Privacy Statement (US)
This privacy statement was last changed on May 15, 2025, last checked on May 15, 2025, and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United States.
In this privacy statement, we explain what we do with the data we obtain about you via https://matsutake.network. We recommend you carefully read this statement. In our processing we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:
- we clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this by means of this privacy statement;
- we aim to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data required for legitimate purposes;
- we first request your explicit consent to process your personal data in cases requiring your consent;
- we take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
- we respect your right to access your personal data or have it corrected or deleted, at your request.
If you have any questions, or want to know exactly what data we keep of you, please contact us.
1. Disclosure practices
We disclose personal information if we are required by law or by a court order, in response to a law enforcement agency, to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information, or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety.
If our website or organisation is taken over, sold, or involved in a merger or acquisition, your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and will be passed on to the new owners.
2. How we respond to Do Not Track signals & Global Privacy Control
Our website responds to and supports the Do Not Track (DNT) header request field. If you turn DNT on in your browser, those preferences are communicated to us in the HTTP request header, and we will not track your browsing behavior.
3. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. For more information about cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy on our Cookie Policy (US) webpage.
4. Security
We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.
The security measures we use consist of:
5. Third-party websites
This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these websites.
6. Amendments to this privacy statement
We reserve the right to make amendments to this privacy statement. It is recommended that you consult this privacy statement regularly in order to be aware of any changes. In addition, we will actively inform you wherever possible.
7. Accessing and modifying your data
If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. Please make sure to always clearly state who you are, so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data of the wrong person. We shall provide the requested information only upon receipt of a verifiable consumer request. You can contact us by using the information below. You have the following rights:
7.1 You have the following rights with respect to your personal data
- You may submit a request for access to the data we process about you.
- You may object to the processing.
- You may request an overview, in a commonly used format, of the data we process about you.
- You may request correction or deletion of the data if it is incorrect or not or no longer relevant, or to ask to restrict the processing of the data.
- You may appeal our decision whenever we refuse to take action on a request and submit a complaint with the competent authority if your appeal is denied.
7.2 Supplements
This section, which supplements the rest of this Privacy Statement, applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of California (CPRA), Colorado (CPA), Delaware (PDPA), Connecticut (CTDPA), Iowa (CDPA), Montana (MCDPA), Nebraska (DPA), Nevada (NRS 603A), New Hampshire (DPA), New Jersey (DPL), Oregon (OCPA), Texas (TDPSA), Utah (UCPA) and Virginia (CDPA)
California
California
Right to know what personal information is being collected about you
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer the following:
- The categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
- The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information.
- The specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
The right to know whether personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that sells the consumer’s personal information, or that discloses it for a business purpose, disclose to that consumer:
- The categories of personal information that the business collected about the consumer.
- The categories of personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.
- The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose.
The Right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business delete any personal information about the consumer which the business has collected from the consumer.
A business that receives a verifiable request from a consumer to delete the consumer’s personal information pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall delete the consumer’s personal information from its records and direct any service providers to delete the consumer’s personal information from their records.
A business or a service provider shall not be required to comply with a consumer’s request to delete the consumer’s personal information if it is necessary for the business or service provider to maintain the consumer’s personal information in order to:
- Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by the consumer, or reasonably anticipated within the context of a business’s ongoing business relationship with the consumer, or otherwise perform a contract between the business and the consumer.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
- Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the businesses’ deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if the consumer has provided informed consent.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer’s relationship with the business.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Otherwise use the consumer’s personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you. For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Financial incentives
Selling of personal data to third parties
We have not sold consumers’ personal data in the preceding 12 months
We have not disclosed consumers’ personal information for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months.
Colorado
Colorado
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right no more than two times per calendar year.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under Colorado law this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising;
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Connecticut
Connecticut
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
We are not required to reveal any trade secret.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the CTDPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising; or
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Delaware
Delaware
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data, you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right for free no more than once per calendar year.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the PDPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising;
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Right to obtain a list of third parties to whom the controller has disclosed the consumer’s personal data.
Iowa
Iowa
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data, you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically practicable, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right for free no more than two times per calendar year.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the CDPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising;
- the sale of personal data; or
- the processing of sensitive data.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Montana
Montana
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
We are not required to reveal any trade secret.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the MCDPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising; or
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Nebraska
Nebraska
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data, you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right for free no more than two times per calendar year.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the DPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising;
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Nevada
Nevada
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the Nevada Privacy Law, this concerns the sale of personal data.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
New Hampshire
New Hampshire
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data, you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right for free no more than once per calendar year.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the DPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising; or
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
New Jersey
New Jersey
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data, you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right for free no more than once per calendar year.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the DPL this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising; or
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Oregon
Oregon
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
We are not required to reveal any trade secret.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the OCPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising; or
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Texas
Texas
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
We are not required to reveal any trade secret.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the TDPSA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising; or
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Utah
Utah
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data, you have the right to obtain the personal data that you previously provided to us as a controller in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the UCPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising; or
- the sale of personal data.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Virginia
Virginia
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right no more than two times per calendar year.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the CDPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising;
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
8. Children
Our website is not designed to attract children and it is not our intent to collect personal data from children under the age of consent in their country of residence. We therefore request that children under the age of consent do not submit any personal data to us.
9. Contact details
Matsutake Network
243 8th St
Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
Website: https://matsutake.network
Email: services@ex.commatsutake.network
Phone number: 646-450-9615
10. Data Requests
For the most frequently submitted requests, we also offer you the possibility to use our data request form
Annex
Really Simple Security
Really Simple Security and Really Simple Security add-ons do not process any personal identifiable information, so the GDPR does not apply to these plugins or usage of these plugins on your website. You can find our privacy policy here.
WooCommerce
This sample language includes the basics around what personal data your store may be collecting, storing and sharing, as well as who may have access to that data. Depending on what settings are enabled and which additional plugins are used, the specific information shared by your store will vary. We recommend consulting with a lawyer when deciding what information to disclose on your privacy policy.
We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.
What we collect and store
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
- Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
- Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.
Note: you may want to further detail your cookie policy, and link to that section from here.
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for XXX years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
- Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
- Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.
What we share with others
In this section you should list who you’re sharing data with, and for what purpose. This could include, but may not be limited to, analytics, marketing, payment gateways, shipping providers, and third party embeds.
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example —
Payments
In this subsection you should list which third party payment processors you’re using to take payments on your store since these may handle customer data. We’ve included PayPal as an example, but you should remove this if you’re not using PayPal.
We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
WooCommerce
This sample language includes the basics around what personal data your store may be collecting, storing and sharing, as well as who may have access to that data. Depending on what settings are enabled and which additional plugins are used, the specific information shared by your store will vary. We recommend consulting with a lawyer when deciding what information to disclose on your privacy policy.
We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.
What we collect and store
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
- Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
- Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.
Note: you may want to further detail your cookie policy, and link to that section from here.
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for XXX years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
- Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
- Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.
What we share with others
In this section you should list who you’re sharing data with, and for what purpose. This could include, but may not be limited to, analytics, marketing, payment gateways, shipping providers, and third party embeds.
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example —
Payments
In this subsection you should list which third party payment processors you’re using to take payments on your store since these may handle customer data. We’ve included PayPal as an example, but you should remove this if you’re not using PayPal.
We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
Complianz | The Privacy Suite for WordPress
This website uses the Privacy Suite for WordPress from Complianz to collect records of consent. For this functionality your IP address is anonymized and stored in our database. For more information, see the Complianz Privacy Statement.
WP Statistics
The text that follows has been generated from your current WP Statistics configuration and details the visitor data your site collects, the reasons for that collection, how the information is stored, and who can access it. Copy the wording into your privacy policy and adjust the style as needed; if you later change any WP Statistics option or install another tool that affects data collection, regenerate this section so your policy remains accurate. For complete compliance, have a qualified lawyer review the final version.
We use the WP Statistics plugin to analyze traffic on our website. WP Statistics stores its data on our own server and does not transmit it to any third parties. Below, we describe what information we collect through WP Statistics, why we collect it, and how it is handled. If you have questions or concerns about our analytics practices, please contact us or review the WP Statistics Data Privacy guide.
We do not collect or store any information that can identify you personally. This means:
- No Cookies: We do not set tracking cookies or similar identifiers in your browser.
- Anonymized IP: Your IP address is anonymized and securely processed (e.g., hashed) so it can’t be reversed to identify you.
- Aggregated Statistics: We only track general activity like page views or country of access.
- Local Storage: All data is stored locally on our server; we never share it with third parties.
WooCommerce Subscriptions
By using WooCommerce Subscriptions, you may be storing personal data and depending on which third-party payment processors you’re using to take subscription payments, you may be sharing personal data with external sources.
What we collect and store
For the purposes of processing recurring subscription payments, we store the customer’s name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number and credit card/payment details.
What we share with others
What personal information your store shares with external sources depends on which third-party payment processor plugins you are using to collect subscription payments. We recommend that you consult with their privacy policies to inform this section of your privacy policy.
If you are using PayPal Standard or PayPal Reference transactions please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.