Who we are
Hair Activist is an online hair care, hairstyling, and beauty platform dedicated to helping people discover healthy hair care routines, beautiful hairstyles, and practical styling solutions for everyday life and special occasions.
We publish educational articles, hairstyle inspiration, step-by-step tutorials, and product recommendations covering a wide range of topics, including hair growth, scalp care, hair health, easy updos, updo hairstyles for different hair lengths and textures, braids, buns, half-up hairstyles, hair accessories, styling tools, and everyday hair maintenance.
Our goal is to help readers explore new hairstyles, learn practical styling techniques, care for their hair, and discover useful products that support their personal hair goals.
Hair Activist may also offer digital products, including downloadable hair care guides, hairstyle tutorials, and ebooks.
Our website may contain affiliate links to products and services. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
Our website address is: https://hairactivist.com
Comments
When visitors leave comments on Hair Activist, we collect the information shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and the browser user agent string to help detect spam and protect our website.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture, if applicable, may be visible to the public alongside your comment.
Comments and their associated information may be retained for as long as necessary to maintain discussions, manage our website, and prevent spam or abuse.
Visitors should avoid including sensitive personal information in their comments. Hair Activist may remove comments that contain spam, abusive language, harmful content, or inappropriate promotional material.
Media
If you upload images to the Hair Activist website, you should avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website may be able to download images and extract location information from them.
If you submit images, photographs, or other media to Hair Activist, please ensure that you have the necessary rights and permissions to share them.
Hair Activist may display images related to hair care, hairstyles, updos, hair accessories, styling tools, and other relevant topics to provide educational information and inspiration to our readers.
We take reasonable steps to protect the privacy of our visitors and encourage everyone to avoid sharing personal or sensitive information through publicly accessible media uploads.
Cookies
Hair Activist may use cookies and similar technologies to improve website functionality, remember visitor preferences, and understand how visitors interact with our content.
If you leave a comment on our website, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are intended for your convenience so that you do not have to enter your details again when leaving another comment. They may last for up to one year.
If you visit our login page, we may set a temporary cookie to check whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we may set cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies generally last for two days, while screen options cookies may last for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login may persist for up to two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie may be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.
Hair Activist may also use analytics tools, affiliate tracking technologies, or other third-party services that use cookies, where applicable, to measure website traffic, understand visitor behaviour, and track referrals from affiliate links.
You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may affect some website features.
Where required by applicable law, we will request consent before using non-essential cookies.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on Hair Activist may include embedded content from other websites, such as videos, images, Pinterest pins, social media posts, and other relevant resources.
Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the external website directly.
These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, particularly if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Hair Activist does not control the privacy practices of external websites. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites they access through embedded content.
Examples of external services may include Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram, and other websites used to display relevant hair care information, hairstyle inspiration, tutorials, or product demonstrations.
Who we share your data with
Hair Activist respects your privacy and does not sell your personal information to third parties.
We may share personal information with trusted third-party service providers when necessary to operate, maintain, and improve our website and services.
Spam Detection: If visitors leave comments, their comments and associated information may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Website Hosting and Maintenance: Our hosting provider and technical service providers may process certain information to keep our website secure, accessible, and functioning properly.
Analytics Services: If we use website analytics tools, certain information about website visits and visitor interactions may be shared with those providers to help us understand website performance and improve our content.
Affiliate Programs and Retailers: When you click an affiliate link on Hair Activist, the relevant affiliate network or retailer may use cookies or other tracking technologies to identify referrals and attribute qualifying purchases. If you make a purchase, the retailer or affiliate network may process information in accordance with its own privacy policy.
Digital Products and Payments: If we offer downloadable hair care guides, hairstyle tutorials, or ebooks for purchase, payment processors and relevant service providers may process the information needed to complete transactions and deliver your purchases.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose personal information when required by applicable law, a valid legal request, or when reasonably necessary to protect our rights, website, users, or security.
We aim to share only the information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose. Third-party service providers handle information according to their applicable privacy policies and terms.
How Long We Retain Your Data
Hair Activist retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including maintaining our website, providing services, complying with legal obligations, resolving disputes, and preventing spam or abuse.
Comments: If visitors leave comments on our website, the comments and their associated information may be retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognise and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
User Accounts: If visitors are able to register for an account on Hair Activist, we store the personal information provided in their user profiles. Users may be able to view, edit, or delete their personal information, subject to applicable legal and administrative requirements.
Orders and Digital Products: If we sell downloadable hair care guides, hairstyle tutorials, or ebooks, transaction and customer information may be retained for as long as necessary to fulfil orders, provide customer support, maintain appropriate business records, and comply with applicable tax and legal obligations.
Website Security and Analytics: Technical logs, security records, and analytics information may be retained for periods appropriate to their purpose, the settings of the services we use, and applicable legal requirements.
When personal information is no longer required, we will take reasonable steps to delete it or anonymise it, unless we are legally required or permitted to retain it for longer.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on Hair Activist or have left comments on our website, you may request to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you, including any information you have provided to us.
You may also request that we correct inaccurate personal information or delete personal data we hold about you, subject to any information we are required to retain for administrative, legal, security, or business purposes.
Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have additional rights, including:
- Right to access: Request information about the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to correction: Request that inaccurate or incomplete personal information be corrected.
- Right to deletion: Request that eligible personal information be deleted.
- Right to object or restrict processing: In certain circumstances, object to or request limits on how we use your personal information.
- Right to withdraw consent: Where processing is based on your consent, withdraw that consent at any time.
- Right to data portability: Where applicable, request a copy of your personal information in a commonly used, machine-readable format.
- Right to complain: Raise a concern with the relevant data protection authority if you believe your information has been handled unlawfully.
To exercise these rights, please contact us through the Contact Us page on the Hair Activist website.
We may need to verify your identity before responding to a request. Some requests may be limited where applicable laws permit or require us to retain certain information.
We aim to respond to valid requests within the timeframes required by applicable data protection laws.
Where your data is sent
Visitor information submitted to Hair Activist may be processed by our website hosting provider and other third-party service providers that help us operate, secure, and maintain our website.
If visitors leave comments, their comments and associated information may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Depending on the services we use, this information may be processed on servers located outside Kenya.
If you click affiliate links, use embedded content, or interact with third-party services on our website, those providers may collect or process certain information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Some of our service providers may operate in other countries. Where personal data is transferred internationally, Hair Activist will take reasonable steps to ensure that the transfer and processing comply with applicable data protection laws.
We do not control the data handling practices of third-party services. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of those services when interacting with their content or links.
If you have questions about how your personal information is processed or transferred, please contact us through the Contact Us page on our website.