Apollo Lamps · Privacy

Privacy Policy

Last updated · July 10, 2026

Overview

Grad School Alternative LLC, a California limited liability company based in Orange, California (“we,” “us,” “our”), operates the Apollo Lamps storefront at apollolamps.com. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect when you visit the site, place an order, or choose to receive Apollo Lamps product news; how we use it; who we share it with; and the choices you have. We do not sell or share your personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, and we do not use third-party analytics or tracking pixels.

Information we collect

Information you provide

When you place an order, you give us:

If you contact us through the order-status page or by email, we keep your messages so we can respond and follow up.

After a purchase is confirmed, you may choose to join the Apollo Lamps mailing list by selecting the opt-in button on the thank-you page. If you do, we use the email address from that order and record when and through which order you opted in. Purchasing a lamp by itself does not add you to the mailing list.

In the categories defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act, what we collect falls into: identifiers (name, postal address, email address, IP address, order ID); commercial information (records of products purchased and amounts paid); and internet or electronic network activity (browser user-agent, timestamps of requests to our site). We do not collect personal information in any of the other CCPA categories.

Information collected automatically

This information is used to keep an audit log of order events and to protect the site against abuse. It is not used to profile you or to track you across other websites.

The Evolution page also sends first-party aggregate event counts, such as page load, successful rendering, adding a captured lamp to the cart, reservation expiry, checkout start, and purchase. These records contain the event name and, where operationally useful, a coarse product or compatibility category. They do not contain a cookie identifier, account, retained IP address, session replay, or advertising identifier and are not used to change the evolving lamp.

Information stored in your browser

The store works without an account, so a few items are kept in your browser to make it function:

Browser storage is first-party storage on your device. Values needed to price, process, attribute, or fulfil an order are sent to us when you use the relevant feature or submit checkout; payment-card details are not stored in these keys.

How we use it

Marketing email is opt-in and concerns Apollo Lamps; we do not use the mailing list for third-party marketing, cross-site profiling, or behavioural advertising. Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe link and, where supported by your mail provider, a native one-click unsubscribe control. You may also reply to a marketing email or email support@apollolamps.com to ask us to remove you. We process opt-outs as promptly as reasonably practicable.

Unsubscribing from marketing does not stop transactional messages needed for an order or a request you make, such as confirmations, shipping notices, support replies, or material notices concerning a past order.

Service providers we share data with

We rely on a small number of vendors to run the shop. By category, these are: payment processors, shipping providers, email-delivery providers, and hosting / content-delivery providers. Each receives only the information they need to perform their service, and each is contractually bound to handle it in line with their published data-handling commitments:

We may also disclose information if required by law (e.g. a valid subpoena, court order, or other legal process), or to protect the rights, safety, or property of Grad School Alternative LLC, our customers, or the public.

We do not sell or share your information

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). We have not done so in the prior 12 months and have no plans to do so.

Sensitive personal information. We do not collect “sensitive personal information” as defined by the CPRA. The payment details you enter at checkout are handled directly by Stripe or PayPal under PCI-DSS and never reach our systems.

Shine the Light Act. California Civil Code §1798.83 gives California residents the right to ask whether we have disclosed their personal information to third parties for those third parties' direct-marketing purposes. We have not, and we have no plans to do so.

Service providers. We use the vendors listed above to perform services on our behalf and provide them information for those purposes. Their applicable terms, privacy commitments, and data-processing terms govern their handling of that information. We do not provide customer information to them so that they can market their own products to you.

How long we keep it

Security

All traffic between you and the site is encrypted in transit using HTTPS. Payment details are handled by Stripe and PayPal under PCI-DSS, never stored on our systems. Access to order records is restricted to authorised operators using bearer-token authentication. No system can be guaranteed perfectly secure; we work to keep ours reasonable for the data it holds.

Breach notification. If we ever become aware of a personal-data breach that creates a meaningful risk to your rights or freedoms, we will notify the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours where required by law (GDPR Article 33), and we will notify you directly without undue delay if the breach is likely to result in a high risk to you (GDPR Article 34). For breaches affecting California residents, we follow the notification timing required by California Civil Code §1798.82.

Cookies and similar storage

We do not use analytics cookies, advertising cookies, or any tracking pixels. The storage relevant to ordinary storefront use is:

Do Not Track signals

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (DNT) signal that asks websites not to track the user across sites. We do not track users across third-party sites, run third-party analytics, or participate in cross-context behavioural advertising, so a DNT signal does not change our behaviour — there is nothing for it to switch off. We treat all visitors the same regardless of whether a DNT signal is sent.

Your rights

California residents (CCPA / CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have the right to:

As stated above, we do not sell or share personal information, so there is no need to opt out of those activities. To exercise any other right, email support@apollolamps.com. We will verify your request by confirming you control the email address tied to your order. We will acknowledge receipt within 10 business days and respond substantively within 45 calendar days; if your request is unusually complex, we may extend that by up to another 45 days and will tell you in writing why.

EU, UK, and EEA residents (GDPR / UK GDPR)

If you are in the EU, UK, or EEA, you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict the processing of, port, and object to the processing of your personal information. Our legal bases for processing are:

To exercise any right, email support@apollolamps.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.

International data transfers

Grad School Alternative LLC is based in Orange, California, United States. We host the site on Cloudflare’s global network, and our service providers operate primarily from the United States. If you visit the site from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States and other countries where these vendors operate. (We currently ship to U.S. addresses only.)

Where personal information leaves the EU, EEA, or UK in the course of these service providers performing their work, those providers rely on transfer mechanisms recognised by EU and UK law — primarily the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (June 2021 version), supplemented by the UK International Data Transfer Addendum where UK personal data is involved. Each provider’s privacy and DPA pages, linked above, describe their current safeguards in more detail.

Children

The site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe we have collected information about a child under 13, contact us and we’ll delete it. You must be at least 18 years old to place an order.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Continued use of the site after a change takes effect means you accept the revised policy.

Accessibility

We aim to make this site usable by everyone, including people using assistive technologies, and we target Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA conformance as a baseline. If you encounter a barrier on the site — a screen-reader issue, a low-contrast control, a focus trap, anything — email support@apollolamps.com and tell us what happened. We will work to fix it, and to give you another way to do what you were trying to do in the meantime.

Contact

Questions, requests, or complaints about this Privacy Policy:
Grad School Alternative LLC (Apollo Lamps)
445 N Pine St, Orange, CA 92866
Email: support@apollolamps.com

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