WHO WE ARE
Website address: https://beautyandcolour.com.
This privacy policy details what data is collected from you on Beauty & Colour (also referred to as “this/the website”) and how your information is used. The term “you” denotes anyone who uses, visits and/or views Beauty & Colour.
By visiting Beauty & Colour, you accept all terms of and agree to be bound by our privacy policy. If any updates, modifications or changes are made to this privacy policy and you continue to visit and use this website, doing so will serve as your acceptance of the updated privacy policy. If you do not wish to be bound by this privacy policy, you should discontinue use of this website immediately.
WHAT TYPES OF INFORMATION DOES BEAUTY & COLOUR COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?
Beauty & Colour collects the following voluntarily submitted user information:
- Any or all of the following may be collected when you sign up for our email list, leave comments on the site, use this site’s search feature, register for an account on the site, use the Beauty & Colour contact form, or in any way communicate with Beauty & Colour through this site: your contact information, including your name, phone number, email address, and home address, your credit card information if you make a purchase on Beauty & Colour, your birthdate, and your photo if you choose to register for an account on this site and upload a Gravatar image
Your personal data is used to customize your experience on Beauty & Colour and to understand how we can enhance Beauty & Colour to better serve its users, serve you customized ads, process transactions, provide you with special promotions or offers, and at times to communicate with you via email. Occasionally, your personal data may also be used to offer you special promotions that become available via third party partners and/or affiliate sites through which Beauty & Colour will earn a commission.
Beauty & Colour also automatically collects your personal data through the use of log data and Google Analytics. Log data includes information about your computer’s IP address, your Internet Service Provider’s information, your browser information and type, and your operating system. Google Analytics collects information about your geographic location, browsing history, which pages you visit within this website, the type of device you used to access this website, traffic patterns, and other generalized patterns of your use of this website.
This data will then be used to analyze information related to your behavior within the site, your interests, and your use of the website so as to better customize the products and services that Beauty & Colour offers to you.
When you leave a comment on this site, Beauty & Colour collects the data that is shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it.
Any comments you leave on this website will also be run through an automated spam detection service.
HOW LONG DOES BEAUTY & COLOUR RETAIN YOUR DATA?
Beauty & Colour will retain your data indefinitely; however, you may contact [email protected] with any removal requests. Each removal request will be honored within 5-7 business days.
You have the right to request that the personal data Beauty & Colour may store on you be corrected, modified or removed, and you also have the right to know what personal data, if any, Beauty & Colour has stored on you. For any such requests, please contact [email protected]. Each request will be honored within 5-7 business days.
COOKIES
Cookies are text files that are automatically placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log and visitor behavior information, which helps to offer you an optimal user experience on this website. When you visit the Beauty & Colour website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or a similar technology.
Third party vendors, including Google and its partners and affiliates, utilize cookies to serve ads based on a user’s internet browsing history. These advertising cookies are used to serve ads that are relevant to the user’s interests based on the pages that a user has visited on this site as well as other sites on the internet.
Beauty & Colour utilizes Google Analytics, demographics and interest reporting, and Google advertising on its website.
Users may opt out of Google Analytics Advertising Features by visiting the ad settings page.
For further information, you can visit All About Cookies.
HOW DOES BEAUTY & COLOUR USE COOKIES?
Beauty & Colour uses cookies in several ways to improve your experience on this website, including, but not limited to:
- Keeping you signed in to this website
- Remembering any information you voluntarily submitted when leaving a comment on this website, so that you do not have to enter this information again in future
- Understanding how you use this website
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DOES BEAUTY & COLOUR USE?
The types of cookies that Beauty & Colour uses are as follows:
- Functionality – Beauty & Colour uses these cookies so that we recognize you on this website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and your geographic location. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used, including Google Analytics cookies and Google advertising cookies.
- Advertising – Beauty & Colour uses these types of cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Beauty & Colour will periodically share some aspects of this data with third parties, including Google, for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on this website.
HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES
The purpose of collecting data though cookies is to better understand your user experience on this website so that we can best serve you as a user of Beauty & Colour.
You can set your browser to not accept cookies at any time, and the above listed website contains instructions on how to remove cookies from your browser. However, some of the Beauty & Colour website features may not function as a result.
If you leave a comment on Beauty & Colour, you can choose to save your name, email address and website using cookies (which will last for a year) in order to avoid having to input this information again if/when you leave additional future comments on this website.
If you have an account on Beauty & Colour and you navigate to the login page and sign in, Beauty & Colour will set a temporary cookie which does not contain any personally identifiable information in order to determine whether or not your browser accepts cookies. This temporary cookie will be removed when you exit your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will remain for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will then be removed.
COMMENTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
If you choose to post a comment on the Beauty & Colour website, your comment and its metadata will be permanently retained so that your future comments may be approved automatically. Beauty & Colour may use your name, email address and/or website to communicate with you, but we do not share this information with third parties.
Sharing options for social media outlets are utilized on Beauty & Colour, and some social media outlets may have the ability to track your personal data. If you share posts or content from the Beauty & Colour website on social media or otherwise interact with Beauty & Colour on social media, note that this will involve you voluntarily disclosing your personal information, which then becomes public data that can be collected and used by third parties.
Beauty & Colour has no control over the actions of third parties, and will not be held liable for the unauthorized use or dissemination of any user’s publicly disclosed personal information by a third party, and any interactions you have on this site do not subject Beauty & Colour to any liability involving any type of misuse of your personal data by a third party.
THIRD PARTY LINKS
Beauty & Colour may include or advertise third party links, products or services on its website. When you click on a third party link and leave Beauty & Colour, you will not be bound by the Beauty & Colour privacy policy.
Posts on Beauty & Colour sometimes include embedded content such as photos, videos, and ads from third party websites. Any such embedded content acts in the same way as if the visitor had accessed the website that the content was originally embedded from. The websites that supply any embedded content on Beauty & Colour also collect data about you, use cookies or otherwise embed their own third-party tracking technology, and analyze your interaction with any such embedded content.
Beauty & Colour has no control over any third parties or their privacy policies, and will not be held liable for the actions of any third parties.
Beauty & Colour uses Mediavine to manage all third party advertising on its website. Mediavine is a separate third party which also uses first and third party cookies to serve content and ads on this website.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA
Beauty & Colour typically does not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent, with the following exceptions:
Beauty & Colour may disclose your information to trusted third party partners. This can include, but is not limited to, our web hosting partner, our ad management service provider, our email marketing service provider, and any other partners or affiliates that provide products and services available on the Beauty & Colour website or are otherwise essential to the operation of this website.
Beauty & Colour may disclose your information in compliance with government regulations, such as copyright infringement lawsuits, or other related legal claims which pertain to this website.
Beauty & Colour may disclose your information to an acquiring party if a merger or acquisition, dissolution, restructuring, or partial sale were to occur.
Any such disclosures of your personal data/information as detailed above will be completed in adherence with this privacy policy.
EMAIL MARKETING
Beauty & Colour would love to send you information about products and services of that we think you would like! You can voluntarily opt in to the Beauty & Colour email list by entering your name and email address into any email opt-in popup form on this site. Your name and email address will then be saved in order to communicate with you via email, and you can opt out of this at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the footer section of any Beauty & Colour email communication.
If you previously opted in and agreed to receive Beauty & Colour marketing emails, you always have the ability to opt out and unsubscribe at any time.
You have the right at any time to stop Beauty & Colour from contacting you for marketing purposes or from sharing your data with any other third party organizations.
Beauty & Colour keeps your personal data confidential, and does not share, sell or in any way give your data away to third parties except as described within this privacy policy.
If you have previously opted in to the email list and now do not want to be contacted for marketing purposes, you can always contact [email protected] to be removed.
For any third party websites, please contact them directly to unsubscribe and/or opt out of their email list.
CalOPPA
It is currently not mandatory for a website to follow a “Do Not Track”, or DNT, request. Beauty & Colour does not change its practices upon receiving a Do Not Track signal from a user’s browser.
COPPA
Beauty & Colour prohibits children under the age of 16 from using this website without parent/guardian supervision and/or consent, and does not knowingly collect or disclose personal information from children without their parental or guardian consent. If you believe that any personal data from a child under the age of 16 has been collected by Beauty & Colour prior to receiving parental or guardian consent, please contact [email protected] to have that information removed and deleted.
GDPR DATA PROTECTION/VISITOR RIGHTS
Beauty & Colour would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Under the GDPR, every user within the European Union is entitled to the following eight rights:
The right to be informed – You have the right to know what data we are processing, why we are processing it, and who else this data may be passed to.
The right to access – You have the right to make a request to Beauty & Colour for copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Beauty & Colour correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that Beauty & Colour complete any information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Beauty & Colour erase your personal data under certain circumstances.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Beauty & Colour restrict or temporarily stop the processing of your personal data.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Beauty & Colour’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Beauty & Colour transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you.
Rights related to automated decision making and profiling – You have the right to not be subject to a decision made based upon only automated processing alone.
HOW BEAUTY & COLOUR STORES YOUR DATA
Beauty & Colour takes every precaution to keep your personal information secure, but cannot fully guarantee the absolute security of your data given that the internet is not completely secure. If you make a purchase on this website, you will be taken to a third party vendor in order to complete your transaction. The information that you provide during the checkout process is then stored only by the third party vendor that completes your transaction, and will not be stored by Beauty & Colour. Your use of this website constitutes your agreement not to hold us liable for any security breach and/or for any unauthorized use of your personal data by any third party, and you agree that Beauty & Colour will not be held responsible for any disclosure of your data through this website that occurred without our knowledge and/or consent.
MEDIAVINE PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING
The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site.
The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit https://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and https://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at https://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
Mediavine partners with the following data processors:
- Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
- Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
- Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
- LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
- RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
- District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
- YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
- The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
- Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
- AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
- OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
- Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
- TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
- Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
- Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
- GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
- Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
- MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid was receive the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers’; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behaviour). Some of this data is gathered from this website and others is gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
- RevContent – You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
- Centro, Inc. – You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
- 33Across, Inc. – You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
- Conversant. LLC – You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.
PRIVACY POLICIES OF OTHER WEBSITES
Beauty & Colour contains links to third party websites. This privacy policy only applies to Beauty & Colour, so if you click on a link that leads you to another website, it will then be your responsibility to also read the other website’s privacy policy. Beauty & Colour will not be held responsible for the practices of any other websites or third parties, or for their handling of personal information or data.
PRIVACY POLICY MODIFICATIONS
This privacy policy is effective as of June 8th, 2020 and it will be updated whenever necessary. You, the user, are responsible for checking this page to view any potential updates to this policy in future. Any changes, updates or modifications to this privacy policy will be effective immediately as soon as they are posted, and your continued use of this website after such any changes, updates or modifications are posted will serve as your acceptance of the updated privacy policy.
CONTACT
If you have any questions or concerns relating to this privacy policy, or if you would like to exercise any of your data protection rights, please reach out to [email protected].