BEAUTY BULLETIN PRIVACY POLICY INTRODUCTION Brand Influence CC, a close corporation with registered address at Office OE, Ground Floor, Nautica building, Waterclub Complex, 100 Beach Road, Granger Bay, Cape Town, 8005 (“Beauty Bulletin” “we”, “us”, “our”) respects, and is committed to ensuring, the privacy of every person who visits or uses this website, www.beautybulletin.com. This privacy policy (this “policy”) has been put together to explain how we may collect, use, share, retain and generally process your personal information obtained during your interactions with us (whether online, in writing or verbally) or which is collected or received in any other manner. This policy further explains your choices and rights in relation to our processing of your personal information. Any visit to or use of this website is deemed to include an acceptance of this policy. Please ensure that you have read, fully understand and agree with the provisions contained in this policy before browsing or using this website. This policy may be revised from time to time to take into account any changes in applicable laws, our services, this website or any aspect related to our business generally. We will inform you and, if appropriate, seek your consent if we intend to materially change the way in which we use your data. We therefore encourage you to monitor this policy periodically to note any changes made to it. CHILDREN’S PERSONAL INFORMATION Beauty Bulletin shall not process any personal information relating to a person under the age of 18 years unless it has obtained consent from that person’s parent or legal guardian. If this website is being accessed by the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 18 years, and personal information pertaining to that child is being provided by the parent or guardian, then they hereby expressly consent to Beauty Bulletin processing such information according to the further provisions of this Privacy Policy. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES BEAUTY BULLETIN COLLECT? Beauty Bulletin is subject to the Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 (“PoPIA”). We may collect certain information about you when you visit this website, become a client, become a customer, provide goods or services to us, apply to be a brand influencer (“Realfluencer”) or apply for a job. The type of information we collect will depend on the purpose for which it is collected and used. We will only collect information that we need for that purpose. The information we collect includes–
- information about the content and services you express an interest in when you use this website;
- your login data, name, surname and contact information, including email address, and mobile number which you may submit to Beauty Bulletin when you interact with us on this website or when you create an account;
- information when you enter into a competition posted on our website including name, surname and contact information, including email address, mobile number and banking details should you be declared or selected the winner in such competition and we need to transfer any cash reward to you;
- information about your location or similar location-based information;
- information regarding your personal or professional interests, preference or opinions;
- information about how you use our website, surveys, events and services;
- information regarding demographics, experiences with Beauty Bulletin’s services and contact preferences in order to provide you with further correspondence about Beauty Bulletin’s goods or services;
- Information from Beauty Bulletin Realfluencers including:
- Identifying information such as your name and surname, gender, race, age, marital status;
- Information about your residential location;
- Contact details such as social media contact details, phone numbers, email address and your physical address to enable Beauty Bulletin to send you products;
- information regarding your personal or professional interests, preference, feedback and opinions. This allows Beauty Bulletin to present customized projects and content to you and also to show brands that correlate with your interests;
- your username and password;
- details of products and services that you have obtained from us;
- data collected from you as a result of you agreeing to participate in our projects, events and/or research studies via surveys completed by you, including but not limited to, survey responses, interviews conducted with you, video diaries that you have filmed for us or any other content or posts generated by you in relation to you participation in the projects events or research studies, services which you have provided to us and any other content that you submit;
- social network information (facebook, Instagram, twitter or such other social media platform that you have a presence on), your social network identifier, your reach and number of followers, all information accessible on your publicly available profile such as images, photos, photo tags, likes, followers, comments, posts, stories;
- information from Beauty Bulletin clients, customers and their employees:
- for invoicing and other administrative purposes (such information relating to your name, registration or identity number, contact details (such as phone numbers and email addresses), physical address and postal address and invoicing information, your bank account details should we need to refund any money into your bank account);
- for the purposes of conducting business and commercial activities in the ordinary course;
- identifying information (such as names, identification or registration number), contact details (such as phone numbers and email addresses), physical address and postal address, financial and tax information from suppliers and professional service providers so that we can place orders/instruct you and make payment in respect of any goods or services we receive; and
- the information you provide in your curriculum vitae, in our application form and supporting documentation/information during the recruitment process purely for the purposes of assessing your suitability for the role, for contacting you to progress your application and to take up any references you have provided;
- additional information which we are required or permitted by applicable legislation to collect and process, as well as any additional information you may choose to provide to us, publicly through social media or any other forums.
- Where personal information about you is collected from a public record, or from another source if the information has already been made public by you or on your behalf with your consent;
- where you have given us your express consent to collect your personal information from another source;
- where the collection of your personal information from another source will not prejudice any of your legitimate interests;
- where the collection of personal information from another source is necessary to maintain our legitimate interests or those of any third party we are permitted to share that information with;
- where the collection of personal information directly from you would prejudice the purpose for that collection; or
- where the collection of personal information directly from you is not reasonably practicable in the circumstances.
- We collect your Personal Information when you:
- Use our website;
- register an online profile or complete any forms on our websites;
- voluntarily provide us with information when you interact with us, for example when you make general enquiries either online, in person, through the website or telephonically, lodge complaints, and communicate with us, or you subscribe or consent to receiving newsletters or other communications from us;
- provide any goods or services to us as a supplier or service provider to us;
- apply to be a Beauty Bulletin Realfluencer by submitting your application and thereafter should you be accepted as a Beauty Bulletin Realfluencer by Beauty Bulletin;
- apply for vacancies by submitting your cv and thereafter should you be employed by Beauty Bulletin;
- subscribe for a service or any publications or newsletters, enter into a competition or promotion or participate in a survey offered via social media or our website;
- participate in any of our surveys, projects or events.
- you consenting to our processing your personal information for a specific purpose;
- where processing is necessary for the performance or conclusion of a contract to which you are a party;
- where processing is necessary to achieve Beauty Bulletin’s legitimate interests, for example the management, operations and improvement of our business (to the extent that they don’t unjustifiably and unlawfully limit your interests or rights which require protection);
- where processing is necessary to comply with an obligation imposed by law;
- where processing is necessary to protect your legitimate interests; and
- where processing is necessary to pursue the legitimate interests of a third party to whom the personal information is lawfully supplied.
- to monitor and evaluate, continually improve and enhance the use, functionality and performance of the website, products and services;
- to manage the security of our sites, networks and systems
- to enter into a contract with you;
- to perform our obligations under the contract with you;
- to notify your of promotions and competitions;
- to provide and deliver our products and services to you, as a client or customer, that you order from us to send statements or invoices and any other legal documents and for any other purpose relating to providing our products and services to you;
- to provide and deliver to you, as Beauty Bulletin Realfluencer, the products or services forming the subject matter of the survey, project or event that you are participating in;
- to process market research data provided by you, as an influencer, as a result of you opting in to participate in a survey, project or event for market research purposes;
- to analyse the effectiveness of our client’s advertising campaigns, to provide clients with statistical results of surveys tailored to their marketing campaign or brand;
- in connection with legal proceedings;
- to contact you and offer you opportunities to take part in surveys, projects and events;
- to update Beauty Bulletin’s records about you and for the purpose of retaining records about you;
- to assist with business development;
- to confirm and verify your identity or to verify that you are an authorized influencer or client for security purposes;
- to communicate with you in the course of Beauty Bulletin’s ordinary business activities;
- to contact you regarding the products and services which may be of interest to you, provided you have given us consent to do so or you have previously requested a product or service from us and the communication is relevant or related to that prior request and made within any timeframes established by applicable laws;
- research, training and statistical analysis with the aim of improving Beauty Bulletin’s content and services by making them easier to use and by providing access to certain sections of this website;
- to prevent or detect any unlawful activities;
- to follow up and responding to your enquiries and complaints or processing your requests in relation to your personal information;
- to notify you of any changes to our products and/or services;
- contacting you for market research purposes;
- to comply with legal and regulatory requirements and obligations or industry codes to which we subscribe or which apply to us, or when it is otherwise allowed by law.
- to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is processed, and where that is the case, you have the right to request and get access to that personal data;
- to update and correct your personal information that is held by us;
- in certain cases, and to the extent not prohibited by applicable laws, you may request us to remove your personal information, partially or completely;
- to request us to limit processing of your personal information to any one or more of the Purposes listed above (note that this may impact the accessibility of our services);
- in certain cases, to object to processing of your personal information, including with regards to profiling. You have the right to opt-out from any communications from us (whether marketing or otherwise). You may withdraw any consent previously provided in relation to the collection, use and processing of your personal information; and/or
- to escalate any complaint in relation to your personal information to the Information Regulator, whose contact details are:
- entities with whom we have partnered to jointly create and offer our content and services;
- our employees that require the personal information in the performance of their jobs;
- Our clients where we have agreed to provide access to our survey data ((which for the avoidance of any doubt may include, among other things, your feedback and opinions and identifying information such as your name and surname, gender, race, age, marital status, location, and other information about you which is considered to be a “special personal information”), or where we have agreed to undertake a survey on their behalf, or where we have agreed to assist them in monitoring the effectiveness of their advertising campaign;
- Beauty Bulletin’s business partners who are involved in the delivery of our products or services to you and may, directly or indirectly, render certain services to Beauty Bulletin or to you or in undertaking activities linked to the operation of such services on Beauty Bulletin’s behalf; or
- Other companies in our industry when we believe it will enhance to services and products we can offer to you, but only where you have not objected to such sharing;
- third parties, where the disclosure is in compliance with legal and/or contractual requirements that Beauty Bulletin is subject to;
- third parties, where we believe it is necessary to protect our rights.