Privacy policy

Glutanex UK Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 15, 2026

Aesthetics Link Limited, trading as Glutanex UK ("Glutanex", "we", "us" or "our"), operates this store and website. This includes all related information, content, features, tools, products and services, provided to give you, the customer, a curated shopping experience (the "Services"). Aesthetics Link Limited is the data controller responsible for the personal information we collect and use as described in this Privacy Policy, except where Shopify or another third party acts as an independent data controller as explained below. Glutanex 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, use, or make a purchase or other transaction using the Services or otherwise communicate with us. If there is a conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy controls with respect to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. This Privacy Policy explains how we handle your personal information. It does not replace any consent that we are required to obtain under applicable law.

Personal Information We Collect or Process

When we use the term "personal information," we are referring to information that identifies or can reasonably be linked to you or another person. Personal information does not include information that is collected anonymously or that has been de-identified, so that it cannot identify or be reasonably linked to you. We may collect or process the following categories of personal information, including inferences drawn from this personal information, 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, shipping address, phone number, and email address.

• Financial information including credit card, debit card, and financial account numbers, payment card information, financial account information, transaction details, form of payment, payment confirmation and other payment details.

• Account information including your username, password, security questions, preferences and settings.

• Transaction information including the items you view, put in your cart, add to your wishlist, or purchase, return, exchange or cancel and your past transactions.

• Communications with us including the information you include in communications with us, for example, when sending a customer support inquiry.

• Device information including information about your device, browser, or network connection, your IP address, and other unique identifiers.

• Usage information including information regarding your interaction with the Services, including how and when you interact with or navigate the Services.

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 us with your personal information;

• Automatically through the Services including from your device when you use our products or services or visit our websites, and through the use of cookies and similar technologies;

• From our service providers including when we engage them to enable certain technology 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 of the Services you use, we may use personal information for the following purposes:

• Provide, Tailor, and Improve the Services. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services, including to perform our contract with you, to process your payments, to fulfill your orders, to remember your preferences and items you are interested in, to send notifications to you related to your account, to process purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions, to create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, to arrange for shipping, to facilitate any returns and exchanges, to enable you to post reviews, and to create a customized shopping experience for you, such as recommending products related to your purchases. This may include using your personal information to better tailor and improve the Services.

• Marketing and Advertising. We may advertise our products through our website and third-party advertising platforms. We do not currently use customer contact details collected through purchases to send direct marketing emails or text messages unless the customer has separately agreed to receive such communications or we are otherwise permitted to do so by applicable law.

• Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to authenticate your account, to provide a secure payment and shopping experience, detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, unsafe, or malicious activity, protect public safety, and to secure our services. 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.

• Communicating with You. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support, to be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you and to maintain our business relationship with you.

• Legal Reasons. We use your personal information to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including requests from law enforcement or government agencies, to investigate or participate in civil discovery, potential or actual litigation, or other adversarial legal proceedings, and to enforce or investigate potential violations of our terms or policies.

Lawful Basis for Processing Personal Information

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), we must have a lawful basis for using your personal information. Depending on the purpose, we rely on the following bases:

• Contract. We process your name, contact details, billing and delivery addresses, and relevant payment and transaction information where necessary to fulfil our contract with you. This includes processing payments, delivering orders, handling returns and refunds, and communicating with you about your order. This basis also covers steps you ask us to take before entering into a contract.

• Legal obligation. We process personal information where necessary to comply with applicable legal requirements, such as keeping required accounting and tax records and responding to legally binding requests from competent authorities.

• Legitimate interests. Where necessary, we process personal information to operate and improve our store, respond to general enquiries, keep our systems secure, prevent fraud, and establish, exercise or defend legal claims. We rely on this basis only where those interests are not overridden by your interests, rights and freedoms, and where consent is not required by law.

• Consent. Where required by law, we rely on your consent for direct marketing communications and for advertising cookies or similar tracking technologies, including the associated use of personal information. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before you withdrew consent.

We do not treat placing an order as consent to receive direct marketing. If applicable law permits a particular marketing communication without consent, we may rely on legitimate interests, subject to the safeguards above and your right to object. This does not change our current marketing practices described in the Marketing and Advertising section.

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 Shopify, vendors and other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g. IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping).

• With business and marketing partners where we use their services to advertise our products, subject to applicable law and any required consent. Where enabled, Shopify features may support personalised advertising with third-party services based on online activity across merchants and websites. These partners may process information under their own privacy notices. Where consent is required for advertising cookies, similar technologies or the associated processing or sharing of personal information, we rely on that consent. You may have rights to object to or opt out of targeted advertising, depending on applicable law.

• 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 our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group.

• 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 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, which collects and processes personal information about your access to and use of the Services in order to provide and improve the Services for you. Information you submit to the Services will be transmitted to and shared with Shopify as well as third parties that may be located in countries other than where you reside, in order to provide and improve the Services for you. Where we enable Shopify enhanced features to help protect, grow and improve our business, these features may incorporate data from your interactions with our store, other merchants and Shopify. Where these features involve processing that requires consent, they are subject to that consent. In these circumstances, Shopify is responsible for the processing of your personal information, including for responding to your requests to exercise your rights over use of your personal information for these purposes. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, you can visit the Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy. Depending on where you live, you may exercise certain rights with respect to your personal information here Shopify Privacy Portal Link.

Third-Party Websites and Links

The Services 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 under the age of majority in your jurisdiction. 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 you with Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.

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.

• 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.

• Managing Communication Preferences. If you separately agree to receive marketing emails or text messages, or we otherwise lawfully send them, you can opt out at any time using the unsubscribe instructions in the communication or by contacting us. You have the right to object at any time to the use of your personal information for direct marketing, including related profiling. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional communications necessary for your orders, account or customer support.

If you reside in the UK or European Economic Area, and subject to exceptions and limitations provided by local law, you may exercise the following rights in addition to the rights outlined above:

• Objection to Processing and Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information for certain purposes.

• Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw this consent. If you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.

You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on the Services or by contacting us using the contact details provided below. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, including rights related to data processed by Shopify, you can 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 we can process your requests, as permitted or required under applicable law. 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 a complaint about how we handle your personal information, please contact us using the details below so we can investigate and respond. UK customers have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's supervisory authority for data protection, about the handling of their personal information. You can find information about making a complaint at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint. This right is not dependent on our permission. If you reside in the European Economic Area, you may also complain to your local data protection supervisory authority; a list is available on the European Data Protection Board website.

International Transfers

Please note that we may transfer, store and process your personal information outside the country you live in.

If we transfer your personal information out of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, 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 info@glutanex.co.uk or contact us at 7a Whitsters Hollow, Bolton, Lancashire, England, BL1 6TY. For the purposes of applicable data protection laws, Aesthetics Link Limited, trading as Glutanex UK, is the data controller of your personal information, except where Shopify or another third party acts as an independent data controller as described above.