Effective Date: Feb 25, 2019

Who we are

Our website address is: https://thefashionshowdown.com.

Fashion Showdown a registered trademark owned by Ge9ine LLC., (“Fashion Showdown,” “We,” “Us,” “Our”) is committed to protecting both the personal as well as business information you share and/or store with us. By using this website, you consent to this Privacy Policy, which applies to transactions and activities and data gathered through the Fashion Showdown and interaction you may have with its related Social Media accounts. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically as we may revise it without notice.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Personal data is all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, such as name, date of birth, bank details. Generally, we collect information that may personally identify you when you voluntarily:

register an account on this Website,
place an order,
enter a contest or sweepstakes,
respond to a survey or communication such as e-mail, or
engage with another Website feature.

We collect, process and store your personal data as part of your Fashion Showdown membership.

Comments

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

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

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

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Analytics

We also use a third type of cookie on our website to improve our products and services. In particular, we use the following cookies: 

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google uses cookies to obtain information about our users’ access to our website. The information about your browsing on our website generated by the cookie will normally be transferred to a Google server in the United States where it will be saved. Google will make your IP address anonymous in the EU Member States or other countries belonging to the European Economic Area agreements. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be transferred to the Google server in the United States to be anonymous to other foreign countries. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website and to report on your activity. The IP address of your browser transferred by Google Analytics will not be shared with other Google files. You can refuse the storage of cookies by setting the appropriate adjustments on your browser. In addition, if you wish to prevent the processing of your data (including your IP address) generated by Google cookies, you can download and install the browser plugin: You can refuse the storage of cookies by setting the appropriate adjustments on your browser. In addition, if you wish to prevent the processing of your data (including your IP address) generated by Google cookies, you can download and install the browser plugin: You can refuse the storage of cookies by setting the appropriate adjustments on your browser. In addition, if you wish to prevent the processing of your data (including your IP address) generated by Google cookies, you can download and install the browser plugin:https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en . 

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described below. The term “outside parties” does not include www.TheFashionShowdown.com. It also does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist Us in operating Our website, conducting Our business, or servicing You, so long as those parties agree to keep Your information confidential. We may also release Your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

During Your visit as You browse through Our Website and place orders We automatically collect and store the following non-personal, or anonymous, information about Your visit:

We use this information, in the aggregate, to make our website more useful to visitors — to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology used, to detect operational problems, and to improve the website’s overall security.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

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

Amendments

This Privacy Policy may be amended by Us at any time and without notice, but only by amending this Policy as posted on this Website. Any amendments will become effective 30 days after being posted on the website, unless circumstances require that a change be immediately implemented.