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Privacy & sourcing.

When you send a sourcing request or style profile, you share your name, contact details, shopping preferences, and any notes, links, or inspiration images you choose to include.

How your information is used

Your information is stored with this site so the shop owner can review requests, understand community preferences, and contact you about possible matches. Submissions and uploaded images are not displayed publicly. When notifications are enabled, new-request details are included in emails to Lainy. This form does not enroll you in marketing emails or text alerts.

Styling & Seller’s Guide access

Styling and guide requests store your name, email, selected service, notes, and approval status. The owner uses them to arrange sessions and confirm payment. Guide access uses your ChatGPT sign-in email to match an approved paid request. No card or bank details are collected here; payments take place through Venmo or Cash App. When enabled, new submissions are checked hourly and emailed to Lainy for follow-up; customer confirmation emails are sent manually. Requests do not subscribe you to marketing.

What a request means

A sourcing request is a wish list, not an order or agreement to buy. There is no guarantee that an item will be found, offered at a particular price, available, purchased, or fulfilled. If there’s a possible match, Lainy can contact you to discuss it. Purchases take place on the marketplace where the item is listed, under that marketplace’s payment, shipping, and return terms.

Inspiration images & links

Only upload images you have permission to share. Avoid sensitive personal information, payment details, or images of private documents. Inspiration helps communicate your style; it does not promise an exact match. A designer-inspired aesthetic describes a look, not a request for counterfeit branded goods.

Storage & technical information

Requests remain in the private owner inbox for sourcing and follow-up until removed. Uploaded images are stored privately. Hosting providers process information needed to operate the website. To limit repeated spam, a temporary hashed request identifier is stored for approximately one hour. No payment details are collected by this site.

Questions, corrections, or deletion

Message Lainy on Instagram with the name and contact information used in your request if you want it corrected or removed. Do not send sensitive details in public comments.

Shopping elsewhere

Vinted, Whatnot, Etsy, and Instagram are separate services with their own privacy policies. Links open in a new tab so you can return to misceLAINYous when you’re ready.