Privacy PolicyLast modified: November 11, 2020 Introduction HC Salon Holdings, Inc. d/b/a Hair Cuttery Family of Brands (“Company,” “we” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us or to our affiliates when you use the “Digital Platforms” (as defined below) owned by us as well as those associated with or utilized by the brands we manage which include: Hair Cuttery and Bubbles Salons (collectively “Our Brands”). This policy describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. Digital Platforms include the following:
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Digital Platforms. By accessing or using our Digital Platforms, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Links Our Digital Platforms may contain links non-affiliated websites. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Policy, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those websites. We are not responsible for the information practices of such un-affiliated websites.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our Digital Platforms after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. Children Under the Age of 13 Our Digital Platforms are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Digital Platforms. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information to us on or through any of our Digital Platforms, make any purchases through the Digital Platforms, use any of the interactive or public comment features of our Digital Platforms or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us via the methods set forth in the contact information section below. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It We collect several types of information from and about users of our Digital Platforms, including information:
We collect this information:
Information You Provide to Us. The information we collect on or through our Digital Platforms may include:
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies. As you navigate through and interact with our Digital Platforms, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, mobile device, browsing and use actions, and patterns, including:
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time but we do not collect information across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). We may maintain the information we automatically collect or associate it with other personal information we collect about you or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Digital Platforms to deliver a better and more personalized service, and to better market our services, including by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Digital Platforms are served by parties not affiliated with us, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Digital Platforms. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see the Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information section below.
How We Use Your Information We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
We may also use your information to contact you and serve advertisements to you about: 1) our own (and Our Brands’) goods and services; 2) our affiliates goods and services; and 3) about the goods and services of other entities that we think may be of interest to you.
Disclosure of Your Information We may disclose aggregated and anonymized information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personally identifiable information that we collect as described in this privacy policy:
We may also disclose your personal information:
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
We may disclose certain information (such as your email address) to Facebook Custom Audiences (for more information on Facebook Custom Audience go here or to opt-out, go to the Facebook ad preferences page)—so that we can better target ads and content to you and others with similar interests on other websites or media (“Custom Audiences”). We may also work with other ad networks and marketing platforms that enable us and other participants to target ads to Custom Audiences submitted by us and others. You may also control how Facebook and other ad networks display certain ads to you, as explained further in their respective privacy policies or by using the opt-outs described below.
Users may opt out of many ad networks. For example, you may go to the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA") Consumer Choice Page for information about opting out of interest-based advertising and their choices regarding having information used by DAA companies. You may also go to the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") Consumer Opt-Out Page for information about opting out of interest-based advertising and their choices regarding having information used by NAI members. Opting out from one or more companies listed on the DAA Consumer Choice Page or the NAI Consumer Opt-Out Page will opt you out from those companies' delivery of interest-based content or ads to you, but it does not mean you will no longer receive any advertising through our Site, Services, or on other websites. You may continue to receive advertisements, for example, based on the particular website that you are viewing (i.e., contextually based ads). Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you opt out on the DAA or NAI websites, your opt out may not be effective. Additional information is available on the DAA's website at www.aboutads.info or the NAI's website at www.networkadvertising.org.[BH1]
We also utilize Google Analytics evaluate usage of our Digital Platforms, including to help us improve our Digital Platforms’ performance and user experiences. To learn more about Google’s privacy practices, please review the Google Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You can also download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information You may access personal information about you that we have collected through the Digital Platforms by sending a request using the contact information in the section below. You can also request that we correct any such information in the same manner. To verify that the request is authentic, we may require that such request be sent from the email address associated with your personal information or we may ask that you provide other information to help us verify your identity. While we will comply reasonably with your request, we may need to retain some of your information for our own recordkeeping or to fulfill a legal obligation. If you delete or ask us to delete certain information, you may not be able to continue to access certain portions of the Digital Platforms without entering additional information. Data Security We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Digital Platforms, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Digital Platforms like message boards or blogs. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Digital Platforms. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we use commercially reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Digital Platforms. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Digital Platforms. Links Our Digital Platforms may contain links non-affiliated websites. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Policy, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those websites. We are not responsible for the information practices of such un-affiliated websites.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Digital Platforms and this privacy policy to check for any changes. Contact Information To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: HC Salon Holdings, Inc. 8281 Greensboro Drive, Suite 320 McLean, Virginia 22102 Attn: Legal - Privacy In addition, you can call the Guest and People Care Center at 877-319-3919 or contact us using the “Contact Us” methods available on our Digital Platforms. |