Last updated: May 28, 2024

Introduction 

Salon Studios East Cobb and its sister location, Salon Studios Acworth and affiliate Salon Studios USA, Inc. collectively, (“Company”, “our”, “us”, or “we”) considers matters relating to the protection of personal information and privacy to be extremely important.

This Privacy Policy describes the kind of information we may collect during your visit to our websites, use of our mobile applications and other online services or platforms that link or refer to this Privacy Policy, or that otherwise interact with us online or offline at our business locations (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through our Services.

Information We Collect and How We Collect it

We collect several types of information about the users of our Services in various ways, including information by which you may be personally identified (“personal information”). We may collect personal information from the following categories of sources:

• (i) Directly From You

We collect personal information directly from you when you use the Services, certain features, or contact us. For example, you may provide us with information when you complete or submit forms related to the Services, open an account with us, communicate with us, participate in a survey or promotion, or take advantage of our Wi-Fi service. This information may include:

• • Your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
  • Your responses to surveys we may ask you to complete as part of research.
  • Your name, e-mail address, postal address, age, birthday, gender, street address, or mobile phone number.
  • Your health conditions and preferences when you make a service request or appointment.
  • Payment information, such as your credit card number, security code and expiration date, to process a financial transaction you have requested.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our website, applications, and platforms, and of the fulfillment of your orders, including the products you purchase and where and how frequently you buy them or your use of discount codes or coupons.
  • Your gender, race and ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, and resume when you choose to voluntarily provide this information when applying for a position in our career portal.
  • Your government identification, professional certifications or licenses, and your professional organizations when you register your business account with us.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of our websites, mobile applications, or platforms to other users or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

• (ii) Automatically When You Use the Services: 

When you access or use our Services, we may automatically collect certain information through certain mechanisms, including, but not limited to:

• • Log Information:

We collect and log information about your access and use of our websites and mobile applications, such as your domain name and/or your IP address, the type of browser you use, access times, pages or information viewed, browsing behavior, the page you visited before navigating to our website and any search terms and search engines used to find the Services.

• • Device Information:

We collect information about the computer or mobile device you use to access our websites and mobile applications, such as the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, settings of the device and mobile network information.

• • Location Information:

We may collect information about the precise location of your device or computer each time you access or use our websites or mobile applications, including geolocation information associated with your computer or device’s IP address, your mobile device’s GPS signal or information about nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers that may be transmitted to us when you use the Services.

• • Information Collected with Tracking Technologies:

We and our service providers use various tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons and embedded scripts, to collect information about you and your interaction with our Services, including information about your browsing behavior. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory. Web beacons (also knowns as clear GIFs and pixel tags) are electronic images that may be used with our Services or emails. Embedded scripts are programming code that run when you use our Services which can facilitate the collection of information.

• • Usage information:

We may collect information about the Services you use, the time and duration of your use of the Services and other information about your interaction with content offered through a Service, and any information stored in cookies and similar technologies that we have set on your device.

The foregoing mechanisms and the information collected are used to: (i) recognize a visitor when they return and to tailor the information and services provided to the visitor based on their previous visits to our websites; (ii) understand use of our websites and mobile applications, such as number of visits, average time spent on the websites or mobile application, pages viewed, features used and campaign effectiveness; (iii) improve the Services and related systems; (iv) assist with the operation and management of the Services; (v) monitor use of the Services, to ensure proper operation, security and to prevent misuse; and (vi) advertise and analyze your interactions and experiences with our websites.

You may adjust your settings for cookies and similar technologies in your browser or device settings or through certain technology vendors. Your web browser may allow you to transmit “Do-Not-Track” signals to any website with which you interact. Like many websites, our websites are not designed to respond to “Do Not Track” signals received from browsers. To learn more about “Do Not Track” signals, visit allaboutdnt.com.

• (iii) From Publicly Available Sources or Third Parties.

In some instances, we may collect your information directly from other parties. We may receive information about you from publicly and commercially available sources, as permitted by law, which we may combine with other information we receive from or about you, including from the following:

• • Social media services. For example, if you create or log into your account through a social media service or if you associate your social media account with your account with us or with your employment application with us, we will have access to certain information from that service, such as your name, account information and friends lists, depending on the consents you have provided the social media service.
  • Our service providers and business partners, such as hosting vendors, advertising service providers, data analytics companies, marketing service companies, and list managers may provide your personal information to us.
  • Customers, government agencies, or third parties through their direct interactions with us.
  • Companies that provide content, advertising, or functionality. Some of the content, advertising, and functionality on our services may be provided by third parties, such as our advertisers. These companies may collect or receive certain information about your use of the Services, including using cookies, beacons, and similar technologies, and this information may be combined with information collected across different websites and online services to deliver ads that are more relevant to you, both on and off our services.

Interest-Based Advertisements:

Please note that we or other parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different devices and online properties when you use our websites and mobile applications. These companies may use cookies, web beacons or other technologies to report certain information about your visits to our Services and other websites (such as web pages you visit and your response to ads) in order to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and to deliver ads that are more relevant to you, both on and off our Services.

Our websites may use third-party technologies (such as Adobe, Facebook, and Google Analytics) in connection with your activity on our websites or mobile applications, including for advertising purposes and to analyze your interactions and experiences with our websites, and including the features you engage with, how you navigate, and your click/touch, movement, scroll, and keystroke activity.

Disclosure of Personal Information:

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide to the following recipients:

Affiliates

We may disclose information within our family of affiliated locations so that we may provide offers from those companies that may be relevant to you, better understand your preferences, and improve our Services.

Service Providers

We may disclose information with companies providing services on our behalf, such as hosting vendors, advertising service providers, data analytics companies, marketing service companies, and list managers. We also may disclose your information, including your payment information, as appropriate to process your payments for the Services or complete a transaction.

Social Media Services

If you connect a social media account with the Services or engage with our services through a social media platform, we may disclose your information with that social media platform, and it may disclose information about you with us. We may use this information to personalize your experience on the Services and on social media platforms, or to provide you with offers or other products or Services you may request.

Other Parties When Required or Permitted by Law, or As Necessary to Protect Our Users and Services 

We and our service providers may disclose your personal information as we believe is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of the Services, our employees or agents or users, to detect, suppress or prevent fraud or where otherwise required or permitted by applicable law or legal process, including responding to a search warrant or other legally valid requests from public and government authorities (which may include lawful access by U.S., Canadian, or other governmental authorities, courts or law enforcement agencies).

NO mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.

Other Parties in Connection With a Corporate Transaction

We reserve the right to disclose any information we have about you if we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party, such as in the event of a merger, acquisition, or in connection with a bankruptcy reorganization.

Other Parties in Connection With a Corporate Transaction

We reserve the right to disclose any information we have about you in the event that we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party, such as in the event of a merger, acquisition, or in connection with a bankruptcy reorganization.

Otherwise With Your Consent or at Your Direction

We also may disclose information about you whenever you consent to or direct such sharing to another party.

This Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including but not limited to any third-party websites, services and applications (“Third Party Services”) that you elect to access through the Service. While we try to facilitate access only to those Third-Party Services that share our respect for your privacy, we don’t take responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those Third-Party Services. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of all Third-Party Services you access.

Manage Your Account:

You may access, modify, or delete certain information we maintain about you. You may make such changes by visiting your account on the Client Portal page of the Salon Studios East Cobb website in which you are interacting.

Email Promotions

You may opt out of receiving commercial email, text message, and other electronic messages from us by following the instructions contained in those messages.

Choosing to Provide Personal Information

In using the Services and in interacting with us you will have the ability to control the amount of personal information you provide to us and therefore you may restrict the use and disclosure of personal information we collect from you by not providing personal information in connection with the Services or us in the first place. However, if you choose to limit the personal information you provide, it may limit the way you can make use of the Services or otherwise interact with us.

Data Security

We have in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to protect personal information in our custody and control against loss, theft and unauthorized access, use, modification, and disclosure. However, as effective as these measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our Services, nor can we guarantee that the information you provide will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

 Other Important Information:

Children

Our websites and mobile applications are not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16 on our websites and mobile applications. If we learn that a child under the age of 16 has provided us with personal information on our websites and mobile applications, we will delete it in accordance with applicable law.

Links to Third-Party Sites

Our Services may link to third-party websites and services that we do not operate and are outside of our control. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by other websites or other services. Please exercise caution and review the privacy statements applicable to the third-party websites and services you use.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of changes by posting changes here, or by other appropriate means. Any changes to the Privacy Policy will become effective when the updated policy is posted on the Services. Your use of the Services or your provision of personal information to use the Services following such changes indicates your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.

Exercising your Rights

To make a request relating to your personal information, please submit a request by either:

• You may submit a request through our webform
• You may mail or email your request to us at the following address/email:

Salon Studios East Cobb

2550 Sandy Plains Rd, Suite 155

Marietta, GA 30066

404-480-4004

[email protected]

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your personal information. Please note that we will need to verify your identity before your request can be processed. For verification, you may be asked to log into your account or to provide 2-3 pieces of personal information that we will match against our records. We will only use the information you provide to verify your identity and the personal information that is relevant to your request.

You may use an authorized agent to submit a request to know, to correct, to delete, to limit, or to opt-out. You may make such a designation by providing the agent with written permission to act on your behalf. We will require the authorized agent to provide either (1) a power of attorney; or (2) proof of your written permission. In addition to proof of your written permission, we may require you to verify your own identity and directly confirm that you provided the agent permission to submit the request.

Questions

If you have any questions with respect to our privacy policies or practices, please contact us at [email protected]