Meraki Vintage
Your information
What we collect, why we collect it, and what we do not do with it.
We collect the minimum we need to sell you a piece of clothing and get it to you. We don't sell your personal information to anyone, and we never see your full card number.
Meraki Vintage, Pacific Mall Unit E66, 4300 Steeles Ave E, Markham, ON L3R 0N8. For any privacy question, email merakivintage11@gmail.com.
This policy explains how we handle personal information under Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
We never see or store your full card number. Payments are processed by Square. Your card details go straight to them and are handled under their security standards, not ours.
We don't use your information for anything else without asking you first.
Placing an order is your consent for us to use your information to fulfil it. You can withdraw consent at any time by emailing us — though if you withdraw it for an order still in progress, we may not be able to complete that order.
Cart reminders. If you tick the box asking for cart reminders at checkout, enter your email and leave without paying, we may send you up to two cart reminders about the items you left — one about an hour later and one the next day — and a single review request about a week after an order ships. Every one of these emails has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing never affects your ability to order or the emails about orders you place. Drop announcements are separate and only sent if you ask for them.
We delete cart reminder details 7 days after you enter your email, and the order details we keep for sending order emails within 90 days.
Only the businesses we need to in order to complete your order:
We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information. We don't share it with advertisers. (Our website uses Google Analytics and Google Ads to measure site visits — see section 7.) We'll only disclose it otherwise if the law requires us to.
Our website is hosted by Netlify, payments are processed by Square, and our email is operated by Google and Resend. That means your information may be stored on or accessed from servers outside Canada, including in the United States, and may be subject to the laws of those countries — including lawful access requests by foreign courts or authorities.
We tell you this because PIPEDA requires it, not because anything unusual is happening. If you'd rather not have your information handled that way, you can shop with us in-store instead.
This website remembers your cart in your own browser's storage, so nothing about your cart is kept on our servers unless you ask for cart reminders. At checkout, Square's secure card form loads from Square and may set its own cookies to keep the payment secure and prevent fraud.
Google Analytics and Google Ads cookies are off until you say yes. The first time you visit, a banner asks you to Accept or Decline. If you decline, or never answer, we do not set Google's analytics or advertising cookies. Google's tag still loads on the page but is told it has no permission to use cookies or store identifiers, so it may receive only a limited, cookie-free signal (for example, that a page was viewed). If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat that as a decline and do not show the banner.
You can change your mind at any time with the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page. Your choice is saved in your own browser on this device only; clearing your site data resets it. If you accept and later decline, we also delete the Google cookies we can reach.
If you accept, we use Google Analytics to understand how people find and move around the site — which pages get visited, roughly where visitors come from, and what device they use. We don't use it to identify you individually.
We also advertise on Google Ads. To see whether our ads work, Google Analytics and Google Ads measure what visitors who arrive from an ad go on to do on our site — for example, whether they start checkout. Google may use this information to show our ads to people more likely to be interested, and may link it to your Google account if you're signed in and have allowed ad personalization. We never share your name, address, email or payment details with Google for this.
Google sets cookies to do all of this, and the data is processed on Google's servers, which may be outside Canada. You can also opt out of Google Analytics for every site using Google's browser add-on, turn off personalized ads in My Ad Center, or block cookies in your browser.
The cart storage and Square's payment cookies described above are needed for the site and checkout to work, so they are not part of the banner.
Google Fonts and Google Maps are not covered by the banner. Every page loads its fonts from Google Fonts, and the Visit page embeds a Google Map. Loading them sends your IP address and browser details to Google, and the map may set its own Google cookies.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings, but parts of the checkout will stop working if you do.
We keep order records for as long as we need them to handle returns, answer questions and meet Canadian tax and business record-keeping requirements. Marketing contacts are kept until you unsubscribe.
You can ask us at any time to:
Email merakivintage11@gmail.com and we'll respond within 30 days.
If you're not satisfied with how we've handled a privacy concern, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at priv.gc.ca.
We take reasonable steps to protect the information we hold, and we deliberately keep as little of it as possible. Payment card data never touches our systems. No method of transmitting information over the internet is completely secure, and we can't guarantee absolute security.
Our store isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we'll delete it.
If we change this policy we'll update the effective date at the top of this page. Material changes to how we use your information will be posted here before they take effect.
Email merakivintage11@gmail.com · Call +1 647-221-0017
Meraki Vintage · Pacific Mall, Unit E66
4300 Steeles Ave E, Markham, ON L3R 0N8