Our Privacy Policy, Advertising Disclosures and Terms of Use

MySensitiveSkincare.com strives to maintain the highest standards of integrity and fairness. Maintaining your trust is our #1 priority, and we are dedicated to protecting your privacy on our website.

This page will let you know about our Privacy Policy, Advertising Disclosures and terms of use. You will learn what kinds of personal information we may receive and collect when you use our site, and the steps we take to safeguard information.

Disclosure of Advertising and Affiliations

This website is a labor of love, which I created to educate people about new solutions for sensitive skin challenges, and the affect of cosmetic ingredients on sensitive skin.

To help support my work and the cost of maintaining this website, we receive income from advertisements placed on this site.

We receive affiliate commissions from some of the products recommended on our site.

I am extremely selective about the products I personally recommend on this site, and the companies we affiliate with. These may change from time to time in response to new developments in the field of sensitive skin care.

I only recommend products I enthusiastically use myself! I am a customer of ALL the companies that I affiliate with.

Some product lines are not available in our location but we have personal experience with the companies involved and know them to be reputable.

All affilliate commissions I receive from sales of these products help us to continue growing and developing this site and offering the free information and resources that we offer to help your sensitive skin.

All products we recommend come with a money back guarantee so that you can try them to see if they will work for your sensitive skin.

These affiliate merchants include:

By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that website's use of cookies, as outlined in the links below:

Personal Information

MySensitiveSkincare.com only collects personally identifiable information that you personally volunteer through signing up for a newsletter or posting a comment on our website. This may include your name and email address, postal address, company name and telephone number.

This information is collected only if you request informationfrom us, participate in a contest or sweepstakes, or sign up to join our email list or request some other service or information from us.

The information collected is internally reviewed to improve the content of our website, notify our visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries.

Once information is reviewed, it is discarded or stored in our files. If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information we will inform you by placing a notice on our site.

Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties.

Use of Cookies and Web Beacons

We may use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser.

The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the sites pages, or register with any of our site's services, a cookie enables My Sensitive Skin Care to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your Web browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our site.

A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a web site.

We may serve third-party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on our web site to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information on our web site.

Some third-party advertisements may be provided by Google, which uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google uses the DART cookie, which enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visits to this site and other sites on the Web. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. Privacy software can be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions shouldn't cause a problem with our site, should you so choose.

Google Analytics Cookies

MySensitiveSkincare.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

MySensitiveSkincare.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on... https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Advertising Cookies

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement.

We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.

Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out page.

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse MySensitiveSkincare.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

This website is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 16 years of age. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site.

Non-Personal Information

In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

Release of Information

If MySensitiveSkincare.com is sold, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation inour site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue.

In that event, you would receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us.

Personally Identifiable Information

MySensitiveSkincare.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

To run and operate our site.
To display content on the site correctly.
To improve customer service.
To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
To personalize your user experience.
To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
To improve our site.
To improve our products and services.
To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

MySensitiveSkincare.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.

This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. Below are links to the privacy policies:

Facebook Privacy Policy

Twitter Privacy Policy

MySensitiveSkincare.com also uses Facebook commenting. Facebook stores all of your comments and may show them on your timeline, depending on your Facebook settings.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

MySensitiveSkincare.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal information.

If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, please click on this link.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.

Updates

MySensitiveSkincare.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Use of Our "How Can We Help" Service

In previous years we provided a free service to assist our visitors with their questions related to sensitive skincare and haircare at our How Can We Help page. We deleted last names or other personally identifiable information, and published your question and our replies on our site.

This service is not medical advice since we are not medical professionals. We encourage you to always listen to your own inner wisdom and to follow only the advice that makes sense to you. We cannot be held responsible for what may happen through following the advice recommended our our site.

We do not provide sensitive skincare support by e-mail. If you submitted requests for help with sensitive skincare problem by e-mail, your question and our reply may have been published on our How Can We Help page, with no name or personally identifiable information, so that other visitors to our site with similar problems can also benefit from the answers.

Website Terms of Use

The information shared on our site is intended for educational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or treat illness.

We have made every effort to provide accurate and timely information, however information on our site is NOT a substitute for medical advice.

We will not be held liable for the results you experience in following the advice recommended on this website. If you have a health problem, please see a qualified health practitioner.

About Product Reviews

The skin care product reviews we have written are based on our personal experience as consumers of skin care products, some of which existed prior to the creation of this website.

We receive requests by skin care companies that make products for sensitive skin to review their products, which is a complimentary service that we offer our visitors. If the products meet our personal standards, we receive complimentary samples of their products and then share our personal experience with them.

We accept sponsor advertisements from qualified skincare companies that meet our personal standards of products safety for sensitive skin. Links from these ads may lead to our review of their product. The product review exists independently of any sponsorship affiliation, and is my honest, personal experience of the skin care products.

From time to time our visitors may submit their own skin care product reviews, which do not reflect our own personal opinions.

Your Responsibility

We do our best to provide the most accurate information that we can, but we are not responsible for choices that you make about your skin care and your health.

We will not be held liable for any loss nor damages you may experience by following the advice contained in this website. Each health decision you make is your responsibility.

By choosing to use this site, you agree indemnify, defend and hold MySensitiveSkinCare.com harmless from and against any and all losses, claims, demands, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including but not limited to reasonable attorney's fees and costs of suit arising out of our your use of services or products provided to you by MySensitiveSkinCare.com.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to MySensitiveSkincare.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information. Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: May 25, 2018

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