Privacy policy

Last updated: November 11, 2026

bandkult operates this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products and services, to provide you, the customer, with a curated shopping experience (the ‘Services’). bandkult is powered by Shopify, 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 or use the Services, make a purchase or another transaction through them, or otherwise communicate with us. If there is a conflict between our Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy takes precedence in relation to the collection, processing and disclosure of your personal information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing the Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and understand the collection, use and disclosure of your information as described in it.

Personal information we collect or process

When we use the term ‘personal information’, we mean information that identifies you or another person, or can reasonably be linked to you or another person. Personal information does not include information collected anonymously or de-identified so that it cannot identify or reasonably be linked to you. We may collect or process the following categories of personal information, including inferences drawn from it, depending on how you interact with the Services, where you live and as permitted or required by applicable law:

• Contact details, including your name, address, billing address, delivery address, telephone number and email address.
• Financial information, including credit card, debit card and financial account numbers, payment card information, financial account information, transaction details, payment method, payment confirmation and other payment details.
• Account information, including your username, password, security questions, preferences and settings.
• Transaction information, including the items you view, add to your basket or wishlist, purchase, return, exchange or cancel, and your past transactions.
• Communications with us, including information you provide when communicating with us, such as when contacting customer support.
• Device information, including information about your device, browser or network connection, your IP address and other unique identifiers.
• Usage information, including information about your interaction with the Services, including how and when you interact with or navigate them.

Sources of personal information

We may collect personal information from the following sources:

• Directly from you, including when you create an account, visit or use the Services, communicate with us or otherwise provide your personal information;
• Automatically through the Services, including from your device when you use our products or Services or visit our websites, and through cookies and similar technologies;
• From our service providers, including when we engage them to enable certain technologies 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

Depending on how you interact with us or which Services you use, we may use personal information for the following purposes:

• Providing, customising and improving the Services. We use your personal information to provide the Services, including to perform our contract with you, process payments, fulfil orders, remember your preferences and items of interest, send account-related notifications, process purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions, create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, arrange shipping, facilitate returns and exchanges, enable you to leave reviews and provide a personalised shopping experience, such as recommending products related to your purchases. This may include using your personal information to better customise and improve the Services.
• Marketing and advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and advertising, such as sending marketing, advertising and promotional messages by email, text message or post, and showing online advertising for products or services on the Services or other websites, including based on items you previously purchased or added to your basket and other activity on the Services.
• Security and fraud prevention. We use your personal information to authenticate your account, provide a secure payment and shopping experience, detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, unsafe or malicious activity, protect public safety and secure our Services. 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 else.
• Communicating with you. We use your personal information to provide customer support, respond to your concerns, deliver effective Services and maintain our business relationship with you.
• Legal reasons. We use your personal information to comply with applicable laws or respond to valid legal processes, including requests from law enforcement or government authorities, to participate in or investigate civil investigations, potential or actual disputes or other legal proceedings, and to enforce or investigate possible 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 consistent with this Privacy Policy. These circumstances may include:

• With Shopify, suppliers and other third parties that provide services on our behalf, such as IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfilment and shipping.
• With business and marketing partners to provide marketing services and advertise to you. For example, we use Shopify to support personalised advertising with third-party services based on your online activity across different merchants and websites. Our business and marketing partners will use your information according to their own privacy policies. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to direct us not to share information about you to display targeted advertising and marketing based on your online activity across different merchants and websites.
• When you instruct, request or otherwise consent to our sharing certain information with third parties, for example to ship products to you, or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations.
• With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group.
• 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 Terms and Conditions or policies, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights and the rights of our users or others.

Relationship with Shopify

The Services are hosted by Shopify. Shopify collects and processes personal information about your access to and use of the Services to provide and improve them for you. Information you submit through the Services is transferred to and shared with Shopify and third parties that may be located in countries other than where you live, in order to provide and improve the Services. In addition, to protect, grow and improve our business, we use certain enhanced Shopify features that incorporate data and information from your interactions with our store, other merchants and Shopify. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may use personal information collected through your interactions with our store, other merchants and Shopify. In these cases, Shopify is responsible for processing your personal information, including responding to your requests to exercise rights regarding the use of your personal information for these purposes. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and the rights you may have, visit Shopify's Consumer Privacy Policy. Depending on where you live, you can exercise certain personal information rights at the Shopify Privacy Portal.

Third-party websites and links

The Services may contain links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to websites that are not affiliated with or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of those websites, including the accuracy, completeness or reliability of information found on them. Information you provide in public or semi-public areas, including information you share on third-party social media platforms, may also be visible to other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitations on its use by us or a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not by itself imply endorsement of the content, owners or operators of those platforms, except as disclosed on the Services.

Children's information

The Services are not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children who have not reached the age of majority in your jurisdiction. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with personal information, you may contact us using the details below to request its deletion. As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we have no actual knowledge that we ‘share’ or ‘sell’, as those terms are defined by applicable law, personal information of individuals under 16.

Security and retention of your information

Please note that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee ‘perfect security’. Information you send us may also be insecure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecured channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

How long we retain your personal information depends on factors such as whether we need it to maintain your account, provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable agreements and policies.

Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights below regarding your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances and, in some cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.

• Right of access. You may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
• Right to deletion. You may have the right to request that we delete personal information we hold about you.
• Right to correction. You may have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information we hold about you.
• Right to portability. You may have the right to receive a copy of personal information we hold about you and request that we transfer it to a third party in certain circumstances and subject to certain exceptions.
• Managing communication preferences. We may send promotional emails, and you can opt out at any time using the unsubscribe option in our emails. If you unsubscribe, we may continue to send non-promotional emails, such as messages about your account or orders you have placed.

If you live in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, you may exercise the following rights in addition to those above, subject to the exceptions and limitations provided by local law:

• Objecting to and restricting processing: you may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict the processing of your personal information for certain purposes.
• Withdrawing consent: where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of your consent before it was withdrawn.

You can exercise any of these rights where indicated in the Services or by contacting us using the details below. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and the rights you may have, including rights concerning information processed by Shopify, 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 processing your request, as permitted or required by applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, you may appoint an authorised representative to make requests on your behalf. Before accepting such a request, we will require the representative to provide evidence that you authorised 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 by applicable law.

Complaints

If you have a complaint about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the details below. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using those details or to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. For the EEA, a list of the relevant supervisory authorities is available here.

International data transfers

Please note that we may transfer, store and process your personal information outside your country of residence.

If we transfer your personal information out of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we rely on recognised transfer mechanisms such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or, where applicable, equivalent contracts issued by the relevant UK authority, unless the transfer is to a country determined to provide an adequate level of protection.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes in 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 notification as required by law.

Contact

If you have questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or wish to exercise any rights available to you, please email kundenservice@bandkult.de. You can find our other contact details at contact information policy. For the purposes of applicable data protection law, we are the controller of your personal information.