PRIVACY POLICY

Brac - Privacy Policy

 

Brac Beauty Limited, trading as Brac (Brac) sells beauty and skin care products in New Zealand and Australia to members of the public, retailers and other businesses.

Please contact Brac’s Privacy Officer at: privacyofficer@Brac.com with any queries. Brac’ website, www.Brac.com (along with its website terms and conditions), are subject to this privacy policy (Privacy Policy).  By visiting the website or by making a purchase with Brac you are considered to have accepted this Privacy Policy. You are deemed to have understood this Privacy Policy and acknowledge and agree to all the content within.

This Privacy Policy also explains how Brac may collect, store, use, and disclose any Personal Information that you provide to Brac. By your interacting with Brac in any form on any forum and/or platform (including, but not limited to your continued use of the website, making an enquiry (either by phone or electronically), purchasing from Brac’, or interacting with any of Brac’s social media content across Facebook and Instagram (whether included on Brac’ branded social pages or those of other third parties), you are deemed to have read, understood and agree with this Privacy Policy. By using the website, assisting in promoting any products of Brac’s, and/or purchasing from Brac, you consent to Brac collecting, storing, using, and disclosing your personal information as per the details in this Privacy Policy.

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy 

 

You should review this Privacy Policy before your continued use of this website, even if you are a return user. The reason being, Brac will review and update this Privacy Policy and retains the full rights to action changes of this at any time. Any changes will take effect immediately once they are published on Brac website within this Privacy Policy section. Your continued use of the website or interaction with Brac, including, but not limited to making a purchase from Brac represents your agreement to be bound by any amendments to the Privacy Policy.

 

Storage and security

 

In alignment with security measures that are reasonable for Brac to undertake, Brac will ensure that the Personal Information it holds are protected against loss or misuse.

 

Collection of Personal Information and what it means on this website

 

In this Privacy Policy, ‘Personal Information’ means information relating to a person which can be used to identify that person. By interacting with Brac on any forum or platform, Brac may collect your Personal Information (including, but not limited to, your geographical area, your name, email address, phone number, and postal address, areas of interest and other demographic information).

Brac collects Personal Information help market and promote its products to those who it deems may be interested, to run its business and to meet its legal obligations. Without your Personal Information, Brac cannot fulfil orders and also may not be able to provide other services and assistance to you. Brac uses FaceBook Messenger on its website to provide a chatting service for website users. Any Personal Information disclosed using FaceBook Messenger may be used to help you with your queries and promote Brac’s products to you. By interacting with the FaceBook Messenger program on the Brac website, this may amount to cross-border disclosure by Brac in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020. If this occurs, you give your consent to Brac for this cross-border disclosure of your Personal Information under New Zealand privacy laws. You can view more information here about how FaceBook Messenger uses and stores your Personal Information: https://www.omegatheme.com/privacy-policy-app

When you share your email address on any forum or platform with Brac and give your consent to receiving communications from Brac. Brac uses Send In Blue to store and use your Personal Information and also may use this program to collect your Personal Information.  By sharing your Personal Information, including, but not limited to your email address, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and consent to your Personal Information being used and stored by Send In Blue as well as on Brac’ cloud based storage, located in New Zealand and also on occasion in Australia. You can view information about how Send In Blue uses and stores your Personal Information at https://www.sendinblue.com/legal/privacypolicy/

 

Digital Marketing, Behavioural advertising and Electronic messages - approval

 

To the extent you use this website and/or provide Brac with an email address or engage with Brac on any platform or forum, you agree that Brac may send you commercial electronic messages and/or market it’s products and information to you electronically, using targeted advertising and marketing communications on digital platforms (including, but not limited to, through: Google and any other social media platform). For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by changing your preferences on the below websites:
 

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at:  http://optout.aboutads.info/. You can also opt out of third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1 or control the use of device identifiers by using their devices settings: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/1660762#mob  

 

Your access to, correction of and removal of Personal Information

 

You may ask for access to, correction of and removal of your Personal Information (including your email address) that Brac has, by contacting Brac’s Privacy Officer (by e-mail Privacyofficer@Brac.com, by phone 0800 _________). Please notify Brac’s Privacy Officer of any requests or queries you may have. If you receive marketing emails from Brac and do not wish to, you can also click ‘Unsubscribe’ in the footer of the email. If this is not there, contact the Privacy Officer of Brac, via email or 0800 number as provided above.

 

Use and disclosure and Cookies

 

Brac will abide by this Privacy Policy and the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 and any other applicable privacy law and use your Personal Information in alignment with this.

Brac will not sell, rent, or lease your Personal Information to third parties.

Brac will only use or disclose Personal Information if it is believed by Brac, and/or by their affiliated parties, and/or law enforcement, if;

  1. believes that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to assist a law enforcement agency or an agency responsible for national security in the performance of their functions;
  2. believes that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce any legal rights, it may have, or is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of Brac, it’s customers, or others; or
  3. is authorised, required or permitted by law to disclose the information.

Brac will only disclose your Personal Information to third parties who have agreed to treat your Personal Information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy. Brac may use or disclose Personal Information that you have provided to it, or which it has obtained about you, for any of the following purposes:

  1. to provide Brac’ services;
  2. to process your Personal Information for Brac’ own internal business purposes;
  3. to carry out transactions, such as customer billing and payments, employee transactions and customer transactions;
  4. to undertake credit management activities;
  5. for debt recovery purposes, which may also include disclosing information to debt collectors;
  6. to provide promotional information, advertising, marketing and newsletters in hard copy or electronic form, or information that Brac reasonably believe may be of interest to you;
  7. to communicate with customers, potential customers, suppliers, staff, contractors and others;
  8. to comply with Brac’ legal obligations, and to meet its reporting obligations as required by law.

By providing Brac with your Personal Information, you consent to Brac using and disclosing your Personal Information as noted in this Privacy Policy.

Cookies - automated collection

Brac uses cookies on their website to retain your name and areas of interest if you provide this information on the website. These are first-party, persistent cookies.

The below information will be used to market and re-market Brac’s content and products to you, to customise the website for your use through analysing how this website is being used (note, this analysis is actioned anonymously). Brac will not disclose any such information except in anonymised and/or aggregate form, apart from documented in this Privacy Policy, or as required by the laws of New Zealand.

When you visit this website, Brac may use automated technologies (including, but not limited to usage monitoring software, cookies, pixels, web beacons, sessions and other tracking technologies, to collect and store certain information about your visit, including without limitation:

  1. The IP address and domain name used by your device to connect to the Internet;
  2. The operating system and the browser your device uses, and any search engine used to access this website;
  3. The date and time you are visiting and geographical area you a visiting from;
  4. The pages you visit;
  5. Your clicks and other activities on this website;
  6. The referring Website or other platform (if any) through which entered this website; and
  7. Any other information you expressly provide (such as your name and areas of interest).

 

Hyperlinks and content of and to third parties

 

Any hyperlinks (and the content within) from this website to third party websites (including, but not limited to social media platforms) are not the responsibility of Brac. By visiting a third party platform or website noted on any Brac platform and or on their website, you deem that you indemnify Brac of all responsibility for any interaction/engagement with or purchasing from any third party by yourself. It is your responsibility to find out and understand how any third party sites (hyperlinked from this website or any Brac platform) collect, store, use, and distribute any Personal Information you provide, along with the content of any Privacy Policies or terms and conditions any third party site may have.

 

CONTACT US


For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact Brac by e-mail Privacyofficer@Brac.com, by phone 027 397 5017