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Privacy statement for customers

1. Who is responsible for your personal information

This Privacy Statement applies to the personal information of Avon customers where your personal information is passed to Avon by you or by your Avon Representative. References to “Avon”, “us”, “we” or “our” in this Privacy Statement mean Avon Cosmetics Limited. Where your personal information is passed to Avon, we will be a controller of your personal information in any scenario where we determine the means and purposes of processing of such information. Where you choose to purchase Avon goods via an Avon Representative, your personal information will also be processed by the Representative, as a separate controller of your personal information. Avon Representatives are independent and not employed by Avon. Avon is not responsible for the use of personal information by Representatives. This means that the Representative will, independently from Avon’s business operations, process your personal information for purposes they decide and in ways that they decide, including for their own marketing purposes. In general, Avon’s independent sales representatives will use your personal information in a way which is compatible with this Privacy Statement. If they use your personal information in a different way, they are required to provide you with further privacy information to comply with their own legal obligations under data protection law.

2. Personal information we collect about you

When using the term “personal information” in this Privacy Statement, we mean information that relates to you and allows us to identify you, either directly or in combination with other information that we may hold. We obtain this information either directly from you or from Representatives who may provide it to us. We may collect the following personal information about you:

Your name and contact details (title, surname, first name, any other name(s), postal address, e-mail address, telephone numbers)
Your date of birth
Information on your purchases from Avon, and information about your preferences for particular types of products
The communicationsyou exchange with us (for example, your emails, letters, calls, or posts and messages on social media), or with your Representative on systems that Avon provides.
Information about how you use our website or our mobile app
Information on how you use our website, using cookies or similar identifiers. Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. They enable you to navigate on our website and allow us to provide features, such as keeping you logged in to our website; they also allow us to assess the website so we can improve it, and provide us with information for marketing purposes. For more information on how we use cookies and how you can remove them, read our Cookie Policy below.
Identifiers such as your computer’s IP address or your mobile’s MAC address.

If you have a customer account with us, you also have the option (but do not have to, and can remove these details at any time on your account) to tell us your gender, your preferred contact time, and to save your preferred payment method (whereby we have access to the last four digits of your card number and your billing address).

We use a third party payment gateway to take payment for any orders placed, but Avon does not process or store payment detail

If you choose to click through to third party websites via our website, third parties may collect information about your use of our website, using certain technologies available to them, for example cookies. Similarly, where you choose to interact with Avon content on social media, third parties may collect information about these interactions. Information collected by these third party services is governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. Where you are directed to a third party’s website by Avon, Avon is only responsible for the processing of your personal information by that third party, where the third party is processing your personal data on instructions from Avon.

3. How and why we use the personal information that we collect

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

To fulfil your order

When you place your Avon order, we use your personal information to fulfil that order. We may contact you by email and/or SMS to send you confirmation of your order, payment and order status. This is to meet our contractual obligations to you.

To inform you about our products and offers that you may like

If you have signed up to our Avon Newsletter or purchased from us previously, we may send you email and/or SMS communications about our products and offers. We may also, from time to time, inform you of opportunities to become an Avon Representative as part of our marketing communications; which you will only receive if you have opted to receive them. Such marketing communications are sent on the basis of your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by contacting us as set out below. We may use the information we have about you (including your purchasing history) to build a profile about your preferences, and to send you products and offers tailored to you. You may also see advertising related to Avon products across the web on the basis of the information we hold about you. This is to meet our legitimate business interests in marketing our products effectively. If you do not want to receive marketing communications (e.g. emails) from us, please contact us. Where you interact with Avon by posting or messaging on social media, we may use personal information included in social media posts for this purpose.

To improve our services, fulfil our administrative purposes and protect our business interests

The business purposes for which we will use your personal information include accounting, billing, security and legal purposes (including to investigate complaints or claims, and to administer the Avon product guarantee and any other rights to return products), statistical and marketing analysis, systems testing, maintenance and development. This will include the use of your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, for example, our obligation to maintain records for tax and audit purposes. Where there is no specific legal obligation we are required to meet, we process this personal information to meet our legitimate interests in managing our business and keeping our records accurate and up to date.

To request your participation in product reviews

We may contact you to ask you to participate in product reviews. This may be for a product you have purchased, a sample provided by Avon or a product we think you may be interested in. We process this information on the basis of our legitimate interest to improve our product offering. If you choose to participate, the processing of the information relating to your participation and review is carried out on the basis of your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by contacting us..

To administer competitions you enter and incentive schemes you have signed up for

We run certain competitions, and will need to process your name and contact details if you enter, as well as to let you know if you have won. We do this on the basis of your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by contacting us as set out below. Specific uses of personal data in this context will be detailed in the competition rules.

If you object to the use of your personal information to fulfil any of the purposes set out above, please contact us. Whilst your decision to provide your personal information to Avon is generally voluntary, if you do not provide certain information Avon may not be able to accomplish some of the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement. For example, we may not be able to post products to you without knowing your postal address.

4. How we may share or transfer the data we collect

We may share your personal information with:

Avon Representatives, Avon Sales Leaders and Avon Zone Managers;
other Avon group companies (for a list of these companies see https://www.avonworldwide.com/countries.html);
other companies in the Natura+Co group, of which Avon is a part (for more information, see https://naturaeco.com/)
suppliers providing services to us in order to help us run our business and improve our services and your customer experience;
an acquiring party, service providers or other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our assets; and
government authorities.

This sharing will be for the purposes set out above (including the engagement of third party service providers, who may act as controllers of your personal information) or to comply with specific legal obligations to which we are subject.

Avon uses appropriate safeguards to protect personal information which is transferred to countries outside of the European Economic Area which are considered to provide a lower level of protection for personal information. European Commission-approved Standard Contractual Clauses and other legally acceptable transfer mechanisms are in place as necessary. Contact us using the details set out below to see a copy of the relevant safeguards.

5. How long we keep your personal information

We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected. Order processing information will be kept by Avon for 10 years or until tax audit close, whichever is later. Avon may use your personal information while you are active with Avon. In deciding how long to keep personal information after you cease to be active with Avon, we take into account any ongoing obligations we may have (e.g. to store the information for accounting purposes) or the length of time given to commence or defend any legal claims. If you would like more specific timescales please contact us, and we will provide them where we can. We will stop processing your data for direct marketing, including profiling activities, if you object to such processing of your data or if you withdraw your consent to processing, where your consent has previously been obtained.

6. Your rights

You have a right to request access to the personal information that we hold about you and to have any inaccurate personal information we hold about you rectified. You may also have the right to restrict the processing of your personal information, to port your personal information to another controller or to have your personal information erased.

If you have an issue or complaint about how we handle your personal information, please contact us. In the event we are unable to resolve the issue to your satisfaction, then you have the right to contact your local data privacy supervisory authority. In the UK, this is the ICO, whose details can be found at: https://ico.org.uk/

7. How to contact us

If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this Privacy Statement please email PrivacyUK@avon.com or write to Global Privacy, Avon Cosmetics Limited, Nunn Mills Road, Northampton, NN1 5PA

8. Changes to this Privacy Statement

We may make changes to this Privacy Statement from time to time. We will publish any new version of this Privacy Statement on our website.

Last updated: 02/02/2021

Privacy statement for Representatives and Sales Leaders

1. Who is responsible for your personal information

This Privacy Statement applies to the personal information of Avon Representatives and Sales Leaders. References to “Avon”, “us”, “we” or “our” in this Privacy Statement mean Avon Cosmetics Limited, who is a controller of your personal information. This means Avon will decide the purposes for which and the ways in which your personal information is processed.

Depending on your role, your personal information may also be processed by Sales Leaders as independent controllers of your personal information. This means that Sales Leaders may, independently from Avon’s business operations, process your personal information for purposes they decide and in ways that they decide. For example, your personal information may be processed by Sales Leaders to enable them to support your Avon business. Sales Leaders will generally use your personal information in a way which is compatible with this Privacy Statement. If they use your personal information in a different way, they are required to provide you with further privacy information to comply with their own legal obligations under data protection laws.

2. Personal information we collect about you

When using the term “personal information” in this Privacy Statement, we mean information that relates to you and allows us to identify you, either directly or in combination with other information that we may hold. We obtain this information either directly from you or from Sales Leaders who may provide it to us. We may collect the following personal information about you:

Your name and contact details (title, surname, first name, any other name(s), postal address, an alternative delivery address, e-mail address, telephone numbers), as well as any unique identifiers allocated to you by Avon (e.g. Rep ID), and any profile photo you upload to our systems.
Your date of birth
Your banking details
Information on your purchases from Avon, commission and discount records and your reporting line information, as well as information about your preferences for particular types of products
The communicationsyou exchange with us (for example, your emails, letters, calls, or posts and messages on social media. This may include communications with Sales Leaders which are shared with us)
Information about how you use our websites or our mobile apps. We use cookies and other similar technologies (such as Flash LSOs and pixel tags) on our websites and mobile apps. Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. They enable you to navigate on our websites or apps and allow us to provide features, such as keeping you logged in to our websites. For more information on how we use cookies and how you can remove them, read our Cookie Policy.

3. How and why we use the personal information that we collect

For Representatives and Sales Leaders, we use your personal information for the following purposes:

To fulfil your orders, provide appropriate commissions, discounts and incentives and manage your Representative account

When you or your customers place an order with us, we use your personal information to fulfil that order and provide appropriate commissions, rebates, discounts and incentives. This is to meet our contractual obligations to you. We may also use your information to carry out an identity check before we provide you with credit for our products; and a credit check to pursue or defend any legal claim, including to pursue any debt owed by you, in order to meet our legitimate business interests in ensuring we can exercise our legal rights appropriately. We use third parties to carry out these checks (CallCredit and Experian). You can find more information about how the companies that carry out these credit checks for us use your personal information here: http://images.go.experian.com/Web/ExperianInformationSolutionsInc/%7B20f8d2ce-87f3-43b7-8766-7401b6ca1a00%7D_CRAIN_-_Information_Notice_(GDPR).pdf?SP_MID=15266-g&SP_RID=6650171-g

To communicate with you and manage our relationship with you

We may contact you by email, SMS or telephone for administrative or operational reasons, for example in order to send you confirmation of your order and your payments. This is to meet our legitimate business interests in sharing relevant information with you, and ensuring you are up to date with your orders.

To personalise and improve your Representative experience

We may use your personal information in order to tailor our service to your needs and preferences and to provide you with a personalised Representative experience. For example, you may provide us with specific delivery preferences about where your order should be left. This is to meet our legitimate business interests in showing you products that will be most useful to you, and to answer any questions you have most effectively.

To inform you about our products and offers that you may like

To help you sell Avon products to your customers, we may contact you by email, SMS or telephone about our products and offers – this is on the basis of your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by unsubscribing using the option on the marketing communication itself, or by contacting us as set out below. We may use the information we have about you (including your purchasing history) to build a profile about your preferences and to send you products and offers tailored to you to ensure that we run our business most effectively. This is to meet our legitimate business interests in marketing our products effectively, helping to promote Avon product awareness and to help you build your business with Avon.

To improve our services, fulfil our administrative purposes and protect our business interests

The business purposes for which we will use your personal information include accounting, billing, audit, ID verification and credit checks (via use of a Credit Reference Agency), fraud screening, safety, security and legal purposes, statistical and marketing analysis, systems testing, maintenance, development, and to administer the Avon product guarantee and any other rights, statutory or otherwise, to return products. We may also use website navigation data to monitor our websites and improve them. This will include the use of your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, for example, our obligation to maintain tax records. Where there is no specific legal obligation we are required to meet, we process this personal information to meet our legitimate interests in managing our business and keeping our records accurate and up to date.

To run competitions

We run certain competitions, and will need to process your name, contact details and certain other information we hold about you as a Representative if you enter, as well as to let you know if you have won. Specific uses of personal data in this context will be detailed in the competition rules. This processing will be on the basis of your consent, if you choose to enter the competition, which can be withdrawn at any time by contacting us.

If you are a Sales Leader, in addition to the purposes set out above, your personal information may be used by Avon to support the businesses of other Representatives and Sales Leaders, and in particular the reporting of sales performance data.

If you object to the use of your personal information to fulfil any of the purposes set out above, please contact us. Whilst your decision to provide your personal information to Avon is generally voluntary, if you do not provide certain information Avon may not be able to accomplish some of the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement. For example, we need to know your name and postal address before we can post products to you, and we need to know your payment details so that we can take payments from you when you buy products.

4. How we may share or transfer the data we collect

We may share your personal information with:

Avon customers
Avon Sales Leaders;
other Avon group companies (for a list of these companies see https://www.avonworldwide.com/countries.html);
other companies in the Natura+Co group, of which Avon is a part (for more information, see https://naturaeco.com/)
suppliers providing services to us in order to help us run our business and improve our services, and your independent sales representative experience (such as credit reference agencies that perform credit and identity checks for us);
to an acquiring party, service providers or other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our assets; and
government authorities.

Avon uses appropriate safeguards to protect personal information which is transferred to countries outside of the European Economic Area which are considered to provide a lower level of protection for personal information. European Commission-approved Standard Contractual Clauses and other legally acceptable transfer mechanisms are in place. Contact us using the details set out below to see a copy of the relevant safeguards.

5. How long we keep your personal information

Your personal information will be used and stored by Avon for the length of your association with Avon and for a length of time needed after, to take into account any ongoing obligations we may have (e.g. to store the information for accounting purposes), or the length of time given to commence or defend any legal claims. If you would like more specific timescales please contact us. We will stop processing your data for direct marketing, including profiling activities, if you object to such processing of your data or if you withdraw your consent to processing, where your consent has previously been obtained.

6. Your responsibilities

To ensure that we can keep your personal information up to date, please inform us promptly of any changes to your personal information.
As an independent sales representative, you are legally responsible for the personal information that you hold through the course of your business belonging to customers, other Representatives, Sales Leaders and any other individuals. This is a unique component of the direct seller relationship. You agree to comply with all applicable data protection laws in respect of the personal information collected, received, processed and stored by you. You will not use any personal information for any purpose which is incompatible with this Privacy Statement. We have provided a set of FAQs to assist you in understanding this responsibility, a copy of which is available from here.

7. Your rights

If you have an issue or complaint about how we handle your personal information, please contact us. In the event we are unable to resolve the issue then contact your local data privacy supervisory authority.

8. Additional information for prospective Representatives

Where you provide your personal information to Avon or an Avon Sales Leader / Zone Manager for the purposes of enquiring about becoming an Avon Representative, your personal information may be shared with Avon or an Avon Sales Leader / Zone Manager solely for the purpose of contacting you to discuss becoming an Avon Representative. This may be by via electronic means, including email, telephone, SMS, MMS and social media. If you do not become an Avon Representative your personal information will be deleted by Avon within 90 days.

9. How to contact us

10. Changes to this Privacy Statement

We may make changes to this Privacy Statement from time to time. We will publish any new version of this Privacy Statement on our website.

Last updated: 02/02/2021

Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy describes the different types of cookies or similar technologies that may be used in connection with the Avon website from which you are accessing this Cookie Policy (the “Site”), and how you can manage them. We may change this Cookie Policy at any time, and will notify you if we make material changes. Please take a look at the “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this page to see when this Cookie Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on or through the Site.

What is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Other types of similar technologies either work in the same way, or by retrieving information which is already stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit that site (such as clear gifs, pixels and digital fingerprints. Together we refer to these technologies as “cookies”). They may be set by the website owner or a third party. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work in a better, more efficient way. They can do this because websites can read and write these files, enabling them to recognise you and remember important information that will make your use and navigation of a website more convenient. Some cookies, known as ‘session cookies’, expire at the end of your browser session. Other cookies, known as ‘persistent cookies’, are stored on your computer or mobile device between browser sessions.

What Cookies Do We Use?

Below we list the different types of cookies that may be used on the Site, together with generic examples. Cookies can be categorised into 4 main types.

Strictly Necessary Cookies.

These cookies are essential for the Site to work and enable you to move around it and to use its services and features. Without these cookies, the Site will not perform as smoothly for you as we would like it to and we may not be able to provide the Site or certain services or features that you have specifically requested. The table below sets out some examples:

Type of Cookie	Description
Shopping Basket	Such cookies ensure that the items you place into the basket are still there when you wish to check out.
User ID	User ID cookies are used to ensure that you only see your own information and keep you logged into the Site so you don’t have to repeatedly log in on every page.
Security	Security cookies are used for security controls and checks.

Performance Cookies

Type of Cookie	Description	How to manage these cookies
Google Analytics	Google Analytics cookies collect aggregate statistical data to improve Site presentation and navigation.	https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow the Site to remember choices you make when using the Site. Such cookies enable us to provide enhanced, more personal features, for example, they can remember your marketing preferences, such as opting in or out of marketing emails. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of the Site that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. The table below sets out some examples:

Type of Cookie	Description
Language	Language cookies are used to store the language you have selected, and to show the correct options.
Location	Your approximate address (city, state, country, postal code) as determined by the IP address is retained in order to automatically select the proper country and show retailers and demonstration days within the area.
Reference site	The reference site (the site you visited prior to visiting our Site) may be recorded to better understand your preferences
Last visit and activity	Date of last visit and activity and other information is recorded to be able to provide you with an update on “what’s changed on the site since your last visit,” and to better understand your preferences.
Recently watched video	Date and title of recently watched video is recorded to be able to better understand your preferences.
Flash Cookies	Flash cookies are used to enable audio and video content to be played.
Page history	Page history cookies are used to track the sequence of pages you have visited. If you get an error message while visiting the Site, the cookie information gets saved to a log file for error reporting and resolution.

Targeting or Advertising Cookies

We may use third party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Site. These companies may place or recognise a unique cookie on your computer or mobile device. These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They remember that you have visited a website and are linked to other pieces of information relevant to your interests to help ensure that advertisements and website content are more relevant to you. This information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. The table below sets out some examples:

Note that to the extent information collected through cookies constitutes personal information, we process that personal information in accordance with our Privacy Statement.

How Do I Manage Cookies?

You may refuse or accept cookies from the Site at any time by using the cookie settings on your browser. Information about the procedure to follow in order to enable or disable cookies from your browser can be found on your Internet browser provider’s website via your help screen. You may wish to refer to the following site, which is not affiliated with Avon, http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on commonly used browsers. Please be aware that if cookies are disabled, not all features of the Site may operate as intended.

When you withhold your consent, this does not automatically delete any cookies that are already on your device pursuant to your previous consent. You will need to delete these cookies manually by following the instructions on your web browser.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this Cookie Policy please email PrivacyUK@avon.com.