Privacy policy
Last Updated: October 13, 2026
Privacy Policy
Summer Store operates this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services (the "Services"), to provide you with a curated shopping experience. Our store is powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide these Services.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and disclose your personal information when you visit our website, use our Services, make a purchase, or communicate with us. If there is a conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy concerning the handling of personal information, this Privacy Policy will apply to that subject.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using our Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood how your information may be collected, used, and disclosed as described in this policy.
Personal Information We Collect or Process
Personal information means information that identifies you or can reasonably be linked to you or another individual. It does not include anonymous or de-identified information that cannot reasonably identify an individual.
Depending on how you interact with our Services, we may collect or process the following categories of personal information, subject to applicable law:
- Contact Details: Your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, and other contact information you provide.
- Financial Information: Payment card details, payment method, transaction records, payment confirmations, and related financial information processed through applicable payment providers.
- Account Information: Your username, password, account preferences, settings, and security-related information.
- Transaction Information: Products you view, add to your cart or wishlist, purchase, return, exchange, or cancel, along with relevant order history.
- Communications: Information you provide when contacting us for customer support or making other enquiries.
- Device Information: Information about your device, browser, IP address, network connection, and other technical identifiers.
- Usage Information: Information about how and when you interact with our website and Services, including pages visited and interactions with website features.
Sources of Personal Information
We may collect personal information from the following sources:
- Directly from you: When you create an account, place an order, complete a form, contact us, or otherwise provide information.
- Automatically through our Services: Through cookies, similar technologies, and information collected from your device when you browse our website.
- From service providers: From companies that help us operate our store, process payments, analyse website activity, provide customer support, or fulfil orders.
- From partners and third parties: Where permitted by applicable law and consistent with this Privacy Policy.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We may use your personal information for the following purposes, depending on how you interact with our Services and as permitted by applicable law.
Providing and Improving Our Services
We use your information to process payments, fulfil orders, arrange shipping, manage your account, remember preferences, provide customer support, handle returns and exchanges, and improve your shopping experience. We may also use it to recommend products and improve our website and services.
Marketing and Advertising
Where permitted by law and subject to your preferences, we may use your information to send promotional emails or other marketing communications and to display relevant advertisements on our website or other platforms. These activities may use information about your previous purchases, browsing activity, or interactions with our store.
Security and Fraud Prevention
We may use personal information to verify accounts, process transactions securely, detect and investigate suspected fraud, prevent unauthorised activity, protect our customers, and maintain the security of our Services.
You are responsible for keeping your account login details confidential. Please do not share your password or other account access information with others.
Communicating with You
We use your contact details to respond to enquiries, provide order updates, offer customer support, and communicate information relating to your account or purchases.
Legal and Regulatory Requirements
We may process personal information to comply with applicable laws, respond to lawful requests from authorities, resolve disputes, enforce our terms and policies, and protect our legal rights.
How We Disclose Personal Information
We may disclose personal information to third parties in appropriate circumstances and subject to applicable law, including:
- Shopify and Service Providers: Companies that support our website hosting, payment processing, data analysis, customer support, cloud storage, order fulfilment, and shipping operations.
- Business and Marketing Partners: Partners who help us provide marketing services or advertising. Some services may use information about your online activity across different websites or merchants, subject to applicable law and your available privacy choices.
- Parties You Authorise: Third parties you ask us to share information with, such as delivery providers, or services you choose to connect to our store.
- Affiliated Businesses: Our affiliates or related entities, where applicable.
- Legal and Business Transactions: Relevant parties in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, insolvency, legal obligation, lawful government request, or the protection of our rights and the rights of others.
Third parties that receive personal information may process it under their own privacy policies and applicable legal requirements.
Our Relationship with Shopify
Our store is hosted by Shopify, which collects and processes certain personal information about your access to and use of our Services to operate, maintain, and improve the platform.
Information you submit through our store may be transmitted to Shopify and service providers, including providers located in countries other than your country of residence, where necessary to provide our Services.
We may also use Shopify features that help us understand store activity, improve performance, and support relevant shopping experiences. Shopify may process information collected through your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify itself in connection with these features.
For more information about how Shopify handles personal information and the rights available to you, please review:
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website and Shopify may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the store, remember preferences, understand website usage, improve functionality, and support advertising where applicable.
You may be able to manage cookies through your browser settings or available privacy controls. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of some parts of our website.
Where required by law, we will request consent before using cookies or similar technologies that require your permission.
Third-Party Websites and Links
Our Services may contain links to websites or online platforms operated by third parties. If you visit an external website, we encourage you to review its privacy policy, security practices, and terms.
Summer Store does not control and is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or accuracy of third-party websites, except where applicable law provides otherwise.
Information shared in public or semi-public spaces, including third-party social media platforms, may be visible to other users and may be used by those platforms or others according to their own policies.
Children's Privacy
Our Services are not intended for children who are not legally permitted to use them in their jurisdiction, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children below the applicable age threshold.
If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us using the details below to request that we review and, where appropriate, delete that information.
Where required by applicable law, we will follow the relevant rules concerning children's personal information, including restrictions on the sale or sharing of such information.
Security and Retention of Your Information
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information against unauthorised access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure. However, no security measure or method of electronic transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Please avoid sending sensitive or confidential information through unsecured communication channels.
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our Services, maintain accounts and transaction records, fulfil legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements and policies.
Your Privacy Rights and Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These rights may be subject to eligibility requirements, exceptions, and verification procedures.
- Right to Access: Request access to personal information we hold about you.
- Right to Delete: Request deletion of personal information, subject to legal exceptions.
- Right to Correct: Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
- Right to Data Portability: Request a copy of certain personal information or its transfer to another organisation where applicable.
- Marketing Preferences: Unsubscribe from promotional emails using the unsubscribe link included in our marketing emails. You may still receive necessary non-promotional communications, such as order confirmations and account updates.
- Advertising and Data Sharing Choices: Depending on your location, you may have the right to opt out of certain targeted advertising or personal information sharing activities.
To exercise your rights, contact us using the details provided below. You may also use the Shopify Privacy Portal for requests relating to personal information processed by Shopify.
We may need to verify your identity before processing a request. Where permitted by law, you may appoint an authorised agent to submit a request on your behalf, subject to verification requirements.
We will handle eligible requests within the timeframes required by applicable law. We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.
Complaints
If you have concerns about how we collect, use, store, or disclose your personal information, please contact us using the details below.
Depending on your location, you may also have the right to complain to or seek assistance from your local data protection or privacy authority.
International Data Transfers
Your personal information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in countries outside your country of residence when necessary to operate our store and provide our Services.
Where required by applicable law, we will use appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information. These may include recognised contractual protections, such as Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent mechanisms approved by the relevant authorities, unless another lawful transfer mechanism applies.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our business practices, technology, legal obligations, or regulatory requirements.
Any revised policy will be published on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date. We will provide additional notice where required by applicable law.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us using the details below.
Business Name: Summer Store
Email: venentra@hotmail.com
Phone: +61 7 3103 2034
Physical Address: QLD 4013, Australia