Privacy Policy

last updated: May 2018

  1. Introduction

Barking Mad Cosmetics is an online retailer of innovative cosmetics and personal hygiene products. To be able to provide a online ordering service to our customers we must obtain and store some personal details. This policy outlines how we manage your data.

Any information stored on Barking Mad Cosmetics’s platform is treated as confidential. All information is stored securely and is accessed by authorized personnel only. Barking Mad Cosmetics implements and maintains appropriate technical, security and organisational measures to protect Personal Data against unauthorized or unlawful processing and use, and against accidental loss, destruction, damage, theft or disclosure.

  1. Collection and use

2.1 .General

The following sections cover the specifics for Website Visitors and Customers (Users who have purchased from us online)

2.2 Website Visitors

By visiting this website, you consent to the collection and use of your Personal Data as described herein. If you do not agree with the terms set out herein, please do not visit this website. If required by applicable law, we will seek your explicit consent to process Personal Data collected on this website or volunteered by you. Kindly note that any consent will be entirely voluntary. However, if you do not grant the requested consent to the processing of your Personal Data, the use of this website may not be possible.

Barking Mad Cosmetics may collect, record and analyse information of Visitors to its website. We may record your IP address and use cookies. Barking Mad Cosmetics may add information collected by way of pageview activity. Furthermore, Barking Mad Cosmetics may collect and process any Personal Data that you volunteer to us in our website’s forms, such as when you contact us via a web form or purchase products from our website

Such Personal Data may comprise your IP address, first and last name, your postal and email address and your telephone number.

Barking Mad Cosmetics gathers data about visits to the website, including numbers of Visitors and visits, Geo-location data, length of time spent on the site, pages clicked on or where Visitors have come.

2.2.1 Purpose of processing personal data

Barking Mad Cosmetics uses the collected data to communicate with Visitors, to process purchases and to improve its website by analysing how Visitors navigate its website.

2.2.2 Sharing personal data

Barking Mad Cosmetics will not share your personal data with any third-party organisations, some visitor data is used to analyse the Visitor behaviour on our website.

2.2.3 Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information sent by a website to a Visitor’s hard disk. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. By continuing to visit the website, you agree to the placement of cookies on your device. If you choose not to accept our cookies, we cannot guarantee that your experience will be as fulfilling as it would otherwise be.

2.2.4 Links to other sites

Please be aware that while visiting our site, Visitors can follow links to other sites that are beyond our sphere of influence. Barking Mad Cosmetics is not responsible for the content or privacy policy of these other sites.

2.3 Customers

Customers should be aware that by completing a website contact form or making a purchase through our website they are disclosing information that could make them personally identifiable to Barking Mad Cosmetics employees. The security and privacy protection implemented on Barking Mad Cosmetics’ internal platform will not expose your data to third-parties outside of our own organisation.

2.3.1. Inquires

If you wish to inquire about your Personal Data that we may have on file for you, we recommend that you visit our contact us page and speak to our team. After confirming your identity we will supply you with all the details we have on file.

2.4 Users

2.4.1. General

In order to provide services to its Users, Barking Mad Cosmetics collects certain types of data from them. Furthermore, Barking Mad Cosmetics’ collects information from customers when they make a purchase with us online. This section will describe how these two types of data are collected and used by Barking Mad Cosmetics as well as geographical differences that effect this policy. Data entered or transferred into Barking Mad Cosmetics by Users such as texts, questions, contacts, media files, etc., remains the property of the User and may not be shared with a third party by Barking Mad Cosmetics without express consent from the User.

2.4.2 Collection of User data

During a User’s / customer’s registration and later on Barking Mad Cosmetics’s platform, they provide information such as name, company name, email, address, telephone, credit-card number and other relevant data. This information is used by Barking Mad Cosmetics to identify the User and provide them with support, services, mailings, sales and marketing actions, billing and to meet contractual obligations.

Barking Mad Cosmetics Users can at any time access and edit, update or delete their contact details by logging in with their username and password to Barking Mad Cosmetics’ platform. Barking Mad Cosmetics will not retain User data longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.

2.4.3 Collection of customer data

Customer data includes data from individuals uploaded, transferred or manually entered by a Barking Mad Cosmetics User into their account for the purpose of providing purchasing items from our online store. Personal Data may include, personal contact information such as name, home address, home telephone or mobile number, email address, lifestyle and social circumstances including age, marital status, business contact details, gender and other sensitive Personal Data.

As Barking Mad Cosmetics sells to a wide group of customers and businesses, the purpose may vary greatly. For Users in the EEA, or for Users providing sales to customer in the EEA, the User will be the “controller”, as defined in the Directive and the GDPR. The purpose will consequently be defined by Barking Mad Cosmetics’ User.

2.4.4. Geographical location

A Personal Data is processed in the United States of America (US), all Personal Data is processed solely in this country.

2.4.4.1.1 Controller

Barking Mad Cosmetics processes Personal Data both as a Processor and as a Controller, as defined in the Directive and the GDPR:

The Barking Mad Cosmetics entity which you as a User or customer entered an agreement with when using Barking Mad Cosmetics’ platform, will be the Controller for User data, as outlined above in “Collection of User data” section.
For customer data, as outlined in the “Collection of customer data” section, the User will be the Controller in accordance with Directive and GDPR, and Barking Mad Cosmetics will be the Processor.
Barking Mad Cosmetics adheres to the Directive of 1995 and the GDPR from May 25th, 2018. Consequently, Barking Mad Cosmetics processes all data provided by its Users with accounts in its European Data Region, in the European Economic Area (EEA) only.

All data collected by Barking Mad Cosmetics through contact forms or sales will be stored exclusively in secure hosting facilities provided by Godaddy web services. Barking Mad Cosmetics has a data processing agreement in place with its provider, ensuring compliance with the Directive. All hosting is performed in accordance with the highest security regulations. All transfers of data internally in the EEA is done in accordance with this data processing agreement.

2.4.4.2 Processing in the United States Of America (US)

Barking Mad Cosmetics processes data solely in data centers located in the US. Barking Mad Cosmetics has adopted reasonable physical, technical and organizational safeguards which substantially mirror the EU safeguards against accidental, unauthorized or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure, access, use or processing of the User’s data in Barking Mad Cosmetics possession. Barking Mad Cosmetics will promptly notify the User in the event of any known unauthorized access to, or use of, the User’s data.

All data collected by Barking Mad Cosmetics Users through sales or web forms will be stored exclusively in secure hosting facilities provided by Godaddy Web Services. Barking Mad Cosmetics’ contract with its hosting provider ensures that all hosting is performed in accordance with the highest security regulations. Barking Mad Cosmetics’ policy is to protect and safeguard any personal information obtained by Barking Mad Cosmetics in accordance with United States state or federal laws governing the protection of personal information and data. Accordingly, Barking Mad Cosmetics adheres to practices and policies that aim to safeguard the data.

  1. Retention and deletion

Barking Mad Cosmetics will not retain data longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.

  1. Acceptance of these Conditions

We assume that all Visitors of our website, customers and users Barking Mad Cosmetics’ platform have carefully read this document and agree to its contents. If someone does not agree with this privacy policy, they should refrain from using our website and platform. We reserve the right to change our privacy policy as necessity dictates. Continued use of Barking Mad Cosmetics website and platform after having been informed of any such changes to these conditions implies acceptance of the revised privacy policy. This privacy policy is an integral part of Barking Mad Cosmetics’ terms of use.

  1. Our Legal Obligation to Disclose Personal Information

We will reveal a user’s personal information without his/her prior permission only when we have reason to believe that the disclosure of this information is required to establish the identity of, to contact or to initiate legal proceedings against a person or persons who are suspected of infringing rights or property belonging to Barking Mad Cosmetics or to others who could be harmed by the user’s activities or of persons who could (deliberately or otherwise) transgress upon these rights and property. We are permitted to disclose personal information when we have good reason to believe that this is legally required.

6.Barking Mad Cosmetics’Data Protection Officer

Barking Mad Cosmetics has a “Data Protection Officer” who is responsible for matters relating to privacy and data protection. This Data Protection Officer can be reached by mailing:

Privacy Compliance Officer at info@barkingmadcosmetics.com or by mail at Barking Mad Cosmetics

[Re: Privacy Compliance Officer]

[901 Bayshore Blvd, Tampa, FL, 33606, United States]

  1. For Further Information

If you have any further questions regarding the data Barking Mad Cosmetics collects, or how we use it, then please feel free to contact us by using the form on the contact us page