PRIVACY POLICY

HOW WE USE YOUR DATA

WHO WE ARE?

We are The Beauty Rooms, which is the trading name of Rita Roberts c/o The Beauty Rooms, 18 North Street, Nettleham LN2 2PA.

If you have any questions about this Policy, or about how we look after your data generally, please contact Rita Roberts.

INTRODUCTION

The Beauty Rooms (‘we’ or ‘us’ etc), are ‘controllers’ of data. This means that, under the Data Protection Act 2018 (the Act) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we may control and process your personal data.

We take privacy very seriously. We are committed to keeping your data secure and processing it fairly and lawfully. We ask that you read this policy very carefully because it contains important information about how we process your personal data.

PERSONAL DATA WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We collect personal data directly from you via our websites or via other communications between us when you make enquiries with us. Our role is to introduce you to one of practitioners and arrange your appointment for aesthetic treatment. We do not provide the treatments ourselves, nor are we responsible for or in control of the practitioners. The data we collect from you is limited to what we need to collect for this purpose and usually includes:

Your name, address and contact details (usually email address(es), postal address and phone number(s))
Your communication preferences
The type of treatment you are interested in

In addition, we may monitor your use of our website through the use of cookies and similar tracking devices. For example, we may monitor how many times you visit, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of a user's internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some (but not all) of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually. Please see further the section on 'Use of cookies' below.

PERSONAL DATA WE MAY COLLECT FROM THIRD PARTIES

We may also receive information about you from a practitioner providing you with treatment for the purposes of verifying and collecting our commission fee.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We are required to have a legal basis for processing your personal information. These are most commonly:

to perform or take steps to enter into a contract with you for the purposes of introducing you to a practitioner
to comply with a legal obligation
where we have your explicit consent, freely given
where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and these are not overridden by your rights and interests

When you make an enquiry, we will use the personal information for the following reasons:

follow up your enquiry and provide further information
to introduce you to a practitioner
to arrange, or re-arrange, an appointment for you to visit a practitioner for a consultation or treatment
to make you aware of new treatments, offers, events, promotions and other marketing information subject to your consent
to tailor our services, understand how you heard about us, improve our website and adapt our marketing channels

We may use your information to tailor our marketing activity based on your interests and preferences. We will not use your information to carry out any automated profiling that could have a legal effect on you.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your personal information with:

A practitioner for the purposes of providing you with a treatment, or consulting with you about a treatment.
Third parties who provide services to us, such as our solicitors and professional advisors.

MARKETING AND OPTING OUT

We will not contact you for the purposes of direct marketing unless you have asked us to do so. However, if you have asked us to do so and later your change your mind, you can opt-out at any time with no hassle. To do this, just let us know. See further 'Your rights' below for details about how to contact us.

KEEPING YOUR DATE SECURE

We will use technical and organisational measures to safeguard your personal data, for example:

Access to our systems is controlled by password and username which are unique to the user;
We store your electronic personal data on secure servers;
We store your paper records in locked storage cabinets.

Non-sensitive details (your contact details and preferences for example) are transmitted normally over the Internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

TRANSFERRING YOUR INFORMATION OUTSIDE OF EUROPE

We do not transfer your information outside of the European Economic Area, save as described below.

We store and back-up your data using the Apple iCloud service. Apple have represented their system as secure. For example, Apple have the following statement in their own privacy policy:

“Apple uses approved Model Contractual Clauses for the international transfer of personal information collected in the European Economic Area”

Apple uses data centres, which are located throughout the world. Accordingly, there is a possibility that your personal data will be transferred outside of the EEA while stored with iCloud. For more information about how Apple keeps your data safe, please see their privacy statement at https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/privacy/en-ww/

INFORMATION ABOUT OTHER INDIVIDUALS

If you give us information on behalf of someone else, such as a member of your family, you confirm that the other person has appointed you to act on his/her behalf and has agreed that you can:

Give consent on his/her behalf to the processing of his or her personal data
Receive on his/her behalf any data protection notices

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION FOR?

As a general rule, we will not keep your data for any longer than is necessary to complete tasks or provide you with services. Generally, we keep your personal information for three years after your final treatment. You also have the right to ask us to delete your data (sometimes known as ‘the right to be forgotten’.)

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website. If you use our website, we may use cookies to:

Track your use of the site;
Recognise you whenever you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the site as you do not have to log on each time);
Obtain information about your preferences, online movements and use of the internet;
Carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our visitor/customer requirements and interests;
Make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org

If you visit our website when your browser is set to accept cookies, we will interpret this as an indication that you consent to the use of cookies. This includes cookies that are essential in order to enable you to move around the site and use its features and cookies that are not essential but gather information about your use of the site.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have various rights under the Act and the GDPR, including the following rights:

Right to object: If we are using your data because we deem it necessary for our legitimate interests to do so, and you do not agree, you have the right to object. We will respond to your request within 30 days (although we may be allowed to extend this period in certain cases). Generally, we will only disagree with you if certain limited conditions apply.

Right to withdraw consent: Where we have obtained your consent to process your personal data for certain activities (for example, providing you with services), or consent to market to you, you may withdraw your consent at any time.

Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR): Just so it's clear, you have the right to ask us to confirm what information we hold about you at any time, and you may ask us to modify, update or delete such information. At this point we may comply with your request or, additionally do one of the following:

- we may ask you to verify your identity, or ask for more information about your request; and

- where we are legally permitted to do so, we may decline your request, but we will explain why if we do so.

Right to erasure: In certain situations (for example, where we have processed your data unlawfully), you have the right to request us to "erase" your personal data. We will respond to your request within 30 days (although we may be allowed to extend this period in certain cases) and will only disagree with you if certain limited conditions apply.
Right of data portability: If you wish, you have the right to transfer your data from us to another data controller. We will help with this – either by directly transferring your data for you, or by providing you with a copy in a commonly used machine-readable format.

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority, details of which can be found below.

To exercise any of your rights concerning your information, please send an email to the following address:

rita.roberts1@me.com

We may ask you to provide us with proof or your identity. Please do not be offended; this may occur even if we know you. It is a requirement of the GDPR in some cases.

REVIEW

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. You should check this policy occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version which will apply each time you access our website.

THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE

More information about privacy laws can be found at www.ico.org.uk

Details of your local supervisory authority: The Information Commissioner's Office. You can contact them in the following ways:

Phone: 0303 123 1113
Email: casework@ico.org.uk
Live chat, via the ICO website
Post: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF