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Privacy Policy

Introduction

The following privacy notice outlines how The Beauty Shop collects, uses, protects and transfers your personal data. The Beauty Shop is a salon that provides services including facials, manicures and pedicures, waxing, tinting, false lashes, HD Brows, make-up, massage and fake tanning.

 

The data protection officer/data owner for the organisation is Emma Draper. You can contact the data protection officer/data owner by sending an email to emma@emmadraperbeauty.com or writing to The Beauty Shop, 19 The High Street, Boroughbridge, York, YO51 9AW.

 

Personal Data Collected

The personal data that we collect is:

·Name

·Home address

·Email Address

·Date of Birth

·Phone number

·Health information

 

Purpose and Legal Basis for Processing Your Data

The Beauty Shop takes your privacy seriously and we will never sell or rent your personal data to any third-party. Sharing of your data and direct marketing activities are only carried out with your express consent, which you are free to withdraw at any time.

 

We need to obtain and process your personal data to provide you with our products, services and treatments and to fulfil our business and legal obligations. We will never collect any personal information from you that we do not need or retain any data that is no longer necessary for the purposes specified in this notice. Where we request sensitive personal data from you (i.e. health or medical data), the reason(s) for the request will be clearly given along with the purposes of the processing. Explicit consent through a signature will always be required for us to obtain and process your health information.

 

Who is processing my data

The Beauty Shop, 19 The High Street, Boroughbridge, York, YO51 9AW, are the data controller and processes your personal information for the purposes laid out in this privacy notice. Phorest, Anglesea Mills, 9 Anglesea Row, Smithfield, Dublin 7, D07 W5NE, Ireland, acts as data processor on behalf of The Beauty Shop and have access to personal information only in cases that customer support or troubleshooting is required by The Beauty Shop. Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice and as permitted by applicable data protection laws.

 

Your personal data is processed to:

·Collect specific personal data (name, address, email, contact number, DOB) that is required to enter into a contract to sell a product or service.

·Engage in communication with you including confirmation and reminders of appointments, and requests to cancel or change bookings.

·Collect Health information to perform the agreed services appropriately, and potentially highlight areas that products and services may cause issues to clients because of their health.

·Ensure a safe service and provide industry standard advice.

·Select relevant offers, promotions and information for you.

·Estimate the number of customers we have.

·Hold personal data that is required by law or to respond to legal process.

·Hold for insurance purposes.

·Store customer records.

 

Your rights as the individual

If your personal data is held by The Beauty Shop you hold particular rights over it. Where you have provided consent for us to contact you as part of our marketing services, you have the right to modify or withdraw your consent at any time by using the unsubscribe option accompanied with all of our direct marketing or by contacting the Beauty Shop Data Officer.

 

You also have the right:

·To be informed of how your personal data will be used before it is collected.

·To access your personal data personal data and to information on how your information is used after it has been gathered.

·To have personal data corrected if it is incomplete, inaccurate or out-of-date.

·To request the removal or deletion of personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing.

·To restrict processing , to ‘block’ processing of your personal data.

·To data portability, having your data moved, copied or transferred from The Beauty Shop to another organisation in an easily readable format.

·To object to direct marketing from us.

 

Special categories of personal data collected

Health questions are asked in many of our consent forms to potentially highlight treatments that may have a negative effect on your health due to medication you are taking or a condition you have. The Beauty Shop asks for consent prior to gathering and processing this information. At any time after giving consent, you can withdraw you consent, subject to legal, insurance and contractual restrictions (see

more on ‘your rights as an individual’). Your privacy is very important to us and we only use this information for determining your suitability for the treatment.

 

Process of collection

Your personal data is collected when you provide it to us through Phorest software, our website, over the phone, in The Beauty Shop salons, by email, social media, in writing or any other means by which you provide it to us. Information is stored using the Phorest software platform as well as some level of paper record keeping. The Beauty Shop gives you access to information about your account and bookings through Phorest software, for the limited purpose of viewing and updating that information.

 

Children’s Privacy

The Beauty Shop does not collect the personal data of children under the age of 13 without parental or guardian consent. If you believe that we hold any information from or about a child under age 13, please contact The Beauty Shop and if we cannot immediately obtain appropriate parental or guardian consent, will remove the personal data from storage.

 

Data Sharing

Your personal data is shared only with Phorest representatives in cases that customer support and troubleshooting is required for the salon. The Beauty Shop do not share your personal information with any third-party without your prior consent, other than those already disclosed in this privacy notice or as part of our legal obligations under the relevant data protection laws.

 

Use of Data Processors

Data processors are third parties who provide some elements of our business services for us. Where we use a third-party, we have strict agreements in place governing the processing of your personal data, on which no action can be taken without instruction from us. The third-parties with whom we work will never share or disclose your personal information and will hold it securely at all times.

 

The Beauty Shop use software provided by Phorest to:

·Collect specific personal data (name, address, email, contact number, DOB) that is required to enter into a contract to sell a product or service.

·Engage in communication with you including confirmation and reminders of appointments, and requests to cancel or change bookings.

·Collect Health information to perform the agreed services appropriately, and potentially highlight areas that products and services may cause issues to clients because of their health.

·Ensure a safe service and provide industry standard advice.

·Select relevant offers, promotions and information for you.

·Estimate the number of customers we have.

·Hold personal data that is required by law or to respond to legal process.

·Hold for insurance purposes.

·Store customer records.

 

Here is a link to their Privacy Notice. https://www.phorest.com/privacy-notice

 

How Long Do We Keep Your Data

The Beauty Shop retains your personal data for as long as necessary to provide you with our services as our client. The Beauty Shop are required under tax laws to keep your personal data for a minimum of 7 years. Health and Safety records will be retained for 10 years and where we have your consent for marketing purposes, we will retain the minimum required data until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive such information.

The criteria for which we would continue to process your personal information includes:

·Where there is a legal basis, obligation or legitimate interest to continuing processing your personal information

·Where processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims

 

Transfers of personal information

When your personal data is processed through Phorest software, all of it is held within the EU. Your information is processed by the Phorest software and stored in the Amazon Web Services cloud. During this process your data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

 

Consequences of not providing your personal information to The Beauty Shop

In the event that you want to purchase a product or service from The Beauty Shop, certain personal information is required to enter into a contract with you. The Beauty Shop will not be able to enter into a contract with you to fulfil an attempt to purchase a product or service if you do not provide your personal information. As noted in this privacy statement, we are processing your personal data to comply with legal and statutory obligations and in the performance of a contract. You can always choose not to provide personal information; however, we will be unable to provide certain products, services and treatments in these instances.

 

Safeguarding your Personal Data

Appropriate measures are taken to protect your personal data from access from unauthorised persons or inappropriate access, internal or external. Your connection to the Phorest system uses a HTTP Secure communication protocol and TLS security.

 

This means all information passed to the Phorest system is encrypted during data input and transfer to the cloud. Any paper files recording your personal data are held in a locked filing cabinet or safe which can only be accessed by authorised personnel in the salon. Employees are only assigned specific access rights and can only access the salon software with the PIN number assigned to them by the management of the salon.

 

Complaints

In the occurrence that you want to make a complaint about how your personal data was gathered, how it is being processed by The Beauty Shop (or third parties used by The Beauty Shop) or you are not satisfied about how a complaint has been handled, you retain the right to lodge a complaint directly with the supervisory authority and The Beauty Shop and also The Beauty Shop Data Protection Officer/ GDPR Owner.

 

Data Protection Supervisory Authority

Data Protection Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House,

Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

+44 (0) 303 123 1113

 

The Beauty Shop Data Protection Officer/GDPR Owner

19 The High Street, Boroughbridge, York, YO51 9AW

+44 (0) 1423 325205

Cookie Usage Policy

What information is being collected?

When you visit our website we use cookies to collect data on how you browse our site. A cookie is a small file placed on your computer's hard drive. It enables our website to identify your computer as you view different pages on our website.

Cookies allow websites and applications to store your preferences in order to present content, options or functions that are specific to you. They also enable us to see the following information:

  • How many people use the website and how many come back again

  • Which pages they tend to visit

  • Which country they are from 

  • The type of device they used to view the website

  • What time of day the visit took place

  • How they arrived at the site - via organic search, paid search, social media or by entering in our domain name directly 

 

The kinds of cookies we use:

We use three kinds of cookies on our website:

1. Session (Transient) cookies: these cookies are erased when you close your browser, and do not collect information from your computer. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.

2. Persistent (Permanent/Stored) cookies: these cookies are stored on your hard drive until they expire (i.e based on a set expiration date) or until you delete them. These cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific site.

3. Third Party Cookies: Some cookies on this website are set by Google. An example of a cookie set by Google is NID and it contains a unique ID that Google uses to remember your preferences such as your preferred language. By following us on Facebook and Instagram, you will be prompted to log into your own social media accounts. This means that cookies may be placed in your browser by these social media platforms. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-parties for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. Our privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, other websites.

How will this information be used?

We use this information to:

  • Analyse our web traffic using an analytics package. Aggregated usage data helps us improve the website structure, design, content and functions.

  • Test content on our website by showing different content to different users to see which is the most appealing.

  • To recognise when you return to our website. We may show your relevant content, or provide functionality you used previously.

 Cookies do not provide us with access to your computer or any information about you, other than that which you choose to share with us.

Why is this information being collected?

We may use these cookies to help improve the performance of our website and to gain better insight into ad placement and customer behaviour.

How long do we keep this data?

You are able to delete cookies from your web browser at any time. If you don’t delete them, the cookies will naturally expire.

Controlling cookies

You can use your web browser’s cookie settings to determine how our website uses cookies. If you do not want our website to store cookies on your computer or device, you should set your web browser to refuse cookies.

However, please note that doing this may affect how our website functions. Some pages and services may become unavailable to you.

Unless you have changed your browser to refuse cookies, our website will issue cookies when you visit it.

 

How is this information secured?

This information can only be accessed via a password protected Google Analytics account. Google are also protected under the EU privacy shield and comply with all necessary requirements for data protection.

Who will this information be shared with?

This data would only ever be shared with a consultant we may bring in to help analyse our web traffic and suggest improvements to our site.

How will us collected this information effect you?

You won't notice any difference when browsing and using our website. 

Links from Our Site

Our website may contain links to other websites.Please note that we have no control of websites outside the www.beautyshopboroughbridge.co.uk domain. If you provide information to a website to which we link, we are not responsible for its protection and privacy. Always be wary when submitting data to websites. Read the site's data protection and privacy policies fully.

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