Privacy Policy

Privacy policy Last updated: June 29, 2026 To be clear, levain Bakery operates this store and website, which may include all related information, content, features, tools, products and services, with the aim of provide you, the customer, with a curated shopping experience (the "Services"). Levain Bakery is powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide these Services to you. This privacy notice describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit, use, or make a purchase or other transaction using these Services or otherwise communicate with us. If there is a conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy controls with respect to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal information. To be clear, please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of these Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and understand the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as stated in this Privacy Policy. Personal Information We Collect or Process When we use the term "personal information," we are referring to information that identifies or can reasonably be linked to you or another person. Personal information is not intended to include information that is collected anonymously or that has been de-identified, so that it cannot identify or be reasonably linked to you. We can collect or process the following categories of personal information, which may include inferences drawn from this personal information, depending on how you interact with these Services, where you live, and as permitted or required by applicable law: Contact details which may include your name, address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, and email address. To be clear, financial information which may include credit card, debit card, and financial account numbers, payment card information, financial account information, transaction details, form of payment, payment confirmation and other payment details. Account information which may include your username, password, security questions, preferences and settings. To be clear, transaction information which may include the items you view, put in your cart, add to your wishlist, or purchase, return, exchange or cancel and your past transactions. Communications with us which may include the information you include in communications with us, as one illustration, when sending a customer support inquiry. To be clear, device information which may include information about your device, browser, or network connection, your IP address, and other unique identifiers. Usage information which may include information regarding your interaction with these Services, which may include how and when you interact with or navigate these Services. Personal Information Sources We can collect personal information from the following sources: Directly from you which may include when you create an account, visit or use these Services, communicate with us, or otherwise provide us with your personal information; To be clear, automatically through these Services which may include 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 which may include 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 To be clear, depending on how you interact with us or which of these Services you use, we can use personal information for the following purposes: To be clear, provide, Tailor, and Improve these Services. We use your personal information to provide you with these Services, which may include to perform our contract with you, to process your payments, to fulfill your orders, to remember your preferences and items you are interested in, to send notifications to you 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 customized shopping experience for you, such as recommending products related to your purchases. This may include using your personal information to better tailor and improve these Services. Marketing and Advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send marketing, advertising and promotional communications by email, text message or postal mail, and to show you online advertisements for products or services on these Services or other websites, which may include based on items you previously have purchased or added to your cart and other activity on these Services. To be clear, security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to authenticate your account, to provide a secure payment and shopping experience, detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, unsafe, or malicious activity, protect public safety, and to secure our services. If you choose to use these Services and register an account, you have responsibility for keeping your account credentials safe. We highly recommend that you are not to 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 be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you and to maintain our business relationship with you. To be clear, legal Reasons. We use your personal information to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, which may include 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 To be clear, in certain circumstances, we can disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include: To be clear, 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. One example is that, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising with 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 reside, you have the option to have a right to direct us not to share information about you to show you targeted advertisements and marketing based on your online activity with different merchants and websites. You can exercise your rights to opt-out of those uses here . To be clear, when you direct, 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. To be clear, in connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (which may include to respond to subpoenas, search warrants and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service or policies, and to protect or defend these Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others. Relationship with Shopify To be clear, the Services are hosted by Shopify, which collects and processes personal information about your access to and use of these Services with the aim of provide and improve these Services for you. Information you submit to these Services will be transmitted to and shared with Shopify as well as third parties that may be located in countries other than where you reside, with the aim of provide and improve these Services for you. In addition, to help protect, grow, and improve our business, we use certain Shopify enhanced features that incorporate data and information obtained from your interactions with our Store, along with other merchants and with Shopify. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may make use of personal information collected about your interactions with our store, along with other merchants, and with Shopify. In these circumstances, Shopify has responsibility for the processing of your personal information, which may include for responding to your requests to exercise your rights over use of your personal information for these purposes. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you have the option to have, you can visit the Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy . Depending on where you live, you have the option to exercise certain rights with respect 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 their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We are not to guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, which may include the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, which may include information you share on third-party social networking platforms may also be viewable by other users of these 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 is not intended to, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on these Services. Children's Data To be clear, the Services are not intended to be used by children, and we are not to knowingly collect any 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 have the option to communicate with us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted.As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy, we are not to 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 are not to 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, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable contracts and policies. Your Rights and Choices To be clear, depending on where you live, you have the option to 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 can decline your request as permitted by law. To be clear, right to Access / Know. You have the option to have a right to request access to personal information that we hold about you. Right to Delete. You have the option to have a right to request that we delete personal information we maintain about you. To be clear, right to Correct. You have the option to have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you. Right of Portability. You have the option to have a 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. To be clear, right to Opt out of Sale or Sharing for Targeted Advertising. Depending on where you reside, you have the option to have a right to opt out of the "sale" or "share" 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 those uses here. Be advised that if you visit our website with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal enabled, depending on where you are, we will automatically treat this as a request to opt-out for the device and browser that you use to visit the website. If we are able to associate the device sending the signal to a Shopify account, we will apply the opt out request to the account as well. To learn more about Global Privacy Control, you can visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/. Other than the Global Privacy Control, we are not to recognize other "Do Not Track" signals that may be sent from your web browser or device. Managing Communication Preferences. We can send you promotional emails, and you have the option to opt out of receiving these whenever you choose by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt out, we can still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders that you have made. To be clear, you have the option to exercise any of these rights where indicated on these Services or by contacting us using the contact details provided below. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you have the option to have, which may include rights related to data processed by Shopify, you can visit https://privacy.shopify.com/en. To be clear, we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We can need to verify your identity before we can process your requests, as permitted or required under applicable law. In accordance with applicable laws, you have the option to 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 you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we can 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 have complaints about how we process your personal information, please communicate with us using the contact details provided below. Depending on where you live, you have the option to have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details set out below, or lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority. International Transfers To be clear, be advised that we can transfer, store and process your personal information outside the country you live in. To be clear, if we transfer your personal information out of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms like the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or any equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the UK, as relevant, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection. Changes to This privacy notice We can update this Privacy Policy when appropriate, which may include 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 To be clear, 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 or email us at lazzatiffa026@gmail.com or communicate with us at 14 Plympton St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States, United States