Politique de confidentialité

Last update: November 19, 2025

Atelier du Cristal operates this store and this website, including all information, content, features, tools, products and related services in order to provide you, as a customer, with a personalized shopping experience (hereinafter the "Services"). Atelier du Cristal is a store powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide you with the Services. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and disclose your personal information when you access the Services, use them, make a purchase or any other transaction, or when you communicate with us by any other means. In the event of any conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy prevails with regard to the collection, processing and disclosure of your personal information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing and using our Services, you acknowledge having read this Privacy Policy and understand the terms of collection, use and disclosure of your information described in this Privacy Policy.

Personal information we collect or process

When we use the term "personal information", we refer to information that identifies you or that can reasonably be linked to you or to another person. Personal information does not include information collected anonymously or rendered non-identifiable, such that it does not allow you to be identified or reasonably 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, your place of residence, and to the extent permitted or required by applicable law:

Contact details including your name, address, billing address, shipping address, telephone number and email address.
Financial information including credit card, debit card and bank account numbers, payment card information, bank account information, transaction details, payment method, payment confirmation and other payment details.
Account information including your username, password, security questions, preferences and settings.
Transaction information including the items you view, place in your cart, add to your wishlist, purchase, return, exchange or cancel, as well as your past transactions.
Your communications with us including the information you include in your communications with us, for example when you send an inquiry to customer service.
Device information 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, including how and when you access or interact with the Services.

Sources of personal information

We may collect personal information from the following sources:

Directly from you including when you create an account, access or use the Services, communicate with us, or otherwise provide us with your personal information;
Automatically via the Services including from your device when you use our products or services or access our websites, and through the use of cookies and similar technologies;
From our service providers including when we use them to implement 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 interact with us or the Services you use, we may use your personal information for the following purposes:

Provide, adapt and improve the Services. We use your personal information to provide the Services, including to perform our contract with you, to process your payments, to process your orders, to remember your preferences and items of interest, to send you account-related notifications, to process purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions, to create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, to organize shipments, to facilitate possible returns and exchanges, to allow you to post reviews, and to create a personalized shopping experience, for example by recommending products related to your purchases. This may include using your personal information to adapt and improve the Services more relevantly.
Marketing and advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, for example to send you marketing, advertising and promotional communications by email, SMS or postal mail, and to show you online advertisements regarding products or services on the Services or on other websites, including based on items you have previously purchased or added to your cart, as well as your other activities on the Services.
Security and fraud prevention. We use your personal information to authenticate your account, provide a secure payment and shopping experience, detect, investigate or intervene in case of fraudulent, illegal, dangerous or malicious activity, protect public safety and secure our services. If you choose to use the Services and create an account, you are responsible for the confidentiality of your account credentials. We strongly recommend that you do not share your username, password or any other access credentials with anyone.
Communicate with you. We use your personal information to provide you with customer service, respond to your requests, offer you efficient services and maintain our business relationship with you.
Legal reasons. We use your personal information to comply with applicable legislation or to respond to valid legal procedures, including requests from law enforcement or governmental bodies, to investigate or participate in civil discovery proceedings, potential or ongoing disputes, or other litigation procedures, as well as to enforce our terms or policies, or investigate possible violations thereof.

How we disclose personal information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate reasons, in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These circumstances may include:

With Shopify, service providers and other third parties that provide services on our behalf (for example IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer service, cloud storage, processing and shipping).
With commercial and marketing partners to provide you with marketing services and to deliver advertisements. For example, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising via third-party services, based on your online activity with different merchants and websites. Our commercial and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices. Depending on your place of residence, you may have the right to ask us not to share information about you for the purpose of showing you targeted advertising and marketing content, based on your online activity with different merchants and websites.
When you instruct us, send us a request or otherwise consent to the disclosure of certain information to third parties, for example to ship products to you or via your use of social media widgets or login integrations.
With our affiliates or more generally within our group of companies.
As part of a commercial transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy filing, to comply with any applicable legal obligation (including in response to subpoenas, search warrants or similar requests), to enforce applicable terms of service or policies, as well as 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 personal information about your access to and use of the Services in order to provide you with the Services and improve them. The information you submit to the Services will be transmitted to and shared with Shopify, as well as with third parties that may be located in countries other than the one in which you reside, in order to provide you with the Services and improve them. In addition, to protect, develop and improve our business, we use certain enhanced Shopify features that integrate data and information from your interactions with our Store, as well as with other merchants and with Shopify. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may use personal information collected from your interactions with our store, with other merchants and with Shopify. In these circumstances, Shopify is responsible for the processing of your personal information, including in order to respond to your requests to exercise your rights regarding the use of your personal information for these purposes. To learn more about Shopify's use of your personal information and the rights available to you, you can consult Shopify's Consumer Privacy Policy. Depending on your place of residence, you may exercise certain rights relating to your personal information here Shopify Privacy Portal link.

Third-party websites and links

The Services may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links leading to sites that are not affiliated with us or that we do not control, we recommend that you consult their privacy and security policies as well as their other general terms of use. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of these sites, including the accuracy, completeness or reliability of the information found on these sites. 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 and/or to users of these third-party platforms without restriction as to their use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of these links does not in itself imply any approval of the content of these platforms, nor of their owners or operators, unless otherwise indicated on the Services.

Children's data

The Services are not intended to be used by children and we do not knowingly collect any personal information concerning children who have not reached the age of majority in your jurisdiction. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you can contact us using the contact details indicated below to request its deletion. As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we are not aware of "sharing" or "selling" (as defined by applicable law) personal information about persons under 16 years of age.

Security and retention of your information

Please note that no security measure is perfect or infallible and we cannot guarantee "perfect security". In addition, any information you send us may not be secure during its transmission. We recommend that you do not use unsecured channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

The retention period for your personal information depends on different factors, such as the need to retain this information to manage your account, provide you with the Services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce any other applicable contract or policy.

Complaints

If you wish to file a complaint regarding our processing of your personal information, please contact us at the contact details indicated below. Depending on your place of residence, you may have the right to challenge our decision by contacting us at the contact details indicated below, or by filing a complaint with the competent data protection authority in your region.

International transfers

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

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 where applicable on any equivalent contract issued by the competent authority of the United Kingdom, unless the data transfer is made to a country recognized as offering an adequate level of protection.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time, in particular to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. We will publish the revised Privacy Policy on this website, update the "Last update" date and provide notice, in accordance with applicable law.

Contact

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or about this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to exercise any of the rights available to you, please send us an email at contact@atelierducristal.com. For the purposes of applicable data protection legislation, we are the controller of your personal information.