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Privacy Policy

Gold Country Treasures
Last updated: November 4, 2026

About this policy

This policy explains how Gold Country Treasures collects and uses personal information when you visit goldcountrytreasures.com, purchase an item, create an account, or contact us.

For privacy questions or requests, email [email protected].

Information we collect

When you order or contact us, we collect the information you provide. This may include your name, email address, telephone number, billing and delivery addresses, order details, and correspondence.

If you submit an item for purchase or consignment consideration, we also collect the descriptions, photographs, general location, and other information you choose to send.

If you create an account, we retain the account information needed to provide that service.

Our website and service providers also process technical information, such as your IP address, browser and device information, referring pages, and website activity, as described below.

How we use information

We use personal information to:

  • Process payments and fulfill orders.
  • Arrange shipping, pickup, returns, and refunds.
  • Respond to questions and selling inquiries.
  • Manage customer accounts.
  • Maintain business records and protect the website against fraud, security threats, or misuse.
  • Understand how the website is used and improve our shop and services.

Submitting an inquiry or placing an order does not, by itself, subscribe you to marketing emails.

Payments and service providers

We use service providers to operate the website and support orders. We provide information to them only as needed for their services or as otherwise described in this policy.

  • Payment processing. Checkout payments may be processed through WooPayments or Square. Payment credentials are entered into and handled through the payment provider’s systems. Gold Country Treasures receives the order and transaction information needed to complete the sale, which may include payment status and limited payment-method details. If you choose to save a payment method, the processor supplies a token used for later transactions rather than giving us the complete card number. See Automattic’s Privacy Policy and Square’s Consumer Privacy Notice.
  • Website and commerce services. Our site is hosted by DreamHost and uses WordPress, WooCommerce, Jetpack, WooCommerce Tax, and related Automattic services for publishing, commerce, security, performance, and store operations. See the DreamHost Privacy Policy and Automattic Privacy Policy.
  • Shipping. Information needed to calculate rates, create or manage shipments, and complete delivery may be provided to shipping carriers and shipping-service providers, including UPS and the United States Postal Service.
  • Website measurement and advertising. Google Analytics and Google Ads are used to measure website activity and understand the results of our advertising. Google may receive technical and activity information through these services. See the Google Privacy Policy.

We may also disclose information when required by law or when reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, protect people, secure the website, or defend our legal rights.

Cookies and website activity

Cookies and similar technologies support essential functions such as shopping carts, checkout, account sign-in, security, order attribution, and saved preferences. Blocking cookies in your browser may prevent some features from working.

The Saved feature stores the numeric identifiers of products you save in your browser’s local storage. That saved list stays on that browser and is not attached to a GCT customer account by the Saved feature.

WordPress, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and related services may process technical information to operate and protect the site, provide store functions, measure performance, and diagnose problems. Google Analytics and Google Ads process website activity for measurement and advertising purposes. These providers may use cookies or similar identifiers according to their own policies and settings.

The site does not currently provide a separate GCT cookie-preference panel. You can control cookies through your browser and may use the privacy and advertising controls offered by the providers linked above. The site does not currently apply browser Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signals as a site-wide instruction that changes all processing. Individual providers may respond to those signals according to their policies and applicable law.

How long we keep information

Current WooCommerce settings do not assign scheduled automatic deletion periods to inactive customer accounts or order records. We retain account and order information while reasonably needed to fulfill orders, provide account service, maintain tax and accounting records, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, protect the site, and meet legal obligations.

We retain selling inquiries, contact messages, and related photographs or correspondence while needed to respond, evaluate the inquiry, document any resulting transaction, and maintain appropriate business records. Technical and security records are retained according to operational needs and the practices of the service providers involved.

When information is no longer reasonably needed for these purposes, it may be deleted, anonymized, or removed through an approved privacy request, subject to legal, accounting, security, and order-related requirements.

Your information and choices

You may contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information associated with you. We may need to verify your identity before responding.

Some information may need to be retained for legal, accounting, security, fraud-prevention, or order-related reasons. We will explain any applicable limitation when responding to your request.

You may update available account details through your customer account. WordPress and WooCommerce also provide administrative tools that allow us to export or erase qualifying personal data in response to a verified request.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as our website, providers, or practices change. We will post the revised policy here and update the date above.

Contact us

For questions about this policy or your personal information, email [email protected].