Elegance Inc. Privacy Policy:
Elegance Inc. welcomes you into the World of Elegance. We will do everything in our power to make every experience with us beyond any expectation. We take your privacy very seriously. Please read our Privacy Policy carefully prior to using this site. By using this site, you indicate your agreement with this Privacy Policy.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE PRIVACY POLICY, DO NOT USE THIS SITE.
PRIVACY POLICY
Thank you for visiting our website. Elegance Inc. wants your experience with us to be nothing short of Extraordinary. Elegance Inc. respects the privacy of every individual who visits our websites and online areas. We will not sell or distribute information gathered on the EleganceInc.com website to any third party with the exception of those third parties who work on behalf of, or with, Elegance Inc. under confidentiality agreements.
We are committed to protecting the privacy of the visitors to our websites and our independent Boutique Owners. To accomplish this, we have systems in place for securely managing your personal information. This Privacy Policy was created to help you understand the type of information Elegance Inc. will collect and how we will use your Personal Identifiable Information (“PII”) and the steps we have taken to secure your PII.
This Privacy Policy applies to any and all portions of the Elegance Inc. website, including the official corporate website, Boutique Owner’s Online Boutique, and the Boutique Owner – only portion of the website, known as the “Back Office” all collectively referred to as “Website”.
This Privacy Policy explains your options regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your PII. This Privacy Policy applies to the Website and does not apply to any offline collection of your personal information.
SECURITY
To protect your nonpublic personal information on the Internet, we use industry-leading secure socket layer (SSL) technology to ensure the protection of any personally identifiable information you voluntarily submit to us.
CONSENT
By entering this website, you are providing information on a voluntary basis and agree to Elegance Inc.’s collection and use of this information in accordance with this Policy.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION (PII)
When you enter an order or submit an order to a Boutique Owner, we need to know your name, email address, mailing/shipping/billing addresses, phone number, credit card number and expiration date.
When you create an account, we need to know your name and email and we may request other information about you.
We may use the information you provide to create and verify your account profile; fulfill your order; process a Boutique Owner Agreement; provide you with information and customer service in response to your specific request or respond to any of your other inquiries; provide you with information on the Company’s or a Boutique Owner’s services, either on a personalized or aggregate basis; improve the content and navigation on the Website; enforce our Terms of Use; resolve disputes, prevent and detect fraud and otherwise help us to comply with the law, regulation and/or legal process. If you would like to access and modify the personal information you have provided, please contact us at Privacy@EleganceInc.com or Support@EleganceInc.com
We may share your PII with outside contractors or agents who work on our behalf to help us manage our informational activities, but they may only use your PII to provide us with a specific service and not for any other purpose.
We also use personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our independent Boutique Owners and online visitors. We collect personally identifiable information (PII), which includes, names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, etc., when voluntarily submitted by our visitors. We do not require any PII to browse our Website. All information gathered is on a voluntary basis. If you decide to provide us with your PII, you should know that we may store all PII that you provide to us through whatever means you provide such information (through our Website, Boutique Owner, via email, etc.). Elegance Inc. will use the PII disclosed on the Customer Order Form or entered into the Website to process and complete the customer’s order, including shipping and billing. In addition, a customer’s name, mailing address, email address and telephone number may be retained and used for the following limited purposes.
a) Referrals – When Elegance Inc. receives unsolicited orders or hostess requests, your PII will be provided to a Boutique Owner to ensure your needs are met.
b) If a problem arises, we want to ensure our customer satisfaction and their PII may be used for the purpose of monitoring customer satisfaction, including troubleshooting problems and resolving disputes.
c) To keep you informed of new products and promotions at Elegance Inc.
d) To better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and services.
e) As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. The personal information we gather about you is generally considered one of the transferable business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.
When a customer fills out and signs a Customer Order Form, they consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of their PII for the purposes set out above unless we are notified otherwise.
NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
The Website may automatically collect certain information that is not personally identifiable. For example, the Website automatically recognizes your domain name, IP address, and region or geographical area, browser version, operating system and the website you passed through to reach our Website. In addition, our Website automatically gathers certain usage information like the numbers and frequency of visitors to our Website and its various web pages or content, very much like television ratings that tell how many people tuned in to a program. We also may collect certain information through cookies and similar tools as further described in the section below titled “Cookies.”
BOUTIQUE OWNER PII
To become an Elegance Inc. Boutique Owner you must provide us with your PII by completing and digitally signing an on-line Stylist Agreement. In addition to your contact information, we may collect your personal tax id, birthday, gender, credit card, occupation, and any other information necessary for you to join us as a Boutique Owner.
ELEGANCE INC. BOUTIQUE OWNERS
This Policy does not apply to the collection, use or disclosure of information by Elegance Inc. Boutique Owners, who are independent third party contractors of Elegance Inc. and are not otherwise affiliated with Elegance Inc. While we try to ensure that our Boutique Owners properly handle nonpublic personally identifiable information in accordance with applicable law, we are not responsible or liable for the statements, acts
or omissions of Elegance Inc. Boutique Owners.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Elegance Inc. does not sell or lease PII about you to others. Elegance Inc. may share PII about you with others as permitted by contractual agreement or as required by law, such as our affiliates, third parties in connection with the provision of services to you, government entities and regulatory bodies, and those with whom you have requested us to share information. Elegance Inc. will not share PII about you with an unaffiliated third party who is not performing services for us without first obtaining your permission, except if such sharing is otherwise permitted by this privacy notice.
Elegance Inc. will provide PII about you to the following types of third parties for the associated reasons:
a) CARRIERS:
Elegance Inc. will provide your name and address to companies which provide a delivery service between Elegance Inc. and its customers as a means of delivering our products to you as quickly as possible.
b) FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS:
Elegance Inc. will provide financial institutions with your payment information, name, address, and phone number in order to process any orders placed by you and complete payment of the transaction to Elegance Inc.
c) LOGISTICS:
Elegance Inc. will provide your name, address and phone number to those entities or people within our network of distribution in order to process and ship your orders with speed and accuracy.
Elegance Inc. requires third parties who perform services for us to agree to treat PII about you confidentially and securely. Prior to collecting your PII, any such third parties are required to sign a service agreement, which includes the privacy policy outlined here.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this notice or the Terms and Conditions of Use to the contrary, we reserve the right to disclose and use your PII if we believe that we are required to do so:
a) By law;
b) In response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena;
c) In response to a law enforcement agency’s request;
d) To enforce our other terms, conditions, or policies;
e) To protect our operations;
f) To protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of Elegance Inc., you or others; and/
or;
g) To permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages we may sustain. For example, we may to the fullest extent the law allows, disclose PII about you to law enforcement agencies to assist them in identifying individuals who have been or may be engaged in unlawful activities.
Because Non-PII does not personally identify you, we reserve the right to use Non-PII and to disclose Non-PII to third parties, for any purpose.
PROMOTIONAL
Elegance Inc. may, from time to time, publish Boutique Owner’s PII (name, photo, sales results, and achievements) to recognize the Boutique Owner for their achievements and help motivate other Boutique Owners.
CONSENT
By entering this website, you are providing information on a voluntary basis and agree to Elegance Inc.’s collection and use of this information in accordance with this Policy.
COOKIES
When you view one of our websites, we may store some information in the form of a “cookie” or similar file that is automatically downloaded to your computer. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your Web browser on your computer when you visit. Our cookies enable us to better customize your online experience with us. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can usually change the Web browser to disable cookies. Each Web browser is different, so you will need to check your specific browser’s “Help” menu to learn how to change the cookie preferences. Please note that if you disable all cookies, the functionality of the Website may be impaired. Information gathered through cookies may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, the time spent on our website, and websites visited just before and just after visiting our websites. Please be assured that cookies are safe. They are not programs that can be used to damage files and your personal information cannot be gathered from them. In addition, Elegance Inc. may log the Internet Protocol (“IP”) address of the location from where you are visiting our websites. This is a security measure to protect our company information and detect fraud.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements on our behalf. These companies may use cookies or other technologies (such as a 1×1 pixel .gif file, also known as a web beacon), to tailor advertisements you see on the Website and third party websites, to track your response to advertisements, and to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. We may provide certain of these third-party advertising companies with some PII to help them serve more relevant advertisements for our products, however, the cookies, web beacons and similar files do not contain any PII. These companies may combine information they learn about your visit to our Website with data about your web activities at third party websites or with demographic information to identify your likely interests so that they can provide you with more useful and relevant advertisements when you visit websites within their networks. This is often called behavioral advertising.
The information practices of these third-party advertising companies are governed by their own privacy policies and are not covered by this privacy policy. Some of these advertising companies may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”), a cooperative of online marketing companies that offers a centralized tool for opting out of behavioral advertising delivered by each of its member companies. If you would like
to obtain more information about the NAI and make choices about their members’ use of your information, please visit the NAI website at http://www.networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp. Also, through the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”), several media and marketing associations have developed an industry self-regulatory program to give consumers a better understanding of and greater control over ads that are customized based on their online behavior across different websites. To make choices about interest-based ads from third parties participating in the DAA, please visit the DAA consumer opt out page at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
CUSTOMER PII
To purchase Elegance Inc. products, customers either fill out and sign a Customer Order Form at a Social or provide their information online via the Website. The PII provided will be entered into the Elegance Inc. Website by your Boutique Owner so we may process your order. All Boutique Owners must abide by this Privacy Policy and must not share confidential information except in connection with their Elegance Inc. business. Individuals interested in learning about being a Boutique Owner or hostess will provide PII either online, via email or directly to an Elegance Inc. Boutique Owner.
EXTERNAL USE
We try to provide you with the most extraordinary service and make your Elegance Inc. experience as seamless as possible. We share nonpublic PII and non-personally identifiable information with third parties that perform services on our behalf for your benefit. These third parties must abide by this Policy to keep nonpublic information confidential and use it only for its intended purpose. You acknowledge that Elegance Inc. is located in the United States and, accordingly, your information may be processed and stored in the United States and that the US government, courts or law enforcement agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through lawful means in the US. We may also disclose PII for detection and prevention of fraud.
We reserve the right to transfer PII in the event Elegance Inc. acquires or merges with or is acquired by another company. Any information disclosed as a result of one of these events will be subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time.
SECURITY
Whether you place an order or create a profile, we use industry-standard secure server
software (SSL) and encrypt the information you input before it is sent to us. In addition,
we use commercially reasonable measures to protect the customer data against
unauthorized access. We are not responsible for the actions of third parties.
CHILDREN
We respect children”s privacy. We do not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information from children under age 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal information to us. You should rely on a parent or guardian to assist you.
REVISIONS TO PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change or revise this Policy at any time. You should periodically visit this page to determine the current Privacy Policy Your continued use of our websites, following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy, will signify your acceptance of those changes.
ACCESS
You may request access to the PII that Elegance Inc. has about you. You may also request the correction, amendment or deletion of PII about you that is inaccurate. Elegance Inc. will treat requests for access, correction, amendment or deletion of PII about you in accordance with its internal policies and applicable legal requirements.
ENFORCEMENT
Elegance Inc. takes a self-assessment approach to verify that we are within compliance of this policy. Elegance Inc. employees are trained to adhere to this privacy policy and Elegance Inc. administers discipline to those employees who do not comply.
SPECIAL NOTIFICATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS REGARDING CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Users who reside in California and have provided their PII to TPC may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of PII to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us in writing at the electronic mail address, legal@EleganceInc.com. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve the right to not respond to requests submitted other than to the address specified above.
SAFE HARBOR
Elegance Inc. complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. Elegance Inc adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, please visit www.export.gov/safeharbor.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Policy may be amended, from time to time, if Elegance Inc. decides to change its Policy, we will post those changes and revise the “Last Updated” date at the bottom of the Policy.
PRIVACY COMPLIANCE BY EUROPEAN CITIZENS
In compliance with the Safe Harbor Principles, Elegance Inc. commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. EU citizens with inquiries or complaints regarding this privacy policy should contact
Elegance Inc. at legal@EleganceInc.com
Elegance Inc. has further committed to refer unresolved complaints under the Safe Harbor Principles to an independent dispute resolution mechanism, the BBB EU Safe Harbor, operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your inquiry or complaint, or if your inquiry or complaint is not satisfactorily addressed by Elegance Inc., you may contact:
BBB EU SAFE HARBOR website at www.bbb.org/us/safe-harbor-complaints
PRIVACY CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions, concerns or comments about our Privacy Policy, you may contact by email at legal@EleganceInc.com
Please note that email communications are not necessarily secure. Accordingly, you should not include credit card information or other sensitive information in your email correspondence to us.