Privacy Policy
The Club RARE’s ambition is to be an exemplary corporate citizen to help make the world a more beautiful place. We place great value on honesty and clarity and we are committed to building a strong and lasting relationship with our consumers based on trust and mutual benefit. Part of this commitment means safeguarding and respecting your privacy and your choices. Respecting you privacy is essential to us, This why we set out "Our Privacy Promise" and our full Privacy Policy below.
OUR PRIVACY PROMISE
- We respect your privacy and your choices.
- We make sure that privacy and security are embedded in everything we do.
- We do not send you marketing communication unless you have asked us to. You can change your mind at any time.
- We never offer or sell your data.
- We are committed to keeping your data safe and secure. This includes only working with trusted partners.
- We are committed to being open and transparent about how we use your data.
- We do not use your data in ways that we have not told you about.
- We respect your rights, and always try to accommodate your requests as far as is possible, in line with our own legal and operational responsibilities.
For more information about our privacy practices, below we set out what types of personal data we may receive from you directly or from your interaction with us, how we may use it, who we may share it with, how we protect it and keep it secure, and your rights around your personal data. Of course all situations may not apply to you. This Privacy Policy gives you an overview of all possible situations in which we could interact together.
The more you interact with us, the more you let us know you and the more we are able to offer you tailored services.
When you share personal data with us or when we collect personal data about you, we use it in line with this Policy. Please read this information and our Q&A page (if any) carefully. If you have any questions or concerns about your personal data, please contact us at info@theclubrare.com.
WHO WE ARE
The Rare Company Limited is responsible for the personal data that you share with us. When we say " The Club RARE", "us", "our" or "we", this is who we are referring to. The Club RARE is the "data user" for the purposes of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486). Please see the "Contact Us" section for our contact details.
WHAT IS PERSONAL DATA?
"Personal Data" means any information or pieces of information that could identify you either directly (e.g. your name) or indirectly (e.g. through pseudonymized data such as a unique ID number). This means that personal data includes things like email/home addresses/mobile phone, usernames, profile pictures, personal preferences and shopping habits, use generated content, financial information, and welfare information. It could also include unique numerical identifiers like your computer's IP address or your mobile device's MAC address, as well as cookies.
WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU AND HOW DO WE USE IT?
The Club RARE believes that you , the consumer, are at the heart of what we do. We love hearing from you, learning about you, and creating and delivering products that you enjoy. And we know that many of you love talking to us. Because of this, there are many ways that you might share your personal data with us, and that we might collect it.
How do we collect or receive your data?
We might collect or receive data from you via our website, forms, apps, devices, The Club RARE products or brands pages on social media or otherwise. Sometimes you give this to us directly (e.g. when you create an account, when you contact us, when you purchase from or websites/apps or stores/beauty salon), sometimes we collect it (e.g, using cookies to understand how you use our websites/apps) or sometimes we receive your data from other third parties.
When we collect data, we indicate the mandatory fields via asterisks where such data is necessary for us to:
- perform our contract with you (e.g. to deliver the products you have purchase on our websites/apps);
- provide you with the service you have asked for (e.g. to provide you with a newsletter, birthday offers or account status); or
- comply with legal requirements (e.g. invoicing).
If you do not provide the data marked with an asterisk, this may affect our ability to provide the products and services.
We set out further details in the table below, explaining:
- During what interaction your data may be provided or collected? This column explains what activity or situation you are involved in when we use or collect you data. For example, whether you are making a purchase, signing up to a newsletter, or browsing a website/app.
- What personal data may we receive from you directly or resulting from your interaction with us? This column explains what types of data we may collect about you depending on the situation.
- How and why we may use it? This column explains what we may do with your data and the purposes for collecting it.
- What is the legal basis for using your personal data? This column explains the reason we may use your data. Depending on the purpose for which the data is used, the legal basis for the processing of your data can be:
- Your consent;
- Our legitimate interest, which can be: Improvement of our products and services: more specifically, our business interests to help us better understand your needs and expectations and therefore improve our services, websites/Apps/devices, products and brands for our consumers' benefit.
- Fraud prevention: to ensure payment is complete and free from fraud and misappropriation.
- Securing our tools: to keep tools used by you (our websites/Apps/devices) safe and secure and to ensure they are working properly and are continually improving.
- The performance of a contact: more specifically to perform the services you request from us; or
- Legal grounds where a processing is required by law.
During which interactions may you provide and we may collect your data?
Account Creation and management
Information collected during the creation of an account on The Club RARE websites/apps, through a social media login, or in store.
Newsletter and commercial communications subscription
Purchases and order management
Information collected during the purchase process made on The Club RARE websites/apps/social pages or in store.
Online browsing
Information collected by cookies or similar technologies ("Cookies"*) as part of your browsing on The Club RARE website/apps and/or on third-party website/apps.
*Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet or mobile) when you are on Internet.
Promotional operations
Information collected during a game, contests, promotional offer, sample requests, surveys.
User Generated Content
Information collected when you submitted some content on one of our social platforms or accepted the re-use of content you posted on social media platforms by us.
User of Apps and devices
Information collected as part of your use of our Apps and/or devices.
Enquiries
Information collected when you ask questions (e.g. through our consumer care) relating to our brands, our products and their use.
Sponsorship
What personal data may we receive from you directly or resulting from your interaction with us?
Depending on how much you are interacting with us, those data may include:
- name and surname;
- gender;
- email address;
- address;
- phone number;
- photo;
- birthday or age range;
- ID, username, and password;
- personal description or preferences;
- order details; and
- social media profile (where you use social login or share this personal data with us).
Depending on how much you are interacting with us, those data may include:
- email address;
- name and surname;
- personal description or preferences; and social media profile (where you use social login or share this personal data with us).
Depending on how much you are interacting with us, those data may include:
- name and surname;
- email address;
- address (delivery and invoicing);
- phone number;
- personal description or preferences;
- social media profile (where you use social login or share this personal data with us);
- transaction information including purchased products and store location;
- payment and information; or purchase history
Depending on how much you are interacting with us, those data may include:
- data related to your use of our websites/apps;
- where you came from;
- login details;
- pages you looked at;
- video you watched;
- ads you click on or tap;
- products you search for;
- your location;
- duration of your visit; and
- products you selected to create you basket.
Technical information:
- IP address;
- browser information; and
- device information.
A unique identifier granted to each visitor and the expiration date of such an identifier.
Depending on how much you are interacting with us, those data may include:
- name and surname;
- email address;
- phone number;
- birth date;
- gender;
- address;
- personal description or preferences;
- social media profile (where you use social login or share this personal data with us); and other information you have shared with us about yourself (e.g. your:My Account" page, by contacting us, or by providing your own content such as photos or a review, or a question via the chat function available on some websites/apps, or by participating in a contest, game, survey).
Depending on how much you are interacting with us, those data may include:
- name and surname;
- email address;
- location
- birth date;
- personal description or preference;
- photo
- welfare data including skin tone, skin/hair type; and geolocation.
Depending on how much you are interacting with us, those data may include:
- name and surname;
- phone number;
- email address; and other information you have shared with us about yourself in relation to your enquiry (which may include welfare and health data).
Depending on how much you are interacting with us, those data may include:
- name and surname;
- phone number; and email address.
How and why we may use your data?
To:
- manage you orders;
- manage any competitions, promotions, surveys or lucky draws you choose to enter;
- respond to your questions and otherwise interact with you;
- offer you a loyalty program;
- allow you to manage your preferences;
- send you marketing communications (where you have asked us to) which may be tailored to your "profile" (i.e. based on the personal data we know about you and your preferences);
- offer personalized services based on your beauty characteristics;
- monitor and improve our websites/apps;
- run analytics or collect statistics; and
- secure our websites/apps and protect you and us against fraud;
To:
- send you marketing communications (where you have asked us to) which may be tailored to your "profile" based on the personal data we know about you, and your preferences (incl. location of your favourite store); and
- run analytics or collect
- Keep an up to date suppression list if you have asked not to be contacted;
To:
- contact you to finalize your order where you have saved your shopping cart or placed products in your cart without completing the checkout process;
- inform you when a product you wanted to purchase is available;
- process and follow your order including delivering the product to the address you indicated;
- manage the payment of your order. To be noted, payment information (credit card number/ Paypal, Alipay or WeChat Pay information/ bank account details) are not collected by us but directly by payment service providers;
- manage any contact you have with us regarding your order;
- secure the transactions against fraud. To be noted, we use third party provider's solution to detect fraud and ensure the payment is complete and made by you or someone authorized by you;
- enrich your profile if you place a purchase using your account information;
- measure satisfaction;
- manage any dispute relating to a purchase; and
- for statistics purpose.
We use Cookies, where relevant, with other personal data you have already shared with us (such as previous purchases, or whether you're signed up to our email newsletters) or the following purposes:
- to allow proper functioning of our website/apps:
- proper display of the content;
- creation and remembering of a cart;
- creation and remembering of your login;
- interface personalisation such as language;
- parameters attached to your device including your screen resolution, etc; and
- improvement of our websites/apps, for example, by testing new ideas;
- to ensure the website/app is secure and safe and protect you against fraud or misuse of our websites or services, for example through performing troubleshooting;
- to run statistics:
- to avoid visitors being recorded twice; to know users' reaction to our advertising campaigns; or
- to improve our offers; and
- to know how you discovered our websites/apps.
- to deliver online behavioural advertising:
- to show you online advertisements for products which may be of interest to you, based on your previous behaviour; and
- to show you ads and content on social media platforms
- to tailor our services for you:
- to send you recommendations, marketing, or content based on your profile and interests;
- to display our websites/apps in a tailored way like remembering you cart or login, your language, the user-interface customization cookies (i.e. the parameters attached to your device including your screen resolution, font preference, etc); and
- to allow sharing of our content on social media (sharing buttons intended to display the site).
- to complete tasks that you have asked us to, for example to manage your participation in contests, games and surveys, including to take into account your feedback and suggestions;
- for statistics purposes; and
- to send you marketing communications (where you have asked us to)
- In accordance with the specific terms and conditions accepted by you:
- to show you online advertisements for products which may be of interest to you, based on your previous behaviour; and
- to show you ads and content on social media platforms
- For statistics purposes.
To:
- provide you with the service requested (for example, virtually test our products, purchase our products through the App or on related e-com websites; advice and notifications regarding your sun exposure, your hair routine);
- analyse your welfare characteristics and recommend the appropriate products (including bespoke products) and routines;
- provide you product & routine recommendations;
- For research and innovation by scientists within The Club RARE;
- For monitoring and improvement of our Apps and devices; and
- For statistics purposes
- To answer your enquiries;
- where needed, to connect you with the relevant services;
- for statistics purposes; and
- for post-market surveillance:
- to monitor and prevent any undesirable effect linked to the use of our products;
- to perform studies relating to the safe use of our products; and
- to perform and follow-up on corrective measures taken, where needed
- To send information on our products and or information tagged in a wish list to a person at another person's request.
What is the legal basis for your personal data?
.Performance of a contract
To provide you with the service you requested (e.g. create an account, complete a survey, or purchasing a product).
.Consent
To send you direct marketing communications.
.Legitimate Interest
To ensure our websites/apps remain secure, to protect them against fraud, and to help us better understand your needs and expectations and therefore improve our services, products and brands.
.Consent
To send you direct marketing communications.
.Legitimate Interest
To tailor our marketing communications, understand their effectiveness, and ensure you receive the most relevant experience; and to help us better understand your needs and expectations and therefore improve our services, products and brands.
.Legal grounds
To keep your details on a suppression
.Performance of a contract: To provide you with the service you requested (purchase).
.Legitimate Interest
To protect you and us from fraudulent transaction and to ensure the payment is complete and free from fraud and misappropriation.
.Legitimate Interest
To ensure we are providing you with websites/apps, advertising and communications that are working properly and are continually improving for cookies that are(i) essential for the functioning of our websites/apps, (ii) used to keep our websites/apps safe and secure.
.Consent
For all other cookies.
.Performance of a contract
To provide you with the service you requested.
.Legitimate Interest
To help us better understand your needs and expectations and therefore improve our services, products and brands.
.Consent
To send you direct marketing communications.
.Consent
To reuse the content you posted online.
.Legitimate Interest
To help us better understand your needs and expectations and therefore improve and promote our services, products and brands.
.Performance of a contract
To provide you with the service you requested (including, where needed, analysis by the research and innovation team of the algorithm necessary to notifications regarding provide the service).
.Legitimate Interest
To always improve our products and services to match you needs and expectations and for research and innovation purposes.
.Consent
To process your enquiry.
.Legitimate Interest
To help us better understand our customers' needs and expectations and therefore improve our services, products and brands.
.Legal grounds
To comply with legal obligation to monitor undesirable effects of its products/
.Performance of a contract
To process the request.
.Legitimate Interest
To contact the person at another person's request.
Automated Decision Making
For purposes of securing transactions placed through our websites/apps/devices against fraud and misappropriation, we use third party provider's solution(s). the method of fraud detection is based on, for example, simple comparisons, association, clustering, prediction and outlier detections using intelligent agents, data fusion techniques and various data mining techniques.
This fraud detection process may be completely automated or may involve human intervention where a person takes the final decision. In any case, we take all reasonable precautions and safeguards to limit access to your data.
As a result of automatic fraud detection, you may (i) experience delay in the processing of your order/request whilst your transaction is being reviewed by us; and (ii) be limited ore excluded from the benefit of a service if a risk of fraud is identified. You have the right to access information on which we base our decision. Please see "Your Rights and Choices" section below.
Profiling
When we send or display personalised communications or content, we may use some techniques qualified as "profiling" (i.e. any form of automated processing of personal data consisting that natural person's personal preferences, interests, economic situation behaviour, location, health, reliability, or movements). This means that we may collect personal data about you in the different scenarios mentioned in the table above. We centralize this data and analyse it to evaluate and predict your personal preferences and/or interests.
Based on our analysis, we send or display communications and/or content tailored to your interests/needs.
You have the right to object to the use of your data for "profiling" in certain circumstances. Please see "your Rights and Choices" section below.
Who may access your Personal data?
We may share your personal data within The Rare Company Limited to comply with our legal obligations, to prevent fraud and/or to secure our tools, to improve our products and services, or after having obtained your consent to do so.
Depending on the purposes for which they were collected, ad only on a need-to-know basis some of your personal data may be accessed by The Rare Company Limited entities worldwide, where possible in a pseudonimized way (not allowing direct identification}, and where necessary to provide you with requested services.
We may also share your personal data in a pseudonimized way (not allowing direct identification) with The Club RARE Research & Innovation scientists, including those located outside of you country, for research and innovation purposes.
Where permitted, we may also share some of your personal data including those collected through Cookies between our brands to harmonize and update the information you share with us, to perform statistics based on your characteristics and to tailor our communications.
We may share your personal data for marketing purposes with third party or entities of The Rare Company Limited.
We only share your personal data with third parties for direct marketing purposes with your consent. In this context, your data is processed by such third party, acting as a data user, and its own terms and conditions and privacy notice apply. You should carefully check their documentation before consenting to the disclosure of your information to that third party.
Your personal data may also be processed on our behalf by our trusted third party providers.
We rely on trusted third parties to perform a range of business operations on our behalf. We only provide them with the information they need to perform the service, and we require that they do not use your personal data for any other purpose. we always use our best efforts to ensure that all third parties we work with keep your personal data secure. For instance, we may entrust services that require the processing of your personal data to:
- third parties that assist and help us in providing digital and e-commerce services such as social listening, store locator, loyalty programs, identity management, ratings and reviews, CRM, web analytics and search engine, user generated content curation tools;
- advertising, marketing, digital and social media agencies to help us to deliver advertising, marketing, and campaigns, to analyse their effectiveness, and to manage your contact and questions;
- third parties required to deliver a product to you e.g. postal/delivery services;
- third parties that assist and help us in providing IT services, such as platform providers, hosting services, maintenance and support on our databases as well as on our software and applications that may contain data about you (such services could sometimes imply access to your data to perform the required tasks);
- payment service providers and credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score and verifying your details where this is a condition of entering into a contract with you; and
- third parties that assist us of customer care and post-market surveillance purpose.
We may also disclose your personal data to third parties:
- in the event that we sell any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective buyer of such business or assets. If The Club RARE or a part of its assets is acquired by a third party, personal data held by it about its customers relating to those assets is one of the transferred assets. Where appropriate, in such case, the buyer acting as the new data user processes your data and its privacy policy governs the processing of your personal data;
- if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with a legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use/sales or other terms and conditions you have agreed to; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of The Club RARE, our customers, or employees
- if we have your consent to do so; or
- if we are permitted to do so by law.
We may disclose your personal data to our partners:
- in the event the service you subscribe to was co-created by The Club RARE and a partner (for example, a co-branded app). In such case, The Club RARE and the partner process your personal data each for their own preposes and as such your data is processed:
- by The Club RARE in accordance with this Privacy Policy; and
- by the partner acting also as a data user under its own terms and conditions and in accordance with its own privacy policy;
- in the event you agreed to receive marketing and commercial communications from a The Club RARE partner through a dedicated opt-in (for instance, through an App branded by The Club RARE and made available to its partners). In such case, your data is processed by the partner acting as a data user under its own terms and conditions, and in accordance with its privacy policy; and
- we may publish on our supports content from social networks. In the event you consult content from social networks on our websites/apps, a Cookies from such social network may be stored on your device. We invite you to read the Cookie Policy of these social networks for more information.
We do not offer or sell your personal data.
Where we Store your Personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, accessed from, and stored at a destination outside Hong Kong SAR. It may also be processed by staff members operating outside the Hong Kong SAR only in a secure and lawful way. As some countries may not have laws governing the use and transfer of personal data, we take steps to make sure that third parties adhere to the commitments set out in this Policy. These steps may include reviewing third parties' privacy and security standards and/or entering into appropriate contracts/
For Further information, please contact us as per the "Contact" section below.
How Long Do We Keep Your Personal data
We only keep your personal data for as long as we need it for the purpose for which we hold your personal data, to meet your needs, or to comply with our legal obligations.
To determine the data retention period of your data, we use the following criteria:
- where you purchase products and services, we keep your personal data for the duration of our contractual relationship;
- where you participate in a promotional offer, we keep your personal data for the duration of the promotional offer;
- where you contact is for an enquiry, we keep your personal data for the duration needed for the processing of your enquiry;
- Where you create an account, we keep your personal data until you require us to delete it or after a period of inactivity (no active interaction with brands) defined in accordance with local regulations and guidance;
- where you have consented to direct marketing, we keep your personal data until you unsubscribe or require us to delete it or after a period of inactivity ( no active interaction with brands) defined in accordance with local regulations and guidance; and
- where cookies are placed on your computer, we keep them foe as long as necessary to achieve their purposes (e.g. for the duration of a session for shopping cart cookies or session ID cookies) and for a period defined in accordance with local regulations and guidance.
We may retain some personal data to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, as well as us to manage our rights (for example to assert our claims in Courts) or for statistical or historical purposes.
When we no longer need to use your personal data, it is removed from our systems and records or anonymised so that you can no longer be identified from it.
Is Your Personal data Secure?
We are committed to keeping your personal data secure, and taking all reasonable precautions to do so. We contractually require that trusted third parties who handle your personal data for us do the same.
We always do our best to protect your personal data and once we have received your personal data, we use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. As the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, we cannot guarantee the security of you data transmitted to our site. As such, any transmission is at your own risk.
Links to Third Party Sites and Social Login
Our websites and Apps may from time to time contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we are not responsible or liable for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
We may also offer you the opportunity to use your social media login. If you do so. please be aware that you share your profile information with us depending on your social media platform settings. Please visit the relevant social media platform and review its privacy policy to understand how your personal data is shared and used in this context.
Social Media and User Generated Content
Some of our websites and Apps allow users to submit their own content. Please remember that any content submitted to one of our social media platforms can be viewed by the public, so you should be cautious about providing certain personal data e.g. financial information or address details. We are not responsible for any actions taken by other individuals if you post personal data on one of our social media platforms and we recommend that you do not share such information.
YOUR RIGHT AND CHOICES
The Club RARE respects your right to privacy: it is important that you are able to control your personal data. You have the following right:
Your rights |
What does this mean? |
The right to be informed |
You have the right to obtain clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your personal data, and your right. This is why we are providing you with the information in this Policy, |
The right of access |
You have the right to access to the personal data er hold about you (subject to certain restrictions). We may charge a reasonable fee taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information requests manifestly unfounded, excessive or repetitive may not be answered to. To do this, please contact us at the details below. |
The right to rectification |
You have the right to have your personal data rectified if it is incorrect or outdated and/or completed if it is incomplete. To do this, please contact us the detail below. If you have an account, please correct your own data via your "My Account" function. |
The right to object to direct marketing, including profiling |
You can unsubscribe or opt out if our direct marketing communication at any time. It is easiest to do this bu clicking on the "unsubscribe" link in any email or communication we send you. Otherwise, you can contact us using contact detail below. |
The right to withdraw consent at any time for data processing based on consent |
If you would like to object to any profiling, please contact us at the detail below. You can withdraw your consent to our processing of your data when such processing is based on consent. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. We refer to the table inserted in section "what data do we collect from you and how do we use it" especially the column "What is our legal basis for processing your data?" to identify where our processing is based on consent. If you would like to object to withdraw your consent, please contact us at the details below. |
To deal with your request, we may require proof your identity.
CONTACT
If you have any questions or concerns about how we treat and use your personal data, or would like to exercise any of your rights above, please contact us by writing to us at:
The Rare Company Limited
Unit 2801, 28/F,
W50, 50 Wong Chuk Hang Road
Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
You may also contact info@theclubrare.com for any questions related to the processing of your personal data
11 November 2022