Privacy policy
Effective date: August 17, 2026 Last updated: August 17, 2026
Filip Galinski ("Poor Judgment Co.", "we", "us") operates https://poorjudgmentco.com. This policy explains what personal information we collect, why, who we share it with, and the choices you have. It applies to our website, our stores on social platforms, and our emails.
We sell only to customers in the United States. If you are outside the US, do not place an order through this site.
1. Information we collect
You give us:
| Category | Examples | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Name, email address, shipping and billing address, phone number | To take, ship and support your order |
| Order information | Items, sizes, quantities, order history | To fulfill and support your order |
| Payment information | Handled by our payment processors. We never see or store your full card number. We receive only the last four digits, card brand, and authorization result. | To take payment and investigate disputes |
| Communications | Emails you send us, review content, photos you tag us in and give us permission to repost | To answer you and, with permission, to feature you |
| Marketing preferences | Whether you subscribed, and to what | To send only what you asked for |
Collected automatically when you use the site:
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Device and connection | IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device type, screen size |
| Usage | Pages viewed, products viewed, items added to cart, purchases, referring URL, time on page, clicks |
| Identifiers from cookies and similar technologies | Cookie IDs, Shopify session identifiers, advertising identifiers, the Meta browser ID (_fbp) and click ID (fbc) |
| Approximate location | Derived from IP address — city/region level, not precise GPS |
From third parties:
- Our payment processors send us transaction and fraud-screening results.
- Meta and other advertising platforms may tell us, in aggregate, how our ads performed.
- Carriers send us delivery status.
We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16. Our products are intended for adults. If you believe a child has given us information, email hello@poorjudgmentco.com and we will delete it.
We do not collect sensitive personal information as defined by California law — no government IDs, no financial account credentials, no precise geolocation, no health, biometric, racial, religious, sexual-orientation or union-membership data. We do not ask you to tell us anything about yourself in order to buy a shirt, and the shirt you buy is not treated by us as a statement about you.
2. How we use it
- To process, fulfill, ship and support your order, and to handle returns, exchanges and refunds.
- To communicate with you about your order — these messages are transactional and are sent even
if you are not subscribed to marketing.
- To send marketing email if you asked for it, and to stop the moment you unsubscribe.
- To measure and improve the site — what people look at, where they get stuck, what breaks.
- To advertise, including measuring which ads led to sales and showing ads to people who visited
the site or who resemble our customers. See section 4.
- To detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and chargebacks.
- To comply with law, including tax and accounting obligations.
Legal bases where required: we rely on performing our contract with you (orders), your consent (marketing, non-essential cookies), and our legitimate interests (security, fraud prevention, improving the service).
3. Who we share it with
We do not sell your personal information for money. We do share it with the following categories of recipients, and only for the purposes described:
| Recipient category | Examples | What they get |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce platform | Shopify | Everything needed to run the store and your account |
| Payment processing | Shopify Payments, PayPal, Shop Pay | Payment and billing data. Their own privacy policies apply. |
| Fulfillment and shipping | Our fulfillment partner, USPS/UPS/FedEx | Name, address, phone, order contents |
| Our email platform | Email address, name, order history | |
| Analytics | Shopify Analytics | Usage and device data |
| Advertising | Meta Platforms (Facebook, Instagram) | See section 4 |
| Professional advisers | Accountants, lawyers | Only what is necessary |
| Authorities | Law enforcement, courts | Only where legally required, or to protect rights and safety |
If the business is sold, merged, or its assets transferred, customer information may transfer with it. We will note it here if that happens.
4. Advertising, the Meta pixel, and "sale/share"
Read this section. It is the part that actually affects you.
Substantially all of our traffic comes from ads on Meta platforms. To run those ads we use the Meta pixel on our website and the Meta Conversions API from our servers. Together these tell Meta which pages you viewed, what you added to your cart, and whether you purchased, along with identifiers such as the _fbp cookie, your IP address, and — for purchases — a hashed version of your email address and name. Hashing means Meta receives an irreversible scramble rather than the address itself, but it can still be matched to an existing Meta account.
Meta uses this to attribute sales to ads, to show you our ads again, and to find people similar to our customers.
Under California's CPRA and similar laws in other states, this counts as "selling" and "sharing" your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we describe it that way even though no money changes hands.
In the last 12 months we have shared identifiers and internet activity data with advertising partners for this purpose. We do not share sensitive personal information, and we do not sell or share the personal information of anyone we know to be under 16.
To opt out: use the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link, which is also in our footer on every page. You can also send a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser, which we honor automatically as an opt-out for that browser. Opting out does not stop you seeing our ads — it stops them being targeted using your data.
You can also manage this on Meta's side at facebook.com/adpreferences and accountscenter.facebook.com.
5. Cookies
We use:
- Strictly necessary cookies — cart, checkout, session, security, fraud prevention. The site
cannot work without these.
- Analytics cookies — how the site is used, in aggregate.
- Advertising cookies — the Meta pixel and similar, as described in section 4.
You can control cookies through our cookie banner and through your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will break checkout. Details in our Cookie Policy.
We honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signals as a valid opt-out of sale/sharing.
6. How long we keep it
| Data | Retention |
|---|---|
| Order and transaction records | 7 years, for tax and accounting |
| Customer account data | Until you ask us to delete it, or 3 years after your last order |
| Marketing contact data | Until you unsubscribe, plus a suppression record so we don't email you again |
| Support emails | 3 years |
| Analytics and advertising data | Per the platform's own retention, typically up to 2 years |
| Fraud and chargeback evidence | As long as needed to resolve, plus 2 years |
7. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- Know / access what personal information we have about you and how we use it
- Correct inaccurate information
- Delete your personal information, subject to exceptions (we must keep order records for tax)
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of your information for targeted advertising
- Portability — get a copy in a portable format
- Non-discrimination — we will not charge you more or give you worse service for exercising
these rights. Our prices are the same either way.
- Appeal a decision we make on your request (Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and others)
These rights are available under, among others, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA, and comparable laws in Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, and other states with comprehensive privacy laws in force.
To exercise them: email hello@poorjudgmentco.com with the subject "Privacy Request" and tell us which right you're exercising. We will verify your identity by matching the information you give us against our records — typically your email address and an order number. We respond within 45 days and may extend once by another 45 days where permitted, and we will tell you if we do.
Authorized agents may submit requests on your behalf with written, signed permission from you and proof of their identity.
We do not use your personal information for automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects.
8. Security
We use TLS encryption in transit, restrict access to customer data to people who need it, and rely on PCI-DSS compliant payment processors so that card numbers never reach our systems.
No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we do not claim otherwise. If we become aware of a breach affecting your personal information we will notify you and the relevant authorities as required by law.
9. Third-party links
The site links to third-party sites and platforms. Their privacy practices are their own and this policy does not cover them.
10. Changes to this policy
We will post any changes here and update the "Last updated" date. If the changes are material we will tell you by email or by a notice on the site before they take effect.
11. Contact
Questions, requests, or complaints:
Email: hello@poorjudgmentco.com Mail: Filip Galinski, Jerzego Iwanowa-Szajnowicza 9a/1, 02-796 Warsaw, Poland
If you are in California and are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the California Privacy Protection Agency or the California Attorney General.