VURKHEN™ PRIVACY POLICY & INTEGRAL PRIVACY NOTICE

Last Updated: August 17, 2026
Operator: Kevin E.C.G., commercially operating under the Vurkhen™ brand and using the creative pseudonym Räfthkan™
Legal Notice Address: México (Global Digital Operations)
Privacy Contact: contact@vurkhen.com
Website: vurkhen.com

  1. Introduction

Vurkhen™ (“Vurkhen,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects the privacy of visitors, customers, account holders, subscribers, contributors, and other users of vurkhen.com.

This Privacy Policy and Integral Privacy Notice explains how Vurkhen may collect, use, store, disclose, transfer, protect, and otherwise process personal information obtained through the Website and related services.

Vurkhen is an independent, online-first creative publishing, entertainment, and ecommerce project operated from México.

Vurkhen seeks to comply with privacy and data-protection laws applicable to its actual processing activities, including Mexican law and, where legally applicable, requirements arising under other privacy regimes such as the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and applicable United States state privacy legislation.

Reference to any foreign law does not constitute a representation that such law necessarily applies to every User or every Vurkhen processing activity.

  1. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information processed through or in connection with:

  • vurkhen.com;
  • Vurkhen customer accounts;
  • WooCommerce;
  • product purchases;
  • checkout;
  • payment processing;
  • shipping and fulfillment;
  • digital downloads;
  • newsletters;
  • contact forms;
  • customer support;
  • comments and reviews;
  • promotions;
  • authentication services;
  • security and fraud-prevention systems;
  • analytics technologies;
  • cookies and similar technologies;
  • other Vurkhen features that expressly reference this Policy.

Third-party websites independently operated by other entities are governed by their own privacy practices.

  1. Data Controller

For personal information for which Vurkhen determines the purposes and means of processing, the responsible controller is:

Vurkhen™
Operated by: Kevin E.C.G.
Creative pseudonym: Räfthkan™
Legal Notice Address: México (Global Digital Operations)
Email: contact@vurkhen.com
Website: vurkhen.com

Vurkhen operates primarily online and does not maintain a retail store open to the general public unless expressly stated otherwise.

  1. Categories of Personal Data We May Collect

Depending upon how a User interacts with Vurkhen, we may process the following categories.

4.1 Identity and Account Data

This may include:

  • name;
  • username;
  • email address;
  • account identifier;
  • authentication status;
  • account settings;
  • saved preferences;
  • information necessary to administer the account.

Passwords should be stored using appropriate authentication and security mechanisms rather than as readable plain-text credentials.

4.2 Order and Transaction Data

This may include:

  • order number;
  • products purchased;
  • quantity;
  • purchase date;
  • payment status;
  • billing details;
  • shipping details;
  • refund information;
  • discount or coupon information;
  • transaction history;
  • tax-related information where necessary.
4.3 Payment Information

Payments may be processed through external payment providers such as Stripe, PayPal, or any other processor actually enabled by Vurkhen.

Vurkhen does not intentionally store complete credit-card or debit-card numbers or security codes in its own Website database when those payment credentials are directly processed by an independent payment provider.

Vurkhen may nevertheless receive information such as:

  • payment status;
  • processor transaction identifier;
  • payment method category;
  • billing contact information;
  • fraud indicators;
  • refund status.
4.4 Shipping and Fulfillment Information

For physical orders, Vurkhen may process:

  • recipient name;
  • postal address;
  • country;
  • telephone number where required;
  • email address;
  • purchased item;
  • shipping method;
  • tracking information.

This information may be shared with manufacturers, fulfillment providers, postal services, couriers, customs intermediaries, or other parties reasonably necessary to complete an order.

4.5 Communications

When Users contact Vurkhen, we may process:

  • email address;
  • name;
  • order number;
  • correspondence;
  • attachments;
  • support history;
  • information voluntarily supplied by the User.
4.6 Reviews, Comments and User-Generated Content

If Vurkhen permits reviews, comments, fan submissions, or other public participation, information submitted to a public area may become visible to other Users and potentially search engines.

Users should not voluntarily include sensitive or confidential personal information in public posts.

4.7 Technical and Usage Data

Depending upon Website configuration and consent preferences, Vurkhen or its providers may process:

  • IP address;
  • browser type;
  • operating system;
  • device information;
  • approximate geographic region;
  • referring page;
  • viewed pages;
  • session information;
  • dates and times of access;
  • security events;
  • cookie identifiers;
  • interaction events.
  1. Sensitive Personal Information

Vurkhen does not intentionally request sensitive personal information unless it is genuinely required for a clearly identified and lawful purpose.

Users should avoid voluntarily submitting sensitive personal information through comments, reviews, general contact forms, or other public features.

Where applicable law requires special protections or consent for sensitive information, those requirements will apply.

  1. Purposes of Processing

Vurkhen may process personal information to:

  • establish and administer accounts;
  • authenticate Users;
  • process orders;
  • confirm payments;
  • fulfill purchases;
  • manufacture physical products;
  • ship products;
  • provide digital content;
  • communicate order status;
  • process lawful returns and refunds;
  • provide customer support;
  • detect fraudulent transactions;
  • prevent unauthorized access;
  • protect Website security;
  • maintain transaction records;
  • comply with accounting and tax requirements;
  • enforce contractual obligations;
  • establish, exercise, or defend legal claims;
  • investigate intellectual-property infringements;
  • moderate Website content;
  • improve Website usability;
  • measure Website performance;
  • conduct analytics where lawfully permitted;
  • send newsletters or marketing where the necessary permission exists;
  • maintain records of privacy choices and consents.
  1. Legal Grounds for Processing

Depending upon the applicable jurisdiction and activity, processing may occur because it is:

  • necessary to enter into or perform a contract;
  • necessary to process a Customer’s order;
  • required by law;
  • necessary for legitimate business or security interests where permitted;
  • necessary to establish or defend legal claims;
  • based upon valid consent where consent is required.

Where GDPR applies, Vurkhen will identify an appropriate lawful basis for the relevant processing rather than assuming that all processing is based upon consent. The GDPR provides several possible legal bases and imposes transparency requirements concerning the processing of personal data.

  1. Accounts and Authentication

Vurkhen may permit Users to create accounts through email/password systems or third-party authentication providers.

Where Google or another authentication service is enabled, Vurkhen may receive information authorized by the User and necessary to establish or authenticate the account.

The third-party authentication provider may independently process information under its own terms and privacy notice.

  1. Service Providers

Vurkhen may use third-party providers to perform particular functions.

Depending upon the actual services enabled, these may include providers for:

  • hosting and infrastructure;
  • WordPress/WooCommerce technology;
  • Website development tools;
  • payment processing;
  • email delivery;
  • fulfillment and print-on-demand production;
  • shipping;
  • analytics;
  • authentication;
  • anti-fraud;
  • security;
  • backups;
  • customer support.

Examples may include Hostinger, WooCommerce, Printful, Stripe, PayPal, Brevo, Google, or other providers only where the relevant service is actually used.

The fact that a provider is used by Vurkhen does not necessarily mean that provider places cookies directly on the User’s device.

  1. Disclosure of Information

Vurkhen may disclose personal information where reasonably necessary to:

  • fulfill a transaction;
  • manufacture or ship an order;
  • process payment;
  • provide requested support;
  • prevent fraud;
  • comply with law;
  • respond to a lawful authority request;
  • enforce a contract;
  • protect Vurkhen’s rights;
  • protect Users or third parties;
  • investigate unlawful activity;
  • establish or defend legal claims.

Vurkhen does not disclose more information than reasonably necessary for the applicable purpose where practicable.

  1. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information

Vurkhen does not operate its ordinary business model by selling personal information for monetary consideration.

Some privacy statutes may define “sale,” “sharing,” targeted advertising, or cross-context behavioral advertising more broadly than an ordinary monetary sale.

If Vurkhen becomes subject to such legislation and engages in regulated activity, applicable opt-out rights will be provided.

For example, businesses subject to California’s CCPA may have obligations concerning sale/sharing and qualifying browser opt-out preference signals. The CCPA itself only applies when its statutory business criteria are met.

  1. International Transfers

Vurkhen operates online and may use providers whose infrastructure is located outside the User’s country.

Personal information may therefore be transmitted, accessed, stored, or otherwise processed internationally.

Where applicable law requires additional safeguards for an international transfer, Vurkhen and/or the relevant provider will rely on an available lawful mechanism appropriate to that transfer.

Vurkhen does not represent that Standard Contractual Clauses, adequacy decisions, transfer assessments, or any other particular mechanism applies to every transfer unless that mechanism is actually in place.

  1. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Vurkhen may use necessary, functional, analytics, and marketing technologies as described in the separate Cookie Policy.

Where applicable law requires prior consent for non-essential technologies, they will be subject to the Website’s consent-management mechanism.

  1. Data Retention

Vurkhen retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and for periods reasonably required to:

  • fulfill orders;
  • maintain accounts;
  • satisfy legal obligations;
  • maintain accounting records;
  • resolve disputes;
  • address chargebacks;
  • investigate fraud;
  • enforce contracts;
  • protect intellectual property;
  • establish or defend legal claims.

Where a User requests deletion, Vurkhen may retain information that applicable law requires or permits it to preserve.

  1. Security

Vurkhen uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information, reasonably foreseeable risks, available technology, and the scale of Vurkhen’s operations.

Such measures may include, where actually implemented:

  • HTTPS/TLS transmission;
  • account authentication;
  • restricted administrative access;
  • reputable hosting infrastructure;
  • software updates;
  • backups;
  • external payment processing;
  • security controls;
  • anti-spam or anti-fraud mechanisms.

No internet-connected service can guarantee absolute security.

Vurkhen therefore does not promise that unauthorized access, software vulnerabilities, outages, or other incidents can never occur.

  1. Security Incidents

If Vurkhen becomes aware of a personal-data security incident, Vurkhen may investigate the incident, take reasonable mitigation measures, and provide legally required notifications to affected persons or competent authorities where applicable law requires such notification.

  1. Mexican ARCO Rights

Where Mexican privacy law applies, the data subject may exercise applicable rights of:

Access
Rectification
Cancellation
Opposition

Requests may be sent to:

contact@vurkhen.com

The request should reasonably identify:

  • the person making the request;
  • the account or information concerned;
  • the right being exercised;
  • information sufficient to locate the data;
  • reasonable evidence necessary to verify identity.

Under the current Mexican LFPDPPP, the responsible party generally has a maximum of twenty days to communicate its determination regarding an ARCO request and, if appropriate, fifteen additional days to make the determination effective, subject to statutory rules and extensions.

  1. European Data Protection Rights

Where GDPR applies to the relevant processing, a data subject may have rights including:

  • access;
  • rectification;
  • erasure;
  • restriction;
  • portability;
  • objection;
  • withdrawal of consent;
  • complaint to a competent supervisory authority.

The existence and scope of each right depends upon the circumstances and lawful basis of processing.

  1. U.S. State Privacy Rights

Where an applicable U.S. state privacy law legally applies to Vurkhen, qualifying residents may exercise the rights granted under that law.

Vurkhen does not represent that a particular state privacy statute applies merely because a person from that state visits the Website.

  1. Marketing

Marketing email will be sent in accordance with applicable requirements.

Where consent is required, subscribing to marketing must be a separate voluntary choice and will not be a mandatory condition of completing an ordinary purchase.

Users may unsubscribe using the mechanism contained in marketing communications or by contacting Vurkhen.

Transactional messages concerning orders, account security, support, refunds, legal notices, or other necessary service communications are not treated as ordinary marketing.

  1. Minors

Vurkhen is a general-audience publishing, entertainment, and ecommerce Website and is not intentionally designed as an online service directed primarily to young children.

Vurkhen does not knowingly solicit personal information from children in circumstances where legally verifiable parental authorization is required.

Independent account creation and ecommerce transactions are intended for persons capable of entering the applicable contract.

If Vurkhen learns that personal information concerning a minor has been improperly collected in circumstances requiring parental authorization, Vurkhen will take reasonable steps to appropriately delete, restrict, or otherwise address the information.

Parents or legal guardians may contact:

contact@vurkhen.com

  1. User Responsibility

Users are responsible for providing accurate information and protecting their own credentials.

Users should promptly notify Vurkhen if they reasonably believe that their account has been compromised.

This responsibility does not eliminate rights or remedies that cannot legally be waived.

  1. External Services and Links

The Website may link to independent third-party websites, social networks, payment providers, or services.

Vurkhen does not control independent websites merely because a link to them appears on vurkhen.com.

Third-party processing independently controlled by another entity is subject to that entity’s policies and applicable law.

  1. Changes to This Policy

Vurkhen may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in law, technology, Website features, providers, security practices, or business operations.

The current version will identify its effective date.

Material changes will not retroactively create consent where applicable law requires new consent.

  1. Privacy Complaints and Contact

Questions or requests concerning privacy may be directed to:

Vurkhen™
Operator: Kevin E.C.G.
Creative pseudonym: Räfthkan™
Legal Notice Address: México (Global Digital Operations)
Email: contact@vurkhen.com
Website: vurkhen.com

Nothing in this Policy prevents a person from exercising a legally available right before a competent privacy or regulatory authority.

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