Privacy Policy for Beauty and Fashion Tech and Girl Gloss
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]

The privacy of visitors to Beauty and Fashion Tech and Girl Gloss is important to us. The following is information on the types of personal information we receive and collect when you visit our sites, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Children Under the Age of 13

We do not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information from persons under 13 years of age, and our websites are not directed to persons under 13. Children under 13 years of age are not eligible for contests or giveaways on our sites. If we learn that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on Beauty and Fashion Tech of Girl Gloss without verified parental consent, we will take the appropriate steps to delete the information.

Information We Collect

A. Information Submitted by a User

Beauty and Fashion Tech and Girl Gloss do not require registration to use the sites. However, we collect personal information when you post a comment or enter a giveaway or contest. That information may include: Name or alias, email address, IP address, and in the case of contest winners, mailing address.

If you subscribe to Beauty and Fashion Tech or Girl Gloss by email, your email address will also be recorded by the Feedburner or MadMimi  service. We also offer an email newsletter through voluntary opt-in signup. We do not share our mailing list with any entities other than Beauty and Fashion Tech and Girl Gloss and subscribers may opt out at any time.

B. Non-submitted Information Collected

Beauty and Fashion Tech and Girl Gloss may also collect non-personal information not associated with your identity to improve the sites. This information includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider), You country, city, or state, the browser you used to visit, the time you visited, and which pages you viewed. We do not permanently retain this information. We use Google Analytics and Statcounter. 

C. Cookies and Web Beacons

We do not use cookies to store information about visitors to our sites. However, we use third party advertisements on both Beauty and Fashion Tech and Girl Gloss to support the sites. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our sites, which will also send the advertisers information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, or whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for targeting purposes to help show appropriate ads to the visitor.  For example, these companies may use 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.

Some advertisers  might also use cookies to track purchases made in order to pay our site a commission for sales made through affiliate links.  We may have access to the time and date of purchase, the merchant, the amount of sale, products purchased, and in some cases general location of the purchaser, but we do not have access to the name, mailing address,phone number,  email address, or other personal identifying information of the user.

We also use Google Adsense, whose cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to our sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may learn more about  out of the use of the cookie and how to opt out of it by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

You can also chose to disable or selectively turn off cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with websites. For example, entirely blocking cookies can cause the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

How We Use Your Information

Beauty and Fashion Tech and Girl Gloss uses your Internet Protocol (IP) address to help diagnose problems with our computer server, and to administer our web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you, and to gather broad demographic data. Your IP address contains no personal information about you. For example, it does not include your name, email, or mailing address.

We will not disclose any personal information about you without your prior consent, unless we have a belief that such action is necessary to: (i) comply with legal process or other legal requirements of any governmental authority; (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of Beauty and Fashion Tech or Girl Gloss; (iii) protect the interests of users of our services other than you or any other person; or (iv) operate or conduct maintenance and repair of our services or equipment as authorized by law.

We do not sell or rent or give personal information about users to any third parties.

On occasion, we run giveaway contests in which the prize is mailed by a third party who will be provided with the winner’s address and contact information, with the understanding that the information is for mailing purposes only. Such contests clearly include this information in the contest entry post.

If you voluntarily disclose personal information in comments, that information might be collected and disseminated by third parties, and result in, among other things, unsolicited inquiries, messages, and offers from third parties. Although our comment form requires an email address, that is not shown to the public. Email address shown in the body of the comment, however, will be displayed. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in comments becomes public information and this third-party conduct is out of the control of Beauty and Fashion Tech and girl Gloss. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Beauty and Fashion Tech and Girl Gloss also contain links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

Security

The personally identifiable information we collect is securely stored within our database, and we use standard, industry-wide practices for protecting your information. However, as effective as encryption technology is, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

Revisions and Amendments

If you have further privacy concerns please do not hesitate to ask us by contacting [email protected]. This Privacy Policy is effective as of June 25, 2008. This Privacy Policy is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party. Beauty and Fashion Tech and Girl Gloss reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, modify, change or update this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such change, update or modification on the sites. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting.

Updated Policy for GDPR compliance:

We do not perform any automated decision making and/or profiling using user data. We do not revive data from third parties.

You may request your data and request deletion of it at any time by contacting us. 

 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Our contact form does not retain your data. We do retain the emails sent to us from the form, which we will delete upon request.

Cookies

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.

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.

 

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data.

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.

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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.