Privacy Policy of “How Beautiful!”

Date: February 25, 2025

At How “Beautiful!” (hereinafter, “we”, “us”, “our” or “How Beautiful!”), we take the privacy of our users, members and subscribers seriously. This privacy policy describes how we collect, use, protect and share your personal information when you visit our website https://quebelleza.ccial.org (the”Site”) and use our membership and subscription services (the ” Services “), the “Services”).

1. Who we are

Our website address is: https://quebelleza.ccial.org. We are responsible for the personal information we collect through this Site and for the through this Site and for the provision of our Services.

2. Information we collect

We collect personal information in the following ways:

Information you provide directly to us:

  • Contact Information: When you register as a member or subscriber, we collect your name, email address, phone number and mailing address. Example: When you create an account to access exclusive content or subscribe to our monthly beauty box.
  • Payment Information: To process subscriptions and purchases, we collect payment information, such as credit or debit card details. Example: When you make your monthly subscription payment through our secure payment gateway. Note: Generally, we do not directly store your full credit card details, as we use secure external payment processors.
  • Profileinformation: You may choose to provide additional information in your profile, such as your interests, beauty product preferences, etc. Example: By completing your user profile to receive personalized product recommendations.
  • Communications with us: We collect information when you communicate with us, either by email, live chat or contact forms. Example: When you send us an inquiry about your subscription or a problem with a product.
  • Comments and Content: If you leave comments on the site or participate in forums (if any ), we collect the information you include.

Information collected automatically:

  • Usage and Device Data: We collect information about how you access and use our Site, including your IP address, browser type, operatingsystem, pages visited, time spent on the Site and server log data. Example: To analyze which sections of the site are most popular and optimize the user experience.
  • Cookies and similar technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on the Site, remember your preferences and analyze site traffic. Example: To keep you logged in to your account as you browse the site, and to remember the products you have added to your shopping cart.

3. How we use your information

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

To provide and manage the Services:

  • Accountcreation and management: To create and manage your membership or subscription account. Example: To allow you to log in, access exclusive content and manage your subscription.
  • Paymentprocessing: To process your subscription payments and purchases. Example: Collect the monthly subscription fee or the price of a purchased product.
  • Product delivery: To manage the logistics and delivery of products you have purchased. Example: To send your monthly beauty box to the address you provided us.
  • Communication with you: To send you communications related to your account, subscription, orders, serviceupdates, important information and responses to your inquiries. Example: Send order confirmations, shipping notifications, payment reminders and newsletters with news and offers.
  • Customer service: To provide you with support and solve your queries or problems. Example: To help you resolve a problem accessing your account or answer questions about a product.

Improve and personalize our Services:

  • Content Customization: To personalize your experience on the Site, by displaying content and offers that may be of interest to you. Example: Recommending beauty products based on your preferences indicated in your profile.
  • Improving the Site and Services: To analyze the use of the Site and Services, conduct research and develop new features and improvements. Example: Using usage data to identify areas of the site that need improvement or to understand what type of content is most popular with our subscribers. improvements or to understand what type of content is most popular with our subscribers.
  • Marketing and Promotions: With your consent (where required by law), we may send you marketing communications about our products, services, special offers and promotions. Example: Send you promotional emails about new products or exclusive member discounts.

Security and legal compliance:

  • Site Security: To protect the security and integrity of our Site and to prevent fraud and abuse. Example: To detect and prevent suspicious activity on the site.
  • Legal Compliance: To comply with our legal obligations and to respond to valid legal requests. Example: To respond to legal or judicial requests.

4. Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data that appears in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The privacy policy for the Gravatar service is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

5. Media and communications

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Website visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

6. Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you can choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set several cookies to store your login information and screen display options. Login cookies last for two days, and display options cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, your login cookies will be deleted.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not include personal data and simply indicates the publication ID of the article you have just edited. It expires after 1 day.

7. 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 exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking from third parties and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website.

8. With whom we share your data

We may share your personal information with the following categories of recipients:

  • Service Providers: We share information with third-party service providers who help us operate, provide, improve, customize and market our Services. Examples:
    • Payment processors: To process subscription and purchase payments. Example: PágueloFácil and PayPal.
    • Shipping companies: For the delivery of products. Example: USPS, DHL, FedEx.
    • Web hosting providers: To host our website and our data.
    • Email marketing providers: To send newsletters and marketing communications. Example: Bebo and MailChimp.
    • Web analytics tools: To analyze site usage and improve our services. Example: Google Analytics.
  • Business Partners: In some cases, we may share information with business partners to offer you joint promotions or integrated services. This would be done with your consent and you would be clearly informed.
  • Legal Authorities: We may disclose personal information to legal authorities if we are required to do so by law or in response to valid legal requests (such as a court order or subpoena).
  • Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, sale of assets or business reorganization, your personal information may be transferred to the acquiring or successor entity. We will notify you if this occurs.

We do not sell, rent or share your personal information with third parties for third party direct marketing purposes without your explicit consent.

9. How long we keep your data

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so that we can automatically recognize and approve any subsequent comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
  • Account and Subscription Information: We retain your personal information for as long as you maintain an active account with us or as needed to provide the Services to you. Even after we close your account, we may retain certain information for a reasonable period of time as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and for other legitimate business purposes. Example: We may retain transaction records for accounting and tax requirements, even after you cancel your subscription.
  • Marketing Data: If you have subscribed to our marketing communications, we will retain your contact information for marketing purposes until you withdraw your consent.
  • Usage and analytics records: We may retain usage and analytics data for longer periods for purposes of analyzing and improving our services, but generally, this data will be anonymized or aggregated.

10. What rights do you have over your data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal information:

  • Right of access: You may request access to the personal information we hold about you.
  • Right of rectification: You may ask us to correct any incomplete or inaccurate personal information we have about you. You can update much of your information directly in your account settings.
  • Right to erasure (right to be forgotten): You can request that we delete your personal information, provided that we do not have a legal basis to process it further. Example: You may request deletion of your account and all data associated with it.
  • Right to limit processing: You may ask us to limit the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as while we verify the accuracy of your data.
  • Right to data portability: You may request to receive a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit that data to another data controller.
  • Right to object: You may object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as for direct marketing purposes.
  • Right to withdraw consent: If we have based the processing of your personal information on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us through the contact details provided in the “Contact” section below. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.

11. Where we send your data

Visitor comments can be checked through an automated spam detection service.

In addition, your personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries outside your country of residence. These countries may have different data protection laws than those in your country. When we transfer your personal information outside your country, we will take steps to ensure that it is adequately protected, such as using standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission or equivalent transfer mechanisms.

12. Security of your data

We implement reasonable technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. These measures include, but are not limited to, encryption of sensitive data, use of firewalls and intrusion detection systems, and restricted access to personal information.

Despite our best efforts, no security measure is completely foolproof. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information. In the event of a security breach, we will notify you in accordance with applicable law.

13. Minors

Our services are not directed to children under the age of 12 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 12. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can delete it.

14. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy periodically to reflect changes in our information practices. We will post the updated privacy policy on this page and update the “Effective Date” at the top of the policy. We encourage you to review this privacy policy regularly to be aware of any changes. In the event of significant changes, we will notify you more prominently, such as through a notice on our website or by email.

15. Contact

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

publicaciones@ccial.org