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Privacy policy

Last updated: October 30, 2026

1. Who we are

This policy explains how WANT Les Essentiels ("we"), operated by Quartz Nature Inc., collects, uses, shares and protects personal information when you visit www.wantlesessentiels.com (the "Site"), shop in our stores or online, or contact us. Quartz Nature Inc., operating as WANT Les Essentiels, 101 rue Maguire, Montréal (Québec) H2T 1C2, Canada.

2. Person in charge of the protection of personal information

Our Chief Operating Officer is responsible for the protection of personal information at WANT Les Essentiels. You can reach them at concierge@wantlesessentiels.com or by mail at the address above, to the attention of the Person in charge of personal information.

3. What we collect

  • Contact and order information: name, email address, phone number, billing and shipping addresses, order history (online and in store), and messages you send us.
  • Payment information: processed directly by our payment providers. We do not store your full card number.
  • Account information, if you create an account.
  • Technical and browsing information: IP address, device and browser type, pages viewed, products added to cart, and how you arrived on the Site.
  • Reviews and photos you choose to publish.

4. Why we use it, and on what legal basis

  • To process and deliver your orders, handle returns and exchanges, and answer your questions (to perform our contract with you).
  • To send you our newsletter and marketing emails, only if you have agreed to receive them (your consent).
  • To show you relevant WANT Les Essentiels ads on other websites and social media, only if you accept marketing cookies (your consent).
  • To measure and improve the Site and our products, and to prevent fraud (our legitimate interests).
  • To meet our legal, accounting and tax obligations (legal obligation).

5. Cookies and similar technologies

The Site uses cookies and similar technologies. Those that are not needed for the Site to work (measurement and advertising) are used only with your consent, which you give or refuse through our cookie banner. You can change your choice at any time, and you can also block cookies in your browser; some parts of the Site may then not work properly.

Measurement and advertising tools on the Site: Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Google (Analytics, Google Ads and Google Merchant Center, including through Simprosys), Pinterest, Microsoft Clarity, Klaviyo (email marketing), Judge.me (reviews), Gorgias (customer service) and Global-e (international orders). These companies may use the information collected under their own privacy policies. You can also manage how they show you ads in your Meta, Google and Pinterest ad settings.

6. Who we share it with

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with service providers who help us run our business, and only what they need:

  • Shopify (online store, checkout and Shop Pay) and our payment providers.
  • Global-e, which acts as the seller of record for orders shipped outside Canada (local currency payment, duties and taxes) under its own privacy policy, presented at checkout.
  • Shipping carriers (such as Nationex and DHL), to deliver your orders and returns.
  • Klaviyo (emails), Gorgias (customer service and chat) and Judge.me (reviews).
  • The advertising and measurement partners listed in section 5.

We may also disclose information when the law requires it.

7. Information processed outside Québec and outside your country

Some of these providers store or process information outside Québec, in other Canadian provinces, the United States, the European Union or other countries. Before sharing information outside Québec, we assess whether it will be adequately protected, and we bind our providers by contract to protect it. For customers in the European Union and the United Kingdom, transfers to Canada rely on the adequacy decision for Canada, and transfers to other countries rely on standard contractual clauses or equivalent safeguards.

8. How long we keep it

We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes above, or as long as the law requires (for example, accounting and tax records are kept for at least six years). We then destroy or anonymize it.

9. How we protect it

We use reasonable security measures, including encrypted (SSL) connections and access limited to the people who need it. If a confidentiality incident presents a risk of serious injury, we will notify the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec and the people concerned, and, where required, the competent authority.

10. Your rights

You can ask to access your personal information, correct it, withdraw your consent, have it deleted or de-indexed, or receive it in a structured, commonly used technological format. If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you can also ask us to restrict or stop using it, and object to its use for direct marketing at any time. Write to concierge@wantlesessentiels.com. We will answer within 30 days.

If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can file a complaint with the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec, with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, or, if you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, with the data protection authority of your country.

11. Marketing emails

You can unsubscribe at any time with the link at the bottom of each email, or by writing to concierge@wantlesessentiels.com.

12. Children

The Site is not intended for children under 14, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows the latest version. If we make important changes, we will post a notice on the Site.

14. Contact

Questions or requests: concierge@wantlesessentiels.com, or Quartz Nature Inc. (WANT Les Essentiels), 101 rue Maguire, Montréal (Québec) H2T 1C2, Canada.