TERMS OF USE
(Please read the Terms of Use carefully before using this web site. Your use of
this web site indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these
terms, do not use this web site).
"This site" refers
to the site having the URL "www.beautyscene.com" that is operated by
The April Fools Inc, ("D/B/A
beautyscene.com"), a corporation organized under New Jersey law.
ACCEPTANCE OF
CONTRACT TERMS
The following are terms of a legal agreement between you and beautyscene. By
accessing, browsing and/or using this site, you acknowledge that you have read,
understood, and agree to be bound by these terms. If you do not agree to these
terms, do not use this site. Law, including, but not limited to, United States
copyright law and international treaties, protects the material provided on this
site. This site is controlled and operated by beautyscene.com from its offices
within the United States. Beautyscene.com makes no representation that materials
in the site are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and access
to them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those
who choose to access this site from other locations do so on their own
initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.
The laws of the state of New
Jersey govern any claim relating to the use of this site and the materials
contained herein.
COPYRIGHT
All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons,
images, and software, is the property of beautyscene.com, its content suppliers
or guest vendors and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. The
compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement and assembly) of all-content on
this site is the exclusive property of beautyscene.com. All software used on
this site is the property of beautyscene.com or its software suppliers and
protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. The content and software on
this site may be used for conducting business on the site. Any other use,
including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission,
republication, display or performance, of the content on this site is strictly
prohibited.
PRODUCT
REVIEWS
Product reviews at the site for third parties not affiliated with
beautyscene.com write products that may be purchased through beautyscene.com.
These reviews reflect the opinions of the third party reviewers, and not
beautyscene.com. In the event that
product reviews are written by beautyscene.com employees, these reviews reflect
their independent opinions and should not be attributed to beautyscene.com,
beautyscene.com will have no obligations with respect to such product reviews.
EXPERT
SUGGESTIONS
Users who seek advice from experts hired by beautyscene.com do so of their own
volition and at their own risk. Beautyscene.com will have no obligations with
respect to the advice offered by the experts. The advice provided by
beautyscene.com experts should not be used as a substitute for seeking medical
advice, diagnosis, treatment, or care. All specific medical questions you have
about your medical condition, diagnosis, treatment, or care should be presented
to your own professional health care provider.
USER
SUBMISSIONS
Any material, information or other communication you transmit or post to this
site (other than your full name and email address in connection with questions
submitted to beautyscene.com experts) will be considered non-confidential and
non-proprietary communications (Communications). Beautyscene.com will have no
obligations with respect to the Communications. Beautyscene.com and its
designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise
use the Communications and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things
embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
Beautyscene.com also reserves the right to post the questions you submit to
beautyscene experts along with their answers without revealing your full name
and email address. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from
this site any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene,
pornographic, or other material that would violate any law.
DOING
BUSINESS WITH BEAUTYSCENE.COM AND OTHERS AT THIS SITE
Except where otherwise indicated, if this site offers you the opportunity to
purchase goods or services, you are doing business with beautyscene.com.
There may also be instances when you do business directly with a guest
vendor on the site. When this happens, the page on the site where you do the
business will disclose that you are doing business directly with the guest
vendor, not beautyscene.com. There may also be special terms and conditions applicable to
your dealings with the guest vendor, which will be disclosed at that point.
LINKS TO
OTHER WEB SITES
Links on this site to other web sites operated by third parties are provided
solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave this
site. Beautyscene.com has not reviewed all of the third party sites and does not
control and is not responsible for any of those sites or their content. Thus,
beautyscene.com does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any
information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results
that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third
party sites linked to this site, you do this entirely at your own risk.
DISCLAIMER
THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY BEAUTYSCENE.COM ON AN "AS IS" BASIS.
BEAUTYSCENE.COM MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SITE, ITS CONTENTS, OR ANY INFORMATION MADE
AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE. BEAUTYSCENE.COM MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO MATERIALS, PRODUCTS OR
SERVICES OFFERED ON THIS SITE. ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES CONTAINED IN
DOCUMENTATION ACCOMPANYING SUCH PRODUCTS OR MATERIALS ARE THOSE OF THE
MANUFACTURER, NOT BEAUTYSCENE.COM TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE
LAW, BEAUTYSCENE.COM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH RESPECT TO ALL OF THE FOREGOING. BEAUTYSCENE.COM WILL
NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL PUNITIVE AND
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
FURTHERMORE, BEAUTYSCENE.COM
DOES NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION AT THIS SITE.
BEAUTYSCENE.COM MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THE INFORMATION AT THIS SITE, INCLUDING TO
THE PRODUCTS AND PRICES DESCRIBED AT THE SITE, AT ANY TIME WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE
TO USERS OF THE SITE. INFORMATION AT THE SITE THAT IS PERIODICALLY UPDATED MAY
NOT BE CURRENT AT THE MOMENT YOU VISIT THE SITE AND MAY CONTAIN ERRORS.
BEAUTYSCENE.COM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS PERFORMED AT THE SITE WILL
BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS
SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL
COMPONENTS.
LIMITATION OF
LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT WILL BEAUTYSCENE.COM, ITS SUPPLIERS, OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES
MENTIONED AT THIS SITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, THOSE RESULTING FROM LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) ARISING OUT OF THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, OR THE RESULTS OF USE OF
THIS SITE, ANY WEB SITES LINKED TO THIS SITE, THE MATERIALS OR INFORMATION
CONTAINED AT ANY OR ALL SUCH SITES, OR THE MATERIALS, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES
OFFERED ON THIS SITE OR SITES LINKED TO THIS SITE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY,
CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY AND WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL BEAUTYSCENE.COM OR ANY OTHER PARTY
INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DELIVERING THIS SITE BE LIABLE TO YOU IN ANY
MANNER WHATSOEVER FOR ANY DECISION MADE OR ACTION OR NON-ACTION TAKEN BY YOU IN
RELIANCE UPON INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THIS SITE. THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF
BEAUTYSCENE.COM, OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTY VENDORS, ARISING
FROM OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT (REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION OR CLAIM,
E.G. CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, NEGLIGENCE, MALPRACTICE, FRAUD
OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY) IS LIMITED TO THE PURCHASE PRICE OF ANY PRODUCTS YOU
PURCHASED IN THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE
EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE
LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
REVISIONS TO
THESE TERMS OF USE
beautyscene.com may at any time revise these Terms of Use by updating this
posting. By using this site, you agree to be bound by any such revisions and
should therefore periodically visit this page of the site to determine the then
current Terms of Use to which you are bound. Certain provisions of these Terms
of Use may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located
on particular pages at this site.
TERMINATION
beautyscene.com reserves the right to restrict access to this site to users
chosen by beautyscene.com, and may at any time in its sole discretion without
notice and without cause bar access to the site by any person, including persons
who previously had access.
PRIVACY POLICY
beautyscene.com is committed to protecting your privacy
online. We pledge to safeguard any information we collect associated with you
and your name, and will make every effort to use this information only as you
request.
When you sign up as a beautyscene.com member, we ask you for information such as
your name, e-mail address, user name and password. We store this information in
our database, which allows us to register you as a beautyscene.com member,
create a member profile, and provide you with the information and services you
request.
When you make an online purchase, the information you provide allows us to
process and fulfill your order, and to notify you of your order status. Your
name, e-mail address, billing address, and mailing address are stored with a
record of your purchase. We also need to know your credit card number,
expiration date, and gift recipient information. Once an online order has been
confirmed, credit card and gift recipient information is not reused, except to
issue refunds.
When you submit a question or comment to beautyscene.com, we ask for your name
and e-mail address so we may route your message to the appropriate support
staff.
beautyscene.com uses a secure server. This means that all information passed
between your computer and our server during an online purchase is encrypted for
privacy. This technology makes it safe to transmit credit card information over
the Internet. To use this server, your Web browser must support SSL (Secure
Socket Layers).
beautyscene.com will not sell, trade, or rent your personal information
collected online to others.
Registered beautyscene.com members may view their stored personal information
and update their profiles by logging in with their user names and passwords.
In general, you can visit beautyscene.com sites without revealing any
information about yourself. We cannot, for instance, determine your e-mail
address by examining electronic records. We use the electronic records to
compile statistics about how our visitors interact with our Web site. Only
beautyscene.com technical support staff use these statistics.
Cookies enhance your experience on certain parts of beautyscene.com. Cookies are
small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's
hard drive. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your
browser to prevent that. "My Account" on the beautyscene site uses
cookies to recall your e-mail address, name, and preferences to pre-populate
fields when possible. Even without a cookie, you can use most of the features on
our site.
SHOPPING
& SHIPPING
Shopping
at beautyscene is simple and fun. Just click on "buy it" to add
an item to your shopping basket. If you see a link to "view options,"
click on it to refine your selection - choose a color, a size, a fragrance, or
other variety of a particular item.
Press "checkout" to complete your transaction by credit card. You do
not need to register for membership to checkout, but being a member makes the
ordering process much faster and more convenient.
When you checkout, beautyscene will process your order promptly, so that
all in-stock items are shipped within 24-48 hours. We will notify you
immediately if an item is out of stock.
Beautyscene offers only
Priority Mail and Express Mail service to Alaska, Hawaii, APO/FPO addresses, and
U.S. Territories (Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, Marshall Islands, American
Samoa, Micronesia, N. Mariana Islands, and Palau).
We cannot ship certain
regulated products, including some fragrances, via air transport. Orders
containing these products will be limited to delivery via ground service.
Customers will be informed of any shipping limitations at checkout prior to
completing their beautyscene order.
We are required to charge
local and state taxes for orders shipped to New Jersey addresses.
YOUR
ACCOUNT
You
can access your account information by going to Customer Service and selecting
the "My Account" option, or clicking on any "Become a
Member" link. We will ask you to login every time you wish to view your
account in order to protect all of your personal information in a secure format.
Going to My Account allows you to change your password, shipping, and billing
information, as well as personal information that helps us recommend the right
products for your look.
RETURNS:
We're sure
you'll be pleased with your purchase. If for any reason you're not 100%
satisfied with any item, you may return any product unopened within 30 days of
purchase for a full refund. We cannot accept returns on personal care items once
shipped unless defective or damaged Please reorder any product from the site in exchange. If you
are unable to return a product but would like to request a refund, please
contact customer service. At 1-866-TO BEAUTY
To return a product, submit
the following form and you will receive an RMA (Returned Merchandise
Authorization number) that authorizes your return and speeds your refund. Place
the completed form in the original packaging with the items that you are
returning. To return your package, address your package to: Return Dept, Beautyscene.com,
1075 Easton Avenue, Somerset, NJ 08873.
We recommend that you send your return via UPS or insured
Parcel Post for your protection and to insure prompt delivery. We're sorry, but
return shipping fees are not refundable.
If your package is damaged in shipment, save the box and the
merchandise and notify us immediately at 1-866-TO BEAUTY. The carrier will
inspect and pick up the damaged package and the damaged items will be replaced.
SECURITY:
We use SSL security on our site with a Thawte SSL
certificate, so that your information remains secure. You can click the lock at
the bottom to check the validity of the certificate.