Effective date: 13th January 2022.
Thank you for visiting BrowtifulBoutique.com.
Browtiful Boutique website (https://browtifulboutique.com/) or mobile application, and/or any related services, sales, marketing or events, will be referred collectively in this privacy policy as “Site”.
The owner and operator of this Site will be referred to as “company”, “we”, “us”, and “our” throughout this privacy policy.
By using this Site, you accept the practices outlined in this privacy policy. This privacy policy applies to all information collected within the Site.
Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Site.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT
Personal information you disclose to us
While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Information).
Name and contact data
We collect your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data.
Credentials
We collect passwords, password hints, and similar security information used for authentication and account access.
Payment data
We collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by our payment processor and you should review its privacy policies and contact the payment processor directly to respond to your questions.
Information automatically collected
Log Data
We automatically collect information that your browser sends when you visit, use or navigate our Site (“Log Data”). This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Site and other technical information. If you access our site with your mobile device, we may automatically collect device information (such as your mobile device ID, model and manufacturer), operating system, version information and IP address. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Site, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics and reCAPTCHA that collect, monitor and analyze this Log Data. The use of these services is subject to the third party’s privacy policy and terms of use.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
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 visit our login page, 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.
We use the following types of cookies:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are cookies that are essential to enable you to use the Site, for example moving around our websites and using their features (e.g. cookies that enable you to log into the Site).
Performance Cookies
These are cookies which collect information about how and when you and other visitors interact with our Site (e.g. pages viewed most often) and the information collected by these cookies is used to improve how our Site work.
Functionality Cookies
These are cookies that allow our Site to remember choices you have made (such as your login information) and provide you with content and features which are customized to you. For example, providing you with relevant content by using a cookie to remember which region you are in.
Advertising Cookies
These are cookies which are used to deliver adverts to you which are more relevant to you and your interests. We may also share this type of information with third parties for these purposes.
The types of cookies described above may be “session cookies” or “persistent cookies”. Session cookies are only stored on your device whilst you are using the Site, and are deleted when you log off from the Site or close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a period of time after you log off from the Site or close your browser.
Third Party Cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third parties when you use the Site as some third party service providers that we engage (including third party advertisers) may place their own cookies on your hard drive or Device. These cookies may provide information to those third parties about your browsing habits or may be used for security. Some also help to serve you with advertisements which are more relevant to you. Similarly, if you visit or use third party websites or services linked from our Site, those third parties may place cookies or similar technologies on your device.
For more information about what cookies or similar technologies those third parties use, please review the third party services’ cookie policies.
Information collected from other sources
We may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms (such as Facebook), as well as from other third parties. Examples of the information we receive from other sources include: social media profile information (your name, gender, birthday, email, current city, state and country, user identification numbers for your contacts, profile picture URL and any other information that you choose to make public); marketing leads and search results and links, including paid listings (such as sponsored links).
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use personal information collected via our Site for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests (“Business Purposes”), in order to enter into or perform a contract with you (“Contractual”), with your consent (“Consent”), and/or for compliance with our legal obligations (“Legal Reasons”). We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive:
To facilitate account creation and logon process with your Consent.
To send you marketing and promotional communications for Business Purposes and/or with your Consent. We and/or our third party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time (see the “What Rights You Have Over Your Data” section below).
To send you administrative information related to your account, our business purposes, and/or for legal reasons. We may use your personal information to send you product, service and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
Fulfill and manage your orders for Contractual reasons. We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Site.
To post testimonials with your Consent. We post testimonials on our Site that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and testimonial. If you wish to update, or delete your testimonial, please contact us at hello@browtifulboutique.com and be sure to include your name, testimonial location, and contact information.
Deliver targeted advertising to you for our Business Purposes and/or with your Consent. We may use your information to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
Administer prize draws and competitions for our Business Purposes and/or with your Consent. We may use your information to administer prize draws and competitions when you elect to participate in competitions.
Request Feedback for our Business Purposes and/or with your Consent. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Site.
To protect our Site for Business Purposes and/or Legal Reasons. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Site safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
To enable user-to-user communications with your consent. We may use your information in order to enable user-to-user communications with each user’s consent.
To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for our business purposes and as legally required. To respond to legal requests and prevent harm as legally required. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
For other Business Purposes. We may use your information for other Business Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Site, products, services, marketing and your experience.
WHO WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH
We only share and disclose your information in the following situations:
Information disclosed in connection with business transactions
Information that we collect from our users, including Personal Information, is a business asset. If we are required by a third party as a result of a transaction such as a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, or if assets related to a business unit are acquired by a third party as a result of a transaction, or if our assets are acquired by a third party in the event we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, some or all of our assets, including your Personal Information, will be disclosed to a third party acquirer in connection with the transactions.
Affiliates
We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
Business Partners
We may share information about you with our business and promotional partners to further those interests. However, personally identifiable information is never sold or leased to any third parties.
Third-Party Advertisers
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to our Site and other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Vendors, consultants and other Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your data with third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the Site, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with the Site over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. Additionally, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Unless described in this Policy, we do not share, sell, rent or trade any of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
Other disclosures with your consent
We may ask if you would like us to share your information with other unaffiliated third parties who are not described elsewhere in this policy.
Other disclosures without your consent
We may disclose information in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court order, or in connection with any legal process, or to comply with relevant laws. We may also share your information in order to establish or exercise our rights, to defend against a legal claim, to investigate, prevent or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of a person or property, or a violation of our policies, or to comply with your request for the shipment of products to or the provision of services by a third party intermediary.
Other users
When you share personal information (for example, by posting comments, contributions or other content to the Site) or otherwise interact with public areas of the Site, such personal information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Site in perpetuity.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us keeping your personal information for longer than 90 days past the termination of your account.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
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.
WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
Access
If you have an account on this Site, or have left comments, you may request access to your Personal Information by contacting us through our contact page. If required by law, upon request, we will grant you reasonable access to the Personal Information that we have about you.
Changes
We rely on you to update and correct your Personal Information. If for any reason you are concerned that any information you provided to us is not correct and you wish to change or delete it, you have the ability to review and update your personal information to the extent we have it. If you would like to do so, you may contact us through the contact page to request that your information be modified, to the extent we have it. Please note that changes or access you request may not be effective immediately. Please also note that despite any request for removal of or change to personal information, we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed or changed.
Deletion
You may request that we erase any Personal Information we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Please also note that despite any request for erasure of personal information, we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed or changed.
Promotional emails
You may choose to provide us with your email address for the purpose of allowing us to send free newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials to you, as well as targeted offers from third parties. You can stop receiving promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in emails that you receive. If you decide not to receive promotional emails, we may still send you service related communications.
Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can send us an email with the subject heading “Unsubscribe” at hello@browtifulboutique.com.
Revocation of consent
If you revoke your consent for the processing of Personal Information then we may no longer be able to provide you services. In some cases, we may limit or deny your request to revoke consent if the law permits or requires us to do so, or if we are unable to adequately verify your identity. You may revoke consent to processing (where such processing is based upon consent) by contacting us through our contact page. Please note that we will require you to prove your identity. We may conduct an identity verification by phone call or email.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us but please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. The transmission of personal information to and from our Site is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.
When you create an account in this Site, you will be prompted to create a password. We encourage you to set strong passwords for your User Account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, and you are responsible for any access to or use of your account by someone else that has obtained your password, whether or not such access or use has been authorized by you. You should notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account.
Third parties
In using our Site, you may access links to websites and services that are owned or operated by third parties (each, a “Third Party Service”). Any information that you provide on or to a Third Party Service or that is collected by a Third Party Service is provided directly to the owner or operator of the Third Party Service and is subject to the owner’s or operator’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the content, privacy, or security practices and policies of any Third Party Service. To protect your information we recommend that you carefully review the privacy policies of all Third Party Service that you access.
Embedded content from Third-Party websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) that are owned or operated by third parties (each, a “Third Party Service”). 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We are not responsible for the content, privacy, or security practices and policies of any Third Party Service. To protect your information we recommend that you carefully review the privacy policies of all Third Party Service that you access.
Malaysia Users
We are based in Malaysia. However, our servers are located in the United States. If you are accessing our Site from Malaysia, please be aware that your information may be maintained, transferred to, processed, and stored by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information (see “Who We Share Information With” above), in Malaysia, the United States, and in other jurisdictions as necessary for the proper delivery of our Site and/or as may be required by law.
United States users
Our servers are located in the United States. However, we are based in Malaysia. If you are accessing our Site from the United States, please be aware that your information may be maintained, transferred to, processed, and stored by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information (see “Who We Share Information With” above), in Malaysia, the United States, and in other jurisdictions as necessary for the proper delivery of our Site and/or as may be required by law.
Non-Malaysia and Non-United States users
We are based in Malaysia and our servers are located in the United States. If you are accessing our Site from outside Malaysia and the United States, please be aware that your information may be maintained, transferred to, processed, and stored by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information (see “Who We Share Information With” above), in Malaysia, the United States, and in other jurisdictions as necessary for the proper delivery of our Site and/or as may be required by law.
Disclosures specific to California residents
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Site, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Site. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Site, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems.
Children
Children are not allowed to use the Site, and we do not collect Personal Information from them. We define “children” as anyone under 18 years old. If a parent has any further questions or concerns about his or her child’s use of this Site, we encourage the parent to contact us through the contact page.
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.
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.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 13th January 2022 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Site after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@browtifulboutique.com.