Privacy Policy

In the course of our dealings with you, we will collect and process personal information about you in order to provide you with the goods and services you request and to administer our relationship with you. This may involve the sharing of your personal information with other third parties and the transfer of your personal information overseas. This Privacy Policy describes in detail how we will use your personal information and how you can exercise your rights with respect to your personal information.

Introduction

In this Privacy Policy, references to we, us or our (or words of similar import) means SKINCARE BY VV

In this Privacy Policy, references to you mean the person whose personal information (as defined below) we collect, use and process. This includes anyone who contacts us in connection with the products and services we provide or otherwise interacts with us (for example, via our Digital Services (as defined below) or in store).

In this Privacy Policy, references to Digital Services means our websites at the following URLs: SKINCAREBYVV.COM (including https://www.skincarebyvv.com) and any software and web-based applications that we make available for your use.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will use your personal information in accordance with the Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data (PII (US)) and on the free movement of such data.

What information do we collect?

We may collect and process information about you, including your name, address, contact details (including email address and mobile phone number), product selections and details of your purchases and purchasing habits and other information about you. This information is referred to in this Privacy Policy as personal information.

In particular, we may collect and process the following personal information about you:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms, including those on our Digital Services. This includes information provided by you at the time of becoming a registered user of our Website or a member of a software we operate. When you place order(s) for goods or services (whether through our Digital Services or otherwise), we collect personal information to process and fulfil your order(s), including your payment card details and delivery address. If you become a registered user of our Website, you can save your payment card details and delivery addresses for future use. Details about the transactions you carry out with us, including through our Digital Services.
• Information about your preferences in connection with our Digital Services, for the purposes of enhancing and personalising your experience on our Digital Services.

Details of your visits to our Digital Services and how you use our Digital Services; this may involve the collection of, among other things, traffic data, location data (including the country and telephone area code where your computer or device is located) and details of the resources that you access (including the pages of our Digital Services that you view). We may also collect location data where this is necessary to provide our Digital Services, for instance in connection with our store finder tools.

Information that you provide to us by using our Digital Services, including any images that you upload and publish to our Digital Services (to the extent these include personal information).

In your use of our Digital Services we may also collect technical information such as details of the device that you use.

We will also collect information concerning your marketing preferences.

If you provide us with personal information about another person, you must ensure that before you provide us with their personal information, you have their agreement to do so and that they are aware of the ways in which we use personal information as set out in this Privacy Policy.

How do we use your personal information?

We use your personal information in connection with our business activities. In particular, we may use your personal information in the following ways:

• to provide, enhance and personalise your experience on our Digital Services;
• in the event that you do not complete your registration or order, we may use any contact information you have provided us to follow-up on your partial registration or order;
• to manage and administer any other arrangements between you and us (or one or more of our affiliates);
• to notify you about changes to our services and to otherwise communicate with you; for example, we will use your contact details in order to respond to any queries that you submit to us;
• at or following any purchase or order you make, we may carry out security checks to protect against fraudulent transactions and to prevent and detect criminal activity; for example, we may undertake verification checks to identify any discrepancies with your payment details;
• to carry out market research; for example, we may contact you (including by email) to obtain your feedback on our products and services, and we may use details of your purchases to understand market trends and to identify popular products;
• to help us review, develop and improve the products and services we offer

With whom do we share your personal information?

We may share your personal information with third parties as described below. We share with them to improve their websites and other digital services, for analysis purposes and to offer you products and services that they believe may be of interest to you.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties, including in the following circumstances:

• We use third parties to carry out certain activities on our behalf that involve the processing of personal information. For example, we may engage third party service providers to fulfil orders, carry out surveys and installations, deliver packages, send postal mail and email, maintain and update our databases of customer details (including the removal of repetitive information), analyse data, to help us develop, provide and improve our Digital Services, provide marketing assistance, process card payments, provide customer service and handle claims. These third parties have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. We may use the information we receive from third parties to supplement, improve and add to our databases of customer details.
• We may share limited information that we hold about you (for example, your email address) with third parties that also hold your information or have an existing online relationship with you in order to identify you as our customer and to enable us (or third parties on our behalf) to provide you with relevant marketing online.

We may share non-personal aggregate statistics (group) data about visitors to our Digital Services, sales and traffic patterns with members of the Kingfisher Group and other parties.

Where will your personal information be processed?

In relation to the above uses of your personal information and the above sharing arrangements, your personal information may be transferred to, and stored and processed in, one or more countries inside and outside the European Economic Area (EEA), including countries which do not provide equivalent protection for personal information as the DPA. In these circumstances, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is adequately protected in accordance with the requirements of the DPA.

 

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive to enable our systems to recognize your browser and help us to track visitors to our Website and Digital Services so we can better understand what portions of the Website and Digital Services best serve you. It may not be possible to place orders and purchase goods and services using the Website or Digital Services unless you have cookies turned on and we suggest that you leave them turned on for this purpose.

Our cookies enable us to provide features such as the ability to store items in your Shopping Basket between visits.

Access to your personal information

The DPA gives you the right to access your personal information. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the DPA. Any access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the personal information we hold about you. To request access to your personal information, please contact us using the details below.

How to contact us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us in any of the following ways:

Skincare by VV

Cockerillkaai 27
2000 Antwerpen

Email: valerie@skincarebyvv.com

Policy changes

If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on our Website so that you are always aware of what personal information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. The updated Privacy Policy will take effect as soon as it is posted on our Website.

 

3. Cookies Pop-up

This website is using cookies. By your continued use of this site you accept such use. To change your settings or view our policy please see our policy here.

Cookies on our Websites

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you access most websites on the internet or open certain emails. Among other things, cookies allow a website to recognise your device and remember if you’ve been to the website before. We use the term cookie to refer to cookies and technologies that perform a similar function to cookies (eg tags, pixels, web beacons, etc). Cookies can be read by the originating website on each subsequent visit and by any other website that recognises the cookie.

Our Websites use cookies in order to make the Websites easier to use, to support the provision of information and functionality to you, as well as to provide us with information about how the Websites are used so that we can make sure they are as up to date, relevant and error free as we can. We also use cookies to ensure that our online adverts reflect the interests of web users. Further information about the types of cookies that are used on our Websites is set out in the box below.

By using our Websites you agree to our use of cookies, including setting and reading cookies on your device. You can choose to restrict or block cookies through your browser settings at any time. For more information about how to do this, and about cookies in general, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu. Please note that certain cookies may be set as soon as you visit a Website, but you can remove them using your browser settings.

However, please be aware that restricting or blocking cookies set on a Website may impact the functionality or performance of the Website, or prevent you from using certain services provided through the Website. It will also affect our ability to update the Website to cater for user preferences and improve performance.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like website analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control, although we may receive services from these third parties (including, for example, for targeted advertising purposes and website analytics). These cookies are likely to be performance cookies or targeting cookies (as described below).

The following categories of cookie are currently used by us:

 

 

 

Cookie Type	Overview	Use on the Website
Strictly Necessary	Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the use of the features and services on the Website. If you block these cookies we cannot guarantee access to the services provided through the Website or be sure how the Website will perform during your visit.	We use these cookies to: Remember products added to your shopping basket Remember selections or information you have entered when you navigate to different pages during your session on the Website Identify you as being logged in to the Website
Performance	Performance cookies collect information about how the Website is used so that we can improve the site. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous.	We use these cookies to: Monitor and provide statistics on how the Website is used Help us improve the Website by measuring any errors that occur See how effective adverts on the Website are and try to ensure they are as relevant as possible Provide feedback to our affiliates, and third parties we have allowed to link to the Website, regarding users accessing their sites. This information may be used by those third parties to improve their sites or services Test the Website’s design and operability
Functional	Functional cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make such as your user name, log in details or language preferences, and any customisations you make to pages on the Website during your visit. If you block these cookies certain features and services may be affected and we cannot be sure how the Website will perform during your visit.	We use these cookies to: Show you when you’re logged in to the Website Provide individual services, such as watching a video or commenting Share information with partners to provide a service on the Website. The information shared is only to be used to provide the service, product or function and not for any other purpose Remember if we’ve already asked you if you want to fill in a survey
Targeting	These cookies are used to enhance your experience of the Website and the internet. Among other things, they collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising and marketing more relevant to you and your interests. This information is linked to site functionality provided by other websites, and may be shared with other organisations (such as advertising networks). More information about online behavioural advertising and online privacy can be found at www.youronlinechoices.eu	We use these cookies to: Provide advertising agencies, advertising networks and other third parties with information on your visit and browsing habits so that they can present you (and other potential customers) with adverts that you (or they) may be interested in (including with respect to adverts displayed on other websites) Limit the number of times you see an advert Help measure the effectiveness of advertising and marketing campaigns and to identify where we should focus our campaigns. We may share the information we obtain from cookies with third parties for this purpose Track the distribution of electronic content (such as documents and images) we make available on our Website or otherwise distribute (including our marketing communications), including the identity of the individuals who view and forward that content Link to social networks like Facebook, who may subsequently use information about your visit to serve you with targeted advertising on other websites Follow-up with you in the event that you partially complete an order for products or registration on the Website