PRIVACY POLICY

PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY

The entity responsible for processing your personal data from our Internet site (“Our Internet Site”) and under the conditions described in this Personal Data Protection Policy is the LC COSMETICS (P. Iva: 04071150231), the registered office of which is at 37019 Peschiera del Garda (VR), Via Bella Italia, 22 (“LC COSMETICS”). The collection of your personal data complies with the provisions of the law applicable to data protection.

This Personal Data Protection Policy, with the Cookies applies to the data that we collect when you use Our Internet site and our application, it describes the types of personal data that we collect from our consumers and explains how we use, disclose, share and transfer the said data, as well as the choices available to our consumers regarding our use of the said data. It also describes the measures that we take in order to protect the security of this data, and how you can contact us regarding our personal data protection practices. We ask you to please carefully read this Personal Data Protection Policy. If you do not wish for your personal data to be used in the manner described in this Personal Data Protection Policy, it is possible that we may be unable to respond to certain of your requests.
We ask you to regularly review this Personal Data Protection Policy in order to remain up-to-date with any possible modifications of this policy, notably any that relate to the collection and conditions for the processing of your personal data.

  • Collection of Your Personal Information
  • Use of your Personal Information
  • Information That We Share
  • Transferring of your Personal Data
  • Information on the Retention Period
  • Protecting your Personal Data
  • Social Networks and content generated by Users
  • Your Rights
  • Links to third Party Websites and Services
  • Product Testimonials
  • Modification of the Personal Data Protection Policy
  • Our Cookie Charter
  • Contact Us

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We can collect your personal data in various ways, notably when you visit our stores, take part in events, consult our online content, or use our mobile applications. For example, when you register as a member and/or join our loyalty programme, before you can make a purchase online, when you participate in a contest or promotional game, participate in an activity that we organise by means of surveys via our applications and social media, subscribe for our newsletter, order a catalogue, join a premium site with restricted access, when you register for an event, or when you contact us by e-mail or telephone.
We can also link and/or combine the information regarding you that we collect from the various devices that you use.
The types of personal information that we can collect are the following:

  1. Registration data (name, mailing address, e-mail address, mobile telephone number or other number);
  2. Usernames and passwords;
  3. Personal data (date of birth, sex, preferred language and beauty profile, such as skin and hair types);
  4. Your interest and experience with our products and products of a similar nature;
  5. Payment data (bank card number, expiry date, authorisation number, security code, delivery address and invoicing address);
  6. Information on purchases and operations (type and number of products purchased and returned);
  7. Customer service data, surveys and comments from the customer service department and data exchanged with our customer service team;
  8. Photographs, videos and other comments that you provide;
  9. Contact information that you provide to us regarding your friends and other people that you would like for us to contact (name, delivery address, e-mail address, mobile telephone number and/or other telephone number);
  10. Location and geolocation data;
  11. Your conduct in our stores and/or points of sale;
  12. Your social data on social media platforms if you connect to one of our sites using a social login;
  13. Data relating to you and coming from publicly available sources, including publicly available content on social media platforms;
  14. Any other data that you provide to us subsequent to a request to one of our departments; and
  15. Data that we can obtain from suppliers of external services.

Also, as explained in our Cookies Charter, we can collect certain data and trace your activity online, as well as the data linked to your device and to your operating system, your IP address, the web pages or advertisements that you see, the details of your visits to our online content and social media, advertising identifiers or similar identifiers and your online actions collected by automated means, such as our cookies, third party cookies, Web servers, pixels and web tags, and by demographic means, linked to areas of interest and content, when you visualize our content, use our applications, social media, contact us by any means or application, open the e-mails that we send to you or sent by third parties on our behalf, and when you visit the Internet sites and networks of third parties on which our advertisements are displayed. We can establish links between the data that we have collected via automated means, such as your data and your browsing history, and other data that we have obtained relating to you.
The suppliers of third party applications, tools, gadgets and plug-ins on our Internet sites and applications, as well as third party Internet sites and networks on which our advertisements are displayed (such as advertising networks, digital advertising partners and social media platforms) may also use automated means and demographic means linked to areas of interest and context, in order to collect data relating to you, such as your interactions with these functions, while tracing your online activity, constantly and via third party Internet sites. This data is collected directly by these third party suppliers (in addition to the data collected by us) and are subject to their policy. Insofar as allowed by the applicable law, we cannot be held liable for the practices of these third parties and suppliers.
If you do not agree that we can collect the above data relating to you, it is possible that we may not be able to offer you with certain services, including the ones identified in this Personal Data Protection Policy.

USE OF THE DATA THAT WE COLLECT

Why do we process your data?

How do we use your data for these purposes?

What are the legal bases for the processing?

To provide you with products and services

We use your personal data in order to provide products and services suited to your needs.

We use this data in order to fulfil the contractual obligations existing between us and you.

To process transactions, including payments, made via Our Internet Site

We use data, including payment data, in order to process transactions, for example when you place an order via our Internet Site.

We use this data in order to fulfil the contractual obligations existing between us and you.

To create, register and manage your account

We use your personal data, including your e-mail address and username, in order to create, register and manage your account, for example by providing you with a password when you ask us for one, and by verifying your identity when necessary.

We use this data in order to fulfil our legal obligations.
We use thise data in order to fulfil the contractual obligations existing between us and you.

To create and manage in-store accounts

We use your personal data in order to open and manage your in-store account.

We use this data in order to fulfil the contractual obligations existing between us and you.

To manage your customer opinions

We use your personal data, including your e-mail address and username, to manage the opinions that you publish regarding our products.

We use this data in order to fulfil the contractual obligations existing between us and you.

While we do not have a contract with you, this processing is necessary so as to meet the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS, namely better communicating with you and improving the quality of our products and services.

To communicate with you and answer any queries that you might have

We use your personal data, including your contact details and video chat data, in order to communicate with you and to respond to your queries.

We use this data in order to fulfil the contractual obligations existing between us and you.

While we do not have a contract with you, this processing is necessary so as to meet the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS, namely better communicating with you.

To manage your participation in promotions, special events (such as contests, games, random draws, offers, surveys and market studies) and your participation in our loyalty programme

We use your personal data, including purchase and operation information, to manage your participation in various promotions or special events, as well as the loyalty programme.

We use this data in order to fulfil the contractual obligations existing between us and you (when you accept the regulations of the contests, games or random draws, and when you accept the conditions for using the loyalty programme).

This processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS, namely in order to better prepare offers, surveys and market studies.

To make deliveries or provide you with our services (such as newsletters by e-mail, resupply service, Express Payment)

We use your personal data, including your contact details and e-mail address, to make deliveries to you and to ensure that you can access our other services.

We use this data in order to fulfil the contractual obligations existing between us and you.

To market, assess and improve our products and services (notably developing new products and services, analysing our customer database, performing data analyses, accounting and auditing)

We combine personal data, notably provided by customer service, to assess and improve the products and services that we offer to you.

This processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS.

To send promotional offers and other communications and information that we believe may be useful to you (including special offers) by means of e-mails, postal letters, telephone messages, SMS and push notifications, and to develop and carry out targeted marketing campaigns as well as behavioural advertising, including by means of displays on third party applications installed in your telephone

We use personal data, including contact details, information on purchases and your beauty profile, in order to provide you with communications that may be of interest to you.

We obtain your consent before any processing of your data for these purposes.
With regard to postal correspondence, this processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS.

To provide you with store addresses as well as advertisements based on your geographical location.

We use personal data, including geolocation data, in order to provide you with the contact details of the stores closest to your location, and to adjust the marketing communications on the basis of your location.

We obtain your consent before any processing of your data for these purposes.

To document your preferences and habits regarding our products and services

We use your personal data, including your interest in our products and your experience with them, in order to understand how you make the most of our products and services.

This processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS, namely to know you better.

To analyse surveys or statistics in order to improve Our Internet Site and our services

We use your personal data, including customer service data, surveys and comments from the customer service department and data exchanged with our customer service team, in order to improve Our Internet Site and our services.

This processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS, namely to know you better.

To fulfil our obligations resulting from contracts or agreements existing between us and you

We use your personal data so as to better meet your expectations, resulting from contracts or agreements existing between us and you.

We use this data in order to fulfil the contractual obligations existing between us and you.

To ensure that the content of Our Internet Site, our pages on social networks and our e-mail messages are presented in the most efficient possible manner for you, and to customise your experience on Our Internet Site by providing you with information and products that suit your needs

We use personal data, notably related to your online activity, your browser and your operating system, to ensure that Our Internet Site is properly displayed on your computer.

This processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS, namely providing you with access adapted to Our Internet Site while improving your experience when you visit Our Internet Site.

To add to Our Internet Site and our advertising

We compile data notably relative to the web pages that you view, in order to provide you with advertising content that meets your expectations.

This processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS, namely in order to
make Our Internet Site attractive and to improve its content.

To manage Our Internet Site and combat fraud

We use personal data, including cookies, in order to update and enhance Our Internet Site, and to combat fraud over the Internet.

This processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS, namely managing Our Internet Site such as to prevent fraud and combat any risk of fraud, while also ensuring the security of Our Internet Site during your visits.

To conduct research and analyses of the efficiency of our marketing and advertising efforts

We use personal data, including data that we may obtain from suppliers of external services, in order to understand the efficiency of our communication efforts.

This processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS, namely analysing the efficiency of our communication efforts so as to provide you with a more pleasant user experience that better meets your expectations.

To analyse how and how often you visit Our Internet Site

We use personal data, including cookies, to understand your use of Our Internet Site.

This processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS, namely to analyse
your visits to Our Internet Site so as to better respond to your expectations during your future visits.

To target the advertising and messages that we send to you, via third party advertising networks, including search engines such as Google, and social media such as Facebook

We use data from social networks and third party networks that notably relate to demographic means linked to areas of interest and context as well as your online activities, in an isolated or combined manner. After compiling this data with other information that we have provided to them, you will receive advertising messages suited to your interests.

This processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of LC COSMETICS, namely so as to know you better and to provide you with a more pleasant user experience that better meets your expectations.

INFORMATION THAT WE SHARE

We do not disclose the personal data that we collect regarding you, except in the following cases:

  1. within the LC COSMETICS;
  2. with service providers that provide services in our name or that help us with the maintenance and/or improvement of our Internet sites, the management of our loyalty programme, as well as with the distribution, improvement and/or marketing of the products and services that we offer to you, including the entities that process orders and provide the web hosting, information storage, suppliers of e-mail services, marketing services including direct marketing, research and analysis services as well as tag management services such as Google Analytics. For more information on these analysis services and regarding your opposition rights, please visit the sites:
    Google Analytics: click here
  3. with our network of franchisees in connection with the sale of our products in France, notably to manage the collection points for products ordered via Our Internet Site;
  4. with our professional partners for co-branding of products, joint promotions, common communications and programmes;
  5. with our professional partners for their own purposes, including in order to provide you with information regarding third party products and services that may be of interest to you, if you have formally expressed this possibility and have given your consent;
  6. if we are required to do so by the law;
  7. with the police authorities, representatives of the government or other parties in response to a legal decision, judicial procedure or writ of summons;
  8. when we consider that this disclosure is necessary or appropriate in order to prevent physical damage or a financial loss or fraud possibly affecting you or us; to prevent or report illegal activity; to protect the property rights of any person, or the security of any person, including our own, or in application of our Terms and Conditions or of any other agreement between us;
  9. as part of the sale of all or part of our company and its assets to a third party, or as part of a business reorganisation or restructuring (including dissolution or liquidation); and
  10. when you provide your consent for this in another manner, or ask us to share your information with third parties.
  11. We can share aggregated and/or anonymous information that does not identify you, for our own commercial purposes or those of our partners, which notably includes the number of visitors to Our Internet Site and the number of clicks on our advertising and/or e-mails. 

TRANSFERRING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The information regarding you and collected by us can be transferred, stored and processed in any country or territory in which one or more subsidiaries of our group or a service-providing third party, agent or business partner is located, including other countries of the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland and the United States for the aforesaid purposes. Processing is also possible by personnel members outside of the EEA and outside of your country.
When we transfer your information to a country that does not offer a satisfactory degree of protection, we take the following measures in order to ensure the security of your personal data:

  • for exchanges of personal data with the United States, the protection of your personal data is assured by the EU-US Privacy Shield self-certification mechanism; and
  • for exchanges of personal data with [Pakistan, India, Russia, Australia and Asia], through the use of the Standard Contractual Clauses prepared by the European Commission.

You can obtain more information on these guarantees by contacting us by e-mail or postal mail, at the addresses shown in the “Contact us” section below.

INFORMATION RETENTION PERIOD

Unless indicated otherwise, we will store your personal data for the time strictly needed in order to carry out the aforementioned purposes, in accordance with the applicable law. In some cases, we are required to retain data in order to fulfil our legal and administrative obligations. When we have no further need of the information, it is deleted from our systems or anonymised.

PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We undertake to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures in order to protect your personal data against accidental or involuntary destruction, accidental loss, alteration, or any unauthorised disclosure, access or usage.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND USER GENERATED CONTENT

Some of our sites and applications enable users to post their own content. Please note that any content posted on our social platforms can be seen by the public. You should therefore be vigilant with regard to posting certain personal data on these platforms, such as any financial data, your address or any health problems. We cannot be held liable for actions taken by other persons if you post personal data on one of our social network platforms.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right and possibility to correct, update and delete the information in your online account as well as your preferences at any time, by signing in to your account and looking under “My Account”, or by contacting us as shown in the “Contact us” section of this Personal Data Protection Policy.

You can also ask us to delete your data from our distribution lists, and exercise your right to withdraw so as not to receive any direct marketing communications from us, as indicated in the “Contact us” section of this Personal Data Protection Policy or by following the “Unsubscribe” link or the withdrawal instructions provided in our communications.
It can take a few days to process your withdrawal request, and it is possible that you may continue receiving promotional or marketing e-mails or postal letters during this time. Your refusal to receive direct marketing messages does not prevent us from providing you with other types of non-promotional messages, such as e-mail confirmations of transactions.
If you wish to prevent the collection of your location and/or geolocation data, you can do so by changing the parameters of your device and/or using the following options:

  1. deactivate the localization services of specific applications for which you have accepted the collection of location or geolocation data for the purposes of targeted direct marketing;
  2. deactivate the localization services for all applications;
  3. turn off Bluetooth;
  4. Android: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/3405269?hl=en or 
  5. IOS: https://support.apple.com/fr-ch/HT202074

Within the limits of the applicable law, you can:

  • request access to the personal data that we have regarding you, and obtain a copy thereof,
  • ask us to correct, update, limit or block any data,
  • ask us to provide the personal data relating to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, by contacting us by e-mail or by postal letter at the addresses shown in the “Contact us” section below.


When allowed by law, you can withdraw any consent that you had previously given or, at any time and for legitimate reasons, object to the processing of your personal data. We will then apply your preferences.
You can also provide instructions on the management of your personal data after your death. These instructions can be left directly with LC COSMETICS or with a third party instructed to provide them to us at the appropriate time.
You can also contact the Data Protection Officer (DPO) of LC COSMETICS by email, for any question regarding the processing of your personal data, at the following address: info@vitalake.com.
You also have the right to submit a complaint to the Data Protection Authority ICO.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES AND SERVICES

Our websites and applications can provide links to sites, applications and services other than the ones provided by LC COSMETICS, and that may be operated by third party companies. Please note that we do not approve and are not responsible for the processing of your personal data by these third party sites, even if we provide a link to these sites. These companies may have their own personal data protection declarations or policies, and we strongly recommend that you read and examine them. Our products and services can also be offered to you through third party platforms or other third party channels. We decline any liability regarding the personal data protection practices of the sites, applications or services that are not provided by LC COSMETICS.

SECURITY

All transactions at this online store are protected by Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Secure Data Encryption using a 1024-bit process to encode all personal data. This sophisticated encryption process ensures that prying eyes are unable to decode your personal data when it travels from your computer to ours, and from our computer to the bank’s. Also, all credit card payments are processed in real-time for your security and immediate peace of mind.
You can tell whether your browser is in secure mode by looking for the padlock icon in the bottom corner of your screen or at the end of the address bar of your browser window.
Our website uses security measures which protect any personal information that is stored on our servers and systems from unauthorised access or use.
However, as no data transmissions over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, we cannot take responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of personal information that is beyond our reasonable control.

PRODUCT TESTIMONIALS

LC COSMETICS welcomes feedback on your experience with our products. We will publish both positive and negative testimonials, so long as the product testimonials are accurate and constructive. Should you post a testimonial that we do not publish, our customer service department will contact you in order to improve our product quality and service. We also reserve the right to edit your testimonials for length, spelling, etc., and to post your comments in e-mails and other marketing materials. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with other LC COSMETICS customers.

MODIFICATION OF THE PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY

This Personal Data Protection Policy can be updated periodically in order to reflect changes to our practices relative to the processing of personal data. We will inform you of these changes, including their effective date. If you continue using Our Internet Site once these changes have taken effect, your continued usage of Our Internet Site will indicate that you have accepted these changes. 

APPLICABLE LAW

This Privacy Policy and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed according the laws Italy and you irrevocably agree that the courts of Italy shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

COOKIES CHARTER

This charter explains the branch policy of LC COSMETICS, the registered office of which is at 37019 Peschiera del Garda (VR), Via Bella Italia, 22, regard to cookies on the LC COSMETICS site that can be accessed:
– by Internet at the address www.vitalake.com  or
– by means of a mobile application on Iphone, Android and other smartphones / tablets;
collectively referred to below as the “Site”.

When you connect to the Site, and subject to your configuration choices for the browser that you use at the time of your first visit to the site, various text files known as “cookies”, or similar technologies of the “Web tags” type, may be automatically installed and temporarily retained (maximum 13 months) within your device’s memory or hard disks, in order to ensure that you have the best possible experience on our Site, and so that we can propose adapted offers and services. These cookies are placed after you have given your consent or when you continue your browsing on the Site, notably by clicking on an element or by moving to another page.
This charter is intended to provide you with all necessary information regarding the cookies used on our Site, and the means available to you in order to manage them according to your preferences.
For more information on the processing of your personal data by the sites operated by LC COSMETICS, we ask you to consult the LC COSMETICS Personal Data Protection Policy, available at the following address https://vitalake.com/en/privacy-policy/.

1. Information on the Site’s cookies 

A. Strictly necessary and functional cookies
These cookies are essential in order to browse on the Site while benefiting from all of its functionalities (adjusting to the web surfer’s operating system, display).
These cookies notably enable us:
– to adapt the presentation of our site to your device’s display preferences (display resolution, operating system employed, etc.) during your visits to our Site, according to the display or reading hardware and software used by your device;
– to implement security measures, for example when you are asked to once again connect to specific content or to a service after a certain period of time;
– to record certain of your choices (language, user identifier, country…) in order to make browsing easier and also to enable us to save information relative to the forms that you fill out on our Site (registration or access to your account) or to products, services or information that you have selected on our Site (subscribed service, content of an order basket, etc.).
Certain storage cookies notably allow you to access reserved and personal spaces on our Site, such as your account, thanks to identifiers or data that you may previously have provided to us;
If you configure your browser such as to refuse these cookies, certain of the Site’s services will not be provided in an optimal manner, or may not be available at all.

B. Traffic and performance cookies
These cookies are intended to help us to improve the Site’s comfort and usage quality, by helping us to understand how users interact with our websites (most visited pages, applications used…).
These cookies notably enable us to prepare statistics and to assess the traffic and usage volumes of the various elements comprising our Site (visited headings and content, itinerary, etc.); this enables us to improve the interest value and ergonomics of our services.

C. Targeted advertising cookies
These cookies enable us to propose targeted advertising content on the basis of your areas of interest, products and services that you have consulted on our Site, your browsing and the history of our relations.

D. Cookies coming from social networks 
Cookies may be saved by third parties when you visit our Site, and notably if you use the social networking functions on our Site. These cookies enable you to let other people know about the content of our Site, and your opinion of it. This is the case of the “Share” or “Like” buttons for “Facebook”, “Twitter”, “LinkedIn”, “Viadeo”, etc. When you decide to use these buttons, and in general when you visit our Site while remaining connected to a social network, these social network cookies may provide these social networks with information regarding your browsing on our Site, with this information then potentially being used by the social networks for commercial and/or advertising purposes. We recommend that you carefully read the general terms and policies of the social networks with regard to privacy protection and cookies, in order to be fully informed relative to these cookies.
LC COSMETICS can in no way be held liable for the management of your personal data by these social networks. LC COSMETICS therefore bears no liability in any manner.

The cookies indicated above (sections 1A to 1D) are retained for a maximum period of 13 months.

2. Management of cookies 

You can also, at any time, authorise, limit or block cookies by configuring your Internet browser (Internet Explorer TM, Firefox TM, Safari TM, Google Chrome TM, Opera TM…) as indicated below. Please note that any settings that you may change could modify your Internet browsing and your conditions for accessing certain services that require the use of cookies.

As the configuration of each browser is different, we suggest that you check your browser’s help menu:
For Chrome TM: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
For Safari TM: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
For Firefox TM: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
For Internet Explorer™: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
For Opera TM: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/ 
“Flash”© cookies from “Adobe Flash Player” TM
“Adobe Flash Player” TM is a computer application that is used for the development of dynamic content using the “Flash” computer language. Flash (and applications of the same type) record the parameters, preferences and usage of such content by means of technology that is similar to cookies. However, “Adobe Flash Player” TM manages such information and your choices via a different interface than the one provided by your web browser. If your device is likely to display content developed using the Flash language, we suggest that you access your tools for managing Flash cookies directly on the website https://www.adobe.com/fr/. If you block the use of cookies on your device, or if you delete any that have already been placed, you will no longer be able to use certain functionalities that may nevertheless be necessary in order to browse within certain areas on our Site. This would be the case if you tried to access content or services that require you to identify yourself. This would also be the case when we – or our service providers – are unable to determine, for reasons of technical compatibility, the type of browser used by your device, its language and display parameters, or the country from which your device seems to be connected to the Internet.
As relevant, we decline all liability for consequences linked to the degraded operation of our services in the event that it is impossible to record or consult the cookies needed for their operation, and that you may have blocked or deleted.

You can also find more detailed information about how you can manage cookies at the https://www.allaboutcookies.org/ and http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/ websites.

3. Usage of the data collected via cookies

LC COSMETICS will not transfer or sell the data collected via cookies to non-affiliated or non-partner third parties unless LC COSMETICS has informed you of this beforehand in its communications, agreements or through information available on the Site, or that you have formally given your consent, or if required by law.

4. Modification of the Cookies Charter

 This Cookies Charter can be updated periodically in order to reflect changes to our practices relative to cookies. We will inform you of these changes, including their effective date. If you continue using the Site once these changes have taken effect, your continued usage of the Site will indicate that you have accepted these changes. However, if the changes are such that your consent must be obtained once again, we will inform you of these changes and request your consent for this purpose.

CONTACT US

If you would like for us to update the information that we have regarding you or your preferences, notably if you wish to be removed from our distribution lists, to withdraw your consent, to object to the processing of your data, or if you have questions regarding the protection of your personal data, please contact us by email at info@vitalake.com or send a letter to the following address:
LC COSMETICS
SERVICE CLIENTS
Via Bella Italia, 22

37019 Peschiera del Garda (VR) – Italy