Qey Beauty FZC (“we”, “us” or “Qey Beauty”) has created this privacy policy statement in order to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering, use and dissemination practices for our website www.qeybeauty.com (the “website”). By using or accessing the website, you (“site user” or “user”) are acknowledging that you have read and understood this privacy policy and agree to be legally bound by it.
1. PERSONAL AND NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When using the website, in order to utilize some of our services, you may choose to upload, or we may ask you to provide us with certain personal information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Information”). Personal Information may include your name, e-mail address, mailing/physical address, telephone number, credit card number, date of birth, and “usage data” (which is data collected automatically, generated by either the use of the website or from the website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit)).
We collect Personal Information from you when you choose to participate in our offers and programs or when you otherwise provide information directly to us, including when you register with us, purchase products, review products, participate in our interactive features or otherwise interact with us on the website.
If you are under 18 years of age, please do not submit any Personal Information to us. If you are the parent or guardian of a person under 18 years of age who has provided Personal Information to us, please inform us at hello@qeybeauty.com.
We may also collect non-personal information, such as IP addresses (which identify your device), pages viewed, computer type, screen resolution, operating system version, Internet browser type and version, information collected through cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and other technologies, and other data (“Non-Personal Information”). Because Non-Personal Information does not personally identify you, we may collect, use and disclose Non-Personal Information for any purpose. Non-Personal Information will be retained only for so long as to fulfil a legitimate business need.
2. USE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We use the Personal Information we collect via the website only for purposes of providing you information concerning Qey Beauty, and for responding to requests you may make via the website. We do not share your Personal Information with any third parties (except as provided in section 2.1.,2.2., or in more detail in section 3)..
Specifically, we use the information we collect as follows:
2.1 Providing Services: We use Personal Information to process and fulfil any orders that you have placed, contact you about our products and services, send you our catalogue, personalize your experience with us including by presenting products or offers tailored to you, and allow you to use our website. This may include sharing information with third parties that provide us with services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfilment, information technology services, customer service, e-mail delivery services, credit card processing, auditing, training, and other similar services. These third parties may have access to Personal Information necessary to perform their functions but may not use it for other purposes.
2.2 Website and Marketing: We use Personal and Non-Personal Information to analyse and improve your experience on the website and for our market research activities. For example, we may share Personal and Non-Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties, such as business partners, site analytics vendors, manufacturers, distributors and retailers, in an aggregate, anonymous form, which means that the shared information will not contain nor be linked to any Personal Information.
2.3 Subscribing to Our Newsletter: If you have subscribed to our newsletter, we will use your e-mail address to send you our newsletter at regular intervals. Unsubscription is possible at any time by using the link at the end of each newsletter. As an alternative, you can also send your unsubscription request to us at any time by email to: hello@qeybeauty.com.
The personal data required for sending out the newsletter shall be erased as soon as they are no longer required for achieving the purpose of their collection and as far as no other legal authorisation basis applies for further processing. Your email address shall only therefore be stored for sending out the newsletter until you revoke your consent or until you object to submission of the newsletter.
2.4 E-mail Contact: If you have any questions, we offer you the opportunity to contact us using the form provided on the website. Your personal details, email address and address are required in order to be able to answer your request quickly. Alternatively, contact via the provided email address is possible. In such a case, your personal data transmitted in the email will be stored. The personal data collected by us shall be erased after completion of the request submitted by you.
2.5 Cookies: We use cookies on our website. These are small files that your browser will create automatically and that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, Smartphone or similar) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device, contain no viruses, Trojans or other harmful software.
The cookie is used to store information that results from the respective context of the specifically used end device. However, this shall not mean that we directly gain knowledge of your identity this way.
Use of cookies serves to make use of our offer more pleasant for you. We use session cookies in order to recognise that you have visited individual pages of our website before. They will be deleted automatically after you leave our website.
Furthermore, we also use temporary cookies to optimise user friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a certain specified period. When you visit our website again in order to use our services, it will be automatically recognised that you have visited us before and which input and settings you have made so that you will not have to enter them again.
On the other hand, we use cookies in order to statistically record use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our offer to you (see section 2.6.). These cookies enable us to recognise that you have visited us before if you visit our website again. Information regarding the erasure of such cookies will be provided in section 2.6. below.
The data processed by cookies are required for the purpose of maintaining our legitimate interests and those of third parties.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You may, however, configure your browser so that no cookies will be stored on your computer or that you will always be informed before a new cookie is set up. Complete deactivation of cookies may, however, render you unable to use all functions of our website.
2.6 Analysis-Tools: To ensure demand-oriented design and continuous optimization of our website, we are using certain tracking measures like Google Analytics - a web analysis service of Google Inc. In this context, pseudonymised user profiles are compiled and cookies are used (see section 2.5.). The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website, such as browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL (the website visited before), host name of the accessing computer (internet protocol address), and time of the server query are transferred to servers of Google in the USA and stored there within the context of the agreement on contract data processing that we have entered into with Google.
The information is used in order to evaluate use of the website in order to compile reports on the website activities and in order to provide further services connected to use of the website and use of the internet for the purpose of market research and demand-oriented design of these internet websites. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or as far as third parties process these personal data based on a contract. In no case will your internet protocol address be combined with any other data of Google. The internet protocol addresses are rendered anonymous so that they cannot be assigned (IP masking). Sessions and campaigns shall be ended after the end of a specific period of time. By default, sessions shall be ended after 30 minutes without any activity, and campaigns after six months. The time limit for campaigns may be up to two years.
You may prevent installation of the cookies by making the corresponding settings in your browser software; however, note that you may be unable to fully use all functions of the website in such a case.
You may furthermore prevent recording of the data generated by the cookie and referring to your use of the website (including your internet protocol address) and processing of these personal data by Google by downloading and installing a browser add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=com).
3. DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES
We will disclose your Personal Information to third parties only in the following circumstances:
3.1 Site Vendors: We may employ other companies to perform functions on our behalf, such as maintaining the website, providing services related to the website, collecting information, responding to and sending electronic mail, delivering products or other functions related to our products and services. In order to obtain these services, we may need to share your Personal Information with these companies (collectively, “Site Vendors”). We will provide Site Vendors with only the information necessary to perform their duties with respect to our website and our business, and we obligate our Site Vendors to safeguard your Personal Information and refrain from using your Personal Information for any other purpose.
3.2 Affiliates: We may disclose your Personal Information to our affiliates and entities under common control of Qey Beauty.
3.3 As Necessary: We may disclose Personal Information as we believe necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; ( d) to enforce our terms of use; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
4. SECURITY
Within the website visit, we use the common SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in conjunction with the respective highest encryption level your browser supports. This usually is 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we will use 128-bit v3 technology instead. Whether an individual website of our internet offer is transmitted encrypted or not is evident by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.
Apart from this, we use appropriate technical and organisational security measures in order to protect your data from accidental or wilful manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures will be improved continually according to the technological developments.
5. RIGHT TO OBJECT
You have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing your Personal Information at any time. You can do this by contacting us at hello@qeybeauty.com.
6. EFFECTIVE DATE AND CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT:
This Privacy Policy will take effect on February 9, 2022.Further development of the website and offers through it or changed statutory or authority specifications may require changes to this privacy policy statement. We will post the updated policy on this page. Your continued use of the website following the posting of any changes to this policy means you accept such changes. If you are concerned about potential changes in our Privacy Policy, you should check for updated version each time you use the website. You are also advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.