Last Updated: June 25, 2021
Note: This Privacy Policy complies with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Welcome! Thanks for visiting Skindie. This Privacy Policy sets out how Skindie (referred to as “Skindie”) uses and protects any information that you (referred to as “you,” “your” or the “User”) provide when accessing, browsing, registering, and/or using the website, https://skindie.co/ (the “Website”).
Skindie is committed to ensuring your privacy is protected. You can be assured that any personal identifying information (referred to as “Personal Information” as defined herein) you provide when using the Website will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy describes the type of information Skindie may collect from you or that you may provide when using the Website, as well as Skindie’s practices for collecting, using, keeping, protecting, and/or disclosing any Personal Information.
Who We Are
Skindie is an internet company that provides authentic beauty intelligence through an email newsletter and content through our Website (the “Services”). Our mission is all about truth in beauty and empowering people to make smarter beauty decisions.
Acceptance of Terms
By using our Website, you are hereby accepting this Privacy Policy and each of the terms and conditions stipulated herein. If you are not in agreement with this Privacy Policy, you should refrain from any further use of the Website.
Your continued use of the Website, following the posting of any updates or changes to this Privacy Policy, shall indicate that you are in agreement and acceptance of such changes.
Consent to Use and Collect Your Personal Information
When you use the Website or our Services, provide any Personal Information on the Website, verify or change your registration details, comment on a forum, or anything of the like, you are automatically consenting to our collecting, storing, and using that information for your benefit to our improve offerings and your experience.
If your Personal Information is requested for any other reasons, you will be asked for your express consent, or you will be provided with an opportunity to say no or otherwise decline by reaching out using the contact information provided below.
Skindie reserves the right to retain any information previously collected for the purposes of resolving any disputes, as well as for obtaining and/or analyzing aggregated data analytics.
What Personal Information Do We Collect and Receive?
Generally, you are not under any statutory or contractual obligation to provide us any Personal Information; however, certain Personal Information may be automatically collected when you contact Skindie or browse, enter, or use the Website in order for us to provide the Services on the Website.
When contacting, browsing, engaging with, or otherwise accessing the Website and/or our Services; you may be asked to enter or disclose various types of Personal Information, which may include, but is not limited to the following:
Contact Information and Account Registration: information you provide by completing forms on the Website, such as our newsletter sign-up, including but not limited to your name, email, mailing address, telephone number, business contact information, and any other similar information you may provide to us.
Identification and Demographics: your date of birth, gender, nationality, ethnicity, interests, lifestyle, photos, social media credentials, or any contacts or referrals you provide.
User Content: your activities as a User including any requests or communications you send to us; other information you may submit to us; when you ask for support; contribute to discussions through the Website or any social media platforms; message other Skindie subscribers or followers; send us questions or comments; report a problem; or leave any reviews or feedback, such as comments, photos, or videos on the Website, on online forums, or social media platforms; or by email, over the phone, by mail, or in surveys.
Device Information and Identifiers: User interaction and usage analytics including your IP address, cookie IDs, the type of device or browser you use and language, operating systems, platform type, device type, and what links you click and if and when you open emails and newsletters — we use Google Analytics and MailChimp to gather this data.
Connection and Usage: domain names, browsing activity, scrolling and keystroke activity, advertisements viewed, forms, or fields you complete or partially complete, search terms, whether you open an email or newsletter, content you view and duration, quality of the service and interaction with the content, logs, and other similar information. If these events occur while you are offline, they may be logged and uploaded to Skindie when you next connect.
Geolocation: city, state, and ZIP code associated with your IP address or derived through Wi-Fi triangulation. Your permission will be sought before using your precise location from GPS-based functionality on your mobile devices.
Social Media Information: if you interact through a third-party platform, social media website, or register for our Services using your social media credentials, depending on your social media settings, there may be access to your information from that social network such as your name, email address, friends list, photos, age, gender, location, birthday, social networking ID, current city, your comments about the Services, and the people and websites you follow.
Transactional: direct deposit information, payment information, credit card information, electronic payment details, billing address, and registration information.
Additional Information: any additional information you provide to us either directly through the Website, social media accounts, or any other communications with Skindie.
We may collect other types of Personal Information if required under applicable law. We will then inform you and ensure that there is a valid legal basis for doing so.
You may decline to provide us with your Personal Information and ask that your Personal Information be removed. However, this will limit your ability to register for an account or use our Services. For example, if you decline, you may not receive our email newsletter.
Why We Collect and Use Your Personal Information
We use your Personal Information for a couple of purposes:
To enable us to provide you with our Services, and to maintain, improve and promote our Services across all devices.
To create and administer your account, contact you, and customize your experience on Skindie (for example, to show you emails that we think may interest you based on your previous email or website activity).
To investigate and help prevent security issues, abuse, or violations.
To track and analyze your use of the Services so that we can improve how Skindie is performing and provide Users with the best experience possible.
To verify compliance with applicable laws, regulations, legal requirements and our policies.
We process Personal Information for the performance of our Services, for our compliance with legal obligations, and for the purpose of our legitimate business interests. In particular, our legitimate business interests are our commercial company interest (e.g., to improve our products and Services), our interest to make use of direct marketing, to prevent fraud, and to report possible criminal acts or threats to competent authorities. Some of the Personal Information that we process is required for us to meet our legal obligations, for example we cannot create an account for you if you choose not to share your Personal Information with us.
Is Personal Information collected from minors?
Skindie does not want to and does not knowingly collect any data from individuals under the age of 18. If any such data is collected from a minor without the supervision of a parent or legal guardian, all reasonable measures to delete such Personal Information will be taken and will not be used for any purposes. If you become aware of any Personal Information that has been collected from a minor under the age of 18 without the supervision of a parent or legal guardian, please contact us immediately.
Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances will you hold Skindie liable for any consequential, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or enhanced damages that are caused or alleged to be caused in connection with your use of the Website or our Services.
How Do We Protect Your Data and Who Else Receives Your Personal Information?
Skindie takes the security of your Personal Information and data very seriously. We implement a variety of security measures when you use our Services; or otherwise enter, submit, or input your Personal Information on our Website.
In some cases, we may share basic information like your first name, last name initial, and home state with the public. For example, if we announce you as the winner of a giveaway in our newsletter, we may write “Congratulations to Sarah J. on winning our giveaway!” In these instances, we will ask for your consent to display this information when entering into the contest. We may share your social media handle(s) in our communications if you have meaningfully interacted with us. For example, if you win a giveaway on Instagram, we may write, “Congratulations to @sarahjane on winning our giveaway!” We do not ask for explicit consent to display this type of information as you are interacting in a public forum with us and other Users of the Services using a public profile name.
We may also share certain communications you send to us (for example, an email message or comment about how much you liked the newsletter). We typically scrub these communications of any Personal Information such as your email address or full name.
The following Personal Information will not be publicly displayed or revealed, unless you grant us explicit consent:
Any payment information you provide
Your email address
Your mailing address
Your IP address
Any other private profile information in accordance with your account settings and profile
Communications you send to us (for example, when you ask for support, send us questions or comments, or report a problem)
In some instances, we may share your Personal Information to the following parties and for the following reasons:
Competent public authorities or other third parties, if required by law or reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves or others.
Our affiliates and promotional partners, so they can offer you special products, services, discounts, tickets, and other items or services. Likewise, we may receive information from such affiliates and promotional partners to offer our Users special items or services. We ask for your explicit consent in sharing your Personal Information with these parties. We do not sell Personal Information to third parties. The data that is usually shared with affiliates and promotional partners is in aggregate and not at an individual level (for example, we may share that “most of our email newsletter subscribers love bath items”).
We may also transfer your personal data in the event that we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets on a need-to-know basis. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use personal data you have provided to us in a manner that is consistent with applicable law and this Privacy Statement.
We do not sell, rent or trade your Personal Information.
You have a right to a copy of the Personal Information we have about you. Contact us directly using the contact information provided herein for more information. You can modify or delete certain information associated with your account (such as your name, mailing address, etc.) from your account settings. A link to your account settings can be found at the bottom of every email we send you.
Retention of Your Personal Information
We retain your Personal Information for the shortest amount of time necessary to provide you with our Services. Typically, we will retain most of your Personal Information for the duration of your use of our Website and/or Services. Note that even after the deletion of your account, we still retain information about your past activity with the email newsletter, but your Personal Information will be non-identifiable.
How We Work With Third-Parties
We may share your Personal Information with certain trusted third-party services and brand partners (for example, MailChimp which helps us deliver the newsletters, payment processors we may partner with, or use Google Analytics to help us understand how our Website is being used and how to attract more customers).
When we share data with any third-party services that support the delivery of our Services, we require that they use your Personal Information only for the purposes which we have authorized, and that they protect your Personal Information at least to the same standards that we do. We do not release or sell Personal Information. For example, we may release statistics on the geographical makeup of our audience, but we do not release the names and other information of who lives where — you will remain anonymous.
Behavioral Advertising
As described herein, your Personal Information may be used to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications that may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
Cookie Policy
We collect certain personal data by using cookies, including similar technologies such as local storage when you visit the Website.
Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer’s hard drive or mobile device when you visit certain websites. Cookies hold information that may be accessible by the party that places the cookie, which is either the Website itself (first-party cookie) or a third party (third party cookies). You do have control over cookies, and can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate setting on your browser. Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable or delete existing cookies. Please note, however, that by not accepting or deleting the use of cookies, you may not be able to use the Website or our Services.
On the Website, we use cookies for the following purposes:
To gather statistical data to analyze how Users use the Website, such as which pages are visited, how long pages were visited and the paths taken by visitors to our Website as they move from page to page. These cookies are placed by the domain https://theskindie.com
To provide authentication for any upcoming products where log-in is required so that we can keep you logged in between sessions. The information collected using local storage is stored on your browser and persists after your browser is closed.
Data Transfer
Skindie is a US-based company and your Personal Information will be collected and processed in the United States. The United States has its own laws governing data protection and government access to Personal Information. The rules that protect your Personal Information under United States law may be different than in your home country.
Additional Rights for EEA Users
If you live in the European Economic Area (EEA), or a similar international area, you may have additional privacy rights available to you under applicable laws. We will process your requests in accordance with those applicable data protection laws. If you would like to exercise any of the below rights, please contact us using the information provided below so that we may consider your request in accordance with applicable law:
The right not to provide or withdraw consent.
The right to access the Personal Information that you provide.
The right to the erasure of Personal Information that we hold about you.
The right to request that Skindie stop processing your Personal Information and/or to stop sending you marketing communications.
The right to require us to correct any of your Personal Information.
Data transfers outside the EEA
We may transfer your Personal Information and data we obtain to third-parties in countries outside the European Economic Area. The laws in those countries may not offer an adequate level of data protection. In particular, data and Personal Information may be transferred to the United States.
When we transfer your data and Personal Information outside the EEA, we will protect it as described in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with applicable law, such as by entering into the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for the transfer of Personal Information to a processor located outside of the European Union.
Your Rights
Users residing in certain countries, including the EU, are afforded certain rights regarding their Personal Information. Except where an exception or exemption applies, these rights include the ability to access, correct, and request deletion of your Personal Information. While these rights are not applicable globally, all Users can manage their Personal Information, as further described below, in their account settings. A link to your account settings can be found at the bottom of every email we send you.
Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Subject to this Privacy Policy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
State Specific Data Policies
Calif. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 22580-22582; Calif. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 22580-22582; and Del. Code § 1204C
Skindie shall not market or advertise any products or Services based on the Personal Information provided that is specific to any minor, nor shall she knowingly use, disclose, compile, or allow a third party to do so. Under California's Privacy Rights for California Minors in the Digital World Act, any minor may request and obtain removal of Personal Information posted on the Website.
Your California Privacy Rights. California residents are entitled once a year, free of charge, to request and obtain information regarding the disclosure, if any, of certain categories of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. To obtain this information, please send an email using the contact information provided below.
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides California residents with rights to receive certain disclosures regarding the collection, use, and sharing of Personal Information, as well as the right to know/access, delete, and limit sharing of Personal Information. The CCPA defines “Personal Information” to mean “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.
“Do Not Sell My Personal Information” (California Residents only). California residents may opt out of the “sale” of their Personal Information. California law broadly defines “sale” in a way that may include allowing third parties to receive certain information such as cookies, IP address and/or browsing behavior to add to a profile about your device, browser, or you.
Depending on how you use the Website, the following categories of information may be shared for such advertising which may be considered a sale (as defined by California law): identification and demographics; device information and identifiers, such as IP address, and unique advertising identifiers and cookies; connection and usage information, such as browsing history; geolocation information, such as city; and inference data.
If you would like to opt out of the use of your Personal Information for such purposes (to the extent this is considered a sale), you may do so as by contacting us directly.
Third Parties’ List – Shine the Light (California Residents Only). California residents can also request a list of all the third parties to which have disclosed certain Personal Information (as defined by California’s Shine the Light law) during the preceding year for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. You will need to attest to the fact that you are a California resident. There will be no requests accepted by telephone, email, or facsimile, and Skindie is not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or that do not have complete information.
Nevada Residents. Nevada law requires us to post the following: certain Nevada consumers may opt out of the sale of “Covered Information” for monetary consideration to a person for that person to license or sell such information. “Covered information” includes first and last name, address, email address, phone number, Social Security Number, or an identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Skindie reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon the posting on the Website. If there are any material changes to this Privacy Policy, you will be notified here that there has been an update so that you are aware of what information is collected, how it is used, and under what circumstances, if any, it may be used and/or disclosed it to any third party.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or if you want to verify, modify, receive, suspend, or delete your Personal Information stored, you can reach out directly using the contact information provided below:
hello@skindie.co