Privacy Policy - How We Protect Your Information

Introduction

SharedCorner ("we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy informs you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (sharedcorner.site) or when you engage our services, and it tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We urge you to read this privacy policy carefully to understand how and why we are using your data.

The Information We Collect

We may collect different types of information depending on how you interact with us:

Information You Provide to Us

  • Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, and postal address when you contact us, book a service, or subscribe to our newsletter
  • Account Information: Username and password if you create an account
  • Service Information: Details about your makeup preferences, skin type, allergies, and other relevant information necessary to provide our services
  • Payment Information: Credit card details, billing address, and other payment information when you make a purchase (note that we do not store full credit card details on our servers)
  • Communication Data: Information you provide when contacting us, including questions, concerns, or feedback
  • Images: Photographs taken during makeup sessions with your consent

Information We Collect Automatically

  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including your browsing patterns, pages visited, and time spent on our site
  • Device Information: Technical data such as your IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, and device type
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies: Information collected through cookies and similar tracking technologies (see our Cookie Policy section for more details)

Information We Receive From Third Parties

  • Social Media: Information you provide when interacting with our social media pages or using social media login features
  • Business Partners: Information from business partners, such as wedding planners or photographers, with whom we collaborate (with your prior knowledge)
  • Public Sources: Publicly available information from sources such as social media platforms or public directories

How We Use Your Information

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • Providing Services: To deliver the makeup and visagiste services you request, manage appointments, and process payments
  • Communication: To respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, and send service-related communications
  • Marketing: To send you updates, newsletters, and promotional materials about our services (only with your consent where required by law)
  • Improvement and Analysis: To analyze usage patterns, improve our website, and enhance our service offerings
  • Legal Compliance: To comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our terms and conditions
  • Portfolio and Promotion: To showcase our work through before/after photographs (only with your explicit consent)

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data based on one or more of the following legal grounds:

  • Contract Performance: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract
  • Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as managing our business, providing quality services, and marketing our services (provided these interests are not overridden by your rights)
  • Legal Obligation: Processing is necessary to comply with our legal obligations
  • Consent: You have given consent for processing your data for one or more specific purposes

How We Share Your Information

We may share your personal information with the following categories of recipients:

  • Service Providers: Third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processors, website hosting providers, and IT support services
  • Professional Advisors: Lawyers, accountants, auditors, and insurers who provide legal, accounting, and other professional services
  • Business Partners: With your knowledge, we may share information with wedding planners, photographers, or other professionals involved in your event
  • Legal Authorities: Government authorities, regulators, or other third parties when required by law or to protect our rights or the rights of others
  • Business Transfers: In connection with a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process the data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.

In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data. These may include:

  • Access: The right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you
  • Rectification: The right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information
  • Erasure: The right to request that we delete your personal information in certain circumstances
  • Restriction: The right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
  • Data Portability: The right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used format
  • Objection: The right to object to our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
  • Withdraw Consent: The right to withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on consent to process your personal information

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.

Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

Types of Cookies We Use

  • Essential Cookies: Required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or use a shopping cart.
  • Analytical/Performance Cookies: Allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works.
  • Functionality Cookies: Used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences.
  • Targeting Cookies: Record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

International Transfers

We may transfer your personal data to countries outside your country of residence, including to countries that may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country. When we do so, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your information and to comply with applicable data protection laws.

These safeguards may include implementing standard contractual clauses approved by relevant regulatory authorities, obtaining your consent for the transfer, or transferring data to organizations certified under recognized frameworks such as the EU-US Privacy Shield.

Children's Privacy

Our website and services are not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can take appropriate action.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.

We encourage you to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Your continued use of our website and services after any changes to this privacy policy constitutes your acceptance of the changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

SharedCorner
Studio 46d Price Harbours
Lake Nathanshire, BR6 9XJ
United Kingdom

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +441346528241

If you are located in the European Union, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority if you believe that we have not complied with applicable data protection laws.