Effective March 28, 2020
Updated April 4, 2020
This Privacy Policy sets out how Making Cosmetics, Inc. uses and
protects any information that you, the user, provide when you
visit the website, www.makingcosmetics.com (“Website”). Except
as otherwise provided herein, this Privacy Policy applies to all
services offered by us on this Website. Except as otherwise
provided herein, this Privacy Policy applies only to information
collected through our Website and not to information collected
offline.
This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of
third parties, including other companies that may advertise on
this Website. In addition, the Website may contain links to
third party websites. Please note that once you click on such a
link, you will have left our Website and should be aware that we
do not have any control over third party websites. Use of third
party websites, and collection of information by those parties,
are governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to
exercise caution and review their privacy policies before using
their websites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of
our Website and welcome any feedback about these third party
websites.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our
policies and practices regarding your information and how we
will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and
practices, do not use our Website. By accessing or using this
Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. We may revise and
update our Privacy Policy from time to time, and all updates
will be posted on this page. Unless otherwise required by law,
your continued use of this Website after we make changes is
deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the
Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions establishing the use, disclaimers and limitations of liability governing the use of our Website here.
Information We Collect
We collect the following categories of personal information:
Identifiers such as a real name, alias, signature, address,
telephone number, unique personal identifier, online identifier,
Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social
security number, driver’s license or state identification card
number, passport number, insurance policy number, medical
information or health insurance information; physical
characteristics or description, and other similar identifiers
(“Identifiers”); payment information; characteristics of
protected classifications under Washington or federal law;
commercial information; biometric information; Internet of other
electronic network activity information; geolocation data;
audio, electronic, visual or similar information; professional
or employment-related information; education information; and
inferences drawn from any of the above-identified information to
create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s
preferences, characteristics, psychological trends,
predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities
and aptitudes.
How We Use the Information We Collect
Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold,
exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company without
your consent, other than as specified in this Privacy Policy. We
will use your Personal Information for our legitimate interests,
meaning our interests in conducting our business, fulfilling
orders and processing transactions, and managing and providing
services to you, which include the following:
- Providing, maintaining and improving our business;
- Fulfilling orders and processing transactions;
- Managing and providing services to you;
- Responding to your questions, concerns, and other requests for assistance;
- Customizing your browsing and shopping experience on the Website. We use information about your browsing and shopping activities to bring you a custom shopping experience, by offering products and advertisements tailored to your interests (please see our Cookies section below);
- Keeping you informed of administrative changes to our Website, including changes to our terms and conditions and other policies, and other information regarding the Website;
- Analyzing Website statistics, such as usage and experiences impacting your browsing experience. We this information to patch bugs and resolve other issues to present you with the best possible browsing experience.
- We also use cookies and other technologies to analyze how our customers interact with the Website, which helps us improve its functionality;
- Conducting market research, which informs our marketing strategy and enables us to present you with a browsing experience tailored to your interests. For example, we create user profiles to enable personalized direct marketing communications;
- Maintaining basic records, so that we may respond to and honor your requests to delete your data and prohibit future unwanted processing;
- Preventing fraud, criminal activity, and misuses of our Website. We also use this information to block prohibited resellers from accessing our website and to safeguard the security of this Website, as well as our infrastructural security;
- Complying with legal obligations and process, and to safeguard our rights, privacy, safety, and property, as well as your rights, privacy, safety, and property, and that of our affiliates and third parties;
- Administering special offers, including contests, promotions, surveys, and other interactive Website experiences;
- Enabling us to publish your reviews, photos, videos and other content;
- Applications for employment and employment-related purposes;
- Communicating with you, including through email. We may use the email address which you provide for order processing to send you information and updates about your orders, as well as occasional news, updates, and information about our company and related products and services. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, please refer to the detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email;
- Notifying you about special offers and products or services available from us, our affiliates or our partners that may be of interest to you.
How Long We Keep Your Personal
Information
We will keep your Personal Information for as long as reasonably
necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy,
while we have a legitimate business need to do so, or as
required by law (e.g. for tax, legal, accounting or other
purposes), whichever is longer.
To determine the appropriate retention period for your Personal
Information, we will consider the amount, nature, and
sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of
harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal
Information, the purposes for which we use your Personal
Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through
other means, and the applicable legal requirements. When we no
longer need to retain your Personal Information, it will be
deleted or be anonymized so that you can no longer be identified
from it.
How We Protect And Store Your
Information
We are committed to making sure your privacy is protected when
you use our Website and when we collect information from you. We
take the security of your information seriously, and implement a
variety of security measures to maintain safety of all Personal
Information you provide. For example, Personal Information you
provide to us will be. We also make sure that third parties we
use to process your Personal Information also use appropriate
security measures to protect your data.
When we collect sensitive information like your credit card
information, social security numbers, financials, etc., that
information is encrypted and securely transmitted. For example,
we use a secure server for transmitting sensitive information.
All supplied sensitive/credit card information is transmitted
via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into
our payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by
those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and
are required to keep the information confidential. You can
verify that this sensitive information is being transmitted
securely by looking for “https” at the beginning of the address
of the webpage. After a transaction is completed, your sensitive
information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials,
etc.) will not be stored on our servers.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you.
We urge you to be careful about entering information on public
computers or on public networks. Unfortunately, the transmission
of information via the internet is not completely secure.
Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we
cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information
transmitted to or stored on our Website.
Do Not Track (DNT) Signals
We only have access to or collect information that you provide
us through your use of the Website. We do not track users over
time and across third party websites. Accordingly, this Website
does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider
transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web
browser. Cookies enable websites or service providers’ systems
to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain
information. For example, you may use our cookies to stay logged
in when you exit a browser window. You may read more about
cookies at https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
We use cookies and other technologies for different purposes.
First, we use these technologies to operate and run our site
(“Strictly Necessary Cookies”). Second, we use cookies to
understand how users arrive to and use our site (“Analytics
Cookies”). Third, we use cookies to make our site more
user-friendly and give you greater options for using our website
(“Functional Cookies”). Finally, we use cookies to facilitate
our direct marketing (“Marketing Cookies”).
Some cookies (Strictly Necessary Cookies) are so essential to
the functioning of our website that you cannot opt out of them.
However, you can choose to accept, decline, or withdraw consent
to other cookies. Be aware that disabling cookies may prevent
you from using certain features or services on our Website.
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: Carry out essential services of our website, including tracking sign-ups and processing payments. Because our website cannot function without use of these cookies, you may not opt out of them: 3dCart, Accessibe
- Analytics Cookies: Provide information about how visitors arrive at and use our site. You may opt out of these cookies by visiting the opt out links provided, or by modifying your browser settings as explained below: Google Analytics
- Functional Cookies: Give visitors a better browsing experience, such as the opportunity to leave product reviews. You may opt out of these cookies by modifying your browser settings as explained below: Youtube.com
- Marketing Cookies: Facilitate targeted and affiliate marketing. You may opt out of these cookies by visiting the opt out links provided, or by modifying your browser settings as explained below: Zinrelo
- Browser Opt-Out: Most browsers have a “help” button or section on the toolbar. If you click on this button or section, you will find information about turning on and off cookies and how to receive notifications when a new cookie is received: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari
Additionally, many advertising services allow you to opt out of
targeted advertising. You may find more information in the
resources available at the Network Advertising Initiative,
http://www.networkadvertising.org.
Mobile devices: Note that these resources may not work to turn
off cookies on mobile devices. Every mobile device is different.
Here are some resources for turning off cookies for popular
mobile browsers: Mozilla Firefox (Android), Google Chrome, Apple Safari.
Disclosure to Third Parties
Other than as described herein, we do not sell, trade, or
otherwise transfer to third parties your personally identifiable
information. We may share your Personal Information with trusted
third parties who assist us in operating our Website, conducting
our business and servicing you, including providers of hosting,
cloud services and other information technology services
providers for the management or hosting of the Website; payment
processors; order and subscription management and fulfillment
services; e-commerce platforms; rating and reviews platforms;
email communication and customer support services; and web
analytics, marketing and digital advertising services, so long
as those parties agree not to use the information for their
direct marketing purpose, to keep this information confidential
and use appropriate security measures to protect your data.
We may also disclose your information as required under applicable law, to enforce our Website policies, or to protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, or sale or transfer of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information may be transferred to a successor or affiliate or other entity surviving out of the event.
Ecommerce Platform
Our online store is hosted on 3DCART, which provides us with the
online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products
and services to you. We encourage you to review 3DCART’s Terms
of Service, available at https://www.3dcart.com/legal.html, and
Privacy Policy, available at https://www.3dcart.com/privacy.html.
Product Descriptions
MakingCosmetics Inc. attempt to be as accurate as possible. However,
MakingCosmetics Inc. does not warrant that product descriptions or other content of this site is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.
California Minors Who Are Registered
Users
If you are under the age of 18, reside in California and are a
registered user of the Website, you have the right to request
that we remove content or information you posted on the Website.
Please contact us via our
Contact Us page with
“California Minors Content Removal” in the subject line of your
message. Please note that our removal of content or information
you posted may not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of
the content or information.
Nevada Online Privacy Law
If you are a Nevada resident, you have the right to submit a
request directing us not to make any sale of personally
identifiable information we have collected or will collect about
you. We do not sell your personal information. To request
confirmation that we do not sell your personal information,
please contact us via our
Contact Us page with “Nevada
Privacy Information” in the subject line of your message.
Protecting Children’s Privacy
We are a general audience site. Our Website, products, and
services are all directed to people who are at least 16 years of
age or older. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose any
information from anyone under 16 years of age. We understand and
are committed to respecting the sensitive nature of children’s
privacy online. If we discover that we have inadvertently
collected information from anyone under 16 years of age, any
information regarding that user will be promptly deleted. If you
believe we might have any information from or about anyone under
16 years of age, please contact us by using the information
below.
Rights Under the EU General Data
Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)
If you are located in the European Economic Area, and provide
your consent, your Personal Information may be transferred and
stored outside of the European Economic Area to the United
States for purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Whenever
we store or transfer your Personal Information outside the
European Economic Area, we will do so in accordance with
applicable U.S. law and will implement appropriate safeguards.
There are possible risks involving such a data transfer arising
from the absence of an adequate level of protection in the U.S.
and the absence of appropriate safeguards such as a lack of a
data supervisory authority. We take the security of your
information seriously, and all Personal Information you provide
to us will be securely stored on our secure servers behind
firewalls. By using our services, you understand that your
Personal Information may be transferred to our servers and third
parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy
Policy.
If you are located in the European Economic Area and provide
your consent, and later wish to withdraw your consent, please
visit our Preferences page. Under the GDPR, consumers in the
European Economic Area are afforded particular rights in
relation to their personal rights. We would like to make sure
you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every
user is entitled to the following:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your Personal Information from us. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your Personal Information, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Information, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to us processing of your Personal Information, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The right to withdraw consent: If we rely on your consent to process your Personal Information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent will not affect any processing of your data before we received notice that you wished to withdraw consent.
- The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority of your country if you have a concern about our privacy practices, including the way we handle your Personal Information.
You can request to review your data by clicking here and you can request to have your data removed by clicking here.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Unless otherwise required by law, it is our policy to post any
changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice
that the Privacy Policy has been updated on our Website home
page. If we make material changes to how we treat the
information collected from our users, we will notify you through
a notice on our Website home page. The date the Privacy Policy
was last revised is identified at the top of the page. We may
also notify you of any material changes by sending an email to
you. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website
and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy
Policy or data processing, if you would like to change or access
the Personal Information we have collected from you, or if you
would like to make a complaint, you may contact us via our
Contact Us page. You may
also be able to refer a complaint to your local data protection
regulator if you are not satisfied with the way we handled your
complaint.