Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

1.1 This Privacy Policy sets out the privacy policy of S4 Style Inc., whose registered address is 59 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249 (“Source4Style”), who controls this website. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act, the data controller is Source4Style.

1.2 SOURCE4STYLE is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and the purpose of this Privacy Policy is to describe to you how SOURCE4STYLE will use personal information about you that is submitted to SOURCE4STYLE.

1.3 By providing your personal information to SOURCE4STYLE, you consent to the collection and use of it and any other information provided to SOURCE4STYLE in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If at any time you wish to change the uses of your personal information to which you have consented, please contact us.

1.4 SOURCE4STYLE may revise this Privacy Policy at any time by posting an update on its website(s). Please ensure that you check this website and any other SOURCE4STYLE website(s) you use from time to time to review the then current Privacy Policy and to update your preferences. This Privacy Policy was last updated in December 2011.

2. Collection of Personal Information

2.1 The types of personal information collected and stored by SOURCE4STYLE might include your name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, fax number and credit/debit card details (to the extent permitted by the Data Protection Act 1998 and related legislation (“the DPA”).

2.2 SOURCE4STYLE (or any of its sub-contractors) may collect personal information about you in the following ways:
(a) any data which you provide when you complete and submit an application to SOURCE4STYLE to register on its website(s) or receive email alerts or other communications from SOURCE4STYLE;

(b) any data that you provide via postings to forums and blogs and any other posting that you make to an SOURCE4STYLE website (in such circumstances the information posted by you will, of course, also be available to users of the website throughout the world);

(c) during any transaction with us; and

(d) any other data which you provide to SOURCE4STYLE when you enquire about our activities, email, telephone or write to us or otherwise provide us with personal information.

2.3 SOURCE4STYLE (or any of its sub-contractors) may also receive information about you from third parties, for example a friend who wants to tell you about one of our websites.

3. Storage and retention of your information

3.1 SOURCE4STYLE will keep your information on a secure server. The technology that SOURCE4STYLE uses and the security policies which SOURCE4STYLE has implemented are intended to safeguard your information from unauthorized access and improper use.

3.2 SOURCE4STYLE will keep your information (to the extent permitted by the DPA) to enable SOURCE4STYLE to use it for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

4. Use of Your Information

4.1 SOURCE4STYLE may use your personal information (subject in each case to the requirements of the DPA) for the following purposes:
(a) administering your website account(s) and otherwise in connection with any service for which you have provided your information, including any email alerts, transactions with us and competitions and promotions that you take part in;

(b) responding to any enquiry you make;

(c) subject to your consent, sending you newsletters and/or alerts and information regarding SOURCE4STYLE’s or any third party’s future services (in all formats to which you have consented e.g. post, email, text); and

(d) for generating aggregated statistics about users, traffic patterns etc of the SOURCE4STYLE website(s) and other services and developing SOURCE4STYLE’s marketing plans.

4.2 SOURCE4STYLE may also disclose your information (subject in each case to the requirements of the DPA) as follows:
(a) if you have given your consent for SOURCE4STYLE to do so, to other selected organisations to enable them to contact you or send you information by post, telephone and/or email;

(b) to any service providers, sub-contractors and agents appointed by SOURCE4STYLE to perform the above functions on its behalf and in accordance with its instructions;

(c) to third parties selected by SOURCE4STYLE as part of aggregated and anonymised statistics about users, traffic patterns etc of the SOURCE4STYLE website(s);

(d) to such individuals and/or bodies as necessary to ensure SOURCE4STYLE’s compliance with any applicable law, regulation, legal proceeding or governmental request;

(e) (where you post material that does or may constitute a criminal offence, breach the rights of a third party, give rise to a civil action or breach the Terms & Conditions of the applicable website and as otherwise necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of SOURCE4STYLE and its customers), to any relevant authority or third party requiring SOURCE4STYLE to disclose the identity of or locate anyone posting such material on an SOURCE4STYLE website; and

(f) to any individual making a subject information request to SOURCE4STYLE.

4.3 In the event that SOURCE4STYLE (or a relevant part of SOURCE4STYLE) is acquired by or merges with another company, your personal information may be passed to the purchasing/merging company amongst the transferred business assets. This will enable your relationship to continue with the relevant SOURCE4STYLE business despite the change of ownership. Your personal information may also be passed (on a confidential basis) to companies with whom SOURCE4STYLE is negotiating such a sale/merger as part of the verification exercise carried out on SOURCE4STYLE by the third party.

5. Cookies

5.1 To personalize your browsing experience, SOURCE4STYLE uses “cookie” information technology. “Cookies,” are small pieces of information that are issued by your computer when you enter a website. Cookies are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive and enable the website to identify your computer and to store information about your use and navigation of the website.

5.2 Cookies enable SOURCE4STYLE to store information about your preferences and therefore customise the website according to your individual interests. They are also used to monitor which parts of the website are the most popular to its visitors.

5.3 You are not obliged to accept cookies and you can amend your browser’s settings to prevent cookies being accepted by it. Please be aware that if you do disable cookies however, certain services on the SOURCE4STYLE websites will not be available to you and your use and enjoyment of them will be impaired. For more information on cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org and, if you want to turn cookies off, please see http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/ (with instructions for using the settings of the most commonly-used web browsers).

5.4 The principal cookies SOURCE4STYLE uses are as follows:
Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. GoogleAnalytics serves cookies in order to evaluate your use of SOURCE4STYLE and compiles reports on activity on SOURCE4STYLE so we can improve our websites and other online properties.

Unless deleted the Google Analytics cookie will remain on your device for two years. To find out more, and for details of how to delete the Google Analytics cookies, please see http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html

We also serve the ‘first party cookies’ (cookies we serve ourselves which are intended to make the SOURCE4STYLE websites easier to use) for the following purposes:
a. log in/log out – a cookie is served when you log in and disappears when you either log out or end your session in your browser. This keeps track of your subscriber access permission allowing you to view all the subscriber only parts of the site which you are authorised to access account information – this allows us to access your account information and keep you logged into to a SOURCE4STYLE website you have subscribed to preferences – this allows us to recognise any preferences you have stated (e.g for a personalised home-page), so we can respect those preferences when you visit b. SOURCE4STYLE site content management cookies – which helps us deliver appropriate content using Adobe’s CQ application, for instance “remember me” – cookies are served which allow you to choose the “remember me” option so you do not have to re-enter user name and password credentials every time you visit a SOURCE4STYLE site.

6. Third Party Websites

Please be aware that SOURCE4STYLE does not control and is not responsible for websites that are referred to or linked from its own websites and that use of your personal information on these websites is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

7. Registration

7.1 To access certain parts of the SOURCE4STYLE websites, SOURCE4STYLE may require you to register and provide certain information about yourself.

7.2 You are reminded that in addition to the provisions of this Privacy Policy, where you register you also agree to:

(a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the relevant registration form (such information being the “Registration Data”); and

(b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it fully up to date.