PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: August 6, 2026

Monumental Ink (“Monumental Ink,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you visit our website, contact us, request an appointment, submit a tattoo inquiry, participate in a promotion, communicate with an artist, or otherwise interact with our business.

By using our website or providing personal information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with Monumental Ink, we may collect the following categories of information:

Information You Provide

Your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, and other contact information.
Appointment requests, preferred artists, tattoo ideas, placement information, reference images, and related communications.
Date of birth, age-verification information, and government-issued identification when required for tattoo services or legal compliance.
Health, allergy, medication, pregnancy, skin-condition, and other information necessary to determine whether tattoo services may be performed safely.
Consent forms, releases, acknowledgments, and signatures.
Payment, deposit, and transaction information. Payment-card information may be processed directly by a third-party payment processor and may not be stored by Monumental Ink.
Reviews, survey responses, contest entries, social media interactions, and other information you voluntarily provide.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, we and our website providers may automatically collect information such as:

Internet Protocol address.
Browser type, device type, and operating system.
Pages viewed, links clicked, referring website, and the dates and times of visits.
General location information derived from an IP address.
Cookie identifiers and similar website-use information.

Information From Other Sources

We may receive information from appointment platforms, payment processors, social media platforms, analytics providers, advertising services, referral sources, or an artist you have contacted regarding services at Monumental Ink.

2. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

Respond to questions and tattoo inquiries.
Schedule, confirm, modify, or cancel appointments.
Connect clients with the appropriate Monumental Ink artist.
Process deposits, payments, refunds, and other transactions.
Provide tattoo services and maintain legally required client records.
Send appointment reminders, aftercare information, customer-service communications, and other transactional messages.
Send promotional email or text messages when legally permitted and when you have provided any required consent.
Operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website and business.
Understand website traffic, engagement, and marketing performance.
Prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents, and unlawful activity.
Protect the health, safety, rights, and property of clients, artists, Monumental Ink, and others.
Comply with legal, regulatory, licensing, insurance, tax, and recordkeeping requirements.
Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

3. SMS and Text-Messaging Program

If you provide your mobile telephone number and agree to receive text messages from Monumental Ink, we may send appointment confirmations, scheduling updates, reminders, customer-service messages, aftercare information, and promotional messages, depending on the consent you provided.

Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Consent to receive marketing text messages is not a condition of purchasing any goods or services.

You may opt out at any time by replying STOP to a message. After opting out, you may receive one final message confirming your request. For assistance, reply HELP or contact us using the information provided below.

Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

We may use service providers solely to operate the text-messaging program and deliver messages on our behalf. Those providers may process mobile information only as necessary to provide the messaging service and are not authorized to use it for their own marketing or promotional purposes.

4. How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose personal information in the following circumstances:

Artists and Business Personnel

We may provide relevant appointment, contact, tattoo-design, reference-image, health, consent, and transaction information to the Monumental Ink artist or personnel responsible for handling your inquiry or providing your services.

Service Providers

We may disclose information to companies that perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, appointment scheduling, payment processing, analytics, email delivery, customer communication, data storage, security, and professional consulting. These providers may use information only as necessary to perform services for us or as otherwise permitted by law.

Legal and Safety Purposes

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, a subpoena, court order, legal process, licensing requirement, or government request. We may also disclose information to investigate fraud, enforce our agreements, protect legal rights, or address a threat to the safety of any person.

Business Transactions

If Monumental Ink is involved in a merger, sale, financing, reorganization, transfer of ownership, or acquisition of some or all of its business or assets, information may be disclosed as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

At Your Direction

We may disclose information when you request, authorize, or direct us to do so.

Monumental Ink does not sell text-messaging opt-in information or consent. We do not disclose mobile information to third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes.

5. Sale of Personal Information and Targeted Advertising

Monumental Ink does not sell personal information for monetary payment.

We do not knowingly sell sensitive personal information, biometric information, or text-messaging opt-in information.

Certain website analytics or advertising technologies may be considered “targeted advertising,” “sharing,” or a “sale” under some state privacy laws, even when no money is exchanged. Where required by applicable law, you may request to opt out by contacting us using the information below or by using any cookie-preference tool made available on our website.

6. Cookies and Analytics

Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, measure traffic, understand how visitors use the website, prevent fraud, and evaluate marketing.

You may be able to manage cookies through your browser settings or through a cookie-preference tool on our website. Blocking certain cookies may affect website functionality.

Third-party services used on the website may collect information according to their own privacy policies. Monumental Ink does not control the privacy practices of these third parties.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

Provide services and complete transactions.
Maintain appointment, consent, release, payment, and client records.
Fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Comply with health, safety, licensing, insurance, accounting, tax, and legal requirements.
Resolve disputes and enforce agreements.
Protect against fraud and security incidents.

Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and applicable legal requirements. When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.

8. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, storage system, payment system, email transmission, or method of electronic communication is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of personal information.

9. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residence and whether a particular privacy law applies to Monumental Ink, you may have the right to:

Confirm whether we process your personal information.
Access or obtain a copy of certain personal information.
Correct inaccurate personal information.
Request deletion of personal information.
Obtain certain information in a portable format.
Opt out of the sale of personal information, targeted advertising, or certain profiling.
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
Appeal a decision regarding a privacy request.
Receive equal service and not be unlawfully discriminated against for exercising a privacy right.

These rights are subject to applicable exceptions, verification requirements, and legal limitations. For example, we may need to retain certain consent forms, transaction records, identification records, or health and safety documentation when required by law or reasonably necessary to protect legal rights.

To submit a privacy request or appeal a decision, contact us at summertaufer@gmail.com with the subject line “Privacy Request.” Please include your name, contact information, state of residence, and the nature of your request.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. An authorized agent may submit a request where permitted by law, but we may require evidence of the agent’s authority and verification of the consumer’s identity.

10. Email Marketing

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the email or by contacting us. Even after opting out of promotional emails, we may continue sending non-promotional communications regarding appointments, transactions, safety, aftercare, policy updates, or an existing business relationship.

11. Children’s Privacy

Our website and services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13.

Tattoo services for minors are governed by applicable Texas law and Monumental Ink’s policies. Any information collected in connection with services involving a minor will be handled in accordance with applicable consent, identification, and recordkeeping requirements.

If you believe a child under 13 has submitted personal information to us online, please contact us so we can review and, when appropriate, delete the information.

12. Photographs, Videos, and Portfolio Content

We will obtain any consent required by law before using identifiable photographs or videos of clients for public portfolio, website, advertising, or social media purposes.

Consent to promotional photography is separate from consent to receive tattoo services unless otherwise clearly stated in a signed release. You may contact us with questions about a photograph or video in which you are identifiable.

13. Third-Party Websites and Social Media

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, scheduling services, payment providers, social media platforms, or artist websites. We are not responsible for the privacy, security, or content practices of websites and services that we do not control. You should review their privacy policies before providing personal information.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, services, or legal obligations. The “Last Updated” date at the top identifies the most recent revision.

Material changes will be posted on this page and may be communicated through other reasonable methods when required by law.

15. Contact Us

Questions, privacy requests, or appeals regarding this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

Monumental Ink

609 Bradford Ave. Suite 104
Kemah, Texas 77062
Email: summertaufer@gmail.com
Phone: 281-994-7166

Website: https://www.monumentalinktattoo.com/