Privacy Policy
Website Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is for this website; www.saloncabelo.co.uk and served by Salon Cabelo, 6 The Borough, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7NA and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. It explains how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) [pre GDPR enforcement] and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations).This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are adhering to. Additionally it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and your computer / device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.
The DPA & GDPR May 2018
We and this website comply to the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and already complies to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which comes into effect from May 2018. We will update this policy where required accordingly after the completion of the UK's exit from the European Union.
Use of Cookies
This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. As required by legislation, where applicable this website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user to give explicit permission or to deny the use of /saving of cookies on their computer / device.
What are cookies? Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that tract, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive, they should take necessary steps within their web browser security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.
Website Visitor Tracking
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information unless specified in relation to an online booking.
Adverts and Sponsored Links
This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to who may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts the serve.
Clicking on such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should therefore note the click on sponsored links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting external links mentioned.
Downloads and Media Files
Any downloadable documents files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party antivirus software or similar.
We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third-party websites and av users to verify their authenticity using third party antivirus software or similar applications.
Contact and Communication with Us
Users contacting us through this website do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use.
Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact and where you have given your express permission, we may use your details to send you product/services information through a mailing list system. This is done in accordance with the regulations named in ‘the policy’ above.
Email Mailing List and Marketing Messages
We operate an e-mail mailing list program used to inform subscribers about products, services and/or news we supply/publish. Any new clients to our business will not be automatically opted in for any such marketing. Any existing customers may have been opted in automatically under previous privacy laws. If you wish to be unsubscribed from any kind of marketing list, then please inform us via phone e-mail or by clicking unsubscribe in the emails themselves.
We will send you appointment reminders via e-mail and or text message to inform you of appointments you have made with ourselves. These are deemed necessary for us as a business operation.
External Website Links and Third Parties
Although we only look to include quality safe and relevant external links users are advised to adapt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website (external links are clickable text banner images links to other websites)
Shortened URL's: URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URL's uniform resource locators to something substantially shorter. This technique is specifically used in social media and looks similar to this example http://bit.ly/zyVUBo. Users should take precautions before clicking on any shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.
We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked websites despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Policy and Usage
We adapt a social media policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify authenticity in such profiles before engaging with or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for any user’s password or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.
There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons which can help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platform. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media policies and usage policies in the resources section below.
Resources and Further Information
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
