Privacy Policy

Our website address is: anibraids.com

Ani Braids is a premium protective styling studio offering braiding services worldwide through online booking. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal data is handled responsibly.

If you have any questions about this policy, you can reach us at hello@anibraids.com.

When visitors leave comments or reviews on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor's IP address, and browser user-agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be shared with the Gravatar service to check if you have a profile picture. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at automattic.com/privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public alongside your comment.

If you upload images to our website, please avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to our site may be able to download and extract any location data from images on the site.

Any photos you share with us for booking or styling reference purposes are stored securely and used solely for the purpose of your appointment. We will not share your images publicly without your explicit consent.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again on your next visit. These cookies last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me," your login will persist for two weeks.

We also use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve our services and user experience. You may opt out of analytics cookies at any time through our cookie settings.

Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, and social media posts. Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to those websites.

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your data only in the following limited circumstances:

• Service providers: We work with trusted partners (e.g., booking platforms, payment processors) who assist in operating our website and services. They are bound by confidentiality obligations.
• Legal compliance: We may disclose your information if required by law or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Ani Braids, our clients, or others.
• Business transfers: In the event of a merger or acquisition, your data may be transferred as part of that transaction, and you will be notified accordingly.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically rather than holding them for moderation.

For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Appointment and booking records are retained for up to 3 years to comply with business and tax obligations, after which they are securely deleted.

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Under applicable data protection laws, you also have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Correct inaccurate or incomplete data
• Object to or restrict certain types of processing
• Withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent
• Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hello@anibraids.com.

Visitor comments and booking data may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Our booking platform and payment processors may store and process data in secure data centers located internationally.

All third-party services we use are required to comply with applicable data protection regulations and maintain appropriate security standards. We ensure that any international data transfers are protected by appropriate safeguards.