Frida Beauty Bar and The Academy Institute of Medical Aesthetics by Frida is committed to protecting your right to privacy when you provide us with personal information. This policy sets out how we collect and manage personal information, whether that information is collected via our websites, including
www.theacademy.com, or otherwise, including through our services, what is collected and the steps we take to protect it. In this policy, the terms "you", "user", and "your" refer to a visitor of our websites or user of the services and the terms "we", "us", and "our" refer to Frida Beauty Bar.
Collection of Personal Information
In the course of providing services through our website and offline, we may collect your personal information. You may be asked to provide personal information about yourself, which includes but is not limited to your name, address, email, address, credit card information, date of birth, language preferences, gender, account information, bank account information, IP address, or phone number. We collect this information; however, our access is strictly limited to the information that is voluntarily provided, and we will never sell or rent your personal or medical information to anyone under any circumstances. We will only share your personal information with our representatives, service providers, and contractors that are offering services in connection with the usage of service. Unless you have explicitly opted out of our email list, we may contact you via email to inform you of upcoming courses and events.
We will only collect personal information as permitted under the applicable federal and provincial privacy legislation. We may collect information in a variety of ways, including where you submit an application to use our websites and where the option is available to: create an account, place an order for any of our products or schedule to receive our services,request us to provide you information about our company and promotional offers, submit an employment application to us,contact us,provide feedback in an online survey.
By submitting information to us, you consent to us collecting your information.
Why Is Personal Information Collected?
We collect Personal Information for purposes related to managing and developing our business and operations, including: establishing and managing and terminating business relations with you,processing orders that you submit to purchase our products and services,performing any contract that we have with you, providing us with information in order to improve our websites and develop new products and services, internal record keeping, including details regarding products and/or services provided by us to you,requesting feedback through an online survey,providing you with information regarding our products and services and to notify you of changes to these products and services, and for other purposes related to the management of our relationship.
We may also collect aggregate information which tells us about visitors to our websites, but not the identity of those visitors. For example, we may collect information about the date, time, and duration of visits and which pages of our websites are most accessed. The purpose of collecting this aggregate information is to help us administer and improve our websites. Data collected through our websites on an anonymous and aggregated basis helps us measure interest in and use of our websites. We reserve the right to provide our analyses based on such anonymous and aggregated data to third parties.
Use of your Personal Information
Personal information collected by us is used only for the purposes described in this policy or for other purposes which are disclosed to you and to which you consent. We generally use your personal information to:create and secure your registered user account,identify you as a registered user in our system,provide, personalize, and improve our websites, products and services,communicate with you about our websites, products and services,develop new products, services, and content for our websites,investigate security breaches, for fraud prevention measures or to investigate potential fraud, or cooperate with government authorities pursuant to a legal matter,fulfill your requests,send newsletters, surveys, offers and promotional materials related to our websites, products and services, and for our other marketing purposes,monitor traffic on our websites,determine the future direction of our websites, including technical upgrades,protect, investigate and prevent potentially fraudulent, unauthorized or illegal activities, protect our rights and the rights of other registered users,other uses described in this policy or in notices we provide to you.
We may also use your information to verify your geographic location. We may use your geographic location data to personalize our services, recommend content or determine whether the information you have requested is available in your location.
Protection of Information
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order, enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information. All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers
Third-Party Disclosure
We may disclose or share your personal information in the following circumstances:our regular reporting activities to our other affiliates and/or subsidiaries in and outside of Canada,protecting our rights and property, including for security breach, loss or fraud prevention, investigation or mitigation purposes,protecting the safety of a person or a group of persons,with third-party service providers and partners that help us to provide our websites, products and services, including website hosting, data warehousing, data analysis, event logging, information technology, customer service, payment processing, user analytics and email delivery and messaging,with a third party, in the event of a change in ownership of all or a part of us through some form of merger, purchase, sale, lease or amalgamation or another form of business combination, provided that the parties are bound by appropriate agreements or obligations which require them to use or disclose your personal information in a manner consistent with the use and disclosure provisions of this policy, unless you indicate otherwise,other purposes identified when the personal information is collected, or as permitted or required by law,with any third party, where you have provided your consent for such disclosure or where disclosure is required or permitted by law,other purposes, some of which have been identified in other sections.
Changes to the Privacy Policy Please read this policy carefully before using our websites. We may also update or modify this policy at any time by posting our revised policy to our websites. We include an "effective date" in the policy displayed on our websites. We strongly encourage you to refer to the policy periodically to ensure that you stay up to date with our practices and procedures. If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy, you can contact us by email at
academy@fridabeautybar.com.
Acceptance of our Privacy Policy By using our websites, you warrant that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this policy, including any updates to the policy, and approve of the collection and use by us of your personal information according to its terms.