This notice describes the MISSINGHAIRSTYLIST privacy policy ("Notice"). By visiting MISSINGHAIRSTYLIST (herein referred to as 'the Web Site') you are accepting the practices described in this Notice. We may gather and use information as follows:
Notice: We may gather and use information as follows:
(a) Volunteered Information: We will receive and store any information you enter on the Web Site or give us in any other way that personally identifies you to improve your experience at the Web Site, to get a better general understanding of the type of individuals visiting the Web Site, and to enable us to contact you when needed. Typically you will provide information on the Web Site for the purchase of products or services or when you submit comments or questions for review by us.
(b) Automatic Information: To enable us to provide content that users need and desire, we collect aggregated site-visitation statistics using cookies. A Cookie is simply a small data file we place on your computer's hard drive when you first visit the Web Site ("Cookie"). This file contains a unique number that helps us identify you when you return to the Web Site. Cookies are employed by thousands of web sites to enhance users' web viewing experience. Cookies can neither damage user files nor can they read information from users' hard drives. We combine all usage information provided by such Cookies and we do not monitor your use of the Web Site. Allowing us to create a Cookie on your hard drive will not give us or any other site access to the rest of your computer's hard drive, and only we will be able to read the Cookie that the Web Site creates.
(c) Information Use: We use information for personal identification; to get a better general understanding of the type of individuals visiting the Web Site; to respond to your requests for purchases, comments, or questions; to improve your experience at the Web Site; to collect aggregated site-visitation statistics; and to alert you to product enhancements, special offers, updated information, and other new services from us. We also use information to alert you of subscription renewal discounts, to automatically renew your subscription and advise you of upcoming service offerings and events.
We may sometimes use a third party to provide specific services on our behalf, including sending e-mails to our members, conducting member surveys, processing payment transactions or performing statistical analysis of our services. In these cases, we may provide certain personal information, such as your name and e-mail address and other financial information necessary for the service to be provided. However, these third parties are required to maintain the confidentiality of this information and are prohibited from retaining, sharing, storing or using this information for any other purposes.
Service Providers:
When you order premium services from us, we ask for your credit card number and billing address. We use this information only to bill you for the services you order at that time and for no other purpose. We will not store your payment information.
Annual, semi-annual, and quarterly subscriptions are payable on the purchase date of the Subscription and renew automatically each anniversary unless canceled in writing thirty days in advance of each anniversary date.
Any user questions or comments submitted to us may become available in the public sections of the Web Site, including a section entitled "Frequently Asked Questions," immediately after such questions or comments are submitted to us. If we publicize any user questions, such questions will not contain facts that identify the user or the specific parties involved. We also reserve the right to use any user comments submitted to us for promotional purposes and by submitting such comments to us you agree that we may do so.
We may release any user information if required to comply with law; to enforce or to apply the Web Site Terms and Conditions; or under the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable including, without limitation, to protect the rights, properties, or safety of us or our users.
Choice: We give you a choice as to the type and amount of private information we have, as follows:
(a) Volunteered Information: You can always choose not to provide certain information to us. If you choose not to provide personal information, you can still use many parts of the Web Site. However, you must provide us with a proper email address. . For premium services you must provide payment information. If you have previously provided certain information to us and you desire to remove such information from our databases, or if you do not wish for your information to be disclosed to third parties, you may contact us at [email] remove such information.
(b) Automatic Information: Most web browsers automatically accept Cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block Cookies in the future. The "Help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will explain how you can prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, how to set the browser to inform you when you receive a new Cookie, or how to reject Cookies altogether.
Access: We provide you with the ability to ensure that your personal information is correct and current. You may review and update your personal information by contacting us at[email]. For security purposes, we require user verification via user's user name and password to receive personal information.
Security: We protect the security of your personal information. We take steps to protect your data from loss, misuse, alteration, destruction, or unauthorized access. We use sophisticated security technologies to secure user information. While we use such sophisticated security technology to secure users' user name, and password, we cannot guarantee that any electronic commerce is totally secure.
User Safeguards: You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your user name, password, and any account information. It is important for you to be responsible and protect your user name, password, and computer against unauthorized users. It is important to sign off when you have completed using a computer accessible by others.
Children: Users of the Web Site must be at least eighteen years old. If a child has provided us with personal information, that child's parent or guardian should contact us at [email] to delete such information from our records.
Third Party Web Sites: Please be aware that the Web Site may have links to third party web sites that may collect personally identifiable information about you. When you click on one of these third party links, you are entering another web site for which we have no responsibility. This Notice does not cover the information practices or policies of such third party web sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of all such web sites since their privacy policies may be materially different from our Notice.
Registration:
During the process of registering on the Site, you may be required to provide certain personal information, such as your name, maiden name (if applicable), mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, birth date, password, and a community affiliation (such as with a school, college, and workplace). Please keep in mind that, although most of your personal information will not be viewable by other members, once you are registered, your name, salon and salon information will be displayed on the Site and you will no longer be anonymous to us or to other individuals who access the Site. In addition, because this information is publicly displayed on the Site, it may appear in the results of searches conducted on Internet search engines while you are a member of the Site and potentially for some time period after your membership is terminated, depending upon the search engine's indexing practices. We may also publicly display your general geographic location, based upon the zip code that you provide to us, as another means of assisting clients and stylist in finding each other. However, you have the option of opting out of having your general geographic location publicly displayed by accessing your "My Account" page on the Site and changing your,references.
When You Build A Professional profile:
MISSINGHAIRSTYLIST has created tools to enable our members to find new clients and provide existing clients with updated information. You can use these tools to build a professional profile to share as much professional information about yourself as you wish. Except as otherwise noted when you use a specific profile tool, all information that you add to your profile is publicly viewable by other members of the Site and may be included in the Site "search" tool. For this reason, please use care in providing information that you may not want to publicly disclose. To protect the privacy of our members, MISSINGHAIRSTYLIST does not allow the public posting of personal contact information. Additionally, please see our Guidelines for more information regarding the limitations on the types of information that you may post on your personal profile and elsewhere on the Site. As provided in our Terms of Service, MISSINGHAIRSTYLIST may use the information you provide in your profile in a variety of MISSINGHAIRSTYLIST products and features, such as affiliation-specific e-mails. This enables us to provide you with information in a more personalized fashion
Legal Matters; Protection of Rights; and Safety:
We may, without your consent, access and disclose Your Information, any communications sent or received by you, and any other information that we may have about you or your account: as may be permitted or required by law, regulation, rule or court order; pursuant to requests from governmental, regulatory or administrative agencies or law enforcement authorities; or to prevent, investigate, identify persons or organizations potentially involved in, or take any action regarding suspected fraud, violations of our Terms of Service, or activity that appears to us to be illegal or may expose us to legal liability. Additionally, we may disclose Your Information in situations that we believe to be emergencies involving potential threats to the physical safety or any person or property if we believe that Your Information in any way relates to that threat.
Communications from MISSINGHAIRSTYLIST
As a member of MISSINGHAIRSTYLIST, you will receive our customary business communications (e.g., email address confirmation, renewal notifications, new product offerings, administrative messages, other offline communications, etc.) at your email address or street address. We may also send such communications to you through the Message Center. In addition, you may be automatically enrolled in one or more of our email subscription programs. While we reserve the right to send you our customary business communications without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them, we do provide you with the opportunity to select whether or not you wish to continue to receive our subscription-based emails. You can update your email preferences by logging onto your "My Account" page on the Site. In addition, each subscription-based email communication from us contains instructions on how you can remove yourself from the mailing list for that specific email subscription program. In such a case, you will continue to receive our customary business communications, as well as communications for other email subscription programs that you have not previously opted-out of. Please keep in mind that any changes that you make to your email preferences may take up to ten (10) business days to process. If you have questions about changing your email preferences, please visit the Help section on the Site at missinghairstylist.com
Agreement and Modification:
By using and accessing the Web Site you indicate that you have read and understand this Notice and you consent to the collection and use of information by us in the manner explained in this Notice. This Notice and the Web Site Terms and Conditions, including without limitation, provisions covering limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and the application of Virginia law govern any dispute over privacy. By using and accessing the Web Site you agree to indemnify us for any and all third party claims resulting from your breach of this Notice or the Web Site Terms and Conditions. If you have any questions or concerns about your privacy at the Web Site, please email a thorough description of the issue to[email]. If you do not accept this Notice, do not access and use the Web Site. We may revise this Notice at any time without notice by updating this Notice. Any modifications in the way we use personal information will be provided in future updates of this Notice so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose such information. Modifications will be effective immediately and will be available on the Web Site. You should visit this web page periodically to review the Notice. User accepts any such modifications to this Notice by continued use of the Web Site after such modifications are made.