Privacy policy

Last updated: June 14, 2025


This Privacy Policy describes how Atelier Miia (the "Site", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit our Site, use our services, make a purchase at www.ateliermiia.nl (the "Site"), or otherwise communicate with us regarding the Site (collectively, the "Services"). For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" refer to you as a user of the Services, whether you are a customer, a website visitor, or any other individual whose information we have collected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.


Changes to This Privacy Policy


We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the updated Privacy Policy on the Site, revise the “Last updated” date accordingly, and take any other steps required by applicable law.


1. When do you apply this privacy statement?

This privacy statement applies to all personal data that we process and to all domains related to us. This concerns the personal data of everyone who has ever had contact with us or visited our website, such as visitors, customers and business contacts. Personal data is all data that can be traced back to you as an individual, such as your name, telephone number, IP address, customer number or surfing behavior. If you want to know more about personal data, please visit the website of the Dutch Data Protection Authority. 


2. Who uses your data?

Atelier Miia is responsible for the website https://www.ateliermiia.nl/ and therefore the responsible organisation for the use of your personal data as described in this privacy statement. The full details are:

Atelier Miia
Established at: Geuzenstraat 47-1, 1056KA,  Amsterdam
Chamber of Commerce number: 77420624 


3. How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

To provide the Services, we collect personal information about you from various sources, as outlined below. The information we collect and use depends on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses described below, we may use the information we collect about you to communicate with you, provide or improve our services, comply with applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and protect or defend our services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.


Personal Information We Collect
The types of personal information we obtain about you depend on how you interact with our website and use our services. When we use the term "personal information," we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you. The sections below describe the categories and specific types of personal information we collect.

Information You Provide Directly to Us
Information you provide to us directly through our services may include:

  • Contact information, including your name, address, phone number, and email address.
  • Order information, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, and phone number.
  • Account information, including your username, password, security questions, and other details used for account protection.
  • Customer support information, including details you share when communicating with us, such as when you send a message via the Services.

Some features of our services may require you to provide certain personal information directly. You may choose not to provide this information, but if you do, certain features may not be accessible or functional for you.

Information We Collect About Your Use

We may also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with our services ("Usage Data"). We may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies ("Cookies") to do this. Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, network connection details, your IP address, and other information related to your interaction with our services.


Information We Obtain from Third Parties
Finally, we may obtain information about you from third parties, including vendors and service providers who collect information on our behalf, such as:

  • Companies that support our website and services, such as Shopify.
  • Our payment processors, who collect payment information (such as bank account, credit card, or debit card details and billing address) to process your payments, fulfill your orders, and deliver the products or services you requested—allowing us to fulfill the contract we have with you.

When you visit our Site, open or click on emails we send you, or otherwise interact with our services or advertisements, we or third parties we work with may automatically collect certain information using online tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, software development kits, third-party libraries, and cookies.

Any information we obtain from third parties is handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please also see the section below titled Third-Party Websites and Links.

How We Use Your Personal Information

Provision of Products and Services.
We use your personal information to provide you with our services under the contract we have with you. This includes processing your payments, fulfilling your orders, sending you notifications related to your account, purchases, returns, exchanges, or other transactions, creating, maintaining, and otherwise managing your account, arranging for shipping, facilitating returns and exchanges, and enabling other account-related functions and features.
We may also enhance your shopping experience by enabling Shopify to match your account with other Shopify services you might want to use. In such cases, Shopify processes your data as described in its Privacy Policy and Consumer Privacy Policy.

Marketing and Advertising.
We may use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as sending you marketing, advertising, and promotional communications via email, SMS, or postal mail, and to display ads for products or services. This may include using your personal information to better tailor the services and advertisements on our website and on other websites.
If you are a resident of the EEA, the legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in promoting our products, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

Security and Fraud Prevention.
We use your personal information to detect, investigate, and take action against potential fraudulent, illegal, or malicious activity. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure. We strongly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other access details with anyone. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately.
If you are a resident of the EEA, the legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in keeping our website secure for you and other customers, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

Communication and Service Improvement.
We use your personal information to provide customer support and to improve our Services. This is in our legitimate interest to communicate with you, deliver effective services, and maintain our business relationship with you, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

4. Cookies
Like many other websites, we use Cookies on our website. Specific information about the Cookies we use in connection with operating our store through Shopify can be found at https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies.
We use Cookies to support and enhance our Site and Services (including remembering your actions and preferences), to perform analytics, and to better understand how users interact with the Services (based on our legitimate interest in managing, improving, and optimizing the Services).
We may also allow third parties and service providers to use cookies on our Site to tailor services, products, and advertising on our Site and other websites.

Most browsers automatically accept Cookies by default, but you can set your browser to delete or reject Cookies through your browser settings. Please note that deleting or blocking Cookies may negatively affect your user experience and may cause certain Services—including specific features and general functionality—to not work properly or to no longer be available.
In addition, blocking Cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties, such as our advertising partners.

5. How We Disclose Personal Data
Under certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal data to third parties for contract performance, legitimate purposes, and other reasons covered by this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

  • To vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (for example, IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment, and shipping).
  • To business and marketing partners to provide services and display advertisements to you. Our business and marketing partners will use your data in accordance with their own privacy policies.
  • When you instruct us, request us, or otherwise give permission to share certain data with third parties, for example, to deliver products to you or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations, with your consent.
  • With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group, in our legitimate interests to run a successful business.
  • In connection with a business transaction, such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with applicable legal obligations (including responding to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests), to enforce applicable service terms, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.


We disclose the following categories of personal data and sensitive personal information about users for the purposes set out above in 'How We Collect and Use Your Personal Data' and 'How We Disclose Personal Data':

Category

Recipient Categories

• Identification data such as basic contact details and certain order and account information


• Commercial information such as information about orders, shopping, and customer support


• Internet or other similar network activity, such as usage data


• Geolocation data such as locations determined by an IP address or other technical measures

• Business and marketing partners

• Vendors and third parties who provide services on our behalf (such as internet providers, payment processors, fulfillment partners, customer support partners, and data analytics providers)

  • Business and marketing partners

• Affiliates

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal data without your consent or for the purpose of deriving characteristics about you.
With your consent, we share personal data as follows to carry out advertising and marketing activities.

6. Websites and Third-Party Links
Our Site may contain links to websites or other online platforms managed by third parties. If you follow links to sites that are not affiliated with us or not managed by us, it is important that you read their privacy and security policies and other terms. We make no guarantees and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the information on those sites.

Information you provide on public or semi-public locations, including information you share on third-party social networks, may also be visible to other users of the Services and/or users of these third-party platforms, without limitation regarding its use by us or by a third party. The inclusion of such links on our Site does not in itself imply approval of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as stated in the Services.

7. Security and Retention of Your Data
Please note that no security measure is perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” Furthermore, it is possible that data you send to us may not be secure during transmission. We recommend that you avoid using insecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

The length of time we retain your personal data depends on various factors, such as whether we need the data to maintain your account, provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or comply with other applicable contracts and policies.

8. Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights regarding your personal data. However, these rights are not absolute and may only apply under certain circumstances, and in some cases, we may decline your request to the extent permitted by law.

  • Right of Access/Right to Know: You may have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you, including details about how we use and share your data.
  • Right to Deletion: You may have the right to request that we delete the personal data we hold about you.
  • Right to Correction: You may have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal data we hold about you.
  • Right to Data Portability: Under certain circumstances and with some exceptions, you may have the right to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party.
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale, Sharing, or Targeted Advertising: You may have the right to request that we do not “sell” or “share” your personal data or to opt-out of the processing of your personal data for purposes considered “targeted advertising,” as defined by applicable privacy laws. Please note that if you visit our Site while the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal is enabled, we may, depending on your location, automatically treat this as a request to opt out of “selling” or “sharing” information for the device and browser you are using to visit the Site.
  • Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to request that we cease or restrict the processing of your personal data.
  • Withdrawal of Consent: When we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you may have the right to withdraw that consent.
  • Appeal: You may have the right to appeal our decision if we refuse to process your request. You can do this by responding directly to our denial.
  • Manage Communication Preferences: We may send you promotional emails, and you can unsubscribe from receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option included in the emails we send you. If you unsubscribe, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as emails about your account or orders you have placed.

You can exercise any of these rights where indicated on our Site or by contacting us using the contact details below.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to collect information about you to verify your identity, such as your email address or account details, before we provide a substantive response to your request. In accordance with applicable law, you may designate an authorized representative to submit requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an authorized representative, we require proof of their authorization to act on your behalf, and we may ask you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required by applicable law.

9. International Users
Please note that we may transfer, store, and process your personal data outside the country where you reside. Your personal data may also be processed by staff, external service providers, and partners in these countries.

If we transfer your personal data outside Europe, we rely on recognized transfer mechanisms such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, or equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority in the United Kingdom, as applicable, unless the data is transferred to a country that has been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection.

10. Contact us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail at info@ateliermiia.nl