DOCUMENT / WE-LEGAL-02 / REV. B

Privacy policy

ENTITY
Wacky Engineering LLC
EFFECTIVE
July 13, 2026

This policy explains how Wacky Engineering LLC (“Wacky Engineering,” “we,” “our,” and “us”) handles personal information when you use wackyengineering.com, contact us, use the local shopping cart, or enter a Wacky Engineering sweepstakes (collectively, the “Services”).

Wacky Engineering controls the website, support, and sweepstakes information described here. Fourthwall, Inc. is the seller and Merchant of Record for merchandise purchases. Fourthwall handles checkout and may act both as an independent business for its transaction obligations and as a service provider processing certain order information for us. Review Fourthwall’s Privacy Policy before purchasing.

CORE is a separate service reached through core.wackyengineering.com. This policy does not describe information entered into CORE; review the privacy information presented by CORE before using it.

SECTION 01

What information do we collect?

Information you provide directly

  • Order information: Name, email address, billing or shipping address, phone number, order identifiers, purchased products, and support history associated with a Fourthwall merchandise order.
  • Payment information: Fourthwall and the payment methods offered through its checkout collect and process payment credentials. Wacky Engineering does not receive or store complete credit-card numbers on this website.
  • Sweepstakes entry data: For mail-in entrants, handwritten names, physical mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and the required eligibility certification on index cards.
  • Communications: Your email address and the information you include when you email us or otherwise communicate with us.

Information collected automatically

Vercel Web Analytics provides aggregated, anonymized information including page paths, referrers, filtered query parameters, approximate geographic region, device type, operating system, browser, and event time. We also record selected interaction events—such as shop clicks, product views, add-to-cart actions, and links to Wacky Engineering channels—together with a short, non-personal label. Vercel Web Analytics does not use cookies or retain a persistent cross-site visitor profile.

Your browser stores product names, options, quantities, prices, image references, and a Fourthwall checkout-cart identifier so the local cart can work and confirm whether an externally hosted checkout remains active. When you check out, the selected product and quantity information is sent to Fourthwall.

The website stores your light or dark theme choice in local storage and in a first-party preference cookie named wacky-theme. The cookie expires after one year unless you clear it or return to the system theme.

SECTION 02

How we use your information

  • Operate the website, cart, checkout handoff, and requested features.
  • Coordinate merchandise orders, fulfillment, support, returns, and fraud prevention with Fourthwall.
  • Respond to questions and other communications.
  • Measure aggregated traffic and selected site interactions so we can improve navigation, products, and content.
  • Administer sweepstakes, verify eligibility and entry limits, contact potential winners, publish required winner information, and deliver prizes.
  • Protect the Services, enforce our terms, comply with law, and establish or defend legal claims.

Legal bases for EEA and UK visitors

Where European or UK data-protection law applies, we process information as necessary to perform a contract or take requested pre-contract steps, comply with legal obligations, pursue legitimate interests such as operating and securing the Services, or act with consent where consent is required. You may withdraw consent at any time without affecting processing that occurred before withdrawal.

SPECIAL HANDLING / SWEEPSTAKES

Sweepstakes entry data stays purpose-limited.

For the Wacky Engineering LLC 3D Printer Sweepstakes, names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses are used only to administer the drawing, verify eligibility, check aggregate entry caps, notify the winner, and ship the prize.

Email addresses and phone numbers provided on mail-in cards are never added to general marketing newsletter lists.

SECTION 03

Data sharing & third parties

We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We disclose information only as needed to operate the Services, complete requested transactions, comply with law, or protect legal rights:

  • Fourthwall, Inc. and its providers: Cart creation, checkout, payment processing, order administration, production, fulfillment, customer support, returns, and refunds.
  • Vercel Inc.: Website hosting and aggregated, cookie-free web analytics.
  • Communications providers: Services used to route and store business email and other requested communications.
  • Shipping carriers and prize-fulfillment providers: Address validation, label creation, shipment, tracking, and delivery.
  • Professional advisers and authorities: When reasonably necessary for legal, accounting, security, insurance, dispute, or compliance purposes.
  • Business transactions: If Wacky Engineering is involved in a financing, reorganization, sale, merger, or transfer of some or all business assets, subject to appropriate safeguards.

Limited sweepstakes-winner information may be published or provided when required by the Official Rules or applicable law.

SECTION 04

Browser storage, cookies & analytics

  • Theme preference: Stored locally and in the first-party wacky-theme cookie for up to one year.
  • Shopping cart: Stored in your browser until you remove the items or clear browser storage.
  • Checkout identifier: Stored locally so the site can determine whether a Fourthwall checkout cart is still active.
  • Vercel Web Analytics: Uses anonymized, aggregated data without cookies. We configure custom-event labels not to contain names, email addresses, order numbers, or other personal information.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Because there is no common industry standard for browser “Do Not Track” signals, the website does not change behavior in response to them. We do not use advertising cookies or cross-site behavioral advertising. Where legally required, we treat a recognized Global Privacy Control signal as a request to opt out of sale or sharing; Wacky Engineering does not currently engage in either activity.

You can clear the theme preference and cart through your browser’s cookie and site-data controls. Disabling browser storage may prevent the theme and cart from working as expected.

SECTION 05

How long we keep information

We keep personal information only while it is reasonably needed for the purpose collected and for applicable accounting, tax, fraud-prevention, warranty, dispute, limitation-period, and legal obligations.

  • Orders: Fourthwall retains transaction information under its own policy. We retain order and support records available to us while needed to assist the customer, reconcile sweepstakes entries, maintain business records, or resolve disputes.
  • Communications: Kept while the request is active and afterward when reasonably needed for support history, fraud prevention, or legal claims.
  • Sweepstakes: Mail-in cards and entry records are retained until the winner is verified, the prize is delivered, the winner-list request period ends, and any reasonably anticipated audit, dispute, or legal retention period has passed. Physical cards are then shredded and electronic working files are securely deleted or de-identified.
  • Local storage: Controlled by your browser as described above.

SECTION 06

Your privacy rights

Depending on your location and subject to legal exceptions, you may have rights to know or access personal information, correct inaccurate information, request deletion, receive a portable copy, restrict or object to processing, withdraw consent, or appeal a denied request. You may also have the right to use an authorized agent or complain to a data-protection authority.

To make a request, email info@wackyengineering.com with the subject “Privacy request.” Describe the request and the Services you used. We may ask for information reasonably necessary to verify your identity or an agent’s authority. We will respond within the period required by applicable law and will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.

For information controlled by Fourthwall, including checkout and payment information, submit the request directly under Fourthwall’s Privacy Policy .

SECTION 07

Security & children

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards appropriate to the information we handle. No website, email system, transmission, or storage method can be guaranteed completely secure.

The Services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through this website. Sweepstakes eligibility is limited to adults as stated in the applicable Official Rules. If you believe a child provided personal information, contact us so we can investigate and delete it when appropriate.

SECTION 08

International transfers

Wacky Engineering is based in the United States, and the Services and their providers may process information in the United States and other countries whose laws may differ from those where you live. Where required, transfers are made using legally recognized safeguards or another lawful transfer mechanism.

SECTION 09

Policy changes & contact

We may revise this policy as the Services, providers, or legal requirements change. The effective date at the top identifies the current version. If a change materially affects how previously collected personal information is used or disclosed, we will provide additional notice when required.

Questions, concerns, or requests may be sent to:

Wacky Engineering LLC
Attn: Privacy
PO Box 223
Valley Center, KS 67147
info@wackyengineering.com