Privacy Policy Statement

At BeautyEncounter.com, we recognize and respect the importance of maintaining the privacy of our customers and members, and have established this Privacy Policy as a result. Below, we describe why we gather customer and member information; what information we collect; how we collect it, what we use the information for; and how you can instruct us if you prefer to limit the use of your information. This Privacy Policy is part of the Terms of Use, which governs your use of BeautyEncounter.com.

Why We Gather Information

We gather personal information to allow us to process your orders; provide an enhanced and more personalized shopping experience; and to inform you of special offers and discounts.

What Information We Gather

When you order from our website, we may collect the following information: your name, telephone number, email address, billing information (credit card number, expiration date and billing address), products purchased and any relevant promotion code. Information you enter is collected, even if you cancel or do not complete an order. Customers also can voluntarily offer their email address, home address, birthday and gender as part of our mailing and promotion list. This information is maintained in our database and used for solely for these purposes. Customers can choose to opt-out of the mailing list at anytime.

How We Use Your Information

We use information collected from you to process your order; provide an enhanced and more personalized shopping experience; and to inform you and your gift recipients of offers and discounts from BeautyEncounter.com or other sites and companies that we own. In addition, we periodically make such information including aggregated information available to selected third parties including but not limited to: those who trade or rent information for direct marketing purposes. However, we do not make yours or your gift recipient's email addresses available to third parties (except for subsidiaries, subcontractors or agents acting on our behalf in compliance with this Privacy Policy) or any Successor (see below) to our business. If you would like us to email you a notice when our Privacy Policy or Terms of Use change, please follow the instructions below. Any email sent to your gift recipients will include a link to our Privacy Policy and a link to opt-out of future emails. You may instruct us not to share personal information you provide with third parties by following the instructions provided below. A Successor to our business is not considered to be a third party for these purposes (see below).

In the event of a merger, consolidation, sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets or business of BeautyEncounter.com, one of the assets that will be transferred is the information we collect from our customers and members. However, the use of this information by any Successor will still be governed by the terms of this Privacy Policy as amended from time to time including any amendment after such transaction. You will continue to have the right to opt-out of sharing your information with third parties.

We may disclose any information you provide to BeautyEncounter.com (i) when we believe disclosure to be appropriate to comply with any law, regulation or governmental request, or to comply with judicial process; (ii) if such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to operate this website; (iii) to protect the rights or property of BeautyEncounter.com, its users, sponsors, providers, licensors and merchants.

Questions About This Policy?

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the content or practices of our website, you can contact Beauty Encounter by sending email to privacy@beautyencounter.com by phone 888-617-2488 during our business hours. By mail please write us a letter and include your First and Last Name. Please send it to our mailing address:
BeautyEncounter.com
Attn:Privacy
18480 Pacific Street
Fountain Valley, CA 92708

Email Submissions

Our email list is intended to keep users informed of new products, gifts and special features. Our policy is to send our email announcements or newsletters only to those who request this when registering or opting-in to our email list (see how we use the information we collect above). If you receive an email and want to be removed from our email list, you can do so by the following:

• Email privacy@beautyencounter.com to be removed from the email list
• Login to My Account and uncheck the option to receive promotional e-emails

THIS ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY WAS LAST UPDATED ON January 27, 2011.

How We Use "Cookies"

A "cookie" is a small file stored on your computer by a website, which gives you a numeric user ID and stores certain information about your activity on the site. We use cookies to let us know that you are a prior customer and to provide certain features to you. For example, we store information on your product selections as you shop on our site, but we do not store any personal information (except your name) or financial information about you.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. However, if you disable this feature certain aspects of BeautyEncounter.com, such as the shopping basket, will not function properly.