Privacy Notice
Effective Date: September 13, 2026
Handbag Hannah (“Handbag Hannah,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit our website, purchase products from us, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with our services.
Our website may use third-party platforms and service providers, including Shopify and Theo, to operate our online storefront and provide ecommerce services.
1. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with our website, we may collect the following types of information:
Information You Provide
When you make a purchase, create an account, contact us, subscribe to communications, or otherwise interact with our store, you may provide information such as:
- Name
- Billing and shipping address
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Order and purchase information
- Account information
- Messages or communications you send to us
Payment information is processed through Shopify and its payment service providers. Handbag Hannah does not directly store complete credit card numbers.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, pixels, analytics technologies, and similar tools. This information may include:
- IP address
- Browser and device information
- Operating system
- Pages viewed
- Products viewed
- Referring website
- Approximate location
- Shopping-cart activity
- Website interactions
- Date and time of visits
We may use this information to operate and improve our website, understand how visitors use the site, prevent fraud, and measure the effectiveness of marketing.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use personal information to:
- Process and fulfill purchases
- Process payments
- Provide shipping and delivery services
- Send order confirmations and shipping updates
- Respond to customer-service requests
- Manage returns, refunds, or other order issues
- Maintain and improve our website
- Personalize your shopping experience
- Prevent fraud, misuse, and unauthorized transactions
- Analyze website traffic and store performance
- Send marketing communications when permitted by law
- Comply with legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations
3. Shopify
Our ecommerce services are powered by Shopify.
When you browse our store or make a purchase, Shopify may process personal information on our behalf and may also process information according to its own privacy practices.
Shopify provides services including product management, shopping-cart functionality, checkout, payment processing, order management, customer records, fraud prevention, analytics, and other ecommerce services.
Information may be processed by Shopify and its service providers in countries other than the country where you live.
For more information regarding Shopify's handling of personal information, please review the Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy.
4. Theo
Handbag Hannah may use Theo to build, host, maintain, enhance, or operate portions of our public-facing website and to integrate our website with our Shopify store.
Our Shopify store remains responsible for ecommerce functions such as product information, inventory, orders, checkout, payments, and shipping. Information necessary to operate the website or its Shopify integration may be processed by Theo or its service providers in accordance with their applicable privacy practices.
5. Service Providers
We may share information with companies that provide services necessary to operate our business. These may include:
- Website hosting and ecommerce providers
- Payment processors
- Shipping and fulfillment providers
- Email and communication services
- Fraud-prevention services
- Analytics providers
- Advertising and marketing platforms
- Website-development and technology providers
- Professional advisors, accountants, or legal providers
These providers may receive information only as reasonably necessary to provide their services or as otherwise permitted by law.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies.
These technologies may be used for purposes including:
- Keeping the website functioning properly
- Remembering shopping-cart contents and preferences
- Understanding website usage
- Measuring website performance
- Preventing fraud
- Measuring advertising effectiveness
- Providing personalized content or advertising
Depending on your location, you may be provided with options to accept, reject, or customize certain categories of cookies.
You may also change certain cookie settings through your browser. Disabling cookies may affect some website functionality.
7. Advertising and Analytics
We may use analytics or advertising services to understand how visitors find and use our website and to measure advertising performance.
Depending on the services we use, information about your interaction with our website may be shared with advertising or analytics providers.
We do not sell personal information for money.
However, certain uses of advertising cookies, pixels, or similar technologies may be legally considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or use of personal information for targeted advertising under the privacy laws of certain U.S. states.
Where required by applicable law, we will provide a method for eligible users to opt out of these activities.
8. Marketing Communications
If you choose to receive promotional emails or other marketing communications from Handbag Hannah, you may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe instructions included in the communication.
Transactional communications relating to purchases, shipping, account security, or customer service may still be sent when necessary.
9. How We Protect Information
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information.
However, no website, internet transmission, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
10. How Long We Keep Information
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate our business, complete transactions, maintain business and tax records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, and enforce agreements.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
11. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning your personal information. These may include the right to:
- Request access to personal information we maintain about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of certain personal information
- Obtain a copy of certain personal information
- Opt out of certain uses or disclosures of personal information
- Opt out of targeted advertising or certain data sharing
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Appeal certain decisions regarding privacy requests
These rights vary by jurisdiction and may be subject to legal exceptions.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right provided by applicable law.
To submit a privacy request, contact us using the information provided below.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
12. International Visitors
Our business is based in the United States, and our service providers may operate in the United States, Canada, and other countries.
If you access our website from another country, your personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries whose data-protection laws differ from those in your home jurisdiction.
13. Children's Privacy
Our website and products are intended for a general adult audience and are not directed toward children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected such information, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
14. Legal Disclosures
We may disclose personal information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law or legal process
- Respond to lawful governmental requests
- Protect our rights or property
- Protect our customers or others
- Investigate fraud or security concerns
- Enforce our policies or agreements
Information may also be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, restructuring, or similar business transaction.
15. Changes to This Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes in our business practices, technology, service providers, or legal requirements.
When we update this notice, we will revise the effective date shown at the top of the page.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Notice or would like to submit a privacy request, please contact:
Handbag Hannah
Email: hello@handbaghannah.com
