Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Hudson's Market is operated by Hudson's Market LLC, 612 W E Street, Joplin, Missouri 64801. This policy covers hudsonsmarket.com and the orders we take through it. You can reach us through the contact form on our website.

2. What we collect, and why

That's the whole list. We don't ask for a date of birth, a social security number, or anything else we have no use for.

3. What we never see

Your card number never reaches us. Payments are handled entirely by Stripe on their own pages. We receive confirmation that a payment succeeded, the amount, and the last four digits for matching up a refund or a dispute. The full number, the expiry date and the security code are never transmitted to us and we could not store them if we wanted to.

4. Who we share it with

We do not sell, rent, trade or share your information for anyone else's marketing. We don't operate an affiliate program, and we don't pass your details to our vendors.

We use a small number of services to run the business, and your information passes through them only as far as that requires:

• Stripe — processes card payments and handles the checkout page.
• Netlify — hosts this website and keeps standard server logs.
• Google Firebase — stores our product catalog, orders and any photos submitted with a vendor application.
• Google Sheets — where feedback, vendor applications and mailing-list signups are recorded for us to work from.
• Resend — sends the notification emails that tell us an order or application has come in.
• Google Fonts — serves the typefaces this site is set in. Loading a page requests those files from Google, which means Google sees the IP address making the request. We don't send them anything else.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to establish or defend a legal claim.

5. Cookies and tracking

We don't use advertising or analytics cookies. There is no Google Analytics on this site, no Facebook or Meta pixel, no advertising network, and no cross-site tracking of any kind. Nobody is building a profile of you here.

Your browser does store one thing for us, locally on your own device: the details of an order in progress, so that your confirmation page can show you what you bought after you come back from Stripe. It is cleared as soon as the order is recorded, it never leaves your device, and it is not a cookie and not readable by anyone else.

Stripe sets its own cookies on its checkout pages, which it needs for security and fraud prevention. That happens on Stripe's site, under Stripe's privacy policy.

6. Email

We email you about your own order whenever we need to — a confirmation, a delivery update, a question about collection. That isn't marketing and you can't unsubscribe from it, because it's how we tell you what's happening with something you paid for.

We only send market news and new arrivals to people who asked for them. Every one of those has an unsubscribe link, and we act on it immediately. We don't add customers to the mailing list just because they bought something.

7. How long we keep it

Order records are kept for as long as we need them for our accounts and tax records — generally seven years, which is what our accountant asks for. Feedback, vendor applications and mailing-list entries are kept until they are no longer useful or until you ask us to remove them.

8. Your choices

Whatever state you live in, you can ask us to:

• Tell you what we hold about you, and give you a copy.
• Correct anything that's wrong.
• Delete it. We'll do that unless we're required to keep a record of a sale for tax purposes — in which case we'll tell you exactly what has to stay and why.
• Stop emailing you about anything other than an order you've placed.

Use the contact form and we'll sort it out. We won't charge you, and we won't treat you differently for asking.

9. Security

This website is served over HTTPS. Access to our order records is restricted to Hudson's Market staff accounts, and vendors can see only their own sales. Card details, as above, are never in our hands at all.

No system is perfect, and we won't pretend otherwise. If something does go wrong with information you've given us, we will tell you.

10. Children

This website is intended for adults. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we'll delete it.

11. Changes

If we change this policy we'll update the date at the top. If a change is substantial — a new service handling your information, say — we'll say so on the website rather than quietly editing the page.

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