Website disclaimer

Whilst The Leading edge Hair & Beauty Limited has made every effort to ensure the accuracy and currency of information provided on this site, The Leading Edge Hair & Beauty Limited does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this website and cannot accept any responsibility for errors or omissions. To the maximum extent permitted by law, The LeadingEdge Hair & Beauty Limited provides you with this website on the basis that The Leading Edge Hair & Beauty Limited is not liable for loss, damage or liability arising from errors, omissions, inaccuracies or any misleading or out of date information whether contained on this site or any link attached to this site.

Privacy policy

The Leading Edge Hair & Beauty are committed to protecting your privacy. There are various ways that you might interact with The Leading Edge Hair & Beauty, and the information you provide when doing so allows us to improve our services. By using this website and our related websites (collectively, the “Site”) and by supplying your details to The Leading Edge Hair & Beauty, you consent to The Leading Edge Hair & Beauty collecting and processing your information.

Our privacy policy explains:

What information we collect, and why we collect it;

How we use that information;

How we protect that information;

How you can control your information, including accessing, updating and deleting what we store; and

How we share information collected.

Compliance

The Leading Edge Hair & Beauty adheres to UK and international statutes and regulations which govern the protection of personal information. In the UK The Leading Edge Hair & Beauty adheres to the General Data Protection Regulation Act (“GDPR”).

Information we collect and share

We may collect or record basic personal information (e.g., name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number) which you voluntarily provide through forms on our Site, through electronic mail you send to us, or through other means of communication between you and us.

We only collect personal information of a more sensitive nature (e.g. D.O.B, medical conditions & allergies, credit card details and account numbers) where it is appropriate or necessary for conducting business. This information will be collected, stored, accessed and processed in a secure manner. We may also collect general non-personal information pertaining to users of our sites, including IP addresses, source domain names, specific web pages, length of time spent, and pages accessed. This information is collected, among other things, to aggregate statistical information, facilitate system administration and improve the Site. We recognise and have controls in place to ensure that the privacy of personal information about an identifiable individual used in the course of commercial activity is protected and managed

We also collect, use, and disclose identifiable information about individual contacts for our customers (“Business Contact Information”) in the ordinary course of our business for managing and maintaining customer relationships. In particular, we may obtain the following types of Business Contact Information: name, address, invoice information including bank account information, and order information. Unless otherwise specified or prohibited, we may share information with affiliates, business partners, service providers, subsidiaries or contractors who are required to provide you with services which you have requested from us.

We may also post links to third party websites as a service to you. These third party websites are operated by companies that are outside of our control, and your activities at those third party websites will be governed by the policies and practices of those third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties before disclosing any information, as we are not responsible for the privacy policies of those websites.

How we use information

We use the information we collect to provide you with services which you request and to improve our existing services and the content of our Site. When you contact us, we may keep a record of your communication to help solve any issues that you might be facing. Your information may be retained for a reasonable time for use in future contact with you, or for future improvements to our services. You have the option to opt-out or opt-in for further communications from us.

We may also use or disclose your personal information when we believe, in good faith, that such use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law, (ii) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements, or (iii) protect our rights, property or safety,, or the rights, property or safety of our users, or others. We reserve the right to transfer and disclose your information if we become involved in a business divestiture, change of control, sale, merger, or acquisition of all or a part of our business.

In certain cases, we also operate as an information processor for our business customers. Our business customers remain the information controllers with respect to any customer information that they provide to us for our provision of services. We therefore act in accordance with the instructions of such customers regarding the collection, processing, storage, deletion and transfer of customer information, as well as other matters such as the provision of access to and rectification of customer information.

We do not sell our services to children. As such, our Sites are designed for adult user interaction. We do not intentionally collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

Web User Tracking – Use of Cookies, IP Addresses and Aggregate Information

Cookies are a technology that can be used to help personalise your use of a website. A cookie is an element of information that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it or decline at any time. To enable us to assess the effectiveness and usefulness of this Site, and to give you the best user experience, we collect and store information such as pages viewed by you, your domain names and similar information. Our Site makes use of anonymous cookies for the purposes of:

Completion and support of Site activity;

Site and system administration;

Research and development; and

Anonymous user analysis, user profiling, and decision-making.

An Internet Protocol (“IP”) address is associated with your computer’s connection to the internet. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer the Site and to maintain contact with you as you navigate through the Site. Your computer’s IP address also may be used to provide you with information based upon your navigation through the Site.

Aggregate information is used to measure the visitors’ interest in, and use of, various areas of the Site and the various programs that we administer. We will rely upon aggregate information, which is information that does not identify you, such as statistical and navigational information. With this aggregate information, we may undertake statistical and other summary analyses of the visitors’ behaviours and characteristics.

Although we may share this aggregate information with third parties, none of this information will allow anyone to identify you, or to determine anything else personal about you.

Collection and use of employee personal information

We also collect personal information from our employees and from job applicants (human resource data) in connection with administration of our human resources programs and functions. These programs and functions include, but are not limited to: job applications and hiring programs, compensation and benefit programs, performance appraisals, training, access to our facilities and computer networks, employee profiles, employee directories, human resource recordkeeping, and other employment related purposes. It is our policy to keep all past and present employee information private from disclosure to third parties. There are certain business related exceptions and they are:

To comply with municipal, regional, provincial or local government agency requests;

Inquiries from third parties with a signed authorisation from the employee to release the information, except in situations where limited verbal verifications are acceptable (see below);

Third parties with which we have contractual agreements to assist in administration of company sponsored benefits.

Prospective employers, government agencies, financial institutions, and residential property managers routinely contact us requesting information on a former or current employee’s work history and salary. All such requests of this type shall be referred to and completed on a confidential basis by the human resources department or payroll department. For written verification of employment requests, information will be provided on the form only when it is accompanied by an employee’s signed authorization to release information. The form will be returned directly to the requesting party and filed as part of the human resources or payroll department’s confidential records.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it fully complying with the General Data Protection Regulations.

We use reasonable measures to safeguard personally identifiable information, which measures are appropriate to the type of information maintained, and follows applicable laws regarding the safeguarding of any such information under our control. In addition, in some areas of our Sites, we may use encryption technology to enhance information privacy and help prevent loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control.

We also employ industry-standard measures and processes for detecting and responding to inappropriate attempts to breach our systems.

No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, can be 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

The Internet by its nature is a public forum, and we encourage you to use caution when disclosing information online. Often, you are in the best situation to protect yourself online. You are responsible for protecting your username and password from third party access, and for selecting passwords that are secure.

Monitoring and enforcement

We regularly review our compliance with our privacy policy. We also adhere to several self-regulatory frameworks in addition to complying with applicable law. If we receive formal written complaints, we will follow up with the person making the complaint. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities to resolve any complaints that cannot be resolved directly ans are a member of the Trading Standards Body.

Social media and online engagement

We occasionally use a variety of new technologies and social media options to communicate and interact with customers, potential customers, employees and potential employees. These sites and applications include popular social networking and media sites, open source software communities and more. To better engage the public in ongoing dialogue, certain of our businesses use certain third-party platforms including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Third-Party Websites and Applications (TPWA) are Web-based technologies that are not exclusively operated or controlled by us. When interacting on those websites, you may reveal certain personal information to us or to third parties. Other than when used by our employees for the purpose of responding to a specific message or request, we will not use, share, or retain your personal information.

The Facebook privacy policy is available at: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

The Twitter privacy policy is available at: http://twitter.com/privacy.

The LinkedIn privacy policy is available at: http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=privacy_policy.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. If this privacy policy changes, the revised privacy policy will be posted at the “Privacy Policy” link on the Site’s home page. In the event that the change is significant or material, we will notify you of such a change by revising the link on the home page to read “Newly Revised Privacy Policy.” Please check the privacy policy frequently. Your continued use of the Site constitutes acceptance of such changes in the privacy policy, except where further steps are required by applicable law. This privacy policy was last updated on the date set out at the end of the policy.

Contacting us

Questions regarding this privacy policy should be directed to The Leading Edge Hair & Beauty; telephone 0161 368 9999; e-mail enquiries@leadingedgehairandbeauty.co.uk

LAST UPDATED: February, 2018

We are pleased to announce the arrival of Rabia who joins us from Lashious in Stockport town centre where she worked for 6 years attaining the position of salon manager. Rabia completed her 2 years training at Stockport College and The Beauty Accademy where she attained a VTCT level 2 in beauty therapy including Swedish Massage. She has also since completed a 2 year course for Microblading with Debbie Foster and qualified as a Nouveau Eye Lash Technician.

Rabia prides herself in delivering high quality work and will never rush any service she carries out as her goal is to ensure that she highlights your features and loves making clients happy by improving their appearance. Her customers return time and time again and always say how relaxed and calm she makes them feel so we are sure that you will be extremely happy with any service that Rabia provides for you in our beauty room.

A local family practice has received a welcome financial boost thanks to staff and customers at The Leading Edge Hair & Beauty Salon. The salon with branches in Hyde and Stockport held a bazaar evening and a raffle to fundraise for the Alvanley Family Practice in Woodley.

Leading Edge owners Alan Havery and Barrie Aitken presented a cheque for £500 to grateful members of the Family Practice.

Speaking about the charity efforts Alan said; “We work with local charities each year and this year we came across the Family Practice Champions. They have a unique proposition helping people in the community by doing things nobody has ever done. We like innovation and we thought we must support these guys.”

Alan Barrie and their staff at The Leading Edge are planning to raise a further £500 before the year is out, much to the delight of Dave Chorlton who is chair of Alvanley Family Practice Health Champions.

The Champions were formed 12 months ago. Explaining why, Dave said; “The NHS is in crisis. Part of the problem is not enough money to go around. What they’ve recognised is that probably one third of patients that go to the GP these days are going for unnecessary reasons. What they decided to do is send out a circular 12 months ago to see if anyone would be interested in forming a patient participation group. We called it the Health Champions. We’re completely autonomous from the practice and basically instead of somebody going to their GP when they are lonely we needed to come up with other solutions.”

The Health Champions have produced a list of over a dozen activities to improve the mental and physical well-being of patients at Alvanley Family Practice, such as a pram pushers walk for mothers and their babies, a sing-a-long group and a knit and natter group.

“All our members have had the various relevant training.” Dave said, “Some of our members phone up vulnerable patients just to chat and that might be the only phone call they get all week. We’ve got an allotment which is exciting. There is a lot of stuff going on.”

For more information on the Alvanley Family Practice Health Champions and their various activities you can email stoocg.healthchampions@nhs.net

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We were delighted when we were contacted by channel 4 to use one of our salons to shoot a short film for the Random Acts Project 2018. 

Random Acts is Channel 4's short film strand dedicated to the arts, founded in 2011 to escape the conventions of arts broadcasting and to expand its possibilities. The world is full of TV about artists; Random Acts should instead be TV by artists. We want to encourage creative practitioners of all kinds to use the screen as a canvas. The brief is deliberately broad: we're after "bold expressions of creativity" and those could come from art, music, dance, animation, spoken word, performance, or some uncategorisable combination of the above.  We don’t commission short docs or profile films, and we rarely commission short scripted dramas (although we will consider them if they are exceptional). We ask that the films be roughly 3-4 minutes in length.  Please only pitch having first familiarised yourself with the kind of work that we commission: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/random-acts  Random Acts should push boundaries, provoke thought and play with form. The strand showcases work from as diverse a range of creative people as we can find from across the UK and beyond - giving breaks to new talents and premiering work by established ones. To date, the strand has featured Riz Ahmed, Zawe Ashton, Shia La Beouf, Gemma Chan, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Ai Weiwei, Tinie Tempah, Kate Tempest, Gillian Wearing, Kwes, Marina Abramovic and many more.  Series 1 - 4 of Random Acts premiered 2016 - 2017, with Series 5 and 6 of Random Acts set to air in 2018.

Filmmakers will be commissioned directly by Catherine Bray. To submit an idea, email catherine.bray@littledotstudios.com, copying in her assistant Jake Cunningham on jake.cunningham@littledotstudios.com, in the first instance with one paragraph outlining your idea and one paragraph outlining the talent involved in the film. She will let you know if we would like to see more. We do not require detailed treatments, shot lists or scripts at this stage, just a clear, concise idea of what the concept is and a coherent description of what we are going to see.

Please include links to previous work from the filmmakers and producer.

This is an amazing opportunity for someone who has a passion for hairdressing and wanting to develop their creative side. The apprentice will receive training both in the salon and one day a week at Terence Paul training academy.

The Level 2 apprentice will learn all the practical skills and communication skills related to the profession of hairdressing. Working to the best of their ability to get good results, develop good relationships with clients, be aware of the changing new looks and fashion trends. A hairdressing career is very rewarding and opens a lot of opportunities for future career progressions in various directions.

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 A few decades later the hair care colour space is experiencing a boom with the return of bold and pastel palettes. Coty’s Wella Professionals introduces new Colour Fresh CREATE, ex expressive semi-permanent palette of 12 specially crafted fully intermixable pure vibrant shades and one Clear shade. Co-created with 9 Global Creative Artists, each Color Fresh CREATE line has distinctive packaging featuring unique logo expressions on each shade. Color Fresh CREATE offers limitless colour creativity colour choices to transform your client’s creative inspiration into real hair colour creations.

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Its that time of year again where we are looking for model's to enter this years Wella Trend Vision 2018. Last year we had a fantastic response and we were lucky enough to get to the final with 2 entries. This year we are looking for models between 15 and 30 who must allow us to be creative with their hair. We are particularly interested in short hair where we will add lots of pastel colours to your hair. If this is something you are interested in please contact Sarah our style director in our Stockport salon 0161-493-3330 where you can chat through the process and find out about our audition date.

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