Privacy policy

Last updated: September 2026

The Beauty Spot – South West respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and protect the information you provide when visiting our website, making an enquiry or booking our services.

1. Who We Are

The Beauty Spot – South West provides bridal hair and makeup, occasion and prom hair and makeup, spray tanning and related beauty services.

We are based in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset and provide wedding services throughout Somerset, Bristol and the wider South West.

For privacy-related enquiries, you can contact us at:

Email: thebeautyspotsm@yahoo.com
Telephone: 07368 241784

2. Information We May Collect

When you use our website, contact us or make a booking, we may collect personal information including:

Your name
Email address
Telephone number
Wedding or appointment date
Wedding venue or getting-ready location
Services you are interested in or have booked
Number of people requiring services
Information you provide through our enquiry or booking forms
Messages and correspondence between you and our team
Information reasonably required to manage your appointment or booking

Our website may also collect technical information such as your IP address, browser/device information and information about how you interact with the website through cookies and similar technologies.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use your personal information to:

Respond to enquiries
Check availability
Provide quotations
Arrange and manage bookings and appointments
Coordinate the appropriate hairstylists and/or makeup artists for your booking
Contact you regarding your booking
Arrange bridal trials
Manage wedding-day timings and logistics
Process or keep records of payments
Provide customer service
Maintain appropriate business and financial records
Improve our website and services
Comply with legal and regulatory requirements

We will only use your personal information where we have a lawful basis to do so, including where it is necessary to provide or arrange services you have requested, where we have a legitimate business interest, where we have a legal obligation, or where you have provided consent where required.

4. Sharing Information With Our Team

The Beauty Spot – South West works with a team of self-employed hairstylists and makeup artists.

Where necessary to fulfil your booking, relevant information may be shared with the team member or team members allocated to your appointment or wedding.

We will only share information that is reasonably necessary for them to provide the booked services and manage your appointment effectively.

5. Payments

Where payment information is processed through a third-party payment provider, that provider may process your information in accordance with its own privacy policy.

We do not intentionally store full debit or credit card details on our website.

6. Photographs & Social Media

We may ask for permission to use photographs or other content from appointments and weddings for our website, portfolio, social media or marketing.

Where consent is required, photographs will not be used for these purposes without the appropriate permission.

You may contact us if you have questions regarding the use of an image featuring you.

7. Cookies & Website Analytics

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to help the website function correctly, understand how visitors use the site and improve the visitor experience.

Some cookies may be essential for the operation of the website, while others may be used for analytics or marketing purposes.

Where required, you will be given the opportunity to manage your cookie preferences.

8. Wix

Our website is created and hosted using Wix. Wix may process certain information when you visit or interact with our website, including information submitted through website forms.

Wix operates its own privacy and data-protection practices.

9. How Long We Keep Your Information

We will only retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including managing your booking, responding to enquiries and meeting our legal, accounting and record-keeping obligations.

Different types of information may therefore be retained for different periods.

10. Keeping Your Information Secure

We take reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or disclosure.

However, no website, email service or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

11. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on the circumstances, UK data-protection law may give you rights including the right to:

Request access to personal information we hold about you
Ask us to correct inaccurate information
Ask us to delete certain personal information
Ask us to restrict how certain information is used
Object to certain uses of your information
Request transfer of certain information
Withdraw consent where our processing relies on your consent

Not every right applies in every situation.

To make a request, please contact:

thebeautyspotsm@yahoo.com

You also have the right to raise a concern with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with how your personal information has been handled.

12. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to other websites, including social media platforms and our separate cosmetics website.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites. We recommend reviewing their privacy policies before providing personal information.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy occasionally to reflect changes to our website, services or legal requirements.

The latest version will be published on this page with the date it was last updated.