Privacy Policy
Privacy
Policy
Last
updated: April 13, 2026
EMPOWER
U COACH AND CONSULTANCY operates this website, including all related
information, content, features, tools, products and services, to provide you,
the customer, with a curated shopping experience (the "Services").
EMPOWER U is powered by Merlin 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 controls with
respect to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal
information.
Please
read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of 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 are referring to
information that identifies or can reasonably be linked to you or another
person. Personal information does not include information that is collected
anonymously or that has been de-identified, so that it cannot identify or be
reasonably linked to you. We may collect or process the following categories of
personal information, including inferences drawn from this personal
information, depending on how you interact with the Services, where you live,
and as permitted or required by applicable law:
- Contact details include your
name, address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, and email
address.
- Financial information including
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.
- Transaction
information includes the
items you view, put in your cart, or purchase, or cancel and your past
transactions.
- Communications with
us includes the information you include in
communications with us, for example, when sending a customer support
inquiry.
- Device information includes
information about your device, browser, or network connection, your IP
address, and other unique identifiers.
- Usage information including
information regarding your interaction with the Services, including how
and when you interact with or navigate the Services.
Personal
Information Sources
We may
collect personal information from the following sources:
- Directly from you include 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 using 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.
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:
- Provide, Tailor, and
Improve the Services. We use your
personal information to provide you with the Services, including 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 the 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 the Services or other websites, including based on items
you previously have purchased or added to your cart and other activity on
the Services.
- Security and Fraud
Prevention. We use your
personal information to authenticate your account, to provide 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
the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your
account credentials safe. We highly 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 be
responsive to you, to provide effective services to you and to maintain
our business relationship with you.
- Legal Reasons. We use your
personal information to comply with applicable law or respond to valid
legal processes, 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 business and
marketing partners to provide marketing services and advertise to you. For
example, we use Google 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 may 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.
- 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.
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, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other
applicable contracts and policies.
Your
Rights and Choices
Depending
on where you live, you may have some or all the rights listed below in relation
to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, they may
apply only in certain circumstances and, in certain cases, we may decline your
request as permitted by law.
- Right to Access /
Know. You may have a
right to request access to personal information that we hold about you.
- Right to Delete. You may have a
right to request that we delete personal information we maintain about
you.
- Right to Correct. You may have a
right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we
maintain about you.
- Right of Portability. You may 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.
- Right to Opt out of
Sale or Sharing for Targeted Advertising. Depending on
where you reside, you may 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. Please note 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 can 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 Global Privacy Control, we do not recognize other "Do Not
Track" signals that may be sent from 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 unsubscribed 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 that you have made.
If you
reside in the UK or European Economic Area, and subject to
exceptions and limitations provided by local law, you may exercise the
following rights in addition to the rights outlined above:
- Objection to
Processing and Restriction of Processing: You may have
the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal
information for certain purposes.
- Withdrawal of
Consent: Where we rely
on consent to process your personal information, you have the right to
withdraw this consent. If you withdraw your consent, this will not affect
the lawfulness of any processing based on your consent before its
withdrawal.
You
may exercise any of these rights were indicated on the 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 may have, including
rights related to data processed by Shopify, you can 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 laws, you may
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 may
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 contact
us using the contact details provided below. Depending on where you live, you
may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact
details below or file your complaint with your local data protection authority.
For the EEA, you can find a list of the responsible data protection supervisory
authorities
Changes
to This Privacy Policy
We may
update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including reflecting 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
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 theempowerucoach@gmail.com For the
purpose of applicable data protection laws, we are the data controller of your
personal information.