Privacy Policy

PRIVACY
This privacy policy is for this website (www.powderpuff-beauty.co.uk). It governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. It explains how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) [pre GDPR enforcement] and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations).
This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details. It explains how we process, manage, store details and how your rights under GDPR, DPA & PECR are adhered to. Additionally, it explains the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties. As well as explaining the download of documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and your computer/device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.

USE OF COOKIES:
This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. As required by legislation, where applicable, this website uses a cookie control system. This allows the user to give explicit permission or deny the use of /saving of cookies on their computer/device.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.

WEBSITE VISITOR TRACKING:
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website. But will not store, save or collect personal information.

DOWNLOADS & MEDIA FILES:
Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third-party anti-virus software or similar applications.

We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third-party websites. We advise users to verify their authenticity using third-party anti-virus software or similar applications.

CONTACT & COMMUNICATION WITH US:
Users contacting us through this website do so at their discretion and provide any personal details requested at their risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use.

Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and where you have given your express permission, we may use your details to send you products/services information through a mailing list system. This is done in accordance with the regulations named in ‘The policy’ above.

EMAIL MAILING LIST & MARKETING MESSAGES:
We operate an email mailing list program, used to inform subscribers about products, services and/or news we supply/publish. Users can subscribe through an online automated process where they have given their explicit permission. Subscriber personal details are collected, processed, managed and stored in accordance with the regulations named in ‘The policy’ above. Subscribers can unsubscribe through an automated online service, or via other means detailed in the footer of sent marketing messages. The type and content of marketing messages subscribers receive, and any third party content, is outlined at point of subscription.

Email marketing messages may contain tracking beacons/tracked clickable links or similar server technologies. This is in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, marketing messages may record subscriber data relating to engagement, geographic, demographics and already stored subscriber data.

EXTERNAL WEBSITE LINKS & THIRD PARTIES:
Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites)

Shortened URL’s; URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URL’s (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially shorter. This technique is especially used in social media and looks similar to this (example: http://bit.ly/2Fxy9kl). Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.

We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY & USAGE:
We adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.

There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources section below.

Every effort has been made to make sure this database is secure, and it can only be accessed by us and occasionally, trusted third parties for the purpose of improving this site.

We will retain contact and delivery information together with your log on and password. For your convenience we retain information about any products you have purchased to aid your future use of the site.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

You are legally entitled to request details of the personal information which we hold about you, under the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998.

THE ABOVE TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY TO ALL USERS OF THE SITE.