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Privacy policy

BEAUTY BRAIDS & BEYOND 

PRIVACY POLICY


Last updated: October 17, 2021

This policy describes how Beauty Braids & Beyond (collectively, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit or make a purchase from https://beautybraidsandbeyond.com (the “Site”).

What Our Privacy Policy Covers

This privacy policy discusses the “personal information” that Beauty Braids & Beyond obtains from you on beautybraidsandbeyond.com, through our online store and marketing offers. When we use the term “personal information” we are referring to information that is about an identifiable individual. This may include, but not limited to, things like your name, e-mail address, mailing address, birthday, telephone number, photographs, personal images, or beauty profile information you provide such as hair colour and eye colour, or information about the products you purchase.

Also, when you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”


This privacy policy does not cover information that you submit on other websites, even if we communicate with you on those sites. For example, if you post something on Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube, that information is governed by the privacy policies on those websites and is not governed by this policy. 


What We Collect

The following are examples of the personal information we collect:

Activity

Examples of Personal Information Collected

Registering on our website

Name and e-mail address

Purchasing on our website

Name, credit card information (number, expiry date and security number), billing address, shipping address, and telephone number

Sweepstakes and contests

Name, e-mail address, and age

Product Availability Notifications

Name and e-mail address

In addition, we may use the following technologies to automatically collect Device Information about your activities on our websites.

  • Cookies: files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
  • Flash Cookies: (also called Local Shared Objects or “LSOs”) are data files similar to cookies, except that they can store more complex data. Flash cookies are used to remember settings, preferences, and usage, particularly for video, interactive gaming, and other similar services
  • Web beacons, clear pixels, or pixel tags: electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
  • Web server logs: track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
  • Geo-location technologies: technologies that permit us to determine your location. We may ask you to manually provide location information on our website, or to enable your mobile device to send us precise location information. We may also automatically collect general location information from your web browser.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).



Note that we do not intentionally collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you can look at our websites, but you should not make a purchase, register, or submit personal information to us.


How We Use Your Personal Information

Beauty Braids & Beyond primarily uses the personal information that it collects to provide you with products, information, and services. We may use your information to track your purchase history, suggest products, and to contact you for account and promotional purposes. We may also use your personal information for other legitimate business purposes, including to detect and prevent fraud, to collect amounts owing to us and to maintain business records.


How We Share Your Personal Information

Beauty Braids & Beyond may share your personal information in the following circumstances:

  • Service providers. We may share your personal information with companies that perform services for us (including affiliates acting in this capacity), such as fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mails, analyzing customer data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, investigating fraudulent activity, conducting customer surveys, and providing customer service. 
  • Social Networks, Widgets, and Plug-ins. If you use any features made available to you on our website by a third party it may result in information being collected or shared between us and the third party. For example, if you use Facebook’s “Like” feature, Facebook may register the fact that you “liked” a product and may post that information on Facebook. 
  • Advertising/Retargeting. We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.  For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.  We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  • Other instances. Beauty Braids & Beyond may share your personal information to protect the legal rights of our company, our employees, our agents, and our affiliates, to protect the safety and security of our visitors, to detect and protect against fraud, or to comply with law or legal process. 

Beauty Braids & Beyond may share de-identified information (i.e., information that is not directly connected to your name) in the following circumstances in addition to those identified above:

  • Aggregate information. We may share de-identified aggregate information about our customers with advertisers and marketing partners. 
  • Behavioral-based advertising. A third party may use technology (e.g., a cookie) to collect information about your use of our website and other websites so that they can provide advertising about products and services tailored to your interest. That advertising may appear either on our website, or on other websites. 

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:


Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at:  http://optout.aboutads.info/.


DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.



How We Protect Your Information

The file containing your personal information is maintained on our servers or those of our service providers and is accessible by our authorized employees, agents and mandataries who require access to perform their job functions. We realize that our customers trust us to protect their personal information. We take that task seriously and maintain reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to help protect your personal information. While we attempt to protect the information in our possession, no security system is perfect, and we cannot promise that information about you will remain secure in all circumstances.


Your Choices

You have the following choices with how your information is used:

Your Options

What you need to do

Updating or Correcting the Personal Information Relating to Your Account

You can update or correct your name, e-mail address, security questions, and other preferences by logging into your account and clicking on the “My Account” page.

Receiving newsletters and promotional e-mails

You can click on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any promotional e-mail that you receive. You can also edit your e-mail preferences on your “My Account” page. 

Behavioral Based Advertising

By using your browser settings to block cookies or notify you when a cookie is set.

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

Updated Credit Card Information

If you have given Beauty Braids & Beyond permission to store your credit card information and your credit card issuer provides an account updater service, we may receive updated credit card information from the issuer (through third party service providers), including updated credit card number and expiry date. If you don’t want merchants like  Beauty Braids & Beyond  to receive your updated credit card information please contact your card issuer.

Communicating With Us

If you have any questions about our privacy or security practices, or of you would like to request access to or correction of your personal information, you can contact Beauty Braids and Beyond by mail, or e-mail:

Beauty Braids & Beyond
4-8770 The Gore Road

Suite #216

Brampton Ontario

L6P 0B1
info@beautybraidsandbeyond.com


Your right to access or correct your personal information is subject to applicable legal restrictions. We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

If we need, or are required, to contact you concerning any event that involves your personal information we may do so by e-mail, or mail.


Changes To This Policy

We may revise this policy from time to time. You should review our privacy policy periodically so that you keep up-to-date on our most current practices. We will note the effective date of the latest version at the top of each policy.