Privacy policy

Last updated: October 13, 2025

BinDesign manages this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and Services, to provide you, the customer, with a personalized shopping experience (the “Services”). BinDesign is powered by Shopify, which enables us to deliver the Services to you. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit, use, make a purchase, or complete another transaction, or otherwise communicate with us through the Services. If there is a conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy will prevail with respect to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing the Services, you indicate that you have read this Privacy Policy and that you understand the collection, use, and disclosure of your data as described in this Privacy Policy.

Personal information we collect or process

When we use the term "personal information," we mean information that identifies you or another individual, or can reasonably be linked to you or another individual. Personal information does not include information that has been collected anonymously or de-identified so that you cannot be identified by it or it cannot reasonably be linked to you. We may collect or process the following categories of personal information, including inferences drawn from this personal information, depending on how you interact with the Services, where you live, and as permitted or required by applicable law:

• Contact details, including your name, address, billing address, delivery address, phone number, and email address.
  
• Financial information, including credit card, debit card, and financial account numbers, payment card information, financial account information, transaction data, payment method, payment confirmation, and other payment details.
  
• Account information, including your username, password, security questions, preferences, and settings.
  Transaction data, including the items you view, place in your cart, add to your wishlist, purchase, return, exchange, or cancel, as well as your previous transactions.
  
• Communications with us, including the information you include in your communications with us, for example when submitting a customer support request.
  
• Device data, including information about your device, browser, or network connection, your IP address, and other unique identifiers.
  
• Usage information, including information about your interaction with the Services, such as how and when you interact with or navigate through the Services.

Sources of personal information

We may collect personal information from the following sources:

• Directly from you, including when you create an account, visit or use the Services, communicate with us, or otherwise provide your personal information to us;
  
• Automatically through the Services, including from your device when you use our products or Services or visit our websites, and through the use of cookies and similar technologies;
  
• From our service providers, including when we engage them to enable certain technologies and when they collect or process your personal information on our behalf;
  
• From our partners or other third parties.

How we use your personal information

Depending on how you communicate with us or which of the Services you use, we may use personal information for the following purposes:

• To provide, customize, and improve the Services. We use your personal information to deliver the Services to you, including to perform our agreement with you, process your payments, fulfill your orders, remember your preferences and items of interest, send you notifications related to your account, process purchases, returns, exchanges, or other transactions, create, maintain, and otherwise manage your account, arrange shipping, facilitate any returns and exchanges, enable you to leave reviews, and create a personalized shopping experience for you, such as recommending products related to your purchases. This may include using your personal information to better tailor and enhance the Services.
  
• Marketing and advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as sending marketing, advertising, and promotional messages via email, SMS, or post, and displaying online advertisements for products or Services on the Services or other websites, including based on items you have previously purchased or added to your cart and other activities on the Services.
  
• Security and fraud prevention. We use your personal information to verify your account, provide a secure payment and shopping experience, detect, investigate, or take action regarding potential fraudulent, illegal, unsafe, or malicious activities, protect public safety, and secure our Services. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. We strongly recommend not sharing your username, password, or other access details with anyone else.
  
• To communicate with you. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support, respond to you, deliver effective Services, and maintain our business relationship with you.
  
• Legal reasons. We use your personal information to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal processes, including requests from law enforcement or government authorities, to investigate or participate in civil discovery, potential or actual litigation, or other adversarial legal proceedings, and to enforce or investigate potential violations of our terms or policies.

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. Such circumstances may include:

• With Shopify, vendors, and other third parties that perform Services on our behalf (e.g., 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; For example, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising using third-party services based on your online activities across different merchants and websites. Our business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request that we not share information about you for targeted advertising and marketing based on your online activities across merchants and websites.
  
• When you instruct us, request us, or otherwise give us permission to provide certain information to third parties, such as to ship your products or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations.
  
• With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group.
  
• In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with applicable legal obligations (including responding to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests), to enforce applicable terms of service or policies, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

Relationship with Shopify

The Services are hosted by Shopify, which collects and processes personal information about your access to and use of the Services to provide and improve the Services for you. Information you submit through 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 live, in order to provide and improve the Services for you. Additionally, to help protect, grow, and improve our business, we use certain enhanced Shopify features that involve data and information obtained from your interactions with our store, together with other merchants and with Shopify. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may use personal information collected about your interactions with our store, together with other merchants, and with Shopify. In these circumstances, Shopify is responsible for processing your personal information, including responding to requests to exercise your rights regarding the use of your personal information for these purposes. To obtain more information about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, visit Shopify’s Customer Privacy Policy. Depending on where you live, you may be able to exercise certain rights regarding your personal information here via Shopify’s Privacy Policy Portal.

Third-party websites and links

The Services may contain links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites that are not affiliated with or managed by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We make no guarantees and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the information found on these sites. Information you provide in public or semi-public places, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms, may also be viewed by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not in itself imply endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as stated in the Services.

Children’s data

The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect 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 his or her personal information to us, you may contact us using the contact details below to request that it be deleted. As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we are not actually aware that we “share” or “sell” (as those terms are defined under applicable law) personal data of individuals under 16 years of age.

Security and retention of your information

Please be aware that no security measure is perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” In addition, information you send to us may not be secure during transmission. We advise you not to use insecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential data to us.

How long we retain your personal information depends on various factors, for example whether we need the information to maintain your account, to provide you with the Services, to comply with legal obligations, to resolve disputes, or to enforce other applicable contracts and policies.

Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights below with respect to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances, and in some cases we may deny your request as permitted by law.

• Right to access/knowledge. You may have the right to request access to personal information we hold about you.
  
• Right to deletion. You may have the right to request that we delete personal information we hold about you.
  
• Right to correction. You may have the right to ask us to correct inaccurate personal information we hold about you.
  
• Right to portability. You may have the right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
  
• Manage communication preferences. We may send you promotional emails, and you can choose to opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe option shown in our emails to you. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, for example about your account or orders you have placed.

If you live in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area (EEA), and subject to exceptions and limitations provided by local law, you may exercise the following rights in addition to the rights described above:

• Objection to processing and restriction of processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop or limit the processing of personal information for certain purposes.
  
• Withdrawal of consent: When we rely on consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent. If you withdraw your consent, it will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before it was withdrawn.

You can exercise any of these rights where indicated in the Services or by contacting us using the contact details below. For more information about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, including rights related to data processed by Shopify, please visit https://privacy.Shopify.com/en.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to verify your identity before we can process your requests, as permitted or required under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, you may appoint an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before we accept such a request from an agent, we require the agent to prove that you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may ask you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required by applicable law.

Complaints

If you have complaints about the way we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details below. Depending on where you live, you have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details below, or to file your complaint with your local data protection authority. For the EEA, you can find a list of the competent data protection supervisory authorities here.

International transfers

Please note that we may transfer, store, and process your personal information outside the country where you live.

If we transfer your personal information outside the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we rely on recognized transfer mechanisms such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, or equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority in the United Kingdom, where relevant, unless the data is transferred to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes in 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.

Contact

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to exercise any of the rights available to you, please email us at info@bindesign.nl. For the purposes of applicable data protection law, we are the data controller of your personal information.