Privacy policy
Last updated: August 30, 2026
Verlichtingsstunter.nl 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'). Verlichtingsstunter.nl 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 information when you visit, use or make a purchase or other transaction using the Services, or otherwise communicate with us. If there is a conflict between our terms of service and this privacy policy, this privacy policy shall prevail with respect to the collection, processing and disclosure of your personal information.
Please read this privacy policy carefully. By using and accessing the Services, you acknowledge that you have read this privacy policy and understand the collection, use and disclosure of your information as described in this privacy policy.
Personal information we collect or process
When we use the term "personal information", we mean information that identifies you or another individual, or that could reasonably be linked to you or another individual. Personal information does not include information that is collected anonymously or that has been de-identified so that it cannot identify or reasonably be linked to you. Depending on how you interact with the Services, where you live, and as permitted or required by applicable law, we may collect or process the following categories of personal information, including inferences drawn from this personal information:
- Contact details including your name, address, billing address, delivery address, telephone number and email address.
- Financial information including credit card, debit card and financial account numbers, payment card information, financial account information, transaction data, 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, add to your shopping cart, add to your wish list or purchase, return, exchange or cancel, and your past transactions.
- Communications with us including the information you include in your communications with us, for example when submitting a customer support 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 interact with or navigate through the Services.
Sources of personal information
We may collect personal information from the following sources:
- Directly from you including when you create an account, visit 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 visit our websites, and through the use of cookies and similar technologies;
- From our service providers including when we engage them to enable certain technology 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 of the Services you use, we may use personal information for the following purposes:
- Providing, personalizing and improving the Services. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services, including to perform our agreement with you, to process your payments, to fulfill your orders, to remember your preferences and items you are interested in, to send you notifications related to your account, to process purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions, to create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, to arrange for shipping, to facilitate any returns and exchanges, to enable you to post reviews, and to create a shopping experience tailored to you, such as recommending products related to your purchases. This may include using your personal information to better personalize 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 post, and to show you online advertisements for products or Services on the Services or other websites, including based on items you previously purchased or added to your shopping cart and other activity on the Services.
- Security and fraud prevention. We use your personal information to verify your account, to provide a secure payment and shopping experience, to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, unsafe or malicious activity, to protect public safety, and to secure our Services. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account login credentials safe. We strongly recommend that you do not share your username, password or other access details with anyone else.
- Communicating with you. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support, to communicate with you, to provide you with effective Services, and to maintain our business relationship with you.
- Legal reasons. We use your personal information to comply with applicable law or to respond to valid legal process, including requests from law enforcement or government agencies, to investigate or participate in civil discovery, potential or actual litigation, or other adversarial legal proceedings, and to enforce or investigate potential violations of our terms or policies.
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, vendors and other third parties who perform Services on our behalf (e.g. IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping);
- With business and marketing partners to provide marketing Services and advertise to you; For example, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising with Services from third parties based on your online activity with various 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 to show you targeted advertising and marketing based on your online activity with different merchants and websites. You can exercise your rights to opt out of this use here
- When you direct us, request us, or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship you products 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, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including to respond to subpoenas, search warrants and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service or policies, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
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 and improve the Services for you. Information you submit to the Services will be sent to and shared with Shopify, as well as third parties who may be located in countries other than where you live, in order to provide and improve the Services for you. In addition, to help protect, grow and improve our business, we use certain Shopify enhanced features that include data and information obtained from your interactions with our store, together with other merchants and with Shopify. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may use personal information collected about your interactions with our store, together with other merchants, and with Shopify. In these circumstances, Shopify is responsible for the processing of your personal information, including for responding to your requests to exercise your rights over the use of your personal information for these purposes. For more information about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, please visit the Shopify Customer Privacy Policy. Depending on where you live, you may be able to exercise certain rights regarding your personal information here Shopify Privacy Policy portal link.
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 sites not affiliated with or controlled by us, you should review their 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 networking platforms, may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation 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 to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under 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 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 in applicable law) personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.
Security and retention of your information
Please be aware 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 Services, to comply with legal obligations, to resolve disputes or to 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 only apply 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 transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
- Right to opt out of sale or sharing for targeted advertising. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information, or to opt out of the processing of your personal information for purposes considered to be "targeted advertising", as defined in applicable privacy laws. You can exercise your rights to opt out of this use here. Please note that if you visit our website with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal enabled, depending on where you are, we may automatically treat this as a request to opt out for the device and browser you used to visit the website. If we can match the device sending the signal to a Shopify account, we will also apply the opt-out request to the account. For more information about Global Privacy Control, please visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/. Aside from Global Privacy Control, we do not recognize any other "Do Not Track" signals that may be sent by your web browser or device.
- Managing communication preferences. We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders you have placed.
If you are located in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area (EEA), and subject to exceptions and limitations provided by local law, you may exercise the following rights in addition to the rights described above:
- Right to object to and restrict processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict processing of your personal information for certain purposes.
- Right to withdraw consent: where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw such consent. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on the Services or by contacting us using the contact details provided below. For more information about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, including rights regarding data processed by Shopify, please visit 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 under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, you may designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before we accept such a request from an agent, we will require the agent to prove they have your authorization to act on your behalf, and we may need to ask 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 have any complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details below. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details below, or to lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority. For the EEA, a list of the responsible supervisory authorities for data protection can be found here.
International transfers
Please note that we may transfer, store and process your personal information outside the country where you live.
If we transfer your personal information outside of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we rely on recognized transfer mechanisms such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the United Kingdom, as relevant, unless the data is transferred 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 in 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 take any other steps required by applicable law.
Contact
Should 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 +31 6 45550525 or email us at info@verlichtingsstunter.nl or contact us at De Hoefsmid 20, 1851 PZ Heiloo, Netherlands For the purposes of applicable data protection laws, we are the data controller of your personal information.