EEG, Inc. (doing business as “Empire Beauty Schools” and “Empire Education Group”) (“Empire” or “we”) has created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to the privacy of the End Users of our Website and Services. Please read the following to learn more about the collection, use, and disclosure of information that we may gather during your use of our Website and Services, as defined in our Website Terms and Conditions of Use [beautycareer.com/eula]. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in the Website Terms and Conditions of Use.

By submitting your information to us and by using the Website and Services, Empire will assume that you have read, understood, and consent to our Website Terms and Conditions of Use, this Privacy Policy, and all other applicable Empire rules and policies (collectively, the “Agreement”). We also assume that you consent to Empire’s use of your information and data as described in the Agreement. If you do not consent, you should not access or use the Website or Services.

Please check back periodically as this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by publishing the new Privacy Policy on the Website or through the Services. The End User information we gather is and will be subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time the information is gathered.

What this Privacy Policy Covers

• This Privacy Policy covers Empire’s treatment of information, including personally identifiable information, collected through our Website and Services.
• This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Empire does not own or control, or of persons that Empire does not employ or manage, including any third-party content contributors with whom we contract and any third-party websites to which the Website and Services link.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

• Empire automatically receives and records non-personal information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, Manufacturer and model of mobile device, Internet Service Provider (ISP), Browser type and operating system, Clickstream data Time spent on pages or interacting with portions of the Website or Services, Geolocation data, and the page you requested . Empire may use this information to customize the advertising and content you see, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to monitor and analyze use of the Website and Services for technical administration. However, Empire does not connect this non-personal data to any personal information collected from you
• Where required, we will ask you to provide us with such personal information, which may include your personal contact information and/or your company contact information (e.g., first and last name, email address, phone number, postal address) . Empire will use this information to reply to your inquiries, to provide you with requested products and services, to set up your member’s account, and to contact you regarding new products and services, including sharing information with potential employers.
• By accessing the Services of Empire and voluntarily providing us with the requested personal information, you consent to the collection and use of the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information

• Empire automatically receives and records non-personal information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, Manufacturer and model of mobile device, Internet Service Provider (ISP), Browser type and operating system, Clickstream data Time spent on pages or interacting with portions of the Website or Services, Geolocation data, and the page you requested . Empire may use this information to customize the advertising and content you see, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to monitor and analyze use of the Website and Services for technical administration. However, Empire does not connect this non-personal data to any personal information collected from you.
• Empire may also combine your personal information with non-personal information and aggregate it with information collected from other users to attempt to provide you with a better experience, to improve the quality and value of the Website and Services, and to analyze and understand how the Website and Services are used. Empire may release aggregate End User information (without revealing any personal information about you) to advertisers and other third parties in order to promote or describe use of the Website and Services.
• Empire may use a number of different techniques and technologies to collect non-personal information. For example, Empire may use cookies, log files, clear gifs, pixel tags, embedded scripts, and/or other technology used to monitor your Empire experience. As is regular practice on many websites, the Website and Services use cookies and other technologies to help us understand which parts of the Website and Services are more popular and how much time users spend there. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to and stored on your device from our server. Cookies allow you, for example, to enter your password less frequently or to remember your preferences during an online session. The cookies that the Website and Services use do not store personal information, but they may store non-personal Information. Since cookies are now used as industry standard, most devices automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your device’s settings to decline them. If you prefer not to enable cookies, you may choose to disable them; however, please note that certain features on the Website and Services will not be available to you once cookies are disabled.
• Empire also allows third party companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Again, these cookies are not connected to any personal information. Third party cookie usage is subject to such third party’s own privacy policies, and Empire assumes no responsibility or liability for this usage.
• In some of our email messages, Empire may use a “click-through URL” linked to content on the Website and Services. When an End User clicks onto one of these URLs, the End User will pass through our server before arriving at the destination Web page. Empire tracks this click-through data to help us determine End User interest in certain subject matter and measure the effectiveness of these End User communications. You can avoid being tracked in this way by not clicking text or graphic links in emails from Empire.
• We may use clear gifs or pixel tags, which are tiny graphic images, in order: (i) to advise us of what parts of the Website and Services End Users have visited, (ii) to measure the effectiveness of any searches End Users perform, and (iii) to enable us to send emails in a format that End Users can read and tell us whether such emails have been opened in order to ensure us that we are sending messages that are of interest to End Users.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• Empire may disclose your personal information to third parties to provide products and services requested by you. We will share personal information for these purposes only with third parties whose privacy policies are consistent with ours or who agree to abide by our policies with respect to personal information
• Empire may otherwise disclose your personal information when:
• We have your express consent to share the information for a specified purpose;
• We undergo a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or other corporate transaction;
• We need to respond to subpoenas, court orders or such other legal process;
• We need to protect the personal safety of End Users of the Website and Services, defend the rights or property of Empire, or prevent activity that we believe, in our sole discretion, may be or may become illegal, unethical, or legally actionable (including exchanging End User information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection);
• We find that your actions on our Website violate the Agreement or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.
• Please note that if you use any bulletin board, chat room, comment posting feature, or other public communication service, forum, or feature offered through the Website and Services, or post any information available for viewing by other End Users, any of the information that you share will be visible to other End Users. The information that you make available can be read, used, and collected by other End Users to send you unsolicited messages outside of the Website and Services. Empire is not responsible for the manner in which the information that you decide to share will be used by other End Users.

If you want to opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising, just customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings or using Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on that will instruct the Google Analytics JavaScript not to send any information about the website visit to Google Analytics.

How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals and Similar Mechanisms

• Some browsers may be configured to send Do Not Track signals to websites, or users may use similar mechanisms, to indicate a user’s preference that certain web technologies not be used to track the user’s online activity. Our Website and Services do not accept or process such Do Not Track signals or similar mechanisms.

Display Advertising

• Empire has implemented Display Advertising and uses Remarketing with Google Analytics to advertise online. This means that third-party vendors, including Google, show our ads on sites across the Internet.
• Empire along with third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our website.

Consent and Changing or Deleting Your Information

• If you do not consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information as outlined in this policy, please do not provide any personal information to Empire. If you have provided personal information to Empire and no longer consent to its use or disclosure as outlined herein, please notify Empire at [email protected].

Security

• Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be considered 100% secure. However, Empire employs certain measures designed to protect your privacy and security. For example, in certain areas of our Website, as identified on the Website, Empire uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions. We also safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access, through access control procedures, network firewalls and physical security measures.
• We will make any legally required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored “personal data” (as defined in applicable state statutes on security breach notification) to you via email or conspicuous posting through the Website and Services in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, as consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.
• Empire retains your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes identified above or as required by law.

International Transfer

• Please note that the Website and Services are based in the United States and hosted on servers located in the United States. If you use the Website and Services from outside the United States, please note that your information may be transferred to and maintained on computers and servers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction, where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of information through the Website or Services, represents your agreement to the transfer of such information to the United States and the handling of your information consistent with applicable United States law.

Children’s Privacy

• We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Under the terms of the Agreement, End Users must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to access and use the Website and Services. Any access to or use of the Website and Services by anyone under the age of eighteen (18) is unauthorized, unlicensed, and in violation of the Agreement.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

• Empire may at any time, without notice to you and in its sole discretion, amend this policy from time to time. Please review this policy periodically. Your continued use of Empire Website and Services after any such amendments signifies your acceptance thereof.

Questions or Suggestions

• If you have questions or suggestions about this privacy policy, or your own personal information, please e-mail us at [email protected] .