Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

Michaela Kindle operates this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services, in order to provide you, the customer, with a curated shopping experience (the “Services”). Michaela Kindle is powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide 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 otherwise communicate with us. If there is a conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy controls with respect to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and understand the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described herein.

1. Collection of Personal Information

1.1 Device Information
When you visit our store, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including your web browser type, IP address, time zone, and cookies and similar technologies. This includes:

  • Cookies (small data files with unique identifiers; details and opt-out at allaboutcookies.org)
  • Log files (e.g., IP address, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, timestamps)
  • Web beacons, tags, and pixels to record navigation data

1.2 Order Information
When you make or attempt to make a purchase, we collect certain information from you, including:

  • Name, billing and shipping address
  • Payment information (e.g., credit card, PayPal, Klarna, UnionPay, etc.)
  • Email address and phone number

2. Use of Your Personal Information

We use your personal information to:
Process and fulfill your orders, including payment processing, shipping, billing, and communication

  • Detect and prevent fraud and risk
  • Improve and optimize our store (analyzing user behavior)
  • Provide marketing communications and targeted advertising, if you have consented

3. Disclosure of Your Personal Information

We share your personal information only as necessary to fulfill contracts or with your consent:

  • Store hosting and data processing: Shopify Inc., USA/Canada. Details at shopify.com/legal/privacy
  • Shipping and fulfillment: Carefully selected third parties, including those inside and outside the EU, for production and delivery of your order
  • Newsletter: Your email is shared with Shopify Email (Canada/USA) for sending and analyzing campaigns
  • Web analytics: Google Analytics for improving our store. Opt-out: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
  • Payment providers: Your data is shared with your chosen payment providers who process payments independently

4. Payment Providers

We offer the following payment options. Your personal information is shared with the respective providers:

  • Shopify Payments (USA) – payment processing
  • PayPal (USA) – payment processing
  • Klarna (Sweden) – payment processing, installment payments
  • Stripe (USA) – payment processing
  • Apple Pay (USA) – payment processing
  • Google Pay (USA) – payment processing
  • Amazon Pay (USA) – payment processing
  • Sofort/Klarna (Germany) – payment processing
  • UnionPay (China) – payment processing

Please review the privacy policies of the payment providers linked in our store.

5. Social Media and Third-Party Integrations

Connecting with social media platforms such as Instagram (Meta) may result in data sharing with these platforms. Please see Meta/Instagram’s privacy policies for details.

6. Behavioral Advertising & Opt-Out

We use your data to show you personalized ads. You can opt out anytime:

  • Facebook/Meta: facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
  • Google: adssettings.google.com/authenticated
  • Directly via unsubscribe links in emails or by contacting us

7. International Data Transfers

Your data may be transferred outside the EU, e.g., to the USA, Canada, Switzerland, UK, or China. We ensure appropriate safeguards under GDPR (Art. 44 et seq.), such as Standard Contractual Clauses.

8. Your Rights (EU/EEA/UK)

If you reside in the EU, EEA, or the UK, you have the following rights:

  • Access to your data
  • Correction of inaccurate data
  • Deletion or restriction of processing
  • Objection to processing
  • Data portability
  • Complaints to data protection authorities
  • Withdrawal of consent

9. Children’s Privacy

Our services are not directed to children under the legal minimum age. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16.

10. Data Security and Retention

We protect your data with technical and organizational measures. Your data is retained as long as necessary for legal obligations or contract fulfillment, then deleted or anonymized.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy as needed. The current version will always be available on our store.

12. Contact

For questions, data access requests, or privacy concerns, please contact:

Michaela Kindle
Tunibergstraße 36
79288 Gottenheim
Germany
Email: hello@michaelakindle.com

For more information on Shopify’s privacy practices, visit:
https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

Effective Date: August 2025