Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Last Updated July 2023

We respect your privacy, and we want you to know how we use the information you provide to us. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to your use of our website located at www.bjgrandsalon.com, as well as to all other online websites (collectively, the “Site”) and mobile applications (the “Application”), and interactive applications operated by BJ Grand Salon, Inc. (“we” “our” or “us”), collectively our “Services,” unless a different policy is provided on a particular website or application. In this Privacy Policy, we describe the information we collect, how we use and disclose the information, and your choices regarding our information collection practices.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By visiting our Site and Application and using our Services, you agree that your information, including your personal information, will be handled as described in this Privacy Policy.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect information from and about you, including personal information and information about your use of the Site, the Application, and our Services. Specifically, we collect information: (1) participate in contests, sweepstakes, or other offers; (2) from third parties, such as when you log in through a social networking site; and (3) automatically, as you move through our Site and our Application, such as Site usage, browser types, IP addresses or device IDs, and other data, as discussed below.

Information We Collect Directly From You. Depending upon the particular activity, we may request the following information from you: your name, email address, zip code, gender, age range, income range, username, password, or credit card information.

Information We Collect About You From Third Parties.

Social Networking Sites. You may log onto our Site through social networking applications, such as Facebook and Instagram. From time to time, we may add the capability to log into our Site through different social networking sites. If you log into our Services through a social networking site, we will request your name and certain basic information. We also may request certain permissions from you, which vary based on the social networking site. For information about how the particular social networking site may disclose your information, including any information you make public, please consult their privacy policy. We have no control over how a third party social networking site uses or discloses the personal information that you provide to it. We store the information that we receive from the social networking site along with other information that we collect from you or receive about you.

Information We Collect Automatically. We use cookies, web beacons, Flash, and other automated devices to collect information about you when you visit our Site and our Application. Specifically, we collect the following information about your use of our Site via these technologies: your browser type and operating system; web pages you view; links you click; your IP address; your interaction with the Site; length of time you are logged in to our Site; and websites visited before our Site. With regard to the Application, we may collect your mobile device ID; location and language information; device name and model; operating system type, name and version; your activities within the Application; and the length of time that you are logged into our Application. We will request your information before we collect your location. Please see the section “Use of Cookies, Flash Cookies, HTML5, Web Beacons, and Other Tracking Devices” below for more information about our use of these tracking devices. We may use the information gathered through these methods in anonymous or aggregated form to analyze ways to improve our Services. This information may be associated with your username and may be combined with other information, including personal information that we collect about you.

Location Information. If you are using our Application, we also may collect your location. We will request your permission prior to doing so. We may combine your location information with other information that we have collected about you.

USE OF COOKIES, FLASH COOKIES, HTML5, WEB BEACONS, & OTHER TRACKING DEVICES

When you interact with our Services, we strive to make your experience easy and meaningful. We or our third party service providers use cookies, web beacons (including clear GIFs), Flash LSOs, and similar technologies to track user activity and collect data about our Site, Services, and our users. As stated above, we may combine this data with the personal information we have collected from or about you.

Cookies. We use browser “cookies” on our Site. Cookies are a website’s way of remembering who you are. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer’s hard drive or stored temporarily in your computer’s memory. There are two kinds of cookies, and we use both types of cookies on our Site: “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your computer and retain information for later use tomorrow, next month or whenever they are set to expire. We use cookies to help us to identify account holders and to optimize their experience on our Site. Also, we will use cookies to monitor and maintain information about your use of this Site.

Most Web browsers accept cookies automatically. You can delete cookies manually or set your browser to automatically delete cookies on a pre-determined schedule. If you decline to accept cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of or participate in certain features of this Site.

Analytics. Each time a visitor comes to the Site or uses our Application, our servers collect information, including, for example, the visitor’s domain name (e.g., the website that you came from), referral data (e.g., depending on your browser, the address of the last page or series of pages you visited prior to clicking through to our Site), and browser and platform type. We also count, track and aggregate each visitor’s activity as part of our analysis of general traffic flows at our Site and on our Application (e.g., tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic flows within the Site and our Application, etc.). We collect some of this data directly, and we also engage third party service providers (e.g., Google Analytics) who use the technologies described in this section, to collect this information and to assist us with our analytics.

SECURITY OF INFORMATION

We make efforts to protect your information. However, no website, Internet transmission, computer system or wireless connection is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that unauthorized access or disclosure, hacking, data loss or other breaches will not occur. Your use of the Site and our Services is at your own risk.

We cannot and do not ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We use your information, including your personal information, to provide our Services to you and for the following purposes:

To communicate with you, to respond to your inquiries, and for other customer services purposes;

• To provide information that you have requested to receive from us;
• To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using our Services;
• To improve our Services;
• For research purposes;
• For marketing and advertising purposes; for example, we may send you emails about new features of our Site and our Application as well as about our products and services, as well as products and services of third parties, that we believe would be of interest to you;
• To better understand how users access and use our Services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis.

SHARING INFORMATION

Third parties providing services on our behalf. We may engage third parties to perform services in connection with the operation of our business. Examples of these services include: (a) distribution of marketing and promotional material; (b) website evaluation and analytics; (c) fulfilling magazine, newsletter or other subscriptions; (d) data collection, storage, management, analysis and, where applicable, cleansing, and (e) any other services designed to assist us in maximizing our business potential. These third parties may have access to information about visitors to our Site and our Application, including personal information, for the purpose of performing their duties and functions.

Investigations and security. We may release information about you when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, in response to a subpoena or other legal process, or to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Site, Application, and applicable laws. We may also disclose such user information whenever we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Salon, or any of our respective affiliates, business partners, customers or others.

Aggregate Information. We may disclose aggregated user statistics to third parties for a variety of purposes, including describing our services to prospective partners and other third parties, and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Examples of such non-personal information include the number of users who visited this Site or Application during a specific time period or purchased a specific product through this Site or Application.

Promotions. If you choose to enter a contest, sweepstakes or promotion offered by us, your information may be disclosed to third parties for purposes of posting your entry with attribution or otherwise as permitted in the official rules for the contest, sweepstakes or promotion in question, fulfilling your prize or including your name on a winners list, or as otherwise necessary for purposes of the contest, sweepstakes or promotion. We may also require you to consent to the use of your information, such as name, voice or likeness, in advertising, promotional and marketing materials, in which case the rules will so state. In addition, we may offer promotional content, including sweepstakes and promotions, sponsored by or co-branded with a third party, who may obtain the personal information that you submit. Please refer to the rules of the particular contest, sweepstakes or promotion for additional information.

Surveys. Salon may from time to time conduct voluntary surveys of visitors to the Site to obtain aggregate demographic information about them. Such information may be compiled and shared in the aggregate with advertisers and other third parties.

Business Transfers/Bankruptcy. If we are acquired by or merged with another company, if substantially all of our assets are transferred to another company, or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, we may transfer the information we have collected from you to the acquiring company.

MANAGING INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU FROM THIRD PARTIES

We allow you to register your account on our mobile application through third party services including Apple ID, Facebook, and Google to provide you with faster account creation and login options.

If you register using a third party service, with your explicit permission we will obtain your name and your email address. We need this information in order to create a new account or connect your existing account to the third party service. No additional information will be collected from the third party service.

You can unlink your third party service at any time through our application by going to My Account > Social Accounts and selecting the service to unlink. By choosing to unlink your third party account you will no longer be able to use that service to login to our application. You can always relink the third party service by selecting the corresponding option from our application’s login screen.

PLEASE NOTE: Unlinking your third party service account does not remove your client account information. If you wish your name and email address to be removed from our client database, you can send an email requesting removal at info@bjgrandsalon.com or contact 217-787-7770.

IMPORTANT: Third party plugins and applications are operated by the third party services themselves and are subject to their terms of use and privacy policies.

OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN’S POLICY

In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, we do not knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. In the event that we receive actual knowledge that we have collected such personal information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as is practical.

UNSUBSCRIBE & DATA REMOVAL POLICIES

If you would like to remove your name and e-mail address from our client database, you can send an email requesting removal to crawford@bjgrandsalon.com.

If you no longer wish to receive promotional emails from us, please follow the opt-out instructions in the text of the email. Please note that it may take up to ten days to process your request. Please also note that if you opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us, we may continue to contact you with via email with service related communications.

OTHER SITES & SERVICES

Our Site or Application may contain links to or about other non-affiliated websites. Other sites may also reference, advertise or link to our Site. We do not endorse or sponsor other non-affiliated websites, and we are not responsible for their privacy practices or content, expressly disclaims any statements or assertions made on such websites, and deny all liability associated with your use of, and the content on, such other websites and advertisements. Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy do not apply to information gathered through other websites. We encourage you to be aware of when you leave our Services and to read the privacy policies of each website that you use.

CONSENT TO PROCESSING IN THE UNITED STATES

Our Services are operated in the United States. By providing any information to us, all users, including, without limitation, users in the member states of the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States, fully understand and consent to this Privacy Policy. By using our Site, participating in any of our services and/or providing us with your information, you consent to the collection, transfer, storage and processing of your information to and in the United States. In addition, you waive any restrictions on such collection, transfer or storage of your information imposed by the laws of any country other than the United States.

REVISIONS TO PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, update, add to, discontinue, remove or otherwise change any portion of this Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, at any time. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “last updated” date located at the top of this Privacy Policy. The most current version of this Privacy Policy will be available on the Site and will supersede all previous versions of this Privacy Policy.

CHOICE OF LAW

This Privacy Policy, including all revisions and amendments thereto, and any disputes arising from or relating to this Privacy Policy or your use of our Services, is governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to any conflict or choice of law principles that would require application of the laws of another jurisdiction.

QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR PRIVACY POLICY

If you have any further questions or concerns about the BJ Grand Salon, Inc. privacy policy and use of personal information, please send them to crawford@bjgrandsalon.com.