Privacy and Cookies Policy
Last updated: 19th May 2023, by Beauty of Defect
Beauty of Defect is committed to protecting your and your family’s personal information when you are viewing our website. We want our website to be a safe and enjoyable environment for our audiences. This Privacy and Cookies Policy relates to our use of any personal information we collect from you via the following online services:
• any Beauty of Defect website that links to this Privacy and Cookies Policy;
• social media or official Beauty of Defect content on other websites
It also relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us by phone, SMS, email, in letters and other correspondence and in person. In order to provide you with the most accurate information, we sometimes need to collect information about you. This Privacy and Cookies Policy explains the following:
• what information Beauty of Defect may collect about you;
• how Beauty of Defect will use information we collect about you;
• when the Beauty of Defect may use your details to contact you;
• whether Beauty of Defect will disclose your details to anyone else;
• your choices regarding the personal information you provide to us;
• the use of cookies on Beauty of Defect websites and how you can reject cookies.
Beauty of Defect is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy and Cookies Policy as the “data protection laws”). No website can be completely secure; if you have any concerns that your information could have been compromised e.g. someone could have discovered your contact information, please get in touch straight away.
Beauty of Defect websites contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, and are also likely to use cookies, and we therefore urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit when visiting these websites, which may also be collected by cookies. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk. Beauty of Defect activities are only covered by this Privacy and Cookies Policy in relation to its use of data collected via beautyofdefect.com.
What information will Beauty of Defect collect about me?
When you participate in, access, or sign up to any of the Beauty of Defect services, activities, or online content, such as newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards, web and mobile notifications, telephone, text, vote, donation, book tickets for a sponsored event, or create an account using Beauty of Defect online registration system, we may receive personal information about you.
This can consist of information such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number, gender, date of birth, as well as information collected about your use of Beauty of Defect services. Please note that sometimes we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information (e.g. if you’re sending in an application to be a contributor on a sponsored programme, we may need to know more details). When we do this we will provide further information about why we are collecting your information and how we will use it. Where we provide personalised services, we may ask your permission to review third party data about you, for example, your Twitter or Facebook feeds, to get to know you better and to provide more effective personalisation. Some of our services enable you to sign-in via a third party service, such as Facebook. If you choose to sign-in via a third party app, you will be presented with a dialog box which will ask your permission to allow Beauty of Defect to access your personal information (e.g. your full name, date of birth, email address, and any other information you have made publicly accessible). Please note that any information that is not required by the particular service you have opted to use will not be retained by Beauty of Defect. Beauty of Defect collects information about how you use our content online, and the device(s) you use to access the services. This includes collecting unique online identifiers such as IP addresses, which are numbers that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet.
Beauty of Defect will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
• to provide our services, activities or online content, to provide you with information about them and to deal with your requests and enquiries;
• to provide you with the most user-friendly online navigation experience;
• for “service administration purposes”, which means that Beauty of Defect may contact you for reasons related to the service, activity or online content you have signed up for (e.g. to provide you with password reminders, to notify you that a particular service, activity or online content has been suspended for maintenance, to notify you of updates to our Privacy and Cookies Policy or Terms of Use, to let you know if your subscription has become dormant and to ask if you would like to use it again before we close it);
• where we provide personalised services, we may analyse the information you supply, as well as your activity on all our services, so that we can offer a more relevant, tailored service. For instance, we could use your viewing history to provide personalised recommendations or, if the first thing you look at every day on Beauty of Defect website is the blog posts in Japan, we could present this information or a link to it on your homepage. If you are signed-in or subscribed to email newsletters, you will receive a personalised service. If you don’t want to receive these services you can unsubscribe from email newsletters, or disable personalisation;
• we may also show you relevant advertising on third party sites;
• to contact you about a submission you have made, including any content you provide;
• to use IP addresses and device identifiers to identify the location of users, to block disruptive use, to establish the number of visits from different countries, and to determine the country you are accessing the services from;
• for analysis and research purposes so that we may improve the services offered by Beauty of Defect;
• we may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individuals are identified) for marketing and strategic development purposes;
• when you access Beauty of Defect website from different countries, you will see the international versions of featured advertising. A certain amount of this advertising is tailored to the individual, a common practice known as online behavioural advertising.
Where Beauty of Defect proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. Beauty of Defect may contact you:
• in relation to any service, activity or online content you have signed up for in order to ensure that Beauty of Defect can deliver the services to you, e.g. to verify your email when you sign up for subscription services, or to help you reset your password or to check if you still want to use the service (if your account is dormant);
• in relation to any correspondence we receive from you or any comment or feedback you make about Beauty of Defect products or services;
• in relation to any personalised services you are using;
• in relation to any contribution you have submitted to Beauty of Defect, e.g. on the Beauty of Defect message boards or via text or voicemail message;
• to invite you to participate in surveys about the Beauty of Defect services (participation is always voluntary);
• to update you on any material changes to the Beauty of Defect policies and practices;
• for marketing purposes, local pages will give you detailed information about how Beauty of Defect will contact you in relation to specific services, activities or online content. We will never contact you to ask for any password, or any other login information. Please be cautious if you receive any emails or calls from people asking for this information and claiming to be from Beauty of Defect.
Beauty of Defect will only send you marketing emails or contact you via Beauty of Defect platforms where you have agreed to this. We may personalise the message content based upon any information you have provided to us and your use of Beauty of Defect platforms. We may use information which we hold about you to show you relevant advertising on third party sites (e.g. Facebook, Google, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter). This could involve showing you an advertising message where we know you have a Beauty of Defect subscription and have used Beauty of Defect products and services. If you don’t want to be shown targeted advertising messages from Beauty of Defect, some third party sites allow you to request not to see messages from specific advertisers on that site in future. If you want to stop all personalised services from Beauty of Defect, including targeted advertising messages on third party sites, please contact us directly.
We will keep your information within Beauty of Defect except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies, including for child protection reasons). We may share your information across the public service where this is necessary to provide you with a service you have requested. Generally, we will use your information within Beauty of Defect and will only share it outside of Beauty of Defect where you have requested it or given your consent. However, we may share with third party sites (e.g. Facebook, Google, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter) some data, with appropriate security measures, to show you relevant advertising on third party sites. Sometimes the BBC uses third parties to process your information on our behalf, for example to provide services or analysis. Beauty of Defect requires these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and the Beauty of Defect requires that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes, unless you have explicitly consented to the use of your personal information in this way. We may share your personal information internally for analysis purposes.
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to Beauty of Defect websites or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on any Beauty of Defect service, Beauty of Defect may use your personal information to stop such behaviour. Where Beauty of Defect reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any applicable laws (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), Beauty of Defect may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school email/internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
If you are aged 18 or under, please get your parent/guardian’s permission before you provide any personal information to Beauty of Defect.
Beauty of Defect will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with Beauty of Defect. You can always cancel your subscriptions with Beauty of Defect. If you cancel your subscriptions, then your personal information is deleted immediately, and the remaining information is anonymised for analytical purposes. Cancelling your subscriptions will erase any personal information that we have about you and it will mean any data we hold about how you have used Beauty of Defect’s services will be made anonymous.
Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information that Beauty of Defect holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We will use reasonable efforts consistent with our legal duty to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.
All personal information submitted by users will be processed in accordance with this Privacy and Cookies Policy (and any local terms that apply to certain areas of the site). Where there is a conflict, the local terms will apply.
Web browser cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer, tablet or mobile phone (all referred to here as a “device”) web browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your device’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your web browser if your browser’s preferences allow it. Many websites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows. Similar technologies are also often used within emails to understand whether the email has been read or if any links have been clicked. If you continue without changing your settings, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on Beauty of Defect website. However, you can change your cookie settings at any time. On Beauty of Defect websites, cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor our websites to your interests. During the course of any visit to Beauty of Defect website, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us to understand the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example, if on a previous visit you went to our blog pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits. Beauty of Defect uses this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. Certain areas of Beauty of Defect websites may use cookies for a specific reason – for example, to help an online game work effectively on your device. Additionally, we use cookies to serve some targeted advertising on users from different countries.
Please note that during your visits to Beauty of Defect website, you may notice some cookies that are not related to Beauty of Defect. To support our journalism, we sometimes embed content from social media and other third party websites. These may include YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, SoundCloud, Vine, Instagram, Pinterest and Flickr. As a result, when you visit a page containing such content, you may be presented with cookies from these websites and these third party cookies may track your use of Beauty of Defect website. Beauty of Defect does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party’s website for more information. If you continue without changing your settings, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on Beauty of Defect website.
Where Beauty of Defect embeds content from social media and other third party websites, some websites may use Google Analytics to collect data about user behaviour for their own purposes. Beauty of Defect does not control this. For more information, see the Google webpage “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps”. You will also see embedded ‘share’ buttons on Beauty of Defect web pages; these enable users to easily share content with their friends through a number of popular social networks. When you click on one of these buttons, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. Again, Beauty of Defect does not control the dissemination of these cookies. If you continue without changing your settings, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on Beauty of Defect website. However, you can change your cookie settings at any time
It is important to note that if you change your settings and block certain cookies, you will not be able to take full advantage of some features of Beauty of Defect services, and we might not be able to provide some features you have previously chosen to receive. Your web browser may also provide Beauty of Defect with information about your device, such as an IP address and details about the browser that you are using. We use information provided by your browser or by the link that you have clicked to understand the webpage that directed you to Beauty of Defect and this may be captured by performance cookies. If you have any concerns about the way that we use cookies or respect your settings, then please contact us directly.
Do Not Track (DNT) browser setting is a feature offered by some browsers which, when enabled, sends a signal to websites to request that your browsing is not tracked, such as by third party ad networks, social networks and analytic companies. This website does not currently respond to DNT requests.
This Privacy and Cookies Policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to Beauty of Defect. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page. If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use Beauty of Defect websites to submit personal information to Beauty of Defect. You can also cancel your subscriptions at any time. If material changes are made to the Privacy and Cookies Policy, for instance affecting how we would like to use your personal information, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes).
If you any questions or comments about this Privacy and Cookies Policy, please contact Beauty of Defect via email at: hello@beautyofdefect.com.