Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 13, 2025
meciaube is responsible for this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services, with the aim of providing you, the customer, with a personalized shopping experience (the "Services"). meciaube is powered by Shopify, which enables us to make the Services available to you. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share your personal information when you visit, use, or make a purchase or other transaction through the Services, or when you communicate with us in any other way. In the event of a conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy shall prevail with respect to the collection, processing, and sharing 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 how your information is collected, used, and shared as described herein.

Personal Information We Collect or Process

When we use the term "personal information," we are referring to information that identifies or could be associated with you or another individual. Personal information does not include data collected anonymously or that has been de-identified such that it cannot identify or be associated with you. Depending on how you interact with the Services, your place of residence, 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 Information: Your name, address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, and email address.
  • Financial Information: Credit card numbers, debit card numbers, financial account details, payment card information, bank account data, transaction information, payment method, receipts, and other payment-related information.
  • Account Information: Your username, password, security questions, preferences, and settings.
  • Transaction Information: Items you view, add to cart, add to wishlist, purchase, return, exchange, or cancel, as well as your past transactions.
  • Communications with Us: Information you provide when communicating with us, such as when you contact our customer support.
  • Device Information: Details about your device, browser, or connection network, your IP address, or other unique identifiers.
  • Usage Information: Details about your interaction with the Services, such as when and how you access or navigate them.

Sources of Personal Information

We may collect personal information in the following ways:
  • Directly from You: When you create an account, visit or use the Services, communicate with us, or provide your personal information in any other manner.
  • Automatically via the Services: From your device when you use our products or services or visit our websites, and through cookies or similar technologies.
  • From Our Service Providers: When we engage them to enable certain technologies and when they collect or process your personal information on our behalf.
  • From Our Partners or 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:
  • Provide, Personalize, and Improve the Services: We use your personal information to provide the Services to you, which includes fulfilling the contract entered into, processing your payments and orders, remembering your preferences and items of interest, sending account-related notifications, processing purchases, returns, exchanges, or other transactions, creating, maintaining, and managing your account, arranging order shipping, facilitating potential returns and exchanges, allowing you to post reviews, and providing a personalized shopping experience (e.g., recommending products related to your purchases). This may include using your personal information to personalize and improve the Services.
  • Marketing and Advertising: We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as sending promotional, advertising, and marketing communications via email, text message, or mail, and displaying online advertisements for products or services—both on our Services and on other websites—including based on items you have purchased, added to cart, or other activities conducted on the Services.
  • Security and Fraud Prevention: We use your personal information to authenticate your account, ensure a secure shopping and payment experience, detect, investigate, or take action regarding potential fraudulent, illegal, unsafe, or malicious activities, protect public safety, and maintain the security of our services. If you choose to use the Services and create an account, you are responsible for keeping your access credentials secure. For your security, avoid sharing your username, password, or any access information with others.
  • Communications with You: We use your personal information to provide customer support, respond to your requests, deliver efficient services, and maintain our business relationship with you.
  • Legal Reasons: We use your personal information to comply with applicable laws or respond to valid legal processes (including requests from law enforcement or government agencies), to investigate or participate in current or potential civil litigation or other legal disputes, and to enforce or investigate potential violations of our terms or policies.

How We Share Your Personal Information

Under certain circumstances, we may share your personal information with third parties for legitimate purposes as set forth in this Privacy Policy. These circumstances include:
  • With Shopify, Manufacturers, and Other Partners Who Provide Services on Our Behalf: Such as IT management, payment processing, data analysis, customer support, cloud storage, order processing, and shipping.
  • With Business and Marketing Partners: To provide marketing and advertising services to you. For example, we use Shopify to enable personalized advertising with 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 policies. Depending on your location, you may have the right to request that we do not share your information to display advertisements and personalized marketing activities based on your online activity across different websites and merchants.
  • When You Authorize, Request, or Consent to Sharing: For example, for product shipping or when using social media widgets or login integrations.
  • With Our Affiliates or Other Companies in the Same Corporate Group.
  • In Connection with Business Transactions: Such as mergers or bankruptcies, to comply with applicable legal obligations (including responding to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests), to enforce current 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 about your access and use of the Services to provide and improve the Services for you. Information you submit to the Services will be transmitted and shared with Shopify, as well as with third parties that may be located in countries other than your country of residence, to provide and improve the Services for you. Additionally, to help protect, expand, and improve our business, we use certain advanced Shopify features that incorporate data and information obtained from your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify itself. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may use personal information collected from your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify. In such cases, Shopify is responsible for processing this personal information, including responding to your requests related to exercising your rights regarding the use of this information for these purposes. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and what rights you may have, visit Shopify’s Consumer Privacy Policy. Depending on your location, you may exercise certain rights regarding your personal information here: [Link to Shopify’s Privacy Policy].

Third-Party Websites and Links

The Services may contain links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you access these links to websites that are not affiliated with or controlled by us, we recommend that you review the privacy and security policies, as well as the terms and conditions, of these third parties. We do not guarantee or take responsibility for the privacy or security practices of these websites, including the accuracy, integrity, or reliability of the information they provide. Information you share in public or semi-public environments (such as third-party social media platforms) may also be viewed by other users of the Services and/or these platforms, with no restrictions on use by us or third parties. The inclusion of these links in the Services does not, by itself, constitute any endorsement of the content of these platforms or their owners/operators, unless expressly stated in the Services.

Children’s Information

The Services are not intended for use by children, and we do not intentionally collect any personal information from minors, as defined by applicable law in your jurisdiction. If you are a parent, guardian, or legal representative of a child who has shared personal information with us, you may contact us via the channels listed below to request the deletion of such data. At the time this Privacy Policy takes effect, we have no actual knowledge that we "share" or "sell" (as defined by applicable law) personal information of individuals under the age of 16.

Security and Retention of Your Information

While we implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal information, no system is completely infallible. Therefore, we cannot guarantee "absolute security." Additionally, data transmitted to us may not be protected during transmission. For this reason, we recommend that you avoid sending sensitive or confidential information via unsecured means.
The period for which we retain your personal information may vary depending on various factors, including the need to maintain your active account, provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce applicable contracts and policies.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location, you may have some or all of the following rights regarding your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, may only apply in certain circumstances, and in some cases, Shopify may decline your request as permitted by law:
  • Right of Access/Knowledge: You may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
  • Right to Erasure: You may have the right to request that we delete the personal information we hold about you.
  • Right to Correction: You may have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information we hold about you.
  • Right to Portability: You may have the right to receive a copy of your personal information and request that it be transferred to third parties, under certain circumstances and with some exceptions.
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing for Targeted Advertising: Depending on your location, you may have the right to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information, as well as the right to object to the use of your information for purposes considered "targeted advertising," as defined by applicable privacy laws.
  • Managing Communication Preferences: We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of these at any time using the unsubscribe option provided in the emails themselves. Even if you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send non-promotional messages, such as account notifications or order updates.
You may exercise any of these rights directly through the Services (when available) or by contacting us via the details listed below. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and what rights you may have—including those related to data processing by Shopify—visit https://privacy.shopify.com/en.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. You may be required to verify your identity before we process your requests, as permitted or required by applicable law. Under applicable laws, you may appoint an authorized representative to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from a representative, we will require proof of authorization to act on your behalf. We may also ask you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request within the timeframe required by applicable law.

Complaints

If you have any complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the details listed below. Depending on your location, you may have the right to challenge our decision by contacting us again through the same channels, or to file a complaint directly with the Australian Information Commissioner’s Office (OAIC)—Australia’s national data protection authority.

International Transfers

Your personal information may be transferred, stored, and processed outside the country where you reside.
If we transfer your personal information outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom (UK), we will use recognized transfer mechanisms, such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent contracts issued by the UK’s competent authority (as applicable), unless the transfer is to a country deemed to provide an adequate level of protection. For transfers to Australia, we ensure compliance with the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and any applicable cross-border data transfer requirements.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically, either to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised version of this 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 wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us by phone (not provided at this time) or email at habdul468901@gmail.com, or at the address: 123 Market Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia (administrative and logistics address—no in-person product collection).