Privacy policy

PRIVACY POLICY

'Merica Threads

mericathreads.com

Last updated: June 22, 2026

Introduction

'Merica Threads (mericathreads.com) is a brand of OGC Holdings LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. 'Merica Threads operates this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services, in order to provide you with a curated shopping experience (the "Services"). 'Merica Threads is powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide the Services to you.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit, use, or make a purchase using the Services, enter any of our giveaways or promotions, or otherwise communicate with us. If there is a conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy controls with respect to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal information.

For the complete corporate privacy policy governing 'Merica Threads and all affiliated brands under OGC Holdings LLC — including cross-brand data sharing, holding company disclosures, and full international data transfer provisions — please visit ogcholdings.com/privacy. By using mericathreads.com, making a purchase, or entering any promotion, you agree to both this Privacy Policy and the full OGC Holdings LLC Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and understand the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described herein.


1. Personal Information We Collect

When we use the term "personal information," we are referring to information that identifies or can reasonably be linked to you. We may collect or process the following categories of personal information depending on how you interact with the Services:

  • Contact details including your name, address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, and email address
  • Financial information including credit card, debit card, and payment account information, transaction details, and payment confirmation
  • Account information including your username, password, security questions, preferences, and settings
  • Transaction information including items you view, add to your cart, purchase, return, exchange, or cancel, and your past transactions
  • Giveaway and promotion entry information including entry form submissions, opt-in selections, and referral activity
  • Communications with us including customer support inquiries and correspondence
  • Device information including your IP address, browser type, network connection, and unique device identifiers
  • Usage information including how and when you interact with or navigate the Services


2. Sources of Personal Information

We may collect personal information from the following sources:

  • Directly from you when you create an account, visit or use the Services, enter a giveaway, communicate with us, or otherwise provide us with your personal information
  • Automatically through the Services from your device when you use our products or services or visit our websites, and through the use of cookies and similar technologies
  • From giveaway and promotion platforms including ViralSweep when you enter a promotion
  • From our service providers including Shopify, Klaviyo, Printify, and Zapier when they collect or process your personal information on our behalf
  • From our partners or other third parties including social media platforms when you interact with our content


3. How We Use Your Personal Information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

Provide, Tailor, and Improve the Services: To process your payments, fulfill your orders, remember your preferences, send notifications related to your account, process purchases, returns and exchanges, create and maintain your account, arrange for shipping, and create a customized shopping experience for you.

Marketing and Advertising: To send marketing, advertising, and promotional communications by email, text message, or postal mail, and to show you online advertisements for products or services on the Services or other websites, including based on items you previously purchased or added to your cart.

Giveaways and Promotions: To administer giveaways, select and notify winners, award bonus entries, and communicate promotion-related updates.

Security and Fraud Prevention: To authenticate your account, provide a secure payment and shopping experience, detect and investigate possible fraudulent or illegal activity, and protect public safety.

Communicating with You: To provide customer support, respond to your inquiries, and maintain our business relationship with you.

Legal Reasons: To comply with applicable law, respond to valid legal process, investigate or participate in legal proceedings, and enforce or investigate potential violations of our terms or policies.


4. Email and SMS Marketing Consent

4.1 Email Marketing: By providing your email address and opting in through our website, checkout, or any giveaway entry form, you consent to receive recurring email marketing communications from 'Merica Threads, OGC Holdings LLC, RDV Holdings LLC, and their affiliated brands. You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email. Each brand maintains an independent unsubscribe option. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails such as order confirmations and shipping updates.

4.2 SMS Marketing: By providing your phone number and checking the SMS opt-in box on any of our forms, giveaway entry pages, or checkout pages, you expressly consent to receive recurring automated marketing text messages from 'Merica Threads, OGC Holdings LLC, RDV Holdings LLC, and their affiliated brands at the phone number provided. Consent is not a condition of purchase. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies. Reply STOP to opt out at any time. Reply HELP for assistance. Each brand maintains an independent SMS opt-out option. We comply with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and applicable state and international telecommunications laws.


5. Giveaways and Promotions

When you enter any giveaway or promotion hosted or co-hosted by 'Merica Threads (including but not limited to the USA 250th Birthday Dream Trip Giveaway), your entry information will be used to administer the promotion, select and notify winners, and add you to marketing lists subject to your opt-in selections at the time of entry.

Where a giveaway is co-sponsored with RDV Holdings LLC and The Worldwide Travelers, your information may be shared with those entities subject to your opt-in consent at entry. Each brand maintains an independent unsubscribe option. Opting out of marketing communications does not affect your eligibility to enter or win.

Full giveaway terms are available in the Official Rules posted on the applicable giveaway entry page. No purchase is necessary to enter or win any promotion.


6. How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy, including:

  • With Shopify, vendors, and other third parties who perform services on our behalf including IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment, and shipping
  • With business and marketing partners to provide marketing services and advertise to you
  • With affiliated brands under OGC Holdings LLC and, where you have consented, with affiliated brands under RDV Holdings LLC, for marketing and promotional purposes
  • When you direct, request, or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties
  • In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or acquisition
  • To comply with applicable legal obligations, respond to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests, enforce our terms, and protect our rights and the rights of our users

We do not sell your personal information to unaffiliated third parties for their own marketing purposes.


7. Relationship with Shopify

The Services are hosted by Shopify, which collects and processes personal information about your access to and use of the Services in order to provide and improve the Services for you. Information you submit to the Services will be transmitted to and shared with Shopify as well as third parties that may be located in countries other than where you reside.

Shopify may make use of personal information collected about your interactions with our store along with other merchants and with Shopify in order to provide enhanced features. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and to exercise any rights you may have, visit the Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy at privacy.shopify.com.


8. Third-Party Service Providers

We use trusted third-party service providers to help us operate our business and deliver our services. These providers may access your personal information only as necessary to perform their functions:

  • Shopify — e-commerce platform and order processing
  • Printify — print-on-demand production and fulfillment
  • Klaviyo — email and SMS marketing
  • ViralSweep — giveaway and contest management
  • Zapier — workflow automation and data integration
  • Twilio / SendBlue — SMS and messaging services
  • GoDaddy — domain registration and DNS management


9. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies, pixel tags, and similar tracking technologies to analyze traffic, personalize your shopping experience, track conversions, and serve relevant advertising including retargeting ads. You may control cookie settings through your browser. We use third-party analytics and advertising services including Meta Pixel and Google Analytics. Please note that if you visit our website with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal enabled, depending on where you are, we will automatically treat this as a request to opt out for the device and browser that you use to visit the website.


10. Third-Party Websites and Links

The Services may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites. Our inclusion of such links does not imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators.


11. Children's Privacy

The Services are not intended to be used by children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children under the age of majority in your jurisdiction. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the details below to request that it be deleted. As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we share or sell personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.


12. Security and Retention of Your Information

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee perfect security. We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. All payment data is encrypted and processed through secure, PCI-compliant payment processors.

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, provide you with Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce other applicable contracts and policies. We retain customer and order data for a minimum of five years to comply with financial, tax, and legal obligations.


13. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights in relation to your personal information:

  • Right to Access / Know: You may request access to personal information that we hold about you
  • Right to Delete: You may request that we delete personal information we maintain about you
  • Right to Correct: You may request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you
  • Right of Portability: You may receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and request that we transfer it to a third party in certain circumstances
  • Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing for Targeted Advertising: Depending on where you reside, you may have a right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for targeted advertising purposes
  • Managing Communication Preferences: You may opt out of promotional emails at any time by using the unsubscribe option in our emails. You may opt out of SMS messages by replying STOP to any text message

You may exercise any of these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided below. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, visit privacy.shopify.com.


14. International Transfers

Please note that we may transfer, store, and process your personal information outside the country you live in. If we transfer your personal information out of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms like the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or any equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the UK, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection.


15. Full Corporate Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy covers mericathreads.com specifically. For the complete corporate privacy policy governing 'Merica Threads and all affiliated brands under OGC Holdings LLC — including full cross-brand data sharing provisions, holding company disclosures, and detailed international privacy rights — please visit:

ogcholdings.com/privacy


16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on this website, update the "Last updated" date, and provide notice as required by applicable law.


17. Complaints

If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal our decision or lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority.


18. Contact Us

Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please contact us at:

'Merica Threads / OGC Holdings LLC

Email: info@mericathreads.com

Mailing Address: 1846 East Innovation Park Drive, Oro Valley, AZ 85755, United States

Website: mericathreads.com


Last updated: June 22, 2026

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