Privacy Policy

Last updated 23 April 2021

General information

This privacy policy is for your, and our, protection, and is to inform you of how we use the data you consent to give us.

Please read the information below.  We value every single client and website visitor and this information is for the protection of all parties.

Our website address is https://melissahelen.com.
Our business is called “Melissa Helen Co”, and is owned by Melissa De Klerk.
You can contact Melissa at hello@melissahelen.com.

When you submit an enquiry by sending Melissa Helen Co. an email (either directly, or by submitting a message through the contact form on this website), you consent to Melissa Helen Co. collecting this information, and using it to communicate with you.

When you enter your information (first name, last name, email address) into an email opt-in form in order to download a free product/guide/e-book, you consent to Melissa Helen Co. collecting this information, and using it to communicate with you.

Personal data that we process

What personal data we collect
We collect personal data, transactional data, and technical data.

Personal data:  When you fill in our contact form to send us a message, and/or fill in our email opt-in forms, we collect your first name, last name and email address.  When you book an appointment through our website, we collect your first name, last name and email address.

Transactional data:  When you make a purchase from our shop, we collect information about what service(s) you purchased, as well as the account details you supply to us to create your customer account.  This includes data for billing such as company name, company location, company ID and/or VAT number (if applicable).

Technical data:  When you visit our website, we collect information about cookies.

Special and/or sensitive personal data that we process

Melissa Helen Co. does not process special or sensitive data.  Our website and/or service does not intend to collect data about website visitors who are younger than 16 years, unless they have permission from parents or guardians.  However, we cannot check if a visitor is older than 16 years of age.  We encourage parents to be involved in the online activities of their children, in order to prevent data about children being collected without parental consent.  If you are convinced that we have collected personal information about a minor without this permission, please contact us via hello@melissahelen.com for removal.

For what purpose and on what basis we process personal data

Melissa Helen Co. processes your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To contact you if necessary to carry out our services.
  • To deliver goods and services to you.
  • Handling your payment.
  • Sending our newsletter.
  • Inform you about changes to our services and products.
  • Allow you to create an account.
  • Melissa Helen Co. also processes personal data if we are legally obliged to do so, such as information that we need for our tax return.

View, modify or delete data

You have the right to view, correct or delete your personal data. You also have the right to withdraw your consent to the data processing or to object to the processing of your personal data by Melissa Helen Co. and you have the right to data portability.  This means that you can submit a request to us to send the personal information we hold to you or another organisation mentioned by you in a computer file.

You can send a request for access, correction, deletion, data transfer of your personal data or request for cancellation of your consent or objection to the processing of your personal data to hello@melissahelen.com.

To ensure that the request for access has been made by you, we ask you to send a copy of your ID with the request.  Make your passport photo, MRZ (machine readable zone, the strip with numbers at the bottom of the passport), passport number and Citizen Service Number black in this copy.  This is to protect your privacy.  We respond as quickly as possible, but within four weeks, at your request.

How we protect personal data

Melissa Helen Co. takes the protection of your data seriously and takes appropriate measures to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorised access, unwanted disclosure and unauthorised modification.

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.

Our website uses encryption for data transfer by means of an SSL certificate.  If you feel that your data is not properly secured or there are indications of abuse, please contact hello@melissahelen.com.

We use regular malware scanning

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 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.

3rd Party services

MailerLite

We use MailerLite to manage our email marketing subscriber list and to send emails to our subscribers. MailerLite is a third-party provider, which may collect and process your data using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. MailerLite’s privacy policy is available at http://www.ml.mailersend.com/privacy-policy.

You can unsubscribe from our newsletter by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the end of each newsletter.

Albacross

Information about the consent to Albacross processing of personal data  

We obtain your consent to the processing of personal data on the behalf of Albacross Nordic AB (“Albacross”).

Information collected from cookies set in your device that qualify as personal data will be processed by Albacross, a company offering lead identification and ad targeting services with offices in Stockholm and Krakow. Please see below for full contact details.

The purpose for the processing of the personal data is that it enables Albacross to improve a service rendered to us and our website (e.g “Lead Generation” service), by adding data to their database about companies.

The data that is collected and used by Albacross to achieve this purpose is information about the IP-address from which you visited our website, and technical information that enables Albacross to tell apart different visitors from the same IP-address. Albacross stores the domain from form input  in order to correlate the IP-address with your employer.

For the full information about our processing of personal information, please see their full Privacy Policy.

You may at any time withdraw your consent to this processing. Such withdrawal may be made either by contacting us, or by contacting Albacross directly.

Albacross Nordic AB
Companyreg. no 556942-7338
Kungsgatan 26 
111 35 Stockholm, Sweden 
www.albacross.com  contact@albacross.com

Book Like a Boss

We use Book Like a Boss to manage our appointment bookings.  Book Like a Boss is a third-party provider, which collects information for the purposes of handling bookings for us.

You can view their privacy policy here: https://booklikeaboss.com/privacy

Hotjar

We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.

For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site.

Cookie policy

Albacross

TYPE OF COOKIE
persistent cookie
persistent cookie

COOKIE NAME
nQ_cookieId 
nQ_visitId

DOMAIN 
client domain 
client domain

PURPOSE AND DATA THAT IS STORED
Identify user
Identify user session

EXPIRES
 1 year
1 year

Amendments

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy.