Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 2024

This Privacy Policy describes how the Bahamas Academy of Medical Aesthetics (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.

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Collecting Personal Information

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual as “Personal Information.” See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

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Device Information
Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what pages or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.

 

Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.

 

Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.

 

Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our data analytics and site hosting service providers.

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Order Information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, email address, and phone number.
- Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and, in line with your preferences, to provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
- Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our payment processors.

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Customer Support Information
- Personal Information collected: information necessary to address your inquiries.
- Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
- Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our customer support and data management service providers as needed.

 

Minors

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address below to request deletion.

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Sharing Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you. For example:
- We use third-party payment processors to power our online transactions. For more information on how these processors handle your Personal Information, please refer to their privacy policies.
- We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, respond to subpoenas, search warrants, or other lawful requests for information, or to otherwise protect our rights.

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Behavioural Advertising

We use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:
- We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and can opt out of Google Analytics [here](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).
- We may share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interactions with ads on other websites with our advertising partners. This sharing may be direct or through cookies or other similar technologies.

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Opting Out of Targeted Advertising:
- Facebook: [Settings](https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads)
- Google: [Settings](https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous)
- Bing: [Settings](https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads)
- Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal: [Opt Out](http://optout.aboutads.info/)

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Using Personal Information

We use your Personal Information to provide our services to you, including offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your orders, and keeping you informed about new products, services, and offers.

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Lawful Basis

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal information under lawful bases such as:
- Your consent
- The performance of the contract between you and the Site
- Compliance with legal obligations
- Our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms

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Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you request deletion. For more information on your right to erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.

 

Automatic Decision-Making

We do not engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.

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Selling Personal Information

We do not sell Personal Information, as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).

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Your Rights
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, request corrections, updates, or erasure, and port your data to a new service. To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information below.

 

CCPA
If you are a California resident, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know’), to port it to a new service, and to request corrections, updates, or erasure. Please contact us if you wish to exercise these rights.
 

Cookies

We use cookies to improve your browsing experience. Cookies help the Site remember your actions and preferences. You can control cookies through your browser settings, though blocking cookies may impact your user experience.

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Do Not Track

We do not alter our data collection practices when we detect a “Do Not Track” signal from your browser due to the lack of industry-wide standards on how to respond to these signals.

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Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our practices or for legal or regulatory reasons.

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Contact

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at bamaedu@gmail.com.

If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority.