Privacy Policy - Natural Hair Nysa

Natural Hair Nysa takes our users’ privacy very seriously. This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their “Personally Identifiable Information” (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in U.S. privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect, or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

What personal information do we collect from the people who visit NaturalHairNysa.com?

While accessing NaturalHairNysa.com you may be asked to enter your name, email address, phone number or other details as you see fit to release in a comment, feedback, or question.

In addition, data related to your online activity on our website is also collected, such as:

IP address
Browser type and version
Geographic location
Pages you view
How you got routed to our website (i.e. via a social media outlet or web search)
Your activity while on the site
Date/time stamps denoting when you communicate with us

We store these data in a variety of sources within the structure of the website.

When do we collect information?

We collect information from you when you navigate to or within our site, fill out a contact form, subscribe to our blog, or sign up to receive freebies and the newsletter. In addition, information is collected any time our content is liked, shared, pinned, tweeted, etc.

How do we use your information?

We may use the information we collect from you when you sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

To provide you with useful content
To ensure our website is functioning properly
To improve your user experience while navigating through our website
To do a better job at marketing and advertising our products and services (we will only market or advertise to you individually with your consent)
To respond to comments, feedback, or questions submitted through the website (this will only be performed with your permission where required by applicable law)
To send periodic emails regarding offering general content updates, products, and services (this will only be performed with your permission where required by applicable law)

How do we protect your information?

We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards.
We only provide articles and information. We never ask for credit card numbers.
We use regular Malware Scanning.

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.

However, the transmission of information via the internet, email, or text message is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we can not guarantee the security of your information transmitted via our website or over email. As such, any transmission is at your own risk.

What are ‘cookies’ and do we use them?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. They are used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We use cookies to:

Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
Allow social media interactions from our website
To market certain products and services from third-party vendors to our audience.

What kinds of cookies do we use?

We use two of categories of first-party cookies: Persistent and session cookies. Persistent cookies help us to recognize you. They are stored in your device in between browser sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences and actions on multiple visits. Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session, allowing us to link your actions during a unique browsing session.

In addition to the first-party cookies set by us, we also us third-party cookies. Third-party cookies are those set by others, allowing the third-party’s features or functionalities to be provided through our website. The third-party setting these cookies can recognize your device both when it visits our website and when it visits certain other websites or services. The service providers of third-party cookies have their own privacy policies and may use their cookies to target advertising to you.

We also use Local Storage Objects (LSOs), such as HTML5, to, among other things, optimize screen presentation, video, and other preference information.

We use Google Analytics and Wordpress.com Stats which are web analytics tools to help us understand how users engage with our website. These services predominantly utilize first-party cookies to track user interactions where they are used to collect information about how users use our website. This information is utilized to compile reports and help us improve our website. The reports show trends without identifying individual visitors.

Why we use cookies?

Generally, we use cookies that are necessary or essential to the functioning of our website, that help us improve performance, and cookies that aid use in providing you with relevant advertisements. The types of cookies described below may be set by us or a third-party assisting with the performance of the below functions. Specifically, we use cookies for the following reasons:

Strictly Necessary: These cookies and tracking technologies let you navigate our Websites and use essential features. Without these technologies, we are unable to deliver core functionality of our Websites, products and services to you.
Performance: These cookies and tracking technologies help us understand how customers and visitors interact with our Websites. They provide us with information about areas of our website visited, time spent on our Websites and any error messages you receive, allowing us to improve the performance of our Websites. They do not collect any information that could personally identify you.
Functional: These cookies and tracking technologies are used to provide certain services or to remember settings that will improve your visit but are not essential to your use of our Websites. They may include personal information that you have disclosed to us.
Targeting or Advertising: These cookies and tracking technologies allow us to deliver content, including advertisements, relevant to your specific interests. This content may be delivered in our Websites or on third party websites or services. They allow us to understand and improve the relevancy of our advertisements. They may track personal information, including your IP address.
Social Media Cookies: These cookies are set by third parties, including Pinterest and Twitter, and allow you to share what you’ve been doing on our Websites on social media.

Enabling/Disabling Cookies

All first-party cookies on our website not considered strictly necessary have been automatically defaulted to off. You must enable cookies (or opt-in) on the website.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies to all or selected websites. You do this through your browser settings. Since every browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you turn cookies off or choose to leave cookies disabled, some of the features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly.

Should you choose to enable cookies on our site, you may still choose to opt out of Google Analytics without affecting your experience on our website. For more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all the websites you use, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Third-party disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses when cookies are enabled on our site.

Third-party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Google AdSense

Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en

We have not enabled Google AdSense on our site, but we may do so in the future.

California Online Privacy Protection Act

CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. – See more at: http://consumercal.org/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa/#sthash.0FdRbT51.dpuf

According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:

Users can visit our site anonymously.

Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or as a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our website.

Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above.

You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes:

Via a landing page upon access to the website for up to 30 days following any changes
Via email as part of our newsletter updates

Can change your personal information:

By emailing us

How does our site handle Do Not Track signals?

We honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

Does our site allow third-party behavioral tracking?

Our site does allow third-party behavioral tracking expressly for the point of gathering compiled site analytics. In addition, any affiliate links which are accessed on our website may be tracked by the third-party vendor for whom the link was created. All pages and posts containing affiliate links are clearly identified on our website.

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.

We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.

Fair Information Practices

The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

We will notify you via email

Within 72 hours

We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.

CAN SPAM Act

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.

We collect your email address in order to:

Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.

To be in accordance with CANSPAM, we agree to the following:

Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.

Opting Out of Email Communications

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at Contact@NaturalHairNysa.com and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence. Moreover, users may unsubscribe from the blog and newsletter by using the “unsubscribe” link provided in each email message.

Managing Information from Third Parties

To manage the information we receive about you from a social networking site or other third parties (if applicable), you will need to follow the instructions from that party for updating your information and changing your privacy settings, where available. The information we collect is covered by this privacy policy and the information the third party collects is subject to such third party’s privacy practices. Privacy choices you have made on any third-party site will not apply to our use of the information we have collected directly through our Services.

Your Rights

Where the EU’s General Data Protect Regulation 2016/679 or GDPR applies, you have certain rights regarding the personal information we collect from you. We have provided a brief information below on these rights.

You have the right to know if we process personal information about you
You have the right to access any data we hold about you
You are entitled to know how we use the data and who we share it with
You have the right to portability, meaning we will provide you with the personal information we hold on you in a structured, commonly-used and machine-readable format upon your request and with your consent
You have the right to request we transfer your personal information to a third party with you consent
You are entitled to require us to correct any personal information that is inaccurate or incomplete
You have the right to request we erase the personal information we hold about you in most circumstances
You are entitled to have us restrict our processing of your data but continue to store in certain circumstances
You have the right to object to our processing of data about you
Where you have provided consent to us processing your personal data, you may revoked your consent at any time by emailing Contact@NaturalHairNysa.com.

Complaints

Should you have any complaints concerning how we have handled your personal information, you can contact us at Contact@NaturalHairNysa.com. We will try our best to deal with any complaints in a timely manner. This in no way infringes on the rights of EU citizens to raise complaints with the Dutch Supervisory Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) by contacting:

Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens

Postbus 93374

2509 AJ DEN HAAG

Telephone: (+31) – (0)70 – 888 85 00

Fax: (+31) – (0)70 – 888 85 01

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.