Privacy policy

Last updated: August 26, 2026

SABRINA respects the privacy of its readers and customers.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and share personal information when you visit SABRINA, purchase an issue or other offering from SABRINA Editions, create or use a customer account, subscribe to receive letters from SABRINA, or otherwise interact with us.

This policy applies to SABRINA’s websites and related services, including sabrinabawa.com and editions.sabrinabawa.com.

SABRINA Editions is powered by Shopify, which provides the ecommerce infrastructure that allows us to offer products and services, process purchases and maintain customer accounts.

If there is a conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy regarding the collection, processing or disclosure of personal information, this Privacy Policy will apply.

Personal Information We Collect or Process

When we use the term personal information, we mean information that identifies you or can reasonably be linked to you.

Depending on how you interact with SABRINA, we may collect or process the following categories of personal information:

Contact information, including your name, email address, phone number, billing address and, where relevant to a physical order, shipping address.

Payment and transaction information, including information related to your payment method, payment confirmation, purchases, refunds, cancellations and past transactions. Payment information may be processed directly by Shopify and its payment providers rather than stored by SABRINA.

Account information, including information associated with your SABRINA customer account, preferences, account settings and purchase history.

Purchase information, including the issues, products, immersions or other offerings you view, purchase, return, cancel or otherwise interact with through SABRINA Editions.

Communications with us, including information you provide when contacting us for customer support, submitting a request or otherwise communicating with SABRINA.

Newsletter and editorial communication information, including your email address and subscription preferences when you choose to receive letters, essays, new-issue announcements or other communications from SABRINA.

Device information, including information about your browser, device, operating system, network connection, IP address and other identifiers.

Usage information, including how you interact with our websites, pages viewed, approximate visit times, navigation activity and other information about your use of the Services.

Sources of Personal Information

We may collect personal information:

Directly from you, including when you make a purchase, create or access an account, subscribe to receive letters, contact us or otherwise provide information to SABRINA.

Automatically through our websites and services, including through your browser, device, cookies and similar technologies.

From service providers, including platforms and companies that provide ecommerce, payment processing, email delivery, analytics, hosting, security or other services on our behalf.

From partners or other third parties, where permitted by applicable law and where relevant to providing or improving our services.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We may use personal information for the following purposes.

Providing SABRINA and SABRINA Editions

We use personal information to provide and maintain our websites, publications, products, services and customer experience.

This includes:

• processing purchases and payments;
• delivering digital issues and other digital products;
• fulfilling physical orders where applicable;
• maintaining your customer account;
• allowing you to return to your order history and purchased products;
• processing refunds, returns, cancellations or other transactions;
• responding to customer-service requests;
• remembering preferences relevant to your experience;
• maintaining and improving our websites and services.

Performing Our Contract With You

When you purchase an issue, product, immersion or other offering, we process the information necessary to complete that transaction and provide what you purchased.

This may include sending transactional emails about your order, access instructions, account information, delivery, refunds or other information necessary to fulfill our agreement with you.

Customer Accounts and Your SABRINA Library

Where customer accounts are available, we may use personal information to create, maintain and authenticate your account and to associate your purchases with your account.

This allows readers and customers to return to previous purchases and, where supported, access the issues and offerings they have collected.

Letters, Editorial Communications and Marketing

If you choose to receive communications from SABRINA, we may use your email address and subscription preferences to send you:

• letters from SABRINA;
• essays and editorial updates;
• new-issue announcements;
• information about new products, experiences or releases;
• occasional promotional communications.

Purchasing an issue or other product does not automatically subscribe you to editorial or promotional emails.

Where consent is required, these communications are sent only when you have chosen to receive them.

You may unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included in our emails.

Even if you unsubscribe from promotional or editorial communications, we may still send necessary transactional emails concerning orders, accounts, security or services you have requested.

Security and Fraud Prevention

We may use personal information to:

• authenticate customer accounts;
• maintain a secure payment and shopping experience;
• detect or investigate fraudulent, malicious, unlawful or suspicious activity;
• protect SABRINA, our readers, customers and service providers;
• prevent misuse of our websites and services.

Legal and Administrative Purposes

We may process personal information where necessary to:

• comply with applicable legal, accounting, tax or regulatory obligations;
• respond to lawful requests from courts, regulators or government authorities;
• enforce our terms, agreements and policies;
• establish, exercise or defend legal claims;
• maintain appropriate business and transaction records.

Improving SABRINA

We may use aggregated or appropriate usage information to understand how readers and customers interact with our websites and to improve our publications, products, services and customer experience.

Legal Bases for Processing

Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, we may process personal information on one or more of the following legal bases:

Performance of a contract, including where processing is necessary to complete a purchase, deliver an issue or product, maintain an account or provide a service you requested.

Consent, including where you choose to receive letters, newsletters or promotional communications or consent to optional cookies or similar technologies.

Legitimate interests, including where reasonably necessary to operate and improve SABRINA, maintain security, prevent fraud, respond to customers and protect our business, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights.

Legal obligations, including where we are required to retain or process information for accounting, tax, consumer-protection or other legal purposes.

How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose personal information to third parties when reasonably necessary to provide SABRINA and SABRINA Editions.

Shopify

SABRINA Editions is hosted and powered by Shopify.

Shopify collects and processes information about your access to and use of the store in order to provide ecommerce services, customer accounts, checkout, payment infrastructure and related features.

Information submitted through SABRINA Editions may therefore be transmitted to Shopify and its service providers, including providers located outside your country of residence.

Shopify may also process certain information for its own purposes as described in its own privacy policies and consumer privacy documentation.

Service Providers

We may share information with trusted service providers that perform services on our behalf, including providers involved in:

• ecommerce infrastructure;
• payment processing;
• website hosting;
• email delivery and newsletter services;
• analytics;
• fraud prevention and security;
• customer support;
• cloud storage;
• fulfillment and shipping, where relevant.

These providers may process personal information only as necessary to provide their services and in accordance with their own obligations under applicable law.

Business Partners and Third Parties

Where relevant and permitted by law, we may share information with business or technical partners necessary to provide specific services, integrations or promotions.

We do not disclose personal information to third parties for unrelated purposes without an appropriate legal basis.

Business Transfers

Personal information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, sale of assets, financing, insolvency or similar transaction involving SABRINA.

Legal Requirements

We may disclose personal information where reasonably necessary to:

• comply with applicable law;
• respond to a valid legal process or request from public authorities;
• protect or defend SABRINA’s rights or property;
• investigate possible wrongdoing;
• protect the safety of customers, users or others;
• protect against legal liability.

With Your Consent

We may disclose information for another purpose where you have specifically asked us or consented to that disclosure.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

SABRINA and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags and similar technologies to operate our websites, maintain functionality, understand website usage and provide services.

Some cookies are essential to the functioning of the website, including cookies used for:

• checkout;
• customer authentication;
• fraud prevention;
• account functionality;
• security;
• remembering necessary preferences.

Other cookies or similar technologies may be used for analytics or marketing where permitted by law and, where required, with your consent.

You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings and through any cookie-consent tools made available on our websites.

Declining certain optional cookies should not prevent access to the basic editorial content of SABRINA, although some website functionality may be affected.

Marketing and Communication Preferences

You may unsubscribe from promotional or editorial emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in those emails.

You may also contact us directly to update your communication preferences.

Unsubscribing from promotional or editorial emails will not prevent SABRINA from sending transactional or administrative messages relating to:

• purchases;
• digital-access instructions;
• customer accounts;
• refunds;
• security;
• other services you have requested.

Security of Your Information

We take reasonable organizational and technical measures to protect personal information.

However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any login credentials associated with your account and should not share account access information with others.

Retention of Personal Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and as required by applicable law.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it is processed.

For example:

Customer account information may be retained while your account remains active and thereafter where reasonably necessary for legal, security or administrative purposes.

Purchase, invoice and transaction information may be retained for the period required by applicable accounting, tax, consumer-protection and other legal obligations.

Customer-support communications may be retained for a reasonable period to address requests, resolve disputes and maintain appropriate business records.

Newsletter and editorial subscription information may be retained until you unsubscribe or withdraw consent, subject to limited retention necessary to maintain a record of your opt-out preference.

Usage and analytics information may be retained for a limited period appropriate to the purpose for which it was collected.

International Transfers

SABRINA uses service providers that may process or store information in countries other than the country where you live.

This includes Shopify and potentially other technology, payment, hosting, email and service providers.

Where required by applicable data-protection law, international transfers are made using appropriate safeguards, which may include adequacy decisions, contractual protections such as Standard Contractual Clauses, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have rights relating to your personal information.

These may include the right to:

• request access to personal information we hold about you;
• request correction of inaccurate information;
• request deletion of personal information;
• request restriction of certain processing;
• object to certain processing;
• request portability of your information;
• withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
• object to certain direct-marketing activities;
• lodge a complaint with an appropriate data-protection authority.

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal limitations or exceptions.

We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

Rights of EEA and UK Residents

If you are located in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, you may have additional rights under applicable data-protection law, including rights relating to:

• access;
• correction;
• deletion;
• restriction;
• objection;
• portability;
• withdrawal of consent.

Where processing is based on consent, withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority.

Your Rights Regarding Shopify

Shopify may independently process certain information collected through SABRINA Editions.

Where Shopify is responsible for that processing, requests relating specifically to Shopify’s processing may need to be directed to Shopify through its privacy tools or consumer privacy portal.

Third-Party Websites and Links

SABRINA may contain links to websites, platforms or services operated by third parties.

If you follow an external link, that third party’s privacy policy and terms will apply.

We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of websites or services that we do not operate.

The inclusion of a link does not necessarily imply endorsement of that third party or its practices.

Children’s Privacy

SABRINA and SABRINA Editions are not intended for children.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children where doing so would violate applicable law.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child has provided personal information to us improperly, please contact us so that we can review the matter and, where appropriate, delete the information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to SABRINA, our services, our technology providers, our practices or applicable legal requirements.

When we make changes, we will update the Last updated date at the top of this policy.

Where required by law, we may provide additional notice of material changes.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices or your personal information, or if you would like to exercise a privacy right, you may contact us at:

SABRINA
Email: hello@sabrinabawa.com
Address: 360 Av Du Président Kennedy, Montréal, QC H3A 0H8, Canada

For purposes of applicable data-protection law, SABRINA is the controller of the personal information processed for its own purposes.