Privacy policy
PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: September 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how bynive.com (the "Site", "we", "us" or "our") collects, uses and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from bynive.com (the "Services") or otherwise communicate with us. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.
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 here.
HOW WE COLLECT AND USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
To provide the Services, we collect personal information about you from a variety of sources, as set out below. The information that we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.
In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use information we collect about you to communicate with you, to provide or improve the Services, to comply with any applicable legal obligations, to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
What personal information we collect
The types of personal information we obtain about you depend on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. When we use the term "personal information", we are referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes or can be associated with you.
Information we collect directly from you
Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may include:
- Contact details, 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 information used for account security purposes.
- Customer support information, including the information you choose to include in communications with us, for example when sending a message through the Services or by email.
- Marketing preferences, including your consent to receive marketing emails and text messages, and the date, time and source of that consent.
- Reviews and content, including any reviews, ratings, photos or comments you choose to submit.
Some features of the Services may require you to directly provide us with certain information about yourself. You may elect not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.
Information we collect about your usage
We may also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services ("Usage Data"). To do this, we may use cookies, pixels and similar technologies ("Cookies"). Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, information about your network connection, your IP address and other information regarding your interaction with the Services.
Information we obtain from third parties
Finally, we may obtain information about you from third parties, including from vendors and service providers who may collect information on our behalf, such as:
- Companies who support our Site and Services, such as Shopify.
- Our payment processors, who collect payment information (for example, bank account, credit or debit card information, billing address) to process your payment in order to fulfill your orders and provide you with products you have requested.
- When you visit our Site, open or click on emails we send you, or 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 developer kits, third-party libraries and cookies.
Any information we obtain from third parties will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible or liable for the accuracy of the information provided to us by third parties and are not responsible for any third party's policies or practices.
How we use your personal information
- Providing products and services. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services in order to perform our contract with you, including to process your payments, fulfill your orders, send notifications to you related to your account, purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions, to create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, to arrange for shipping, facilitate any returns and exchanges, and to enable you to post reviews.
- 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 advertisements for products or services. This may include using your personal information to better tailor the Services and advertising on our Site and other websites.
- Security and fraud prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal or malicious activity. 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. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately.
- Communicating with you. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support and improve our Services. This is in our legitimate interests in order to be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you, and to maintain our business relationship with you.
COOKIES
Like many websites, we use Cookies on our Site. For specific information about the Cookies that we use related to powering our store with Shopify, see https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies. We use Cookies to power and improve our Site and our Services (including to remember your actions and preferences), to run analytics and better understand user interaction with the Services (in our legitimate interests to administer, improve and optimize the Services), and to provide you with relevant advertising. We may also permit third parties and service providers to use Cookies on our Site to better tailor the services, products and advertising on our Site and other websites.
Most browsers automatically accept Cookies by default, but you can choose to set your browser to remove or reject Cookies through your browser controls. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking Cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the Services, including certain features and general functionality, to work incorrectly or no longer be available. Additionally, blocking Cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners.
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 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).
- With business and marketing partners to provide services and advertise to you. Our business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices.
- When you direct, request us or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship you products 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 any applicable legal obligations (including to respond to subpoenas, search warrants and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purposes of inferring characteristics about you.
We have, in the past 12 months, disclosed the following categories of personal information and sensitive personal information about users for the purposes set out above in "How we collect and use your personal information" and "How we disclose personal information":
| Category | Categories of recipients |
|---|---|
| Identifiers such as basic contact details and certain order and account information | Vendors and third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as internet service providers, payment processors, fulfillment partners and customer support partners); business and marketing partners; affiliates |
| Commercial information such as order information, shopping information and customer support information | Vendors and third parties who perform services on our behalf; business and marketing partners; affiliates |
| Internet or other similar network activity, such as Usage Data | Vendors and third parties who perform services on our behalf; business and marketing partners; affiliates |
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information without your consent or for the purposes of inferring characteristics about you.
Third-party service providers we use
To operate the Services, we work with the following categories of service providers, who process your personal information on our behalf under contracts that require them to protect it and use it only to provide services to us:
- Shopify, which hosts our store, processes orders and provides checkout. Shopify's privacy policy: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy
- Yotpo, which delivers our text message and email marketing and manages subscriber consent, and which may also power our product reviews. Yotpo's privacy policy: https://www.yotpo.com/privacy-policy
- Payment processors (such as Shopify Payments, PayPal, and card networks), which process your payment.
- Shipping and fulfillment partners, who receive your name, address and contact details to deliver your order.
- Analytics and advertising partners (such as Meta and Google), who help us measure and improve the Services and show relevant advertising.
SMS AND EMAIL MARKETING
If you opt in to our text messaging program, we collect your mobile phone number, the date, time and source of your consent, and the exact disclosure you agreed to. We use this information to send you the marketing and transactional messages described in our Terms of Service, including promotional offers, product updates, order and shipping notifications, and abandoned checkout reminders.
If you provide your email address, we use it to send you order and shipping notifications and, where you have consented, marketing emails.
We use Yotpo, a third-party service provider, to send text and email messages and to manage subscriber consent on our behalf. Yotpo processes your phone number, email address and consent records under a contract that requires it to protect your information and use it only to provide services to us.
We do not sell your mobile phone number, and we do not share your SMS opt-in consent or mobile information with any third party for their own marketing purposes. Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties, except with vendors and service providers acting on our behalf to deliver the messaging service.
You can withdraw your consent at any time by replying STOP to any text message, by using the unsubscribe link in any email, or by contacting us at hello@bynive.com. We keep a record of your consent and of any opt-out request as required by law. Transactional messages about your order may still be sent after you opt out of marketing.
USER GENERATED CONTENT
The Services may enable you to post product reviews and other user-generated content. If you choose to submit user generated content to any public area of the Services, this content will be public and accessible by anyone.
We do not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make available to others, and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available, or for the accuracy, use or misuse of any information that you disclose or receive from third parties.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND LINKS
Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated 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 such sites, including the accuracy, completeness or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms, may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services.
CHILDREN'S DATA
The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted.
As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we "share" or "sell" (as those terms are defined in applicable law) personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.
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 the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable contracts and policies. We retain SMS and email consent records for as long as required to demonstrate compliance with applicable law.
YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, 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, including details relating to the ways in which we use and share your information.
- 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 or targeted advertising. You may have a right to direct us not to "sell" or "share" 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. Please note that if you visit our Site 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 of the "sale" or "sharing" of information for the device and browser that you use to visit the Site.
- Restriction of processing. You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information.
- Withdrawal of consent. Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent.
- Appeal. You may have a right to appeal our decision if we decline to process your request. You can do so by replying directly to our denial.
- Managing communication preferences. We may send you promotional emails and text messages, and you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails, by replying STOP to any text message, or by contacting us. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional messages, such as those about your account or orders that you have made.
You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on our Site or by contacting us using the contact details provided below.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, such as your email address or account information, before providing a substantive response to the request. 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. If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, depending on where you live you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details set out below, or lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority. For the EEA, you can find a list of the responsible data protection authorities at https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en.
INTERNATIONAL USERS
Please note that we may transfer, store and process your personal information outside the country you live in, including the United States. Your personal information is also processed by staff and third-party service providers and partners in these countries.
If we transfer your personal information out of Europe, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms like the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or any equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the UK, as relevant, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been 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 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 email us at hello@bynive.com or contact us at:
Rise Valley LLC 254 Chapman Rd, Ste 208 Newark, DE 19702 United States
For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, we are the data controller of your personal information.