Privacy

Privacy practices should match what the site actually does.

Salon Guide collects limited information when someone contacts the editorial team, requests the newsletter, or uses an authorized editorial account. Public calculators run in the browser and do not intentionally send their inputs to Salon Guide.

Last updated July 12, 2026

Contact messages

When you submit the contact form, Salon Guide stores your name, email address, selected reason, optional related URL, message, submission time, and workflow status. A one-way security identifier derived from limited request information may be stored to prevent abuse; the raw address used to derive it is not intentionally stored in the contact record.

Contact information is used to answer questions, evaluate corrections, document rights requests, and manage editorial follow-up. Do not send passwords, payment-card data, government identifiers, health records, or other unnecessary sensitive information.

Newsletter

A newsletter request stores the email address, consent source and time, privacy-notice version, subscription status, and hashed confirmation and unsubscribe tokens. The address remains pending until the private confirmation link is used. Every activated subscription has an unsubscribe path.

Unsubscribed or suppressed records may be retained so the system does not send messages again. Salon Guide does not sell the newsletter list.

Editorial accounts and cookies

Private editorial users have account, role, session, two-factor, workflow, and audit records. Authentication uses first-party security cookies. Standard sessions last up to eight hours; an editor may choose to trust a private device for up to fourteen days for the second factor. Public visitors do not need an account.

Local delivery and service providers

During localhost preparation, outgoing email is written to a private local mailbox rather than sent by an outside provider. Before production email, analytics, bot protection, storage, or delivery services are activated, this notice must name the actual categories of providers and cross-border processing that apply.

Retention and security

Operational access is limited by role, elevated accounts require two-factor authentication, form writes use origin checks and rate limits, tokens are stored as hashes, and sensitive administrative responses are not publicly cached. Records are kept only as long as needed for their stated purpose, correction history, security, suppression, or legal obligations; the production retention schedule must be approved by the site operator before launch.

Choices and requests

You may use the contact page to ask for access, correction, deletion, or another privacy choice that applies in your jurisdiction. Salon Guide may need to verify the request and may retain limited records when required for security, suppression, legal obligations, or documented editorial corrections.

Production notice

The responsible legal entity, postal contact, governing jurisdictions, production infrastructure providers, final retention periods, and any regional privacy addenda still require owner and legal review before the site is opened to production traffic.

Questions or corrections?

Use the contact page so the request can be routed and documented.