This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information when you visit this website or subscribe to The Skin-ny newsletter. It sits alongside our Terms of Use.
The short version: we collect your email address to send you a newsletter you asked for, plus basic usage data to keep the lights on. We never sell your data. Our newsletter runs on beehiiv, a US platform that processes your data on our behalf. Unsubscribe any time and we'll delete your data, keeping only your email on a do-not-contact list so you're never accidentally re-added.
The Skin-ny is an independent skincare newsletter operated as a sole trader business based in the United Kingdom. For the purposes of UK data protection law, we are the "controller" of the personal information described in this notice.
Email: newsletter@givemetheskinny.com
Under UK data protection law, we must have a "lawful basis" for collecting and using your personal information. Ours are:
You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO's website.
Directly from you — when you subscribe, reply to an issue, or contact us — and automatically from your interactions with our emails and website, as described above.
Our newsletter is built and delivered on beehiiv (beehiiv Inc., 228 Park Avenue # 2329976, New York, NY 10003, USA). beehiiv stores our subscriber list and processes your personal information on our behalf and under our instructions, as our data processor, to deliver the newsletter — which is our core product. This processing is governed by beehiiv's Data Protection Addendum. beehiiv also describes its own privacy practices in its Privacy Policy.
We may also disclose personal information where we are required to by law, to enforce our Terms of Use, or to protect the rights, property or safety of The Skin-ny or others. We do not sell your personal information, and we never share our subscriber list with sponsors or advertisers.
Because beehiiv is based in the United States, your personal information is transferred outside the UK when it is processed on beehiiv's systems. This transfer is protected by appropriate safeguards, including the regulator-approved Standard Contractual Clauses incorporated in beehiiv's Data Protection Addendum, together with UK-required addenda.
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies — some set by us, and some set by beehiiv where our pages use beehiiv-powered features such as subscription forms. Essential cookies make the site work; analytics cookies help us understand how the site is used. Where the law requires it, non-essential cookies are only set with your consent, and most browsers let you manage or refuse cookies in their settings. Refusing cookies may limit some functionality, such as remembering your subscription status.
Under UK data protection law, you have rights including:
There are some exemptions, which means you may not always receive everything you ask for. You can read more about each right on the ICO's website.
To make a request, email us at newsletter@givemetheskinny.com. We must respond without undue delay, and in any event within one month.
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, please raise them with us first at newsletter@givemetheskinny.com — we'd like the chance to put it right.
If you remain unhappy after raising a complaint with us, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO):
The Skin-ny is not intended for anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe we hold information about a child, contact us and we will delete it.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The "last updated" date at the top shows the current version, and we will flag material changes in the newsletter.