Giulio Celandroni Orchidee

Privacy policy

Last updated: July 7, 2026

Giulio Celandroni Orchidee operates this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products and services, in order to provide you, the customer, with a curated shopping experience (the "Services"). Giulio Celandroni Orchidee 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. 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 in this Privacy Policy.

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.

Personal Information Sources

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 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 online advertisements for products or services on the Services or other websites, including based on items you previously have purchased or added to your cart and other activity on the Services.
  • 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.

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 to provide marketing services and advertise to you. For example, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising with third-party services based on your online activity with different merchants and websites. Our business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices. Depending on where you reside, you may have a right to direct us not to share information about you to show you targeted advertisements and marketing based on your online activity with different merchants and websites. .
  • 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. In addition, to help protect, grow, and improve our business, we use certain Shopify enhanced features that incorporate data and information obtained from your interactions with our Store, along with other merchants and with Shopify. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may make use of personal information collected about your interactions with our store, along with other merchants, and with Shopify. 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. We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders that you have made.

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 complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. 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 supervisory authorities here.

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 call +393207626546 or email us at info@celaorchidee.it or contact us at Giulio Celandroni Orchidee, Via XX Settembre 20, 56017 San Giuliano Terme PI, Italy For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, we are the data controller of your personal information.

Terms & Conditions

💳 Payment

We require upfront payment via bank transfer, credit card or PayPal.

  • Under no circumstances will additional costs be charged in relation to the chosen payment method.
  • The customer guarantees to use only credit cards of which they have legitimate availability.
  • For payment by bank transfer, instructions will be provided at checkout.
To request an electronic invoice, please indicate it at the time of order. Invoices are issued for a minimum taxable amount of €200.00.

💰 Selling Prices

  • All prices indicated on the website are EXCLUDING VAT, which will be calculated at checkout.
  • Shipping costs will be clearly indicated before the order is finalized.
  • Prices may be subject to updates: always check the final price before submitting your order.

📄 Conclusion of the Sales Contract

  • The electronic submission of the order implies full knowledge and acceptance of these General Conditions of Sale.
  • To purchase on the website, registration is required, providing all necessary data for order fulfillment.
  • Submitting an order creates the obligation to pay the indicated price.
  • The order confirmation email does not constitute automatic acceptance of the order itself.
  • CelaOrchidee.it reserves the right to refuse orders from customers with ongoing payment disputes.

Before the conclusion of the contract, the customer is informed about: identity and location of the seller, total price including taxes and expenses, payment methods, delivery times, conditions and procedures for withdrawal, return costs in case of withdrawal, legal guarantee of conformity (only for non-perishable goods).

🌿 Flowering Plants

CelaOrchidee.it reserves the right not to ship flowering plants or plants with buds, as these are easily damaged during transport despite careful packaging.

For plants purchased from the FLOWERING section, CelaOrchidee.it is not responsible for the integrity of flowers and buds upon delivery. Complaints and return requests in this case will not be accepted.

We reserve the right to send non-flowering plants, at our discretion, if the flowering stage does not meet our quality standards.

📏 Sizes and Dimensions

  • Plants N years to flowering: young plants that will take approximately N years to flower.
  • Flowering-size plants: young plants or divisions of adult plants that have already flowered once or that will reach flowering size within the year.
  • Adult plants: good-sized plants that have already flowered multiple times.

The ability to re-flower over time depends exclusively on the customer's proper care. Pot size, substrates, and supports may vary depending on availability.

🛡️ Responsibility

  • Goods travel at the customer's risk.
  • CelaOrchidee.it assumes no responsibility for disruptions caused by force majeure (accidents, strikes, natural events, etc.).
  • CelaOrchidee.it is not responsible for the fraudulent use of credit cards by third parties: the card number is never accessible to the seller, as it is transmitted directly to the bank operator via a protected connection.
  • The photographs on the website are purely indicative. Some images come from external sources: anyone who recognizes their photo and does not wish to see it published is kindly asked to contact us.
  • Gift cards are valid for 1 year from purchase, after which the amount will no longer be usable.

⚠️ Customer Obligations

  • The data entered during the purchase phase must be real and refer exclusively to the buyer. CelaOrchidee.it reserves the right to legally pursue any violation.
  • The customer is solely responsible for the correct entry of data for the issuance of tax documents.

📩 Complaints, Cancellations, Returns and Refunds

Complaints

  • Goods must be inspected within 24 hours of receipt, even if the packaging is intact.
  • Any discrepancies must be reported within 7 days of delivery. Reports beyond this deadline will not be considered.

Cancellations or Modifications

  • Cancellation or modification is only possible before the order enters processing.
  • With PayPal payment, it is never possible to cancel or modify the order.

Returns

  • CelaOrchidee.it will only replace the product if it does not conform to what was ordered, subject to written agreement within 30 days of receipt.
  • It is not possible to return plants that conform to the order as they are perishable goods.
  • Non-perishable materials can be returned within 14 days of receipt, intact, unwashed, undamaged, and with original labels. Return shipping costs are borne by the customer, including responsibility in case of loss or damage to the products.

Refunds

  • Refunds are processed within 14 days of the communication of withdrawal, after verification of the returned products.
  • Refunds are issued via voucher or gift card.
  • In case of installment payment, the refund will be issued after receipt of the last installment.

⚖️ Applicable Law and Competent Court

  • Any dispute is subject to Italian law and the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Pisa.
  • The European Commission provides a platform for alternative dispute resolution: ec.europa.eu/odr.

🔒 Privacy and Cookies

Personal data is processed in compliance with current regulations, exclusively for order fulfillment or, with prior consent, to communicate promotions and offers.

The website uses technical cookies to improve the browsing experience, without storing personal data for other purposes. For more information: Privacy Policy.