Privacy Policy

AZZO MERCH operates 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"). AZZO MERCH 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 data when you visit, use, or make a purchase or another transaction through the Services, or otherwise communicate with us.

If there is any conflict between our Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy shall prevail with respect to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal data.

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

What personal data do we collect or process?

When we use the term "personal data," we refer to information that identifies you or another individual, or that can reasonably be associated with you. Personal data does not include information that has been collected anonymously or has been anonymized so that it can no longer 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 data, including inferences drawn from such data:

• Contact Information, including your name, postal address, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, and email address.

• Financial Information, including credit card, debit card, and bank account numbers, payment card details, financial account information, transaction details, payment method, payment confirmation, and other payment-related information.

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

• Transaction Information, including the products you view, add to your shopping cart, save to your wishlist, purchase, return, exchange, or cancel, as well as your purchase history.

• Communications with Us, including information you provide when contacting us, for example when submitting a customer support request.

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

• Usage Information, including information about how and when you access, browse, or otherwise interact with the Services.

Sources of personal data

We may collect personal data from the following sources:

• Directly from you, for example when you create an account, access or use the Services, communicate with us, or otherwise provide us with your personal data.

• Automatically through the Services, including through your device, your use of our products or Services, your visits to our website, and through cookies and similar technologies.

• From our service providers, including where they enable certain technologies or collect or process personal data on our behalf.

• From our partners and other third parties.

How do we use your personal data?

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

 

How do we use your personal data?

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

Providing, customizing, and improving the Services

We use your personal data to provide you with the Services. This includes fulfilling our contract with you, processing your payments, fulfilling your orders, storing your preferences and the products you are interested in, sending account-related notifications, creating, maintaining, and otherwise managing your account, arranging shipping, facilitating returns and exchanges, enabling you to leave reviews, and providing you with a personalized shopping experience, such as recommending products based on your previous purchases. This may also include using your personal data to better customize and improve the Services.

Marketing and advertising

We use your personal data for marketing and advertising purposes, such as sending marketing communications via email, SMS, or postal mail, and displaying advertisements for products or services on the Services or other websites. These advertisements may be based on products you have previously purchased or added to your shopping cart, as well as your other activities relating to the Services.

Security and fraud prevention

We use your personal data to authenticate your account, provide a secure shopping and payment experience, detect, investigate, and take action against fraudulent, illegal, unsafe, or malicious activities, protect public safety, and ensure the security of 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 else.

Communicating with you

We use your personal data to provide customer support, deliver effective Services, respond promptly to your inquiries, and maintain our business relationship with you.

Legal reasons

We use your personal data to comply with applicable laws or respond to lawful legal requests, including requests from law enforcement or regulatory authorities, to investigate or participate in civil investigations, potential or actual legal disputes, or other adversarial proceedings, and to investigate or enforce our Terms or Policies.

How do we share personal data?

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

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

• Business and marketing partners who provide marketing services and display advertisements to you. For example, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising through third-party services based on your online activities across different merchants and websites. Our business and marketing partners process your information in accordance with their own privacy policies. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to instruct us not to share information about you for targeted advertising based on your activities across different merchants and websites.

• Third parties you instruct us to share information with, or where you otherwise provide your consent, such as for delivering products to you or when using social media widgets or login integrations.

• Our affiliates and other companies within our corporate group.

• In connection with a business transaction, such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with legal obligations (including responding to subpoenas, search warrants, or similar requests), to enforce our Terms or Policies, or to protect the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

Relationship with Shopify

The Services are hosted by Shopify. Shopify collects and processes personal data relating to your access to and use of the Services in order to provide and improve them.

Information you submit through the Services is shared with Shopify and with third parties, some of whom may be located in countries other than your country of residence, in order to provide and improve the Services.

To protect, grow, and improve our business, we also use certain enhanced Shopify features that incorporate data from your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may use personal data collected from your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify.

In these circumstances, Shopify acts as the controller responsible for processing your personal data, including responding to requests to exercise your rights relating to the use of your personal data for these purposes.

For more information about how Shopify uses your personal data and your rights, please refer to the Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy. Depending on where you reside, you may also exercise certain rights regarding your personal data through the Shopify Privacy 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 websites that are not affiliated with or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies as well as their terms and conditions.

We make no guarantees and accept no responsibility for the privacy or security of such websites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the information they contain.

Information you post in public or semi-public areas, 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 regarding its use by us or by the third party.

The inclusion of such links does not imply our endorsement of those platforms or their owners or operators unless expressly stated within the Services.

 

Children's Data

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

If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child who has provided us with personal data, you may contact us using the contact details provided below to request that such data be deleted.

As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we are not aware that we "share" or "sell" (as those terms are defined under applicable law) the personal data of individuals under the age of 16.

Security and Retention of Your Data

Please note that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and therefore we cannot guarantee "perfect security."

In addition, any information you send to us may be at risk while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecured channels to transmit sensitive or confidential information.

How long we retain your personal data depends on a variety of factors, including whether we need the information to manage your account, provide the Services to you, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce other applicable agreements and policies.

Your Rights and Choices

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

Right of Access

You may have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you.

Right to Deletion

You may have the right to request that we delete the personal data we hold about you.

Right to Rectification

You may have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal data we hold about you.

Right to Data Portability

You may have the right to receive a copy of your personal data and request that we transfer it to a third party under certain circumstances and subject to certain exceptions.

Managing Communication Preferences

We may send you promotional emails. You may opt out of receiving these emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in our emails.

If you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send you non-promotional emails relating to your account or orders you have placed.

Additional Rights for UK and EEA Residents

If you reside in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area (EEA), you may also have the following rights, subject to applicable legal limitations and exceptions:

Right to Object and Restrict Processing

You may have the right to object to or request that we restrict the processing of your personal data for certain purposes.

Withdrawal of Consent

Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

Withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before your consent was withdrawn.

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

For more information about how Shopify uses your personal data and the rights available to you, including rights relating to data processed by Shopify, please visit:

https://privacy.shopify.com/en

Exercising these rights will not result in any discrimination against you.

Where permitted or required by applicable law, we may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

In accordance with applicable law, you may authorize an agent to submit requests on your behalf. Before accepting such a request, we will require proof that the agent has been authorized to act on your behalf, and we may require you to verify your identity directly with us.

We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law.

 

Complaints

If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, 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 contact information below or by submitting a complaint to your local data protection authority.

If you reside in the European Economic Area (EEA), you can find a list of the responsible supervisory authorities through the appropriate official EU resources.

International Transfers

Please note that we may transfer, store, and process your personal data outside the country in which you reside.

If we transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, we rely on recognized transfer mechanisms, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent contracts approved by the relevant UK authority, unless the transfer is made to a country that has been recognized as providing an adequate level of data protection.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

We will publish the updated Privacy Policy on this website, revise the "Last Updated" date accordingly, and provide any notices required under applicable law.

Contact

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us:

Email: songsbyazzo@gmail.com

Postal Address:

AZZO MERCH
Albert-Einstein-Straße 47
Meme Merch c/o Autorenglück #88687
02977 Hoyerswerda
Germany