Privacy Policy

As you can imagine, you will find here our privacy policy, which is pretty much the same as most other websites. If you need any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, you are more than welcome to get in touch with us by email from our contact page.

This privacy policy page describes in detail what personal information is collected and recorded by beautysetter.com and how we use it.

Our website address is: https://beautysetter.com.

How we protect your data

Our website has a SSL Certificate which means it is safer for you. If you have a look in your browser you will notice a green locked padlock symbol before the web address to show this. This means that all data you enter into our site is therefore processed with the secure SSL Certificate.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Newsletter Subscriptions

If you sign up for our Newsletter and Updates you will be asked for your email address. This is only used for our newsletter subscription and email updates.We will not share or sell this information to anyone.We have used a double opt-in subscription since the beginning. This means you get an email to get you to confirm that you did subscribe to it yourself. You will need to click the link to authenticate this and confirm that you want to subscribe to our Newsletter and receive emails from us. As of May 24st 2018 we are using a new GDPR friendly sign-up form from MailChimp for greater clarity.

Once on our mailing list you may get a monthly Newsletter, email updates containing news, blog posts, tips, special offers, promotions which includes or may be classified as marketing. By subscribing, you are agreeing that you are happy for us to send these emails.

You are free to unsubscribe at any time from our Newsletters and emails as every email contains a link to unsubscribe at the bottom.

We use MailChimp to collect and store the contact details and send the Newsletters and email updates. Please read Mailchimps Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. If you unsubscribe and wish to delete all records of your previous subscription contact Mailchimp or send us an email so we can remove them.

If you sign up for the Newsletter you will also be asked for a first name. You do not have to use your real name but it will be used in the ‘To’ field of any emails sent to you. This information like your email address is private and will not be sold or shared. You can update your contact name and email address at any time through the update link at the bottom of all our emails.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

We will never add your email address to our Newsletter subscription without your permission. Nor will we sell or share your email address.

Log Files
Like many other Web sites, beautysetter.com makes use of log files. These files merely logs visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’s analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close 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 persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

→ Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on beautysetter.com.
→ Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based upon their visit to beautysetter.com and other sites on the Internet.
→ Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Our Advertising Partners

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include …….

Google
Commission Junction
Amazon
Widget Bucks
Adbrite
Clickbank
Linkshare
Yahoo! Publisher Network
Azoogle
Chitika
Kontera
TradeDoubler
ShareASale

Please note each of these advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their site, so feel free to consult and check it for each of the advertising partners of beautysetter.com.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on beautysetter.comand which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.

beautysetter.comhas no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. Beautysetter.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Children’s Information
We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity. beautysetter.com does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that beautysetter.com has in its database the personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact in the first paragraph) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

WordPress and third-party widgets/plugins and software used to operate this website may use information about visitors for analytics purposes. This could include your location, pages viewed, links clicked, downloaded files, pages or posts shared, how you came to this site and search terms for example. These are just website stats and are used anonymously. This is used to better understand my visitors, see what articles are popular and improve the content I create for you.

Contact forms

If you use the Contact form to send me an email, I will not use your email address for anything other than responding to you. Your email address is private and I will not sell or share it with anyone.

Data Used: If Akismet is enabled on the site, the contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Please see the Newsletter Subscription policies at the top of this page for further details.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Compliance With Laws

We may collect, use, retain, and share your information if we have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce our agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of our visitors, newsletter subscribers or others.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We use Akismet anti-spam software to keep our site spam free.