Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 3, 2026

1. Introduction

King Pen Studio LLC (“King Pen Studio,” “we,” “us,” “our,” and related variations) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and security of the personal and business information you provide to us or that we otherwise obtain in connection with your use of our website, forms, applications, communications, products, and services (collectively, the “Site” and the “Services”).

This Privacy Policy explains in detail how we collect, receive, access, use, process, store, disclose, retain, and protect information when you visit the Site, submit an inquiry, complete an intake or consultation form, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with King Pen Studio.

This Privacy Policy applies to all visitors, clients, business owners, authorized representatives, and other individuals whose information is submitted to or processed by King Pen Studio. By accessing or using the Site or Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you should not use the Site or Services.

This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Terms & Conditions and any additional disclosures, authorizations, or consents presented to you in connection with the Services.

2. Scope of This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected:

• directly through our Site;
• through online forms, landing pages, contact forms, and intake forms;
• through phone calls, text messages, emails, and other communications with King Pen Studio;
• through third-party integrations or tools used in connection with the Services;
• from third-party service providers, formation partners, marketing sources, analytics tools, and data providers;
• in connection with efforts to evaluate, facilitate, market, or support business consulting, formation, and digital strategy services.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites, platforms, or services owned or controlled by third parties, including state filing agencies, banking institutions, advertisers, affiliates, or other external parties, even if linked on our Site. Those third parties have their own privacy policies and practices, and we encourage you to review them separately.

3. Information We Collect

We collect several categories of information depending on how you interact with the Site and Services.

A. Personal Information You Provide Directly

• Full legal name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Mailing address
• Residential address, where applicable
• Date of birth, where applicable
• Social Security number or other identification number, where applicable and permitted
• Driver’s license or other government-issued identification information, where applicable
• Ownership information
• Any other personal information you choose to provide in forms, uploads, messages, calls, or communications

B. Business Information

• Business name
• DBA name
• Entity type
• Business address
• Business email
• Business telephone number
• Industry type / NAICS code
• Date business was established
• Ownership structure
• EIN or tax identification number
• D-U-N-S number
• Licensing or registration information
• Business formation and public filing information
• Other business profile data relevant to consulting, formation, or brand strategy services

C. Communications and Submission Information

• Emails
• SMS or text messages
• Call notes
• Voicemails
• Chat messages
• Uploaded documents
• Support requests
• Responses to follow-up questions
• Other information you voluntarily submit

D. Usage Data and Automatically Collected Information

• Internet Protocol (IP) address
• Browser type and browser version
• Device type
• Operating system
• Referring website or URL
• Pages viewed
• Time spent on pages
• Date and time of access
• Clickstream data
• Unique device identifiers
• Cookies and similar tracking technologies
• Diagnostic and performance data

E. Information from Third Parties

• State filing agencies and government records
• Identity verification providers
• Public databases and business registries
• Data enrichment providers
• Marketing partners, affiliates, and lead providers

4. How We Collect Information

We collect information in several ways, including:

• Directly from you, when you fill out forms, upload documents, request services, or communicate with us.
• Automatically, when you browse the Site through cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, analytics tools, and similar technologies.
• From third parties, including state agencies, service providers, and business partners.
• From public or commercially available sources, including business records and government filings.

You acknowledge that the completeness and accuracy of the information we process may depend in part on the information you and third parties provide.

5. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for legitimate business, operational, legal, compliance, security, and marketing purposes. These uses may include, without limitation:

• To provide, operate, maintain, and improve the Site and Services
• To review and process inquiries, intake forms, and consultation requests
• To assist with business formation filings, EIN applications, and D-U-N-S registration
• To provide brand direction, digital strategy, and business structure consulting
• To communicate with you about your inquiry, engagement, or services
• To request documents, clarify submissions, and facilitate service delivery
• To verify your identity, ownership, and authority to act on behalf of a business
• To detect, prevent, investigate, and address fraud, misuse, security incidents, and unlawful conduct
• To conduct analytics, reporting, service development, testing, and internal research
• To personalize content and user experience
• To send you notices, reminders, updates, service messages, and promotional offers
• To enforce our Terms & Conditions and other agreements
• To comply with legal, regulatory, audit, recordkeeping, and compliance obligations
• To protect our rights, property, systems, users, and business interests
• To support business transfers, restructuring, or similar corporate activities

We may also use de-identified, anonymized, or aggregated information for internal analysis, business intelligence, market research, benchmarking, and service improvements.

6. Legal Bases for Processing

Where required by applicable law, King Pen Studio processes information based on one or more lawful grounds, which may include: your consent; the need to perform a contract or take steps at your request before entering into a contract; compliance with a legal obligation; our legitimate business interests, including fraud prevention, service improvement, marketing, internal administration, and business operations; or the protection of vital interests or legal rights.

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to object to certain processing activities or withdraw consent where consent is the legal basis. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing conducted before the withdrawal.

7. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal information to unrelated third parties for general consumer resale. However, we may share your information in the following circumstances and with the following categories of recipients:

A. Formation and Filing Partners

We may share your information with state agencies, registered agent services, and filing partners as needed to complete LLC formation, EIN applications, D-U-N-S registration, and related filings on your behalf.

B. Service Providers and Vendors

We may share information with third-party service providers that perform services on our behalf, including providers of website hosting, cloud storage, CRM and customer management tools, analytics, communications and messaging, identity verification, document management, IT support, and marketing assistance.

C. Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Disclosures

We may disclose information where we believe such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or legal process; respond to lawful requests from regulators, law enforcement, or government authorities; enforce our agreements and policies; protect our rights, property, systems, personnel, users, or business partners; investigate, prevent, or address fraud, abuse, or security issues; or protect against legal liability.

D. Corporate Transactions

If King Pen Studio is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or similar transaction, your information may be disclosed to counterparties, advisors, and relevant third parties as part of that process, subject to applicable confidentiality and legal requirements.

E. With Your Direction or Consent

We may share your information with other parties when you direct us to do so or otherwise consent to such disclosure.

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We and our vendors may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, and similar technologies to collect usage and device information and to improve the Site and Services. These technologies may be used to remember preferences and settings, maintain sessions, understand how users interact with the Site, improve functionality and performance, measure traffic and campaign effectiveness, personalize content, support marketing, and detect fraud.

You may be able to manage or disable certain cookies through your browser settings. However, doing so may affect the functionality or availability of certain features of the Site.

9. Data Security

King Pen Studio uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures may include encrypted transmission methods, secure hosting environments, user access restrictions, credential controls, internal policies and procedures, monitoring for suspicious activity, vendor oversight, and data minimization practices.

Despite our efforts, no website, network, system, database, or transmission method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your information, and you provide information at your own risk. If we become aware of a material security incident affecting your information, we may take steps consistent with applicable law and our operational judgment, including providing notice where legally required.

10. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide and support the Services, communicate with you, maintain business and compliance records, comply with legal, tax, audit, and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, detect and prevent fraud and abuse, preserve evidence, and support legitimate business operations.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the nature of the relationship, the Services requested, and applicable legal or operational requirements. We may retain certain information even after your relationship with us ends, including archived, backup, compliance, audit, dispute, and security-related records.

11. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction and applicable law, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information, which may include the right to:

• Request access to certain personal information we maintain about you
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
• Request deletion of certain personal information, subject to legal and operational exceptions
• Request restriction of certain processing
• Object to certain processing
• Request portability of certain information where applicable
• Withdraw consent, where processing is based on consent
• Appeal a denial of a privacy rights request where applicable by law

We may need to verify your identity and authority before processing certain requests. We may deny or limit requests where permitted by law, including where the request is manifestly unfounded, excessive, conflicts with legal obligations, or would infringe on the rights of others. To exercise available rights, you may contact us using the contact details set forth below.

12. Marketing Communications and Opt-Out

King Pen Studio may send you emails, calls, text messages, and other communications related to your inquiry, engagement, available services, promotional offers, and related business consulting opportunities, subject to applicable law.

You may opt out of receiving certain marketing or promotional communications by:

• Clicking the unsubscribe link in an email
• Replying STOP to a text message, where applicable
• Following opt-out instructions contained in the communication
• Emailing us directly at info@kingpenstudio.com

Please allow a reasonable time for processing opt-out requests. Even if you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send you non-marketing or transactional messages related to your inquiry, account, engagement, security, or compliance, where permitted by law.

13. Third-Party Links and External Websites

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, portals, applications, or services that are not owned or controlled by King Pen Studio. We provide these links for convenience only. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, availability, security, terms, or policies of any third-party websites or services.

Your interactions with any third-party site or service are governed by that party’s own policies and terms. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party services you access.

14. Children’s Privacy

Our Site and Services are intended for business owners, business representatives, and adults engaged in business consulting inquiries. Our Services are not directed to children, and we do not knowingly solicit or knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 through the Site or Services.

If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that a child under 13 has provided personal information to us without your consent, please contact us promptly so that we may review the matter and, where appropriate, take reasonable steps to delete such information from our active records.

If we become aware that we have knowingly collected personal information from a child under 13 in a manner inconsistent with applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to remove that information from our systems, subject to any legal obligations to retain certain records.

15. International and State-Specific Considerations

King Pen Studio primarily operates in the United States and serves clients across all 50 states. If you access the Site or Services from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States or other jurisdictions where we or our service providers operate.

If you are a resident of a state or jurisdiction that grants additional privacy rights, we will address such requests in accordance with applicable law. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit rights granted under applicable privacy statutes.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

King Pen Studio may update, revise, or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time in our sole discretion to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, technology, business operations, or Services.

When we make changes, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on this page and revise the Effective Date at the top. Where required by law or where we deem appropriate, we may also provide additional notice, such as by email, website notice, or other communication methods.

Your continued use of the Site or Services after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective constitutes your acknowledgment of the updated terms to the extent permitted by law.

17. Contact Information

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact us at:

Thank you for choosing King Pen Studio. We are committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining a secure, transparent, and professional experience for every visitor and client we serve. We take the handling of your information seriously and strive to use it responsibly, safeguard it appropriately, and process it in a manner consistent with applicable law and sound business practices as we help you write your next chapter.