Privacy Policy

At Belico Hats, we honor the trust you place in us when you visit our site and explore the headwear collections we showcase. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, protect, and share your information when you browse our curated selection of bold, culturally-rooted hats and caps. We are committed to transparency about our data practices and your rights under U.S. and international privacy laws.

Information Belico Hats Collects About You

We gather information in three primary ways as you interact with our hat collections and content:

Information You Provide Directly

When you subscribe to our newsletter, submit a contact form, or reach out to us about specific Belico Hats designs (like the Junior H Collection or Sad Boyz Edition caps), you voluntarily share personal details such as your name, email address, and any message content you include. This direct communication helps us understand which hat styles resonate with our community and respond to your questions about our artist collaborations or regional collections.

Information Collected Automatically

As you browse our men’s hats, women’s hats, trucker styles, and fitted caps, our website automatically gathers technical data including your IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, and pages you view. We track which Belico Hats collections you spend time exploring — whether you’re drawn to the Scarface Edition, Panter designs, or rhinestone styles — along with your navigation patterns and the affiliate links you click when heading to Amazon to purchase a hat that speaks to you.

Information From Third Parties

When you click an Amazon affiliate link from our product pages and complete a purchase, Amazon shares limited tracking data with us through their Associates Program to confirm the transaction occurred. We also receive aggregated analytics from Google Analytics about visitor behavior across our headwear categories. These third-party sources never provide us with your Amazon account credentials or detailed purchase history — only confirmation that a referral conversion happened.

How We Use Your Information at Belico Hats

The data we collect serves specific purposes tied to improving your experience with our hat collections and sustaining our ability to showcase Belico Hats designs:

• Operating and improving our website: We analyze which collaboration collections (Canelo Alvarez, Fuerza Regida, Peso Pluma) attract the most interest and which product categories need better presentation, then refine our content accordingly.
• Responding to your inquiries: When you contact us about a specific hat style, sizing questions, or care recommendations for premium trucker caps, we use your email and message content solely to provide helpful, personalized responses.
• Sending you updates (with your consent): If you opt into our newsletter, we share news about new Belico Hats releases, limited edition drops (like the Lucky Edition or Dragon Ball Z styles), and featured collections. Every email includes an unsubscribe option.
• Earning affiliate commissions: As an Amazon Associates participant, we use tracking cookies to confirm when a visitor clicks through our hat recommendations and makes a purchase, allowing us to earn a small commission that supports our continued curation of Belico Hats content.
• Complying with legal obligations: We retain necessary records to meet tax requirements, respond to valid legal requests, and protect our rights if disputes arise regarding our affiliate content or brand partnerships.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies on Belico Hats

Our website uses cookies — small text files stored on your device — to remember your preferences, track which hat styles you view, and measure affiliate link performance. Here’s what we deploy:

Essential Cookies

These keep our site functioning properly and remember basic choices like whether you’ve dismissed our cookie notice. They’re necessary for core operations and don’t track you across other websites.

Analytics Cookies

Google Analytics helps us understand aggregate patterns: how many visitors explore our men’s hats versus women’s collections, which collaboration editions generate the most interest, how long people spend reading our sizing guides. This data is anonymized and helps us prioritize content updates.

Advertising and Affiliate Cookies

Amazon Associates tracking cookies confirm when you click one of our product recommendations and complete a purchase. These cookies let Amazon attribute the sale to our referral so we can earn a commission on hats like the Panter Belico Hat or Stars Edition styles.

How to Manage Cookies

Most browsers let you refuse cookies or delete existing ones through your settings menu. Blocking cookies won’t prevent you from browsing our Belico Hats collections, but it will disable our affiliate tracking (we won’t earn commissions on your purchases) and prevent us from remembering your preferences. Your browser’s help documentation explains cookie management for your specific setup.

How Belico Hats Shares Your Information

We share your data only with trusted partners who help us operate this website and comply with legal requirements — never for unrelated marketing purposes:

• Service Providers: Our web hosting company, email newsletter platform, and analytics tools process your information on our behalf under strict confidentiality agreements. For example, our email service sends newsletter updates about new Belico Hats drops only to subscribers who opted in.
• Affiliate Partners: Amazon receives basic click and referral data when you use our affiliate links to shop for trucker hats, fitted caps, or collaboration editions. This tracking is necessary for the Associates Program to function and for us to earn commissions.
• Legal Requirements: We will disclose information if required by valid subpoena, court order, or law enforcement request, or if necessary to protect our legal rights, prevent fraud, or ensure user safety.
• Business Transfers: If Belico Hats were acquired or merged with another entity, your information would transfer to the new owner under this same privacy policy.

We do not sell your personal information to data brokers, third-party advertisers, or mailing list companies. Your interest in our hat collections stays between you, us, and the limited partners listed above.

Data Security at Belico Hats

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure. Our website uses SSL encryption for data transmission, secure hosting infrastructure, and access controls limiting who on our team can view subscriber lists or contact form submissions. However, no internet transmission is completely secure — while we take reasonable precautions, we cannot guarantee absolute security of information you share when browsing our headwear collections or signing up for updates.

Your Privacy Rights Under U.S. and International Law

Depending on where you live, you have specific rights regarding your personal information. Belico Hats respects these rights and provides mechanisms to exercise them:

Rights for All Users

• Access: You can request a copy of the personal information we hold about you, such as your newsletter subscription email or contact form messages.
• Correction: If your information is inaccurate (for example, an outdated email address), you can ask us to correct it.
• Deletion: You can request we delete your information, subject to legal retention requirements like tax records or fraud prevention.
• Opt-Out: You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the link in every newsletter about new Belico Hats releases.

GDPR Rights (European Union Users)

If you access our site from the EU, the General Data Protection Regulation grants additional rights including data portability (receiving your information in a machine-readable format), objecting to certain processing, and restricting how we use your data. We process your information based on your consent (newsletter signups), our legitimate interests (improving our hat collections content), or legal obligations (tax compliance).

CCPA and CPRA Rights (California Residents)

California’s privacy laws give you the right to know what personal information we collect, request deletion, opt out of data sales (we don’t sell data, but this right still applies), and not face discrimination for exercising your rights. You can also limit how we use sensitive personal information, though we don’t collect categories defined as “sensitive” under CPRA (precise geolocation, biometrics, etc.) when you browse our Belico Hats pages.

VCDPA (Virginia), CPA (Colorado), CTDPA (Connecticut), and UCPA (Utah) Rights

If you reside in Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, or Utah, you have rights similar to California’s CCPA: access, correction, deletion, data portability, and opting out of targeted advertising or profiling. We don’t engage in profiling or targeted advertising beyond Amazon’s affiliate tracking, but these opt-out rights remain available to you.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To make a privacy request, email us at the address provided in our Contact Us section below. Include your full name, the email you used to subscribe or contact us, and a clear description of your request (e.g., “Delete my newsletter subscription and all associated data” or “Provide a copy of information you hold about me”). We’ll respond within 30–45 days depending on the complexity of your request and applicable law. We may ask for verification (confirming the email address matches our records) before processing deletion or access requests to protect against fraudulent requests.

Children’s Privacy and Belico Hats

Our website showcases headwear for adults and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If a parent or guardian discovers their child has provided us with information without consent, contact us immediately and we will delete it from our systems. Our collections — from collaboration editions with regional artists to bold statement designs — target adult audiences who appreciate culturally-rooted fashion, not children’s demographics.

Third-Party Links in Our Hat Collections

Our product pages include affiliate links directing you to Amazon to purchase Belico Hats designs like the Ondeados Collection, Department trucker styles, or Murakami collaboration pieces. Once you click through to Amazon or any other external site, that company’s privacy policy governs your visit — not ours. We encourage you to review Amazon’s privacy practices before making purchases, as they collect their own data about your browsing and buying behavior independent of Belico Hats. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external sites we link to.

International Data Transfers

Belico Hats operates from the United States. If you access our site from outside the U.S. (such as the European Union, Canada, or Latin America), your information will be transferred to and stored on U.S. servers. By using our website to explore our men’s hats, women’s collections, or collaboration editions, you consent to this transfer. We take appropriate safeguards to protect your data under international frameworks like GDPR adequacy decisions and standard contractual clauses with service providers.

How Long We Keep Your Information

We retain your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy or comply with legal requirements:

• Newsletter subscribers: Until you unsubscribe or we discontinue the newsletter program.
• Contact form inquiries: Typically 2–3 years for customer service records, then deleted unless ongoing correspondence requires retention.
• Analytics data: Google Analytics retains aggregated visitor data for 26 months under our current settings; we periodically review and delete older reports.
• Affiliate tracking cookies: Amazon Associates cookies expire after 24 hours per Amazon’s standard policy; we don’t control this retention period.

If you request deletion of your information, we comply within 30 days unless legal obligations (tax records, fraud prevention, active legal claims) require us to retain certain data.

Email Communications from Belico Hats

When you subscribe to our newsletter, we send periodic updates about new hat releases (like limited edition artist collaborations or seasonal drops), featured collections (trucker hats, fitted styles, rhinestone editions), and content related to our headwear curation. We do not share your email address with third parties for their marketing purposes. Every email includes an unsubscribe link that immediately removes you from future mailings. If you unsubscribe, we’ll only email you again if you re-subscribe or if we need to respond to a direct inquiry you sent us separately.

Do Not Track Signals and Belico Hats

Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals requesting websites not track your activity. Currently, there is no industry standard for how to respond to DNT signals, and our website does not alter its behavior based on DNT settings. However, you can always manage cookies through your browser settings or opt out of Google Analytics tracking using Google’s browser add-on. These tools give you control over tracking even if DNT signals aren’t universally recognized.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, new legal requirements (like additional U.S. state privacy laws), or expansions to our Belico Hats content and affiliate partnerships. When we make material changes, we’ll update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page and, if you’re a newsletter subscriber, notify you via email about significant revisions affecting your rights. We encourage you to review this policy whenever you visit our men’s hats, women’s collections, or collaboration pages to stay informed about how we protect your information.

Contact Belico Hats About Privacy

If you have questions about this privacy policy, want to exercise your rights under GDPR, CCPA, or other privacy laws, or need assistance with your newsletter subscription or data requests, reach out to us:

For privacy-specific inquiries (data access, deletion, opt-out requests), please include “Privacy Request” in your email subject line to ensure prompt routing to the right team member. We respond to all privacy requests within 30–45 days depending on complexity and applicable law.

Belico Hats creates bold, culturally-rooted headwear that honors Mexican-American heritage and regional pride. From artist collaborations to statement designs, each piece celebrates individuality, authenticity, and the stories we carry forward through what we wear.