Privacy policy

Privacy Policy for The Bare Home

Last updated: April 17, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how The Bare Home ("The Bare Home," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes your Personal Information when you visit thebarehome.ca (the "Site"), make a purchase, sign up for marketing, subscribe to SMS/text messages, or otherwise interact with us.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "Personal Information" means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with an individual, household, or device, subject to exclusions under applicable law.

By using the Site, you acknowledge that your Personal Information will be handled as described in this Privacy Policy.

Personal Information Collected

The categories of Personal Information collected depend on how you interact with the Site.

Device and usage information

When you visit the Site, Personal Information may be collected automatically, including:

  • IP address

  • Browser type and version

  • Device identifiers

  • Operating system

  • Time zone

  • Referring website or source

  • Pages viewed

  • Products viewed

  • Search terms

  • Session data

  • Clickstream and browsing behavior

  • Cookie identifiers

  • Pixel and tag identifiers

  • Ad interaction data

  • Approximate geolocation inferred from IP address

This information is collected to operate the Site, maintain security, understand user behavior, measure campaign performance, personalize content and ads, detect fraud, and improve the customer experience. Shopify documents that Shopify-powered stores use cookies and similar technologies and that browsing, device, network, IP, and interaction data may be collected through those tools shopify.

Order and account information

When you place an order, start checkout, create an account, subscribe, or otherwise transact with us, Personal Information may be collected including:

  • Name

  • Billing address

  • Shipping address

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • Order details

  • Transaction details

  • Payment information processed through payment providers

  • Account credentials, if you create an account

  • Subscription details, including recurring order preferences where applicable

This information is collected to process transactions, fulfill orders, manage subscriptions, provide receipts and updates, arrange delivery, administer your account, detect risk and fraud, and provide customer support.

Marketing and communications information

When you sign up for email or SMS marketing, submit a form, enter a promotion, or otherwise request marketing communications, Personal Information may be collected including:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Mobile phone number

  • Consent status

  • Consent timestamp

  • Consent source

  • Campaign engagement data

  • Message interaction data, such as opens, clicks, and conversions where measurable

  • Preferences and inferred interests

Klaviyo recommends that businesses using SMS disclose how they collect phone numbers, how they use them, who they share them with, and how SMS consent data is handled klaviyo.

Customer support and communications information

If you contact us, Personal Information may be collected from the contents of your messages and related records, including:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • Order number

  • Shipping details

  • Photos or other files you provide

  • Any information you choose to include in customer service communications

This information is collected to respond to questions, resolve complaints, troubleshoot issues, and improve support operations.

Sources of Personal Information

Personal Information may be collected from the following sources:

  • Directly from you, including when you place an order, create an account, subscribe to marketing, contact us, or submit information through the Site

  • Automatically from your browser or device through cookies, pixels, tags, web beacons, SDKs, scripts, log files, and similar technologies

  • From service providers and business partners that help operate the Site, process payments, fulfill orders, analyze usage, advertise products, or deliver communications

  • From advertising and analytics platforms when they report campaign, attribution, audience, or conversion data

Shopify states that data may be received from analytics and cookie providers through cookies, social plugins, pixels, and tags to measure how users interact with website content shopify.

How Personal Information Is Used

Personal Information may be used for the following purposes:

  • To provide, operate, and maintain the Site

  • To process, confirm, fulfill, and deliver orders

  • To manage subscriptions and recurring purchases

  • To process payments and prevent fraudulent transactions

  • To communicate with you about orders, support requests, account activity, returns, and service-related notices

  • To send email and SMS marketing where permitted by law and where required consent has been obtained

  • To personalize your experience, including product recommendations and marketing content

  • To analyze Site traffic, visitor behavior, and performance of content, products, and campaigns

  • To create custom audiences, remarketing audiences, and conversion reporting segments

  • To improve products, services, offers, content, checkout experience, and advertising performance

  • To detect, investigate, and protect against fraud, abuse, security incidents, and unlawful activity

  • To comply with legal obligations, enforce policies, and protect rights, property, and safety

Cookies, Pixels, and Similar Technologies

The Site uses cookies and similar technologies, including web beacons, tags, scripts, pixels, and tracking tools, to remember preferences, keep the Site functioning, understand usage, measure advertising performance, and support analytics and marketing. Shopify states that Shopify and Shopify-powered stores use cookies and similar tracking technologies, and that stores may use such technologies for analytics and advertising-related purposes shopify.

These technologies may collect information about your device, browser, pages viewed, links clicked, referring URLs, purchases, cart activity, and interactions with the Site and with advertisements.

Tracking technologies may include Shopify cookies and tools as well as tools associated with advertising and analytics services such as:

  • Google Analytics and related Google advertising technologies

  • Google Ads conversion and remarketing tools

  • Meta Pixel and related Meta advertising tools

  • Microsoft Advertising technologies, including tracking tags and related conversion tools

  • Klaviyo tracking technologies related to email and SMS program measurement

Depending on your location, applicable law may require consent before non-essential cookies or tracking technologies are used. Shopify provides customer privacy and consent tools to help merchants obtain consent before collecting analytics and personal data in regions with privacy laws shopify.

Most browsers allow you to remove or block cookies through browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect Site functionality.

Behavioural Advertising and Analytics

Personal Information may be used to provide targeted advertisements, retargeting, audience building, campaign attribution, measurement, and marketing communications believed to be relevant to you.

The Site may share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interactions with advertisements and content with advertising, analytics, and marketing partners. This may occur directly, through cookies and pixels, or through server-side or similar integrations.

Advertising and analytics partners may include:

  • Google

  • Meta

  • Microsoft

  • Shopify

  • Klaviyo

  • Other service providers that support analytics, attribution, remarketing, personalization, or ad delivery

Shopify explains that analytics and cookie providers may receive information through cookies, social plugins, pixels, and tags for business purposes, including measuring how users interact with website content shopify.

You may be able to opt out of certain targeted advertising through the following resources:

Residents of certain jurisdictions may also have additional rights to opt out of targeted advertising, profiling, or the sale or sharing of Personal Information, as described below.

SMS and Text Messaging

If you opt in to receive SMS or text messages from The Bare Home, Personal Information may be collected and used in connection with that program, including:

  • Mobile phone number

  • Consent status

  • Consent timestamp

  • Consent source and method

  • Message delivery data

  • Message engagement data

  • Order or cart-related information where relevant to the messaging program

This information may be used to send transactional text messages, customer care messages, and marketing or promotional text messages, including product updates, offers, subscription reminders, and cart reminder messages where permitted by law and based on your consent settings.

Klaviyo states that businesses using SMS should describe the SMS program, what is done with collected phone numbers, how those numbers are used, who they are shared with, and whether SMS abandoned cart messages rely on cookies or similar tools klaviyo.

If abandoned cart text messages are used, the Site may use cookies or similar technologies to determine when a cart has been started or abandoned and whether a reminder message should be sent. Klaviyo specifically recommends disclosing that cart reminder messages may rely on cookies or similar technologies when SMS abandoned cart messaging is used klaviyo.

SMS consent is not a condition of purchase. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply.

You can opt out of marketing SMS at any time by replying STOP to a message. For help, reply HELP or contact us using the contact details below.

Important SMS data-sharing limitation: SMS opt-in data and consent status will not be shared with third parties for purposes unrelated to providing messaging services for that campaign. Personal Information, including SMS consent data, may be shared with service providers that help provide messaging services, including platform providers, telecommunications providers, and vendors involved in sending or supporting text messages. Klaviyo recommends this clarification where a business otherwise discloses sharing data with third parties klaviyo.

Sharing of Personal Information

Personal Information may be disclosed to third parties for business, commercial, legal, and operational purposes, subject to applicable law. Categories of recipients may include:

  • Ecommerce platform providers, including Shopify

  • Payment processors and financial service providers that process transactions and help prevent fraud

  • Shipping, logistics, and fulfillment providers that deliver orders

  • Subscription and order management providers that help administer recurring purchases

  • Customer support providers and communications tools

  • Email and SMS platform providers, including Klaviyo

  • Advertising, analytics, and measurement partners, including Google, Meta, and Microsoft

  • Technology, hosting, cloud storage, security, and fraud prevention providers

  • Professional advisors, including legal, accounting, compliance, and insurance advisors

  • Government authorities, regulators, law enforcement, and other parties where required by law or necessary to protect rights or safety

  • Corporate transaction counterparties in connection with an actual or proposed merger, financing, acquisition, bankruptcy, restructuring, or sale of business assets

Because the Site uses behavioral data, pixels, and third-party advertising technologies, some disclosures of online identifiers, browsing behavior, and interaction data may be considered "sharing," "targeted advertising," or, under some laws, a "sale" of Personal Information. Shopify’s materials note that merchants may need region-specific opt-in or opt-out controls when cookies and personal data are used for analytics or advertising shopify+1.

Lawful Bases for Processing for EEA, UK, and Similar Jurisdictions

If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction requiring a lawful basis for processing, Personal Information may be processed on one or more of the following bases:

  • Your consent

  • Performance of a contract with you

  • Compliance with legal obligations

  • Protection of vital interests

  • Legitimate interests, including operating the Site, improving services, preventing fraud, securing systems, and marketing products and services where permitted by law

Retention

Personal Information is retained for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide services, maintain business and tax records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, comply with legal obligations, and protect rights and interests.

Retention periods vary depending on the type of information, the sensitivity of the information, the reason it was collected, whether the information is needed for ongoing services such as subscriptions or support, and applicable legal requirements.

International Transfers

The Bare Home is based in Canada. Personal Information may be processed in Canada, the United States, and other jurisdictions where service providers operate.

Shopify states that data relating to Shopify-powered stores may be processed in Ireland and transferred outside Europe, including to Canada and the United States, subject to applicable legal safeguards shopify.

If you are located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, cross-border transfers of Personal Information will be made in accordance with applicable law, including through adequacy decisions, contractual safeguards, or other lawful transfer mechanisms where required.

Automated Decision-Making

Personal Information may be used in limited automated processes, such as fraud screening, risk scoring, ad attribution, audience segmentation, and marketing automation.

No representation is made that decisions with legal or similarly significant effects are made solely by fully automated means unless specifically disclosed otherwise. Shopify explains that it uses limited automated decision-making for fraud prevention and machine-learning-related functions that are either not fully automated or do not have legal or similarly significant effects in the described examples shopify.

Minors

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. Personal Information from children under 16 is not knowingly collected. If it is believed that a child has provided Personal Information, contact us so the information can be reviewed and deleted where appropriate.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have legal rights regarding your Personal Information, subject to exceptions and verification requirements. These rights may include:

  • The right to know whether Personal Information is collected, used, disclosed, sold, or shared

  • The right to access or obtain a copy of Personal Information

  • The right to request correction of inaccurate Personal Information

  • The right to request deletion of Personal Information

  • The right to data portability

  • The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

  • The right to object to or restrict certain processing in some jurisdictions

  • The right to opt out of targeted advertising, profiling, sale, or sharing in some jurisdictions

  • The right not to be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights

To exercise applicable rights, contact The Bare Home using the contact details below. Additional information may be requested to verify identity before a request is fulfilled.

EEA and UK rights

If you are in the EEA or UK, you may have the right to access, correct, erase, restrict, object to processing, and request portability of your Personal Information, as provided by applicable law.

You may also lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.

California and certain U.S. state rights

If you are a California resident or resident of another U.S. state with applicable privacy rights, you may have the right to know, access, correct, delete, and opt out of the sale or sharing of Personal Information or the use of Personal Information for targeted advertising, subject to applicable exceptions.

Because the Site uses third-party advertising and analytics technologies that may disclose identifiers and internet or network activity information to third parties, those disclosures may be treated as "sharing" or "targeted advertising," and in some cases may be treated as a "sale" under certain U.S. state laws depending on the circumstances kukie+1.

To exercise opt-out rights, contact us at the email address below and include "Privacy Request" in the subject line. If an authorized agent submits a request on your behalf, proof of authority and identity verification may be required.

Do Not Track

Because there is not yet a consistent industry standard for interpreting Do Not Track browser signals, the Site does not respond to Do Not Track signals unless required by applicable law. Shopify states that there is no common understanding of what a Do Not Track signal is supposed to mean and that it does not respond to those signals in any particular way shopify.

Security

Reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards are used to help protect Personal Information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in practices, technologies, legal requirements, or other operational reasons. The revised version will be posted on the Site with an updated effective date.

Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy, to make a privacy request, or to submit a complaint, contact:

The Bare Home
3100 Harvester Rd, Unit 7
Burlington, ON L7N 3W8
Canada
Email: 

privacy@thebarehome.ca

If you are not satisfied with the response to a complaint and applicable law gives you that right, you may contact the privacy or data protection regulator in your jurisdiction. In Canada, information about federal privacy complaints is available from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at 

https://www.priv.gc.ca