Privacy Policy

MP Patricia Mejía operates this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services, to provide you, as a customer, with a curated shopping experience (the “Services”). Shopify powers MP Patricia Mejía’s platform, allowing us to provide you with the Services.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit, use, make a purchase, or conduct any other transaction through the Services, or when you otherwise communicate with us.

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 accessing or using any of the Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and understand that your information will be collected, used, and disclosed as described herein.

Personal Information We Collect or Process

When we use the term “personal information,” we refer to information that identifies you or can reasonably be linked to you or another individual. Personal information does not include information that is collected anonymously or has been de-identified so that it cannot reasonably identify or be linked to you.

Depending on how you interact with the Services, where you reside, and as permitted or required by applicable law, we may collect or process the following categories of personal information, including inferences drawn from such information:

  • Contact details, including your name, address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, and email address.

  • Financial information, including credit card numbers, debit card numbers, financial account numbers, payment card information, financial account details, transaction details, payment methods, payment confirmations, and other payment-related information.

  • Account information, including your username, password, security questions, preferences, and settings.

  • Transaction information, including the items you view, add to your cart, add to your wishlist, purchase, return, exchange, or cancel, as well as your past transactions.

  • Communications with us, including any information you provide when communicating with us, such as when you submit a customer service inquiry.

  • Device information, including information about your device, browser, or network connection, your IP address, and other unique identifiers.

  • Usage information, including information about your interactions with the Services, such as how and when you access, use, or browse 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 us with your personal information.

  • Automatically through the Services, including from your device when you use our products or services, visit our websites, or 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 personal information on our behalf.

  • From our partners or other third parties.

How We Use Your Personal Information

Depending on how you interact with us and which Services you use, we may use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To provide, personalize, and improve the Services. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services, including fulfilling our contract with you, processing payments, preparing orders, remembering your preferences and the items that interest you, sending account-related notifications, processing purchases, returns, exchanges, or other transactions, creating, maintaining, and managing your account, arranging shipments, facilitating returns and exchanges, allowing you to post reviews, and creating a personalized shopping experience, such as recommending products related to your purchases. This may also include using your personal information to further personalize and improve the Services.

  • Marketing and advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, including sending marketing, advertising, and promotional communications by email, text message, or postal mail, and displaying online advertisements for products or services on the Services or other websites. This may include advertisements based on items you have previously purchased, added to your cart, or other activities on the Services.

  • Security and fraud prevention. We use your personal information to authenticate your account, provide a secure checkout and shopping experience, detect, investigate, or take action regarding potential fraudulent, illegal, unsafe, or malicious activity, protect public safety, and safeguard our Services. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure. We strongly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other access credentials with anyone.

  • Communicating with you. We use your personal information to provide customer support, respond to your inquiries, deliver effective services, and maintain our business relationship with you.

  • Legal purposes. We use your personal information to comply with applicable laws or respond to valid legal processes, including requests from law enforcement agencies or government authorities, to investigate or participate in civil discovery proceedings, potential or actual litigation, or other legal proceedings, and to enforce or investigate potential violations of our terms or policies.

How We Disclose Personal Information

Under certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes, subject to this Privacy Policy. These circumstances may include:

  • To Shopify, service providers, and other third parties that perform services on our behalf, such as IT management, payment processing, reporting and analytics, customer support, cloud storage, order fulfillment, and shipping.

  • To business and marketing partners to provide you with marketing and advertising services. For example, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising through third-party services based on your online activity 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 reside, you may have the right to instruct us not to share your information for targeted advertising and marketing based on your online activity across different merchants and websites.

  • When you direct us, request, or consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship products to you or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations.

  • To our affiliates or other members of 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 third parties.

Relationship with Shopify

The Services are hosted by Shopify, which collects and processes your personal information regarding your access to and use of the Services in order to provide and improve the Services.

Information you submit through the Services will be transmitted to and shared with Shopify and third parties that may be located in countries other than your country of residence, for the purpose of providing and improving the Services.

Additionally, to help protect, develop, and improve our business, we use certain enhanced Shopify features that incorporate data and information obtained from your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may use personal information collected about your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify.

In these circumstances, Shopify is responsible for processing your personal information, including responding to your requests to exercise your rights regarding the use of your personal information for these purposes.

To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and the rights you may have, please visit the Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy.

Depending on where you reside, you may exercise certain rights regarding your personal information here: Shopify Privacy Portal.

Third-Party Websites and Links

The Services may include links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you access links to websites that are not affiliated with or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions.

We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such websites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the information found on them.

Information you provide in public or semi-public spaces, including information you share on third-party social media platforms, may also be visible to other users of the Services or those third-party platforms, without limitations on its use by us or third parties.

The inclusion of such links does not, in itself, imply any endorsement of the content on those platforms or their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services.

Children's Data

The Services are not intended for use by children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children who have not reached the age of majority in their jurisdiction.

If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details provided below to request its deletion.

As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we have no actual knowledge that we “share” or “sell” (as those terms are defined under applicable law) the personal information of individuals under the age of 16.

Security and Retention of Your Information

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” Additionally, information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecured channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

The length of time we retain your personal information depends on various factors, including whether we need the information to maintain your account, provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce other applicable agreements or policies.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you reside, you may have some or all of the following rights regarding your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute and may apply only in certain circumstances. In some cases, we may decline your request as permitted by applicable law.

  • Right to Access or Know. You may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.

  • Right to Deletion. You may have the right to request that we delete the personal information we maintain about you.

  • Right to Correction. You may have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

  • Right to Data Portability. You may have the right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and request that we transfer it to a third party, under certain circumstances and subject to certain exceptions.

  • Communication Preferences. We may send you promotional emails, which you can unsubscribe from at any time by using the unsubscribe option included in our emails. If you unsubscribe, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those relating to your account or orders you have placed.

You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on the Services or by contacting us using the contact details provided below.

To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and the rights you may have, including rights relating 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 processing your requests, as permitted or required by applicable law.

Where permitted by applicable law, you may appoint an authorized representative to submit requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such requests, we will require the representative to provide proof that you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and you may also be required 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 any complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

Depending on where you reside, you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the details provided below or to file a complaint with your local data protection authority.

International Transfers

Please note that we may transfer, store, and process your personal information outside your country of residence.

If we transfer your personal information outside the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or any equivalent agreements issued by the relevant competent authority in the United Kingdom, as applicable, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of data 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 any required notice in accordance with applicable law.

Contact

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of your rights, please email us at mercadeo@mppatriciamejia.com.