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Privacy Policy

Our website address is: https://beautycart.co.uk.
Company: HCS COMMERCE LTD (Company No. 16317869)
Registered Office: 12 Edendale Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom, B26 3AB
Email: info@beautycart.co.uk

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture (if available) will be visible to the public alongside your comment.

Media

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

Cookies

  • If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience, so you don’t have to re-enter details for future comments. These cookies last one year.

  • If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie checks if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

  • Upon login, we set cookies to save your login details and screen preferences. Login cookies last two days, screen options cookies last one year, and selecting “Remember Me” extends login persistence to two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.

  • Editing or publishing an article saves an additional cookie with no personal data, indicating the post ID of the edited article. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Such content behaves as if you visited the source website, which may collect data, use cookies, and track your interaction, especially if you’re logged into that site.

Who We Share Your Data With

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How Long We Retain Your Data

  • Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and auto-approve follow-up comments.

  • Registered users’ personal information is stored in their profile. Users can view, edit, or delete their data (except usernames). Administrators can also access and edit this information.

Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request:

  • An exported file of your personal data.

  • Erasure of your personal data (excluding data we must retain for legal or security reasons).

Where We Send Your Data

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