Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how Becoming Co. uses and protects any information that you give when you use our website, startbecoming.co. Becoming Co. is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Becoming Co. is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Miami, Florida, and is responsible for the information described in this policy. You can reach us about privacy at legal@startbecoming.co.

Information we collect

We collect only the information you choose to give us through this website:

• When you request a conversation or apply to attend a salon: your name, your email address, anything you write in the optional note, and which of the two you asked for.
• When you take the Profile: your answers to its ten questions, the email address you give to receive your result, and your device's time zone, so that our follow-up note reaches you in the morning where you are. Some questions ask about sleep, energy, recovery, and how you respond to strong emotions. The Profile is not a medical or psychological assessment.
• When you ask for a conversation from your Profile result: that request, which we keep with your Profile.

We also collect some information automatically:

• Your IP address when you send a form, which we count for up to ten minutes to limit how often forms can be sent and so protect the website from abuse. The count is not linked to your name, your email address, or your Profile.
• The technical information our hosting provider records when your browser requests a page, such as your IP address, your browser type, and the page requested, which is kept in short-lived server logs for security and troubleshooting.

We do not ask for payment details, phone numbers, or postal addresses on this website, and we do not use analytics or advertising tools.

How we use this information

We use this information only for the following purposes:

• To reply to your request for a conversation and arrange it
• To review your application to attend a salon and, if it is approved, send you the date
• To send you your Profile result, and one follow-up note from an advisor the next morning
• To share your Profile with our advisors, so that any conversation you request can begin from your answers
• To keep this website secure and protect it from misuse
• To comply with our legal obligations

We do not add you to a mailing list or send you marketing emails. We will only email you further if you ask us to, or if you go on to work with us. We do not sell or rent your personal information.

Where your information is kept

We use the following service providers, which process your information on our behalf and only to provide their services to us:

• Notion, where we keep a record of each Profile: your email address, your answers and result, when your result was emailed and your follow-up note scheduled, and whether you asked for a conversation.
• Resend, which sends the emails from this website: your Profile result and follow-up note, and copies of enquiries and Profiles to our advisors.
• Vercel, which hosts this website.
• Upstash, which holds the short-lived counts we use to limit how often forms can be sent.

Our advisors receive enquiries and Profiles by email, in our business email accounts.

How long we keep it

We keep enquiries and Profiles for as long as we need them to respond to you and, if you go on to work with us, to provide our services. You can ask us to delete them at any time, as described under Your rights. The counts we use to limit form sending expire after ten minutes. Our service providers keep their own technical logs for limited periods under their own policies.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Cookies and browser storage

A cookie is a small file which a website places in your browser. This website does not use analytics, advertising, or third-party cookies. It sets one cookie of its own, which lasts only until you close your browser and records that you have already seen the website's opening animation, so that it does not play again. It contains no personal information.

The website also uses your browser's own storage, which stays on your device and is never sent to us. Session storage records, for the same opening animation, that you have seen it. Once you finish the Profile, local storage keeps your answers, your email address, the date you took it, and whether you asked for a conversation, so that a return visit opens on your result. You can remove it at any time by clearing this website's data in your browser.

You can choose to decline cookies in your browser settings. The website works fully without them.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Disclosure of information

We may disclose your personal information to our employees, officers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors, including the service providers named above, as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We may also disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Becoming Co., our customers, or others.

International transfer

Becoming Co. is based in the United States, and our service providers store and process information in the United States. If you use this website from outside the United States, including from the UK or the EU, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, where data protection laws may be different from those in your country of residence. Where the law requires it, these transfers rely on the safeguards our service providers offer for them, such as standard contractual clauses.

Your rights

You have the right to access, correct, and delete your personal information at any time. Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to object to or restrict how we use it, to receive a copy of it in a portable format, and to complain to your local data protection authority.

To exercise any of these rights, or if you have any questions about this privacy policy, email us at legal@startbecoming.co from the address you gave us, or tell us which address it was.

Children's privacy

Our website is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, please do not provide any information on this website. If you believe that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, please contact us immediately at legal@startbecoming.co.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, with the date at the top updated, and, if appropriate, notified to you by email. You should check this page periodically to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us at legal@startbecoming.co.