PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: September 21, 2026
Last Updated: September 21, 2026

Emily Huckabee Designs LLC (“Emily Huckabee Designs,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit www.emilyhuckabeedesigns.com (the “Website”), contact us through the Website, or otherwise interact with us online.

By using this Website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Information You Provide to Us

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you:

● Submit an inquiry or contact form;

● Request information about our interior design services;

● Contact us by email or other means;

● Subscribe to communications, if offered; or

● Otherwise communicate with Emily Huckabee Designs.

This information may include the following categories of personal information:

● Identifiers and contact information, such as your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, project address, and social media handle;

● Commercial and project information, such as the type of project, property details, design preferences, budget range, timeline, and requested services;

● Communications, including the contents of messages, inquiries, consultation notes, and correspondence;

● Account or subscription information, if you create an account or subscribe to a newsletter or other communication;

● Transaction and billing information, if you engage us for services, although payment card information is generally processed directly by a third-party payment processor and is not stored by us; and

● Photographs, files, and other content that you voluntarily submit or authorize us to use in connection with a project or inquiry.

Please do not submit sensitive personal or financial information through a general Website contact form.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, pixels, log files, software development kits, and similar technologies. This information may include:

● Internet Protocol (IP) address;

● Browser and device type;

● Operating system;

● Pages viewed and links clicked;

● Referring website or campaign source;

● Approximate geographic location;

● Date and time of your visit;

● Website search terms;

● Session duration and navigation patterns;

● Device identifiers and advertising identifiers; and

● Information about how you interact with the Website.

This information may be associated with other information you provide to us, depending on the technology used and your choices.

2. SPECIFIC THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS

The Website and our business may use third-party providers. The providers actually used may change, and we will update this Privacy Policy when appropriate. Before publishing this policy, you should confirm which providers are active on the Website.

Website Hosting and Content Delivery

The Website may be hosted by a provider such as Showit, Squarespace, Wix, WordPress.com, WordPress hosting provider, Webflow, or another hosting company selected by Emily Huckabee Designs. The hosting provider may process IP addresses, browser information, device information, server logs, contact-form submissions, and other information necessary to deliver and secure the Website.

Analytics

We may use Google Analytics 4, Squarespace Analytics, Wix Analytics, Showit analytics, Jetpack, or another analytics service to understand Website traffic and improve the Website. Analytics providers may collect IP addresses, device and browser information, pages viewed, referring URLs, approximate location, and interaction data.

If Google Analytics is used, Google may process information as described in Google’s Privacy Policy and may use cookies or similar technologies. You may be able to limit Google Analytics through browser controls, available Google tools, or the Website’s cookie settings.

Email and Communications

If you subscribe to communications or we communicate with you electronically, we may use Mailchimp, Flodesk, ConvertKit, HubSpot, Constant Contact, Gmail, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or another email and communications provider. These providers may process your name, email address, communication preferences, message history, and engagement information, such as whether an email was opened or a link was clicked.

You may unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the message or contacting us directly. Transactional or service-related communications may continue when reasonably necessary.

Contact Forms and Scheduling

The Website may use Google Forms, Jotform, Typeform, HoneyBook, Dubsado, Calendly, Squarespace Forms, Wix Forms, or another form or scheduling provider. These providers may process information you submit, including your name, contact information, project details, appointment information, and message contents.

Payment and Accounting Providers

If you purchase services or pay an invoice, payment information may be processed by Stripe, PayPal, Square, QuickBooks, HoneyBook, Dubsado, or another payment or accounting provider. We generally do not receive or store complete payment card numbers. Payment providers may collect and retain payment information under their own privacy policies and terms.

Cloud Storage and Business Tools

We may use Google Drive, Google Workspace, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Adobe, Notion, Asana, Trello, HoneyBook, Dubsado, QuickBooks, or similar business tools to store, organize, communicate about, and manage client and project information.

Social Media and Embedded Content

The Website may include links, buttons, feeds, pixels, or embedded content from Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, Vimeo, Houzz, or other platforms. These platforms may collect information about your visit, including IP address, browser information, device information, and interaction data, even if you do not actively engage with the embedded content.

Your interactions with those platforms are governed by their privacy policies.

3. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Our Website may use the following categories of cookies and similar technologies:

● Strictly necessary cookies, which support Website security, navigation, hosting, forms, and basic functionality;

● Functional cookies, which remember preferences and settings;

● Analytics cookies, which help us understand Website traffic and performance;

● Advertising or social-media cookies, which may support advertising, audience measurement, social-media features, or content personalization; and

● Session and persistent cookies, which remain on your device for different periods depending on their purpose.

Cookies may be placed by us or by third-party providers such as Google Analytics, the Website hosting provider, embedded social-media platforms, scheduling providers, or other service providers.

You can generally control cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through a cookie-preference tool displayed on the Website. Blocking or deleting cookies may affect Website functionality. Where required by law, we will request consent before placing nonessential cookies.

4. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We may use personal information to:

● Respond to inquiries and communicate with prospective and existing clients;

● Evaluate potential projects and prepare proposals;

● Provide, administer, and improve our interior design services;

● Schedule consultations and appointments;

● Process payments and maintain accounting records;

● Send requested information, newsletters, and service-related communications;

● Personalize and improve the Website;

● Analyze Website traffic, performance, and user behavior;

● Maintain security, prevent fraud, and detect misuse;

● Maintain appropriate business, project, and legal records;

● Comply with applicable laws and legal obligations; and

● Protect our rights, property, and interests.

We may use de-identified or aggregated information for analytics, reporting, planning, and other lawful business purposes. We do not use personal information for purposes materially different from those described in this Privacy Policy without appropriate notice or consent when required.

5. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

We do not sell your personal information for money.

Depending on applicable law, certain disclosures to analytics, advertising, social-media, or similar providers may be considered “sharing” or “selling” for targeted advertising purposes. We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of children.

We may disclose personal information to:

● Website hosting, security, analytics, and technology providers;

● Email, communications, contact-form, and scheduling providers;

● Payment processors, accounting providers, and financial institutions;

● Cloud-storage, project-management, and business-management providers;

● Professional advisers, including attorneys, accountants, insurers, and consultants;

● Contractors, vendors, manufacturers, and other service providers involved in a client project, when reasonably necessary and authorized;

● Government authorities, courts, regulators, or law-enforcement agencies when legally required or reasonably necessary; and

● A successor entity in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, sale, restructuring, bankruptcy, or other transfer involving all or part of our business.

These providers may access personal information only as reasonably necessary to perform services on our behalf, comply with law, or otherwise support our business.

6. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Our Website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, publications, vendors, manufacturers, or other online resources.

Once you leave our Website, the privacy practices of those third parties apply. Emily Huckabee Designs is not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third-party websites or services.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of websites you visit.

7. DATA SECURITY

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information in our possession.

However, no website, electronic transmission, or data-storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by us.

8. DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information for different periods depending on its type, purpose, and legal requirements:

● Inquiry and contact information: generally retained for up to three years after our last communication, unless needed longer for a potential or ongoing project;

● Client and project information: generally retained for the duration of the project and up to seven years afterward for business, accounting, insurance, legal, and dispute-resolution purposes;

● Payment and accounting records: generally retained for at least seven years, or longer if required by tax, accounting, or other applicable obligations;

● Marketing subscription information: retained until you unsubscribe, request deletion, or we determine that the information is no longer needed;

● Email and business correspondence: generally retained for up to seven years when related to a client, project, transaction, or legal obligation;

● Website analytics information: generally retained according to the settings of the applicable analytics provider, commonly between 14 and 50 months for user-level or event-level data;

● Cookie information: retained for the period specified by the applicable cookie, which may range from the duration of a browsing session to several months or years; and

● Security logs: generally retained for a limited period, commonly up to 12 months, unless needed to investigate an incident or comply with law.

We may retain information longer when reasonably necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud, or protect our rights. When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.

9. CONSUMER PRIVACY RIGHTS

Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have some or all of the following rights:

● Right to know or access: request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell, or share;

● Right to correction: request correction of inaccurate personal information;

● Right to deletion: request deletion of personal information, subject to legal and business-record exceptions;

● Right to data portability: request a copy of certain personal information in a portable format;

● Right to opt out: opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, targeted advertising, or certain profiling activities, where applicable;

● Right to limit certain uses: limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, where applicable;

● Right to withdraw consent: withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; and

● Right to nondiscrimination: receive equal service and pricing regardless of whether you exercise a privacy right.

These rights are not absolute and may be limited by applicable law. For example, we may retain information needed to complete a transaction, provide a service, maintain required records, detect security incidents, comply with law, or establish or defend legal claims.

How to Submit a Privacy Request

To submit a privacy request, contact us using the information in Section 14 and include:

● Your full name;

● Email address or other contact information;

● The nature of your request;

● The state or country where you reside; and

● Any information reasonably necessary to help us locate your records.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Verification may require confirming information already associated with your relationship with us. We will not request sensitive information solely for verification unless reasonably necessary and permitted by law.

We generally respond to verified requests within the time required by applicable law. If we need additional time, we will notify you when permitted. If we deny a request, we will explain the reason and, where required, provide instructions for appealing the decision.

You may use an authorized agent to submit a request where permitted by law. We may require proof of authorization and may independently verify your identity.

To opt out of certain cookies, analytics, targeted advertising, or sharing, use the Website’s cookie-preference tool, browser controls, or contact us directly. If the Website recognizes a legally required universal opt-out signal, such as Global Privacy Control, we will process it as required by applicable law.

10. PHOTOGRAPHY AND PROJECT IMAGES

Emily Huckabee Designs may display photographs of completed interior design projects on this Website, in our portfolio, on social media, or in other marketing and editorial materials when we have the appropriate right or permission to do so.

We endeavor to respect the privacy of our clients when publishing project photography and do not intentionally publish personally identifying client information unless authorized or otherwise appropriate.

11. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our Website and services are intended for adults and are not directed to children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the Website. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

12. INTERNATIONAL VISITORS

Emily Huckabee Designs is based in the United States. If you access the Website from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate. Those countries may have data-protection laws different from those in your country.

13. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our Website, business practices, technology, third-party providers, or applicable legal requirements.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

14. CONTACT US

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to submit a privacy request, or want to opt out of marketing communications or certain cookies, please contact:

Emily Huckabee Designs LLC
Durham, North Carolina
www.emilyhuckabeedesigns.com

Email: emily@emilyhuckabeedesigns.com