1. Introduction
Great Plains Armory LLC (website address: https://8b6f5af5-4a73-43c9-92e2-792c8e8715b4.express.conves.io/) appreciates your business and trust. We are a South Dakota-based company operating an in-home Federal Firearms License (FFL) and e-commerce platform dedicated to providing quality firearms, cutlery, and related sporting goods.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using our website, purchasing products, or utilizing our FFL transfer services, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as outlined in this policy and our accompanying Terms and Conditions.
 
2. Data Collected
Data Storage Location
We are a United States-based company operating our web servers in accordance with high industry security standards. All transaction data, user account information, and e-commerce records are stored securely on servers located within the United States.
Registration Data
If you register an account on our website, we store your chosen username, your email address, and any additional personal or professional information added to your user profile (such as shipping/billing addresses, telephone numbers, and FFL details). You can view, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except for changing your username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information to assist with account management and order fulfillment.
Purchase & Compliance Data
When you make a purchase on our website, we collect information necessary to fulfill your order and maintain compliance with federal, state, and local laws governing the sale of firearms, cutlery, and regulated accessories. This includes billing and shipping details, payment verification signatures, and, where applicable, the name, license number, and address of your designated Federal Firearms License (FFL) transfer dealer. For consignment sales, we collect and retain necessary legal identification and property documentation as required by law.
Support Data
If you submit a customer support request, inquiry, or contact form message through our website, we collect the details you explicitly provide (such as your name, email address, order number, and message content). This data is used solely to assist you, facilitate resolutions, and provide technical or customer service.
Comments & Reviews
When visitors leave comments or product reviews on the website, we collect the data shown in the form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in automated spam detection and protect the security of our platform.
Contact Form Submissions
Information submitted through the contact forms on our site is sent directly to our secure company email infrastructure. These submissions are retained primarily for customer service, record-keeping, and operational fulfillment purposes. They are never sold or shared with unrelated third parties for external marketing purposes.
Site Analytics
We use industry-standard web analytics tools on our site for anonymous reporting of website usage, traffic patterns, and performance metrics. If you wish to opt-out of standard user-behavior tracking, you may adjust your browser settings or utilize the official Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Cases for Using Your Personal Data
We use your personal information in the following cases:
  • Identity Verification: Confirming user identity, age requirements, and compliance credentials during account creation and transaction checkouts.
  • Order Fulfillment & FFL Coordination: Processing commerce transactions, organizing logistics with certified FFL dealers, and managing shipping for cutlery, consignment, and general inventory.
  • Customer Service: Providing direct notifications, updates, technical assistance, and answering inquiries regarding active orders.
  • Fraud & Risk Mitigation: Monitoring account activity, securing payment channels, and reviewing transactions to prevent fraudulent actions and ensure the protection of our customers’ sensitive information.
  • Regulatory Record Keeping: Maintaining lawful business data logs required for a retail business.
  • Platform Performance: Optimizing the website architecture to ensure smooth administrative, hosting, and checkout functions.
4. Cookies
This site uses cookies—small text files that are placed on your machine to help the platform provide a secure and optimized user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store functional data for checkout sequences (such as persisting items in your shopping cart), and provide anonymized tracking data to third-party applications like Google Analytics.
Cookies exist to ensure your browsing and purchasing experience runs smoothly. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to manage or disable cookies directly within your internet browser settings by consulting your browser’s integrated Help section. Please note that disabling cookies may disrupt core e-commerce features, such as maintaining a shopping session or securely logging into your account.
Necessary Cookies (All Site Visitors)
  • WooCommerce Session Cookies (wp_woocommerce_session_, woocommerce_cart_hash, woocommerce_items_in_cart): Vital functional cookies that allow the e-commerce system to recognize you as a unique visitor, track items added to your shopping cart, and ensure precise order calculation during checkout.
  • PHPSESSID: A standard cookie used to identify your unique, active server session on the website to maintain site stability.
  • Cloudflare Security Flags: Used by security and content delivery networks to identify legitimate, individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security filtering on a per-client basis to safeguard the site against malicious automated traffic. See their framework here: Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
Necessary Cookies (Additional for Logged-In Customers & Admins)
  • wp-auth / wordpress_logged_in_{hash}: Used natively by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, manage password authentication parameters, and perform secure session verification.
  • wordpress_test_cookie: Used by WordPress during login sequences to check if cookies are enabled on your current web browser.
  • wp-settings-[UID] & wp-settings-time-[UID]: Set by the content management system to store your customized structural preferences for the administrative interface and core layouts, mapping directly to your individual user database configuration.
4. Cookies

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.

Necessary Cookies (all site visitors)
  • cfduid: Is used for our CDN CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. See more information on privacy here: CloudFlare Privacy Policy.
  • PHPSESSID: To identify your unique session on the website.
Necessary Cookies (Additional for Logged in Customers)
  • wp-auth: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication and user verification.
  • wordpress_logged_in_{hash}: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication and user verification.
  • wordpress_test_cookie Used by WordPress to ensure cookies are working correctly.
  • wp-settings-[UID]: WordPress sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
  • wp-settings-[UID]:WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
5. Who Has Access To Your Data
For unregistered visitors, Great Plains Armory LLC retains no personal information, while registered clients and partners have their data accessed strictly by internal system administrators, authorized regulatory entities like the ATF, specialized compliance providers such as FastBound, and secure payment processors. These authorized parties handle information exclusively under strict security parameters for logistics, compliance, billing, and fulfillment. You can review the complete privacy policy on the Great Plains Armory LLC website.
 
6. Third Party Access to Your Data
6. Third-Party Access to Your Data
Great Plains Armory LLC does not share your personal data with unrelated third parties in a way that reveals personally identifiable information (PII) such as your email address, name, or contact details, except in the limited circumstances described below. We share limited data strictly with trusted partners to provide the secure commerce, fulfillment, and regulatory services you expect from us:
Payment Processors
We utilize secure, industry-standard payment processing gateways to handle your transactions. These providers collect and process your payment information (e.g., encrypted credit card details) to facilitate secure payment processing. We do not directly store your full credit card or payment information on our servers.
Shipping & Freight Carriers
To fulfill and deliver your orders, we share your shipping address, name, and contact information with trusted shipping carriers. This information is used solely to route and transport your purchased goods, including cutlery and related items.
Designated Federal Firearms License (FFL) Dealers
For firearm purchases, we share transaction and shipping information (including your name, address, and contact details) with your designated local FFL transfer dealer. This information is required by law to facilitate the proper transfer of ownership, physical distribution, and necessary background checks at your receiving location.
Compliance & Regulatory Partners
To ensure strict adherence to federal, state, and local firearms regulations, we share necessary transaction logging data with specialized compliance service providers, such as FastBound, or regulatory bodies like the ATF when required by law. This includes data points mandatory for official record-keeping, acquisition and disposition (A&D) logging, and reporting requirements.
Technical Service Providers
We may utilize trusted third-party service providers for secure website hosting, data analytics, and technical store infrastructure. These partners are contractually obligated to protect your database privacy and are not permitted to use or disclose your information for any secondary purposes.
We require all third-party service providers to adhere to strict data protection standards. We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to any third parties for marketing purposes.
 
7. How Long We Retain Your Data For
When you submit a contact form inquiry, support request, or public product comment, the submission and its associated metadata are retained indefinitely to enable us to provide consistent customer support, track transaction inquiries, and automatically recognize and approve subsequent comments instead of holding them for manual moderation.
If you register an account on our website, we securely store the personal information you provide in your user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal account information at any time (with the exception of changing their username). Website administrators can also view and edit that information to assist with account management, platform maintenance, and order tracking.
Regulatory Data Retention Exceptions
Please note that as a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL), Great Plains Armory LLC is subject to federal, state, and local laws that override standard data erasure requests. Financial data, tax information, and transaction history related to firearm sales, FFL transfers, or consignment transactions must be permanently retained for long-term periods in compliance with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and statutory commercial law requirements. Even if your user account is closed or deleted, legal logging data stored within our ATF-compliant record-keeping software (such as FastBound) cannot be modified or erased.
8. Security Measures
Great Plains Armory LLC implements robust technical and administrative safeguards to protect your personal information and ensure a secure environment for firearms e-commerce.
Encryption & Secure Protocols
We enforce the SSL/HTTPS protocol across our entire website. This end-to-end encryption secures all user communications, login credentials, and checkout processes with our servers, ensuring that personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive financial details cannot be captured or hijacked by unauthorized third parties.
Payment Security & Compliance
All online financial transactions are routed through secure, encrypted payment processing gateways. We do not store full credit card numbers or sensitive payment details directly on our web servers. Our operations are maintained in strict alignment with industry-standard digital security practices to safeguard data integrity during checkout.
Incident Response & Data Breach Protocol
In the highly unlikely event of a data breach, our system administrators will immediately take all necessary actions to isolate the vulnerability, investigate the scope of the incident, and ensure total system integrity. In compliance with applicable state and federal laws, we will promptly notify affected users and regulatory authorities if required, and enforce mandatory account password resets to protect your registered profile.
9. Your Data Rights
General Rights
If you maintain a registered user account on this website or have left public product reviews or comments, you have the right to request an exported file of the personal data we retain in our active system databases, including any additional biographical or account data you have explicitly provided to us.
You may also request that we erase your personal data from our active marketing and e-commerce databases. However, this option does not include any data that Great Plains Armory LLC is legally obligated to retain for statutory administrative, transactional, tax, or federal safety and compliance purposes. In short, we cannot erase data that is vital to managing ongoing financial transactions, open consignment tracking, or active customer orders. If you request a total erasure of your active account data, we will no longer be able to maintain your registered customer portal or provide tailored product support.
Regulatory and Firearms Compliance Exceptions
Please be aware that your right to data erasure is strictly limited by United States federal and state regulations governing licensed firearm retailers. Under the Gun Control Act (GCA) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) regulations, specific transaction logs, acquisition and disposition (A&D) records, and background check data elements cannot be altered, deleted, or erased under any circumstances. Any compliance records managed via our legal logging infrastructure (such as FastBound) must be permanently retained for the mandatory durations prescribed by law.
International Data Standards & GDPR
While Great Plains Armory LLC is an online platform based in the United States and focused primarily on domestic commercial firearms sales, we respect the data rights and operational principles outlined by the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for eligible international visitors. If you browse our platform or purchase unrestricted consumer products (such as cutlery) from an applicable jurisdiction, we handle your personal data in compliance with these overarching security, portability, and access standards wherever technically and legally permitted.
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10. Third Party Websites
Great Plains Armory LLC may post links to third-party websites on this platform for your convenience, product context, or FFL logistics tracking. These third-party websites are not screened for privacy or security compliance by Great Plains Armory LLC, and you release us from any liability for the conduct, content, or policies of these external websites.
All social media sharing links, manufacturer catalog references, or external resources—whether displayed as text links or social media icons—do not connect you to any of the associated third parties unless you explicitly click on them.
Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other organizational policies in place, in addition to any active amendments, does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members or users of our Service or Site. Great Plains Armory LLC bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any manufacturer, distributor, advertiser, or third-party website. We strongly encourage you to review the specific privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through external third-party links.
 

 
11. Release of Your Data for Legal Purposes
Great Plains Armory LLC may release personal information to comply with legal obligations, government requests, or in response to private litigants. Any sharing of data for legal or regulatory purposes is conducted in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.
 
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