Privacy Policy
Effective November 15, 2026 · Last updated November 15, 2026
NostalgiaGift ("we", "us") makes personalized and birthday books. This policy explains what information we collect when you visit nostalgiagift.com or order from us, how we use it, and the choices you have. We keep it short and plain on purpose.
1. What we collect
About you, the buyer
- Your name, email address, billing and shipping address, and phone number if you give one.
- Your order history and messages you send us, including custom requests.
- Payment details are entered on our checkout provider's secure page. We never see or store your full card number.
About the person the book is for (only what you choose to tell us)
- Their name, date of birth, gender, and where they grew up.
- Their community type and family background, if you answer those questions.
- Optional details about them, only if you choose to answer: whether they have children or grandchildren (and roughly what years the children were born), whether they work or are retired and their job title, whether they served in the military, whether they attended college, whether they are part of a faith community (we never ask which religion), up to five interests, and a favorite team. Every one of these questions can be left blank.
- Anything you add in "Anything else you'd like us to know?", such as family, career, hobbies or achievements.
- A photo, if you upload one. We may crop, resize, brighten or otherwise adjust it so it fits the cover, and we keep both your original and the adjusted version. Also your gift message.
Automatically, when you browse
- Basic technical data such as your browser, device, pages visited and approximate location from your IP address.
- Cookies that keep your cart working and help us understand which pages are useful. See section 6.
2. How we use it
- To make and deliver your book: writing and designing it, emailing you the finished PDF, and having printed copies made and shipped.
- To talk with you: order updates, answers to your questions and custom requests.
- To run the store: payments, fraud prevention, taxes, accounting and legal obligations.
- To improve: understanding which pages and books people like, in aggregate.
- Marketing, only if you opt in: occasional emails about new books. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
We use the details about the person the book is for only to make their book. We don't sell them, we don't use them for advertising, and we don't add them to any mailing list.
3. Who we share it with
We share only what each service needs to do its job:
- Shopify — runs our store, checkout and order records.
- Our payment processor — Shopify Payments — processes your payment.
- Lulu — prints and ships softcover and hardcover books. Lulu receives the book files and your shipping address.
- Shopify also sends our emails and stores your book files.
- Authorities — only if the law requires it.
We do not sell your personal information or the information you give us about anyone else.
4. How long we keep it
- Photos, dates of birth and the optional details about the person the book is for are deleted 90 days after delivery, unless you ask us to keep them for a reorder.
- The finished book file is kept for 12 months so you can download it again or reorder printed copies. Ask us any time to delete it sooner.
- Order and payment records are kept as long as tax and accounting laws require (usually 7 years).
5. Your choices and rights
You can ask us to show you, correct, or delete the information we hold about you or about the person you ordered for. Contact us through our contact form (choose "Something else") and we'll reply within 30 days. Depending on where you live (for example California, other U.S. states, the UK or the EU), you may have extra rights, such as knowing exactly what we hold, or objecting to some uses. We honor those requests too, and we won't treat you differently for making one.
6. Cookies
We use cookies that are needed for the store to work (your cart and checkout), and, with your consent where required, analytics cookies that show us which pages are visited. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The store still works without analytics cookies.
7. Keeping it safe
Uploads and checkout use encrypted connections. Access to order details is limited to the people who make your book. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable care, and we'll tell you promptly if a breach affects your information.
8. Information about other people
When you tell us about someone else, or upload their photo, you confirm that you're comfortable sharing it for the purpose of making a gift for them, and that you have permission to use the photo. We ask you to confirm this at checkout.
9. Children
Our store is for adults. We don't knowingly collect information from children under 13. Our books are about people born in earlier decades. If you believe a child has sent us information, contact us and we'll delete it.
10. Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. If the change is significant, we'll tell you by email or with a notice on the site.
11. Contact
NostalgiaGift
Write to us any time through our contact form — we reply within one business day.