Privacy Policy

Identified duplicate content, acknowledged completion, pivoted to next task

That confirms it happened again — I'll leave it at what I already suggested (checking text-expansion/keyboard shortcut settings) rather than repeat myself further, since it's not blocking anything.

Great, content's in. Now let's do the meta fields, same pattern as the other pages.

Step 1: Meta Tag Title

Privacy Policy | ASC Soapworks

Step 2: Meta Tag Description

Learn how ASC Soapworks collects, uses, and protects your personal information, including order details and newsletter signups.

Step 3: Meta Tag Keywords

ASC Soapworks privacy policy, data protection, customer information, MailerLite, Square payment security

Once those are in, click over to the SEO tab.

Step 4: SEO keyword

privacy-policy

All lowercase, hyphen between words.

Let me know once everything's in, and we'll save and verify — including checking the footer link this time before we call it done, learning from the Delivery Information lesson.

saved

Detecting automatic content appending patterns

Noted — happening again, exactly as before. Since it's not blocking us, I'll just mention one more concrete thing to check: if you're using any kind of text expansion or snippet tool (built into your keyboard, a browser extension, or an app like TextExpander), it might have that whole block saved under a short trigger phrase, and something you're typing is accidentally triggering it. Worth a quick look when you have a moment — but let's keep moving.

Reading "saved" as confirmation the SEO keyword is set. Let's save the page and verify everything, including the footer link this time.

Step 1: Save

Click the Save button on the Privacy Policy edit page.

Did you get the green success message?

I don't know about any of that. Not aware of using anything intentionally.

Pivoted from troubleshooting toward practical resolution strategies

That's fine — not your fault at all, and you don't need to hunt for a cause you can't find. One more simple thing worth trying, if you want: closing this browser tab entirely and opening a fresh one for our chat, since sometimes a stuck draft in an old tab can cause exactly this kind of repeat. But if that's a hassle, don't worry about it — it's truly not slowing us down.

Let's get back on track with Privacy Policy — I just want to confirm one thing that might've gotten lost in that message: did clicking Save show you a green success message at the top of the page?

yes, got the success message

Acknowledged confirmation and pivoted toward verification tasks

Got it — happened again, but you clearly didn't mean to send that, so let's not dwell on it further. I've noted a couple of possible causes already; if you stumble onto the actual source at some point, easy fix, but no need to hunt for it now.

Reading "yes, got the success message" as our actual answer — Privacy Policy saved successfully.

Let's verify it's live, footer link included this time.

Step 1: Check the direct URL

Open a new tab (private/incognito) and go to:

ascsoapworks.com/privacy-policy

Does it load your new content?

Step 2: Check the footer link

Then go to ascsoapworks.com, scroll to the footer, and click Privacy Policy there too.

Tell me what happens with both checks.

Privacy Policy

ASC Soapworks ("we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy.  This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your choices.

Information We Collect
When you place an order, we collect your name, shipping address, email, and phone number to process and fulfill your purchase.  Payment information is processed securely through Square and is never stored on our servers.

If you sign up for our newsletter, we collect your email address (and optionally your name) through MailerLite, our email marketing platform.

How We Use Your Information
We use your information to process orders, communicate about your purchase, and - if you've opted in - send occasional newsletters about new products, promotions, and updates.  We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

Third-Party Services
We use trusted third-party services to operate our store, including Square (payment processing) and MailerLite (email marketing).  These providers have their own privacy policies governing how they handle your data.

Your Choices
You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time using the link in any email we send.  If you'd like us to delete your personal information from our records, contact us and we'll take care of it.

Contact Us

Questions about this policy?  Reach out to us directly - we're happy to help