Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 8, 2026
Clow Skincare operates this shop and 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"). Clow Skincare is a shop 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 or use the Services, make a purchase or other transaction, or otherwise communicate with us. If there is a conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy governs with respect to the collection, processing and disclosure of your personal information.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing and using our Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and understand how your information is collected, used and disclosed, as described in this Privacy Policy.
Personal information we collect or process
When we use the term "personal information," we are referring to information that identifies you or that can reasonably be linked to you or to another person. Personal information does not include information that is collected anonymously or that is de-identified, such that it cannot identify you or be reasonably linked to you. We may collect or process the following categories of personal information, including inferences drawn from such personal information, depending on how you interact with the Services, where you live, and to the extent permitted or required by applicable law:
- Contact details including your name, address, billing address, shipping address, phone 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 items you view, place in your cart, add to your wish list, purchase, return, exchange or cancel, as well as your past transactions.
- Your communications with us including information you include in your communications with us, for example when you send 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 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 through 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 engage 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 which Services you use, we may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- Providing, tailoring and improving the Services. We use your personal information to provide the Services, including to perform our contract with you, process your payments, process your orders, remember your preferences and items you are interested in, 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 post reviews, and create a personalized shopping experience, such as recommending products related to your purchases. This may include using your personal information to better tailor and improve the Services.
- Marketing and advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as sending you marketing, advertising and promotional communications by email, SMS or postal mail, and to show you online advertisements for 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 other activity 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 take action regarding fraudulent, illegal, dangerous or malicious activity, protect public security and secure our services. If you choose to use the Services and create an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential. We strongly recommend that you do not share your username, password or any other access credentials with anyone.
- Communicating with you. We use your personal information to provide you with customer service, respond to your requests, provide you with efficient service 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 agencies, to investigate or participate in civil discovery proceedings, potential or ongoing litigation, or other adversarial legal proceedings, and to enforce our terms or policies, or investigate potential violations thereof.
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, providers and other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g. IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer service, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping).
- With business and marketing partners to provide you with marketing services and to serve you with advertisements. For example, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising through third-party services, based on your online activity with 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 direct us not to share information about you for the purpose of showing you targeted advertisements and marketing content, based on your online activity with different merchants and websites.
- When you instruct us to, request that we do so, or otherwise consent to the disclosure of certain information to third parties, for example to ship products to you 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 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, 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 personal information regarding your access to and use of the Services in order to provide and improve the Services. Information you submit to the Services will be transmitted to and shared with Shopify, as well as with third parties who may be located in countries other than the one in which you reside, in order to provide and improve the Services. In addition, in order to protect, develop and improve our business, we use certain enhanced features from Shopify that incorporate data and information from your interactions with our Shop, 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 shop, with other merchants and with Shopify. In these circumstances, Shopify is responsible for processing your personal information, including with respect to responding to your requests to exercise your rights concerning 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 may review Shopify's Consumer Privacy Policy . Depending on where you live, you may be able to exercise certain rights related 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 to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review such sites' privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee, and are not responsible for, the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social media platforms, may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without restriction as to its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of 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 any personal information about children below 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 may contact us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted. As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we "share" or "sell" (as those terms are defined by applicable law) personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.
Security and retention of your information
Please note that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee "perfect security." In addition, any information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.
How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, to provide you with the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.
Your rights and choices
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances and, in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.
- Right to access/know. You may have the right to request access to personal information that we hold about you.
- Right to delete. You may have the right to request that we delete personal information we maintain about you.
- Right to correct. You may have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
- Right of portability. You may have the right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transmit it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
- Managing communication preferences. We may send you promotional emails. You may opt out of receiving these 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 about your account or orders you have placed.
If you are a resident of the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, and subject to the exceptions and limitations provided by local law, you may exercise the following rights in addition to those listed above:
- Restriction of processing and objection to processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of your personal information for certain purposes.
- Withdrawal of consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw this consent. If you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
You may exercise these rights where indicated on the Services or by contacting us using the contact details provided below. To learn more about Shopify's use of your personal information and the rights available to you, including rights related to data processed by Shopify, you may review 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 by applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, you may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require that the agent provide proof that you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required under applicable law.
Complaints
If you wish to make a complaint about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details set out below, or lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. For the EEA, you may find a list of the data protection authorities responsible for data protection here.
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 of 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, if applicable, an equivalent contract issued by the relevant competent authority in the United Kingdom, unless the data transfer is 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 to 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 would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please call us at +32 493 14 26 38, email us at contact@clowskincare.com or contact us at Kwakkelstraat 5C, 1800 Vilvoorde, Belgium For the purposes of applicable data protection legislation, we are the data controller of your personal information.