Privacy Policy - American Beauty Star

UPDATED PRIVACY POLICY

Note: The BEAUTY STAR NETWORK Privacy Policy has been updated. This Privacy Policy applies to all users of the Services. Please review this updated privacy policy carefully before using the BEAUTY STAR NETWORK Services. By using any of the BEAUTY STAR NETWORK Services, you consent to the terms of this updated Privacy Policy.

This website is operated by: American Beauty Digital Media, LLC on its own or in combination with other affiliated entities (collectively, “Company” or “we”, “us”, or “our”). This Privacy Policy applies to all of the websites operated by Company (unless a different policy is provided on a particular site, in which case such different policy shall control). This Privacy Policy explains what information Company collects on this website, how we use your information and the choices you have about the way your information is collected and used. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Your use of this website indicates that you have read and accepted our privacy practices, as set forth in this Privacy Policy. In addition, please review our Terms of Use that governs your use of this website. This Privacy Policy is subject to change, so visitors are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy from time to time. Company reserves the right to alter, modify, update, add to, subtract from or otherwise change this Privacy Policy at any time for any reason or no reason at all. We will post any changes here, and any changes will become effective immediately upon being posted unless we tell you otherwise. By continuing to use the website after a revised policy has been posted, you will be deemed to have agreed to such changes.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY TERMS OR CONDITION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY OR THE TERMS OF USE DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS / YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS:

California Civil Code permits California residents to request that Company not share your personally identifiable information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to optout@americanbeautystar.com. You must include this website as the subject line, and your full name, e-mail address, and postal address in your message. Please see the “Your Choices” section of this Privacy Policy for additional information.

I. INFORMATION COMPANY COLLECTS:

A. INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US:

Personally identifiable information (“PII”) is information that identifies you or could reasonably be used to identify you personally (such as your real name, address, phone number, or e-mail address). We may ask you to provide us with certain PII, when you register with us, or at other times, such as if you choose to sign-up for an e-mail newsletter, participate in a game, contest, sweepstakes, or other promotional event. We may also ask you to provide us with demographic information, information regarding your interests, or similar information. Providing us with information about yourself is voluntary, and you can always choose not to provide certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of or participate in many of the website’s features.

In addition, you may have the opportunity to provide us with the PII, such as name or e-mail address, of a friend (or for a friend to provide such information about you), such as if you chose to e-mail a friend an article, electronic greeting card, trailer or other special feature from our website. The e-mail addresses you supply us for those activities will not be retained for other purposes unless otherwise disclosed at the time you provide such information. We encourage you to send such items only to recipients who are your friends or family or persons with whom you have a relationship so that it doesn’t seem like we are “spamming” them.

If you submit to Company a comment, photograph or other content to be published by Company (either online or offline), we may publish your name or other PII in connection with publishing the content.

We may combine the information about you that we collect at this website with information available to us from other sources. For example, you may provide PII to us at other Company websites, or our co-promoters or sponsors may provide us with information, including PII, about users that choose to participate in a promotional opportunity the co-promoter or sponsor is offering in connection with Company.

If you choose to participate in user forums that may be hosted on the website, you will have the opportunity to share ideas and thoughts about various topics with other visitors. Such user forums may consist of a web blog, chat room, message board and other interactive services we may offer from time to time. Use of user forums is governed by the website’s Terms of Use. User forums are accessible by all visitors or all participating visitors, and users of this service should be mindful that any information posted to the user forums, including any PII, will become public information and will be available to other visitors to the website. Therefore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to protect any information that you may disclose in user forums. Accordingly, if you choose to participate in any user forums, and post information to this section of the website, please use discretion.

B. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY:

When your computer contacts our web servers (for example, when you visit this website, view an HTML e-mail, or download an interactive desktop from the website), our web servers automatically collect website usage information. Website usage information is non-identifying information that describes how our visitors use and navigate our website. It can include the number and frequency of visitors to each web page and the length of their stays, browser type, referrer data that identifies the web page visited prior and subsequent to visiting our website, and IP addresses (see below for more information on IP addresses). We also may determine the applicable technology available in order to serve you the most appropriate version of a web page, e-mail or similar service.

We may also collect your location information via your IP address.

C. USE OF COOKIES:

Like most websites, this website may sometimes make use of browser “cookies.” Cookies are pieces of information that a website either transfers to your computer’s hard drive or stores temporarily in your computer’s memory for record-keeping purposes. We may use cookies for a number of purposes. For example, we might use cookies when we conduct polls, contests or sweepstakes to limit multiple responses and registrations, to track usage patterns on the website or to analyze web activity.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you decline to accept Company cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of or participate in certain features of this website. Each browser is different so please review your browser properties to determine how to disengage cookies.You can also learn more about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block cookies using different types of browsers.

D. USE OF PIXEL TAGS:

In addition, we may collect data by using so-called “pixel tags,” “web beacons,” “clear GIFS,” or similar means (collectively, “Pixel Tags”) embedded in the website’s content. A Pixel Tag is an electronic image, often a single-pixel (1×1), that is ordinarily not visible to website visitors and may be associated with cookies on the visitor’s hard drives. The data we may collect includes, among other things, your IP address (see below), which operating system and browser you use, how you navigate to and through our website, and how long you stay on our web pages. This information is anonymous and does not include your PII.

E. USE OF IP ADDRESSES:

An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer or network when you are on the internet. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice on the internet and is completed automatically by many websites. When you request pages from this website, our servers log your IP address. Company may use IP address for a number of purposes, such as system administration, to report aggregate information to our business partners or to audit the use of the website. We may associate your IP address with the PII you provide.

F. CHILDREN UNDER THIRTEEN (13) YEARS OF AGE:

Company does not knowingly collect any PII from children under thirteen (13) years of age unless the collection complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). If you are under thirteen (13) years of age, do not send any information about yourself to Company. If Company discovers that a child under the age of 13 has provided Company with PII, Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete that child’s PII from its system.

II. COMPANY’S USE AND DISCLOSURE OF COLLECTED INFORMATION:

A. USE BY COMPANY:

Company may use your PII for a variety of business purposes, including to provide you with requested information, services or content, to contact you in connection with a contest, sweepstakes or promotion or for other purposes disclosed when you provide the information. We may also contact you from time to time on behalf of one of our affiliated companies or an external business partner with information that may be of interest to you.

We may also contact you regarding any problems or questions we have relating to your use of our website, or, in our discretion, notify you of changes to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use or other policy or terms that affect you and your use of our website. Company may also use information about our users, including PII, for internal purposes.

Interest-Based Marketing. We contract with third-party advertising agencies, marketing partners and other service providers to serve advertisements when you visit our web site or other web sites across the Internet. The advertisements placed on these third-party web sites may use tracking technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect anonymous information about your visits to this and other web sites. We may also share anonymous information with these companies in aggregate form and/or partner with these companies to provide interest-based advertising both on and off web sites operated by us. In either case, the purpose of the sharing is to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you, analyzing and improving the effectiveness of ads and e-mails, and improving and enhancing our web site and its content.

To the extent that information is collected over time and across websites to help provide you with advertisements based on your interests, this information is anonymous and does not contain your personal information.

Do Not Track

This website is not currently configured to recognize “do not track” signals sent as a header by Internet browsers. However, other settings within your browser may permit you to block cookies or other technology that enable websites to collect information that can be used to tailor advertisements to your interest. Please check your browser’s settings or consult your browser’s help information for more details.

B. SHARING USER INFORMATION AND DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES:

Unless otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy, Company does not share your PII with third parties for their direct marketing purposes unless you first affirmatively agree to the disclosure. If you elect to receive communications from a third party, your information will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy and not this privacy policy. Therefore, if you later decide that you do not want that third party to use your information, you will need to contact the third party directly. In addition, Company may share your PII with third parties under the following circumstances:

C. SWEEPSTAKES, CONTESTS AND PROMOTIONS

If you choose to enter a sweepstakes, contest or other promotion, your PII may be disclosed to third parties in connection with such promotion, including without limitation for purposes of posting your entry with attribution or otherwise as permitted in the official rules for the promotion in question, fulfilling your prize or including your name on a winners list. Also, by entering a sweepstakes, contest or other promotion, we may require you to consent to the use of your PII or other information, such as name, voice or likeness, in advertising, promotional and marketing materials. In addition, we may offer certain promotional content, such as a sweepstakes, sponsored by or co-branded with a third party, who may obtain the PII that you submit, but only where specifically stated on the registration page or official rules for such promotion.

D. THIRD PARTIES PROVIDING SERVICES ON OUR BEHALF

Company may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on its behalf. Examples include, without limitation, hosting this website, sending communications on our behalf, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, creating, hosting, administering and/or otherwise running contests/sweepstakes/games, serving ads and providing customer service. These third parties may have access to this website’s user information, including PII, to the extent it is needed to perform their duties and functions.

E. COMPANY’S SECURITY/LEGAL DISCLOSURE

Company may disclose information about its users, including PII, when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, or to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our website and applicable laws. Company may also disclose such user information whenever we believe disclosure is necessary to limit our legal liability or to protect or enforce the rights, interests, or safety of the website, our users or others.

F. CORPORATE CHANGE

Company reserves the right to disclose, share and/or otherwise transfer user information, including without limitation PII, in connection with a corporate change of structure including but not limited to merger, acquisition, consolidation, the sale, liquidation or transfer of substantially all of its assets or other fundamental corporate change, whatever form it may take.

G. TRANSFER OF SITE

Without in any way limiting the rights Company has reserved above in the event of a “Corporate Change”, Company shall be entitled to transfer information it collects, including without limitation PII, to any third party that assumes, acquires or is otherwise authorized to take control over this website, provided such third party has agreed to use your PII in accordance with protections that in all material respects are the same as or more protective than those set out in this Privacy Policy.

H. AGGREGATE INFORMATION

Company may disclose non-identifying, aggregated user statistics to third parties for a variety of purposes, including describing Company’s services to prospective partners and other third parties.

III. YOUR CHOICES/UNSUBSCRIBE

To unsubscribe from receiving promotional material from this website, follow the instructions provided at the end of an e-mail message. Please be aware that we will process your request as quickly as we reasonably can, but it may not be possible to update our systems immediately.

If you wish to modify, verify, correct, or delete any of your PII, you may edit your registered user information or contact us at info@americanbeautystar.com. You should be aware that it is not always possible to completely remove or delete all of your information from our databases without some residual data because of backups and other reasons.

If you want to opt out of having your PII shared with third parties for marketing purposes, you must consistently opt-out at each of our websites where you register and whenever you provide PII to us. Please also keep in mind that, unless you instruct us otherwise, any opt-out choices you make will not apply in situations where (a) you either have made, simultaneously make, or later make a specific request for information from us, or (b) Company uses your PII for either operational purposes (e.g., to complete transactions requested by you or to send you administrative communications either about your account with us or about features of our websites, including any future changes to this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use, or any other policy or terms that affect you and your use of our website) or fulfillment purposes (e.g. sharing with companies that facilitate communications and transactions with you).

If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at optout@americanbeautystar.com. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

SECURITY

Company takes reasonable security precautions to ensure the security of your PII on our systems, including limiting access to the PII contained on our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Company can neither ensure nor warrant the security of any information you transmit to Company and you do so at your own risk.

V. LINKS

Please be aware that when you are navigating our website or viewing an e-mail or other content provided by Company, you may have the opportunity to click on links that take you outside Company’s service to other websites or online content that are beyond Company’s control. For example, you may encounter links to fan sites, webmaster program participant sites or links from sponsors or partners, which may include Company’s logo as part of a co-branding arrangement. If you “click” on the link to such a third party, the “click” takes you to a third party’s website or online content. Company has no control over and is not responsible for the content of any third party sites to which you link. In addition, these other websites have their own information collection and privacy protection practices that may differ from Company’s, and we encourage you to review the privacy practices of any other website you visit.

COLLECTION IN AND TRANSFER TO THE UNITED STATES

This website is operated in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be collected in or transferred to the United States. By using our website, participating in any of our services and/or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer.

VII. CONTACT US

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at info@americanbeautystar.com