Privacy Policy

Information We Collect From This Website

As of the effective date above, this Site does not include a contact form, booking form, account system, newsletter signup, or any other feature that collects personal information directly through the Site.

This Site uses a privacy-preserving, cookieless analytics tool (Vercel Web Analytics) to understand aggregate visit patterns — see "Website Analytics" below for exactly what that involves. This Site does not use advertising pixels or similar advertising/tracking technologies, and it does not set cookies or store data in your browser's local storage or session storage.

Information You Choose to Send Us Directly

If you contact Victoria by email (at hello@hairbyvictoriakim.com) or through Instagram or Facebook, you are communicating through your own email provider or through that third-party platform — not through any system operated by this Site.

Any information you include in that message — such as your name, contact details, or details about your hair or an appointment request — is provided voluntarily by you, and is received and stored outside of this Site, subject to the privacy practices of your email provider or the relevant social platform.

Online Booking Through Square

Hair by Victoria Kim does not collect booking information through this website itself. This Site does not have its own booking form, and no appointment details you submit when booking are received, stored, or processed by hairbyvictoriakim.com.

When you click "Book Appointment," you leave this Site and are taken to Square's own hosted booking page (a Square Appointments booking site) to select a service, time, and provide your contact information. That page, and any information you submit there, is handled entirely by Square under Square's own privacy policy — not this one.

Square is not loaded by hairbyvictoriakim.com before you click the booking link. The "Book Appointment" button is a plain link to Square's website; no Square script, tracking code, iframe, or cookie runs on this Site as a result of that button existing on a page, only once you have clicked it and navigated to Square's own site.

Website Analytics

This Site uses Vercel Web Analytics to understand aggregate website usage — for example, which pages are visited and, where available, general traffic-source category (such as search, social, or direct).

Vercel Web Analytics does not use cookies and does not create a persistent identifier tied to your device or browser. Visits are associated with a hashed identifier that resets daily and is not linked to your identity. This tool is not used for advertising, retargeting, or cross-site tracking, and no custom event tracking (such as tracking specific button clicks) is configured on this Site.

The categories of information involved are: page path visited, referring source (where available), approximate geographic region (country/region level), and general device/browser type — reported only in aggregate, not as an individual visitor profile.

This Site honors Global Privacy Control (GPC) and "Do Not Track" browser signals: if your browser sends either signal, Vercel Web Analytics is not loaded for that visit. See "Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control" below.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

This Site itself does not use cookies, and does not store data in your browser's local storage or session storage. Vercel Web Analytics (see "Website Analytics" above) is cookieless and does not use browser storage.

Once you click "Book Appointment" and are taken to Square's hosted booking page, Square may use its own cookies or similar technologies on its own site, subject to Square's own privacy practices — this happens entirely on Square's site, not on hairbyvictoriakim.com.

If this Site's own use of cookies, storage, or tracking technology changes further in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated to describe the change before it takes effect.

Hosting and Technical Information

This Site is hosted on Vercel's infrastructure. As with any website, the servers involved in delivering Site content may process standard technical request information (such as IP address, browser type, and request timestamps) as a routine part of operating web infrastructure.

This routine infrastructure-level information is separate from, and not used to power, the aggregate Website Analytics described above — it is not used by this Site for advertising or marketing purposes.

Third-Party Services and Links

This Site links out to Instagram, Facebook, an email address, and Square's hosted booking page (see "Online Booking Through Square" above). Once you leave this Site through one of those links, your activity is governed by that third party's own privacy policy, not this one. This Site does not control, and is not responsible for, the privacy practices of any third-party destination.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" or Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. This Site does not use cookies or advertising tracking of any kind, so there is nothing on this Site for such a signal to opt out of on that front.

For the aggregate Website Analytics described above, this Site honors both signals directly: if your browser sends a "Do Not Track" or GPC signal, Vercel Web Analytics is not loaded for that visit, and no visit data is recorded for you.

California Privacy Rights

Certain California residents have rights under state privacy law — such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) — when interacting with a "business" as that term is defined by statute. This Site does not collect, sell, or share personal information, and has no online form or account system through which personal information could be collected. The aggregate, cookieless Website Analytics described above is not tied to your identity and is not used for advertising, so it is not personal information collection, sale, or sharing under CCPA.

Because of this, mechanisms such as a "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link or a formal Notice at Collection are not included on this Site at this time, as there is no collection, sale, or sharing of personal information for them to describe. If that changes — for example, through a future online booking system — this Privacy Policy will be updated accordingly.

Children's Privacy

This Site is not directed at children under the age of 13, and this Site does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Data Security

This Site is served over HTTPS and uses security headers, including a Content Security Policy, designed to reduce the risk of unexpected third-party content loading in your browser. Because this Site does not collect personal information through any on-site feature, there is no personal information stored on this Site's servers beyond the routine technical information described above.

Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, particularly as new features — such as online booking — are added to the Site. The effective date at the top of this page will be updated whenever this policy changes, and material changes to how personal information is handled will be reflected here before they take effect.

Contact Us

Questions about this Privacy Policy can be sent to hello@hairbyvictoriakim.com.