy practices of those third parties.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of services you choose to use.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our Site, services, technology, business practices, or legal requirements.

The current version will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.

Material changes will apply prospectively except where applicable law requires otherwise.

21. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise a privacy right, or have a concern about how personal information is handled, please contact:

Hedgehog’s Corner

Florida, United States

Email: admin@hedgehogscorner.com