Who we are and our Privacy Policy
Our website address is: https://www.thevelvetrunway.com.
Publication Director of this website: Julia Rees
Owner : Julia Rees
SIRET: 820 490 316 00016
Contact – thevelvetrunway@gmail.com
Host: Bluehost, 10 Corporate Drive, Suite #300, Burlington, MA 01803, USA
1 General
Applicable legislation : These general conditions are governed by French law.
Our privacy notice tells you what personal data (PD) and non-personal data (NPD) we may collect from you, how we collect it, how we protect it, how we may share it, how you can access and change it. Our privacy notice also explains certain legal rights that you have with respect to your personal data.
2 Definitions
‘Non-personal data’ (NPD) is information that is in no way personally identifiable.
‘Personal data’ (PD) means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
3 General conditions of use of the site
The use of the ‘www.thevelvetrunway.com” website implies full and complete acceptance of the general conditions of use described below. These terms of use may be modified or supplemented at any time, so users of the sites are invited to consult them regularly.
4 Description of the services provided.
“The Velvet Runway” strives to provide as accurate information as possible on the site. However, it cannot be held responsible for omissions, inaccuracies and deficiencies, whether caused by itself or by third party partners who provide it with this information.
All the information indicated on the website is given for information purposes only, and is subject to change.
In addition, the information on the site is not exhaustive, and is given subject to modifications that may have been made since it was put online.
5 Contractual limitations on technical data.
The website cannot be held liable for any material damage related to its use. In addition, the user of the site undertakes to access it using recent, virus-free equipment and with a state-of-the-art browser.
6 Intellectual property
‘The Velvet Runway’ is the owner of the intellectual property rights or holds the user rights to all elements accessible on the site, including texts, images, graphics, logo, icons, sounds, software.
Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, adaptation of all or part of the elements of the sites, whatever the means or process used, is prohibited, unless prior written authorisation has been obtained from “The Velvet Runway”.
Any unauthorized use of the site or any of the elements contained will be considered as constituting an infringement and prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of Articles L. 335-2 et seq. of the Intellectual Property Code.
7 Limitations of liability.
‘The Velvet Runway’ shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the website, resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications indicated in point 5, or from the appearance of a bug or incompatibility.
Interactive spaces (possibility to ask questions/ post comments) may be available to users. “The Velvet Runway” reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content posted in this space that contravenes the legislation applicable in France, in particular the provisions relating to data protection. If necessary, “The Velvet Runway” also reserves the right to hold the user liable under civil and/or criminal law, in particular in the event of a racist, abusive, defamatory or pornographic message, regardless of the medium used (text, photography, etc.).
8 Management of personal data.
The privacy and security of your personal information is important to us. This privacy policy explains how and why we use your personal data, to make sure you stay informed and can be confident about giving us your information.
We’ll never sell or give your personal data to third parties and we’ll only use your personal data on relevant lawful grounds as permitted by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (from 25 May 2018)/UK Data Protection Act and Privacy of Electronic Communication Regulation.
Personal Data Information Collected and Used
“The Velvet Runway” only collects personal information about the user for the purpose of providing certain services on the sites. The user provides this information in full knowledge of the facts, particularly when he/she enters it himself/herself.
In accordance with the “Data Protection Act” of 6 January 1978, all users have the right to access, modify, rectify and delete data concerning them.
If your personal information changes, you may update your personal information at any time by sending us an email.
You may also request the deletion of your personal data from our records by sending us an email.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Websites:
When you enter and use our website and agree to accept cookies, some of these cookies may contain your PD.
When you opt-in for a Free Product or sign up to our newsletter for updates, news, current or new services or notifications about upcoming products and special offers, we collect your email address.
If you have subscribed to our newsletter, you can opt out of these at any time by using the unsubscribe option at the end of each email.
When you register as a user or member, we collect your name, email address, and other information listed.
If you buy products or services from us, we collect your first and last name, email address, physical address, credit card or other payment information, phone number, and other information listed in order to process and deliver your order.
Automatically collected information and cookies.
We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our websites, if any, as well as the name of the website you’ll visit when you leave our websites. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/the proxy server you use to access the Internet, your Internet service provider’s name, your web browser type, the type of mobile device, your computer operating system, and data about your browsing activity when using our website. We use all this information to analyze trends among our users to help improve our website.
Our website also uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text contained in the cookie generally consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well.
By agreeing to accept our use of cookies, you are giving us, and third parties we partner with, permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer.
We may also use cookies for:
- Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited
- Personalizing content that you see on our website
- Our website analytics
- Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details
- Affiliate marketing
- Allowing you to post comments
- Allowing you to share content with social networks
Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our websites correctly or at all.
Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, or Google AdSense.
The site uses Google AdSense, which is a service for advertisements. Cookies are stored on a user’s computer and Google then delivers advertising based on information generated by the cookies.
You can refuse the use of cookies by changing your browser settings.
Hypertext links
Our site may include a number of hypertext links to other sites.
These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our privacy notice. These websites will likely have their own privacy notices. We have no responsibility for these websites and we provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites is solely at your risk. It is your responsibility to check the privacy notices of these websites to see how they treat your PD
To the extent that “The Velvet Runway” cannot control these external sites and sources, we cannot be held responsible for the availability of these external sites and sources, and cannot assume any responsibility for the content, advertising, products, services or any other material available on or from these external sites or sources.
In addition, “The Velvet Runway” can not be held liable for any damage or loss proven or alleged to have been caused by your use of these websites.
We use the information we receive from you to:
- Provide the products and services you have requested or purchased from us
- Personalise and customise our content
- Make improvements to our website
- Contact you with updates to our website
- Contact you with marketing and advertising that we believe may be of interest to you. Each Email promotion will provide information on how to opt out of future mailings.
- Communications and Emails, such as administrative mails, confirmation mails, responses to your enquiries ….. .
When we communicate with you about our website, we will use the email address you provided when you registered as a member or user. We may also send you emails with promotional information about our website or offers from us or our affiliates unless you have opted out of receiving such information.
Sharing Information With Third Parties
We do not sell or rent your PD to third parties for marketing purposes. We may provide your PD to third-party service providers we hire to provide services to us. These third-party service providers may include but are not limited to: payment processors, web analytics companies, accountants, law firms, auditors, shopping cart and email service providers.
Affiliate Program Participation
We may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for the purposes of commissions.
Legally Required Releases of Information
We may be legally required to disclose your PD if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and/or other users or members; or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, users, employees, and affiliates.
Disclosures to Successors
If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website, we retain the right to transfer your PD to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your PD according to the terms of this privacy notice as well as to any changes to this privacy notice as instituted by the new business. We also retain the right to transfer your PD if our company files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or business.
Children’s Information
Even though our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 16, we realise that a child under the age of 16 may attempt to access our site. We do not knowingly collect PD from children under the age of 16, but we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so.
If a parent or guardian believes that the site has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its databases, please contact us immediately and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Use of your Credit Card
You may have to provide a credit card to buy products and services from our website. We use third-party billing services and have no control over these services. We use our commercially reasonable efforts to make sure your credit card number is kept strictly confidential by using only third-party billing services that use industry-standard encryption technology to protect your credit card number from unauthorized use. However, you understand and agree that we are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number.
9 Policy Changes and Acceptance
This privacy policy is effective as of April 12th, 2019. By using our website and our services, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree or are not comfortable with any policy described in this Privacy Policy, you may discontinue use of our website. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of any portion of our website will constitute your acceptance of these changes.
Questions
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please email us.
Our cookie policy
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file stored in your hard drive by our server or a third-party server during your visit on our website. This file contains information regarding the pages you consulted and the devices (computer, tablet, mobile) you used to visit our website.
Cookies used by The Velvet Runway
We use third-party cookies placed in all the pages of our website. These cookies collect information regarding your web-browsing behaviour. Their usage enables us to optimise your online user experience (content, architecture) by collecting analytics metrics.
If you leave a message on our site your name, email address and website may be saved in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another message. These cookies will last for one year.
Cookies used by Google AdSense
This website uses Google Adsense, a Web-advertising-service of Google Inc., United States (“Google”). Google Adsense uses “cookies” (text files) that are stored on your computer and allows an analysis of your use of this website.
Google Adsense also uses so-called “Web Beacons” (small invisible images) to gather information. Through the use of Web beacons simple actions such as visitor traffic to the website can be recorded and collected. The information generated by the cookie and/or Web Beacon is information about your use of this site, including your IP address and will be transferred to a Google server in the U.S. and stored there.
Google uses this information to serve ads on the site, and will adapt the ads based on visitors and members browsing other sites.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where this is required by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You can avoid storing cookies on your hard drive and the display of Web Beacons by choosing to accept in your browser settings, but this may prevent you from using all the features of this website.
By using this site you agree to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described, and agree to the aforementioned purpose.
How to configure these cookies?
You can block the acceptance of cookies by configuring your browser as follow.
If you use Firefox, please follow these instructions:
Step 1: click on « Menu », the icon placed on the upper-right side of your screen, then click on the “Options” icon
Step 2: click on the « Private life » icon
Step 3: in the « History » part, select « Never keep the history” in the “Keeping rules”
Step 4: select « Always accept third-party cookies »
Step 5: click on the “OK” button
To find out more, please click here
If you use Internet Explorer, please follow these instructions:
Step 1: click on « Tools », then « Internet options »
Step 2: click on the “Confidentiality” tab, then on “Parameters”, then move the cursor up to block cookies and down to allow them, once done, click on the “OK” button
To find out more, please click here
If you use Google Chrome, please follow these instructions:
Step 1: click on « Personalise and control Google Chrome » (the 3 vertical points – on the upper-right side of your page)
Step 2: click on « Parameters »
Step 3: scroll down the page and click on “Show advanced parameters”
Step 4: scroll down until facing the “Confidentiality” section, then click on “Content parameters”
Step 5: in the “Cookies” section, check the box “Prohibit websites to store data” and/or “Block third-party cookies and third-party data”
Step 6: click on the “OK” button to save your changes
To find out more, please click here
If you use Safari, please follow these instructions:
Step 1 : click on « Safari » (on the upper-side of your page), then on « Preferences »
Step 2 : click on “Confidentiality”
Step 3 : check the box “Always” in the “Block cookies” section
To find out more, please click here
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Copyright
The data published and the cited brands on www.thevelvetrunway.com are the exclusive property of their respective owners. Any total or partial reproduction of texts, brands and/or logos using elements of the website without express permission of the website operator is prohibited.
Disclaimer
The Velvet Runway, and all third parties involved in the creation of this website provide no explicit or implicit warranty and assume no responsability with regard to the utilisation of the website. They cannot therefore be held liable by any user or third party for any direct or consequential, special or incidental arising from the use of this site or another site connected by a hyperlink.
Some information and data published (guest posts) on www.thevelvetrunway.com are produced by a third party: Whilst we will do everything we can to ensure this information is reliable, relevant and correct, we cannot be held liable for any errors, omissions or the possible unavailability of information or services and/or the presence of viruses on its website.
