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Privacy Policy

Beauty Essence is a privacy conscious organisation and this Privacy Statement explains how Beauty Essence protect visitors’ information gathered via this Website.

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By using this Website you are agreeing to the use of your information as described in this Privacy Statement.

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Other websites that may be linked to this Website, are not governed by this Privacy Statement. We encourage visitors to review each of these other websites’ privacy statements before disclosing any personal information.

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This Privacy Statement may be supplemented or amended from time to time by privacy statements that are specific to certain areas of this Website.  Please review the specific statement governing that area.

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If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Statement, please contact Beauty Essence

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Information collection

As a visitor, you do not have to submit any personal information in order to use the Website. This Website only collects personal information that is specifically and voluntarily provided by visitors for the purposes of contacting Beauty Essence to discuss provision of services. Such information may consist of, but is not limited to, your name, business name, website URL, email address and telephone numbers.

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Beauty Essence may also store and maintain any content that you provide, including but not limited to postings on any blogs, forums, wikis and other social media applications and services that it may provide.

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Beauty Essence will not usually seek sensitive information (e.g., data relating to race or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, criminal record, physical or mental health, or sexual orientation) from visitors. Where necessary to collect such information, Beauty Essence will obtain your explicit consent to collect and use such information.

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Log information, cookies, and web beacons

This site collects standard internet log information including your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring website addresses. To ensure that this Website is well managed and to facilitate improved navigation, we or our service providers may also use cookies (small text files stored in a user’s browser) or Web beacons (electronic images that allow this Website to count visitors who have accessed a particular page and to access certain cookies) to collect aggregate data.  

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Information use

At times, you may provide personal information via this site, for example, to gain access to specific content, attend a hosted event, respond to a survey, or request communications about specific areas of interest. In such cases, the information you submit will be used to manage your request and to customise and improve this Website and related services offered to you. Beauty Essence may also use your personal information for marketing purposes, or to send you promotional materials or communications regarding services provided by Beauty Essence that may be of interest to you. Beauty Essence may also contact you to seek feedback on services provided or for market or other research purposes.

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Your personal information may also be used to protect our rights or property and that of our users and, where appropriate, to comply with legal process.

You may at any time request that we discontinue sending you emails or other communications generated in response to your provision of personal information via this Website.

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By providing information through this Website, you are consenting to the disclosures described above.

                                                                                                                                            

Blogs, forums, wikis, and other social media

This Website may host various blogs, forums, wikis and other social media applications or services that allow you to share content with other users (collectively “Social Media Applications”). Any personal information or other information that you contribute to any Social Media Application can be read, collected, and used by other users of that Social Media Application over whom we have little or no control. Therefore, we are not responsible for any other user’s use, misuse, or misappropriation of any personal information or other information that you contribute to any Social Media Application.

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Access to information

Visitors who would like to request access to their information, to update their details, or unsubscribe from communications should contact Beauty Essence. In all cases Beauty Essence will treat requests to access information or change information in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

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Information security

Beauty Essence has in place reasonable commercial standards of technology and operational security to protect all information provided by visitors via this Website from unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

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Changes to our Privacy Statement

Beauty Essence may modify or amend this Privacy Statement from time to time at our discretion. When changes are made to this Statement, Beauty Essence will amend the revision date at the top of this page, and such modified or amended Privacy Statement shall be effective as to you and your information as of that revision date. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Statement to be informed about how Beauty Essence is protecting your information.

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Children's privacy protection

We understand the importance of protecting children's privacy in the interactive online world. This Website is not designed for or intentionally targeted at children 13 years of age or younger. It is not Beauty Essence policy to intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 13.

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Visitors' questions

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your privacy while using this Website, please contact Beauty Essence.

 

Cookies

This Website uses cookies to improve the user experience and ensure that it is functioning effectively, and on occasion also to provide marketing information or advertise online, either directly or through third party vendors.

 

This Cookie Notice is part of our Privacy Statement. For more information about Beauty Essence, and how we protect visitor information, please see our Privacy Statement.

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In order to provide you with a more personalised and responsive service we need to remember and store information about how you use this Website. This is done using small text files called cookies. Cookies contain small amounts of information and are downloaded to your computer or other device by a server for this Website. Your web browser then sends these cookies back to this Website on each subsequent visit so that it can recognise you and remember things like your user preferences. You can find more detailed information about cookies and how they work at http://www.aboutcookies.org/.

Whenever you use this Website, information may be collected through the use of cookies and other technologies. By using this Website you agree to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Notice.

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What cookies do we use and why?

Some of the cookies Beauty Essence uses are necessary to enable you to move around the Website and use its features such as accessing secure areas that may contain content for registered users.

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Beauty Essence also uses functional cookies to record information about the choices you have made and to allow us to tailor the site to our users; for example, to remember your language or region or that you have already completed a survey. This information is usually anonymised and is not used for any other purpose.

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Beauty Essence or our service providers also use analytic services to help us understand how effective our content is, what interests our users have, and to improve how this Website works. In addition, we use web beacons or tracking pixels to count visitor numbers and performance cookies to track how many individual users access this Website and how often. This information is used for statistical purposes only and it is not our intention to use such information to personally identify any user. However, if you have registered and signed into this Website we may combine this information with information from our web analytic services and cookies to analyse how you use this Website in more detail.

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This site may, with your permission, also use targeted cookies which are cookies used to deliver advertising or marketing material relevant to your interests. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They remember that you have visited a website and this information may be shared with other organizations such as advertisers.

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Please contact us if you would like more detailed information on the cookies we use.
 

How to control cookies?

By using this Website you agree that we can place cookies on your computer or device as explained above. However, you can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please bear in mind that removing or blocking cookies can impact on your user experience and parts of this Website may no longer be fully accessible.

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Browser controls

Most browsers will allow you to see what cookies you have and delete them on an individual basis or block cookies from particular or all websites. Be aware that any preference you have set will be lost if you delete all cookies, including your preference to opt-out from cookies as this itself requires an opt-out cookie to have been set. For more information on how to modify your browser settings to block or filter cookies, see http://www.aboutcookies.org/ or http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/.

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Managing Analytics cookies

You can opt-out of having your anonymised browsing activity within websites recorded by analytics cookies. We use the following service providers and you can learn more about their privacy policies and how to opt-out of their cookies by clicking on following links:

Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html
Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

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Managing Local Shared Objects or Flash Cookies

A local shared object or flash cookie is like most other browser cookies except that it can store additional types of information. These cookies cannot be controlled using the mechanisms listed above. Some parts of this Website use these types of cookies to store user preferences for media player functionality and without them some video content may not play properly. These cookies can be controlled manually by visiting the Adobe website.
 http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

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Social buttons

We use ‘social buttons’ to enable our users to share or bookmark web pages. These are buttons for third party social media sites and these sites may log information about your activities on the Internet including on this Website. Please review the respective terms of use and privacy policies of these sites to understand exactly how they use your information and to find out how to opt-out, or delete, such information.

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External web services

We sometimes use external web services on this Website to display content within the web pages of this Website, for example to display images, show videos or run polls. As with the social buttons, we cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your use of this embedded content.

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Email Communications

Beauty Essence may also use tracking technologies to determine whether you have read, clicked on, or forwarded certain email communications we send to you so that we can make our communications more helpful and interesting. If you do not wish us to confirm whether you have opened, clicked on or forwarded our communications, you will need to unsubscribe, as it is not possible for us to send these emails without tracking enabled. Registered subscribers can unsubscribe following the instructions in the individual email communications you receive from us.

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We may modify or amend this Cookie Notice from time to time at our discretion. When we make changes to this notice, we will amend the revision date at the top of this page, and such modified or amended Cookie Notice shall be effective as to you and your information as of that revision date. We encourage you to periodically review this Cookie Notice to be informed about how we are using cookies.

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