Privacy Policy

China Cosmetics respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit https://chinacosmetics.com/, create or use an account, sign in with Google, comment, like an article, report an issue, submit news, contact us, or otherwise interact with the website.

China Cosmetics serves a global audience. Our separate Chinese-language website, China Beauty Network, may operate under its own privacy notices and practices.

Information We May Collect

Depending on how you use the website, we may collect:

• Technical and usage data, such as IP address, browser type, device information, user agent, referring pages, pages viewed, timestamps, and security events
• Information stored or accessed through cookies and similar technologies
• Account information, such as username, email address, encrypted password credentials, display name, first and last name, website, biography, and account status
• A profile image you choose to upload
• Information provided through Google sign-in, such as a Google account identifier and available basic profile information, and authentication credentials or tokens needed to connect the account
• Comments and related contact details submitted through the comment form
• Article likes, including the article, time, account identifier when logged in, IP address used for abuse review, and a browser cookie recording that the article was liked
• Article reports, including the relevant article, issue type, optional description, language or locale, account identifier when logged in, and technical data used for rate limiting
• News and article submissions, including title, category, summary, article content, email address, source, author name, homepage, language, account identifier, and review status
• Contact, career, advertising, partnership, and other inquiry details you submit voluntarily

Please do not submit passwords, payment credentials, government identifiers, health information, or other sensitive personal information unless we specifically request it through an appropriate secure channel.

How We May Use Information

We may use information to:

• Operate, maintain, secure, localize, and improve the website
• Create and manage accounts, profiles, sessions, and Google sign-in connections
• Display user profiles, avatars, comments, contributor names, and published submissions where applicable
• Receive, review, edit, publish, decline, or manage news and article submissions
• Record likes, display aggregate like counts, prevent duplicate activity, and show logged-in users their liked articles
• Receive and investigate article reports, correction requests, copyright concerns, and potential conflicts of interest
• Moderate comments and user-generated content
• Respond to customer service, editorial, advertising, career, and business inquiries
• Detect spam, abuse, fraud, unauthorized access, and technical problems
• Comply with applicable legal obligations and protect our rights, users, and services

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies for functions that may include:

• WordPress login sessions and “remember me” preferences
• Account, security, and language preferences
• Remembering comment details when you choose that option
• Recording that a browser liked a particular article; the like cookie may remain for approximately one year
• Security, performance, analytics, embedded content, and advertising where those services are enabled

Browser settings may allow you to block or delete cookies. Doing so can prevent login, saved preferences, liked-article history, or other website features from working correctly.

Google Sign-In

If you choose Continue with Google, Google authenticates you and provides information permitted by the sign-in request and your Google settings. We use that information to create, connect, and sign in to your China Cosmetics account. Google processes information under its own privacy policy. You can manage connected services through your Google account and may contact us about disconnecting the local account connection.

Cloudflare Turnstile and Security

We may use Cloudflare Turnstile to protect registration, login, and public comment forms from automated abuse. When the challenge is used, technical information such as your IP address and browser or device signals may be sent to Cloudflare for security verification. Cloudflare processes that information under its own privacy terms.

Public Content

Comments, display names, profile images, biographies, contributor names, homepage links, and published submissions may be visible publicly. Do not include private or confidential information in content intended for publication. Article report details and pending submissions are intended for internal editorial review unless disclosure is required by law or necessary to resolve the matter.

Information Sharing

We may share information:

• With hosting, security, authentication, analytics, email, advertising, and other service providers supporting website operations
• With Google when you use Google sign-in and with Cloudflare when Turnstile security verification is used
• With editors, moderators, and authorized personnel who review submissions, comments, reports, and account activity
• When you request or authorize the sharing
• To comply with law or legal process, or when reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, security, and the integrity of the service
• As part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of all or part of the business, subject to applicable law

Data Retention and Security

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described above, including account administration, editorial records, abuse prevention, legal compliance, security, and operational needs. Retention periods vary by data type and context.

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, but no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.

Your Choices and Rights

You can update certain account and profile information through your profile page. Depending on where you live, applicable law may provide rights to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or restriction or objection to certain processing of personal information. We may need to verify your identity, and legal or editorial-record exceptions may apply.

Deleting cookies does not automatically delete account, comment, submission, report, or server-side like records. Contact us if you want to make a privacy request.

Children’s Privacy

China Cosmetics is intended for a professional and general audience and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.

International Processing

Our website is operated from China and serves users globally. Information may be processed in China and in other countries where our service providers operate. Privacy and data-protection laws in those locations may differ from those in your country or region.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as the website, its features, service providers, or legal obligations change. The latest version will be posted on this page with the updated date shown by the website.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, email [email protected] or call +86 020-31232056. Please include enough detail for us to understand your request, but do not email sensitive identification documents unless we provide a secure method.