Privacy Policy
In order to use our services, we require you to provide us with your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains what type of information we collect and how we use it. We place a high priority on safeguarding your privacy and will handle your information in compliance with this policy. In this policy, we use the term “information” to refer to personal data that includes any information related to an identifiable individual. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites, and we suggest that you carefully review their privacy policies. We provide links to other websites for your convenience, but the presence of those links does not indicate our endorsement of their content or our association with their operators. If you have any concerns about those sites, please reach out to them directly. We will update this Privacy Policy when necessary, and any changes will take effect when we post a revised version on our website. We advise you to check back periodically to stay informed of the latest version of our Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
To access certain services, we require you to provide us with personal information such as your name, address, email address. We will keep you updated about our products via your email. It’s important to note that we do not collect any sensitive data such as information on your racial or ethnic origins, political beliefs, union affiliations, sexual preferences, or criminal record.
We use cookies, web analytics, and web logs to gather information about your interaction with our websites. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or device. This information includes your computer’s IP address, browser type, demographic data, and the URL of the page that linked you to our site, if applicable. The data collected through these methods may be shared with third parties. To learn more about our use of cookies, please consult our cookie policy.
When you use our online services on any device, we gather and store device data, including geolocation data (using cookies) to provide location-specific offers. Additionally, we collect details about the pages you visit on our website, IP addresses, browser type, transaction information, time spent on our website, device type, and when you access our website. If you participate in a competition or prize draw, you will need to provide certain personal information, which we will use according to the terms of the competition or prize draw. We will only send you marketing communications if you choose to receive them. Winners will be contacted via email. We will retain your information only as long as necessary to provide the requested service or meet legal obligations. Please contact our Data Protection Officer for more information. Providing this information is necessary to use our services, and you are entering into a contract for the duration of the service. If you object to providing this information, please do not use our services.
How We Use The Information We Collect
Our main objective in collecting your information is to provide you with our services. By providing your information, you agree that we may use your personal information to:
- Provide the service to you
- Notify you about your service
- Carry out internal administration and analysis
- Monitor or improve the performance of, and products and services available through, our websites
If you purchase or subscribe to our magazines, a contract will be established between us, and we will use your personal information to communicate with you regarding the terms of the contract. Our legal basis for processing your data in this context will be “performance of a contract.” Similarly, we will process advertiser data under “performance of a contract” if the third party has entered into a commercial agreement with us to advertise in our magazines and/or websites. For client prospect data, we will use “Legitimate Interest” as our legal basis for contacting potential clients. However, we will provide an option to opt out of such communication via the channel used, such as email or telephone call.
How We Use The Information For Marketing
We respect your privacy and will only send you marketing communications when we have obtained your explicit consent or when we have a legitimate interest to do so. When you subscribe to our services, we will ask for your consent to receive marketing messages through various channels, and you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
If you request or inquire about our services, we may use our legitimate business interests to send you marketing messages that we believe are relevant to you. We will always provide you with an option to unsubscribe from our marketing communications when you first provide us with your information, or when you receive a marketing message from us. You can unsubscribe using the mechanism provided in our emails, or by contacting our Data Protection Officer whose contact details are available in our Privacy Summary.
Email Marketing
To track the success of our marketing campaigns, we use web beacons in our emails. When you open an email from us, we can see which pages of our website you visited through the web beacons that communicate with our cookies on your computer. We keep a record of the emails we send you and which communications you have opted to receive or not receive. We will only send you marketing emails if you have given your consent to receive them. If you want to update your preferences or unsubscribe, you can access your preference center from any marketing email that we send you or click on the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any of our emails to you.
Data Profiling and Remarketing
Periodically, we conduct data profiling on the information we collect to better understand our customers and provide targeted communications that suit their needs. Our lawful basis for processing this data is ‘legitimate interests.’
To analyze behavior on our websites and deliver relevant messages via Facebook, some of our websites use the Facebook pixel. This pixel is a code placed on our website that helps track conversions from Facebook ads, optimize ads based on collected data, build targeted audiences for future ads, and remarket to qualified leads. Our lawful basis for processing this data is also ‘legitimate interests.’
We may use Facebook to create lookalike audiences based on profiling our subscribers. Additionally, we use the Google Display Network as a channel for remarketing to our users.
To serve advertisements on our websites and report on their performance, we use an advertising management system that gathers information using IP addresses. This allows us to target advertisements by geo-location and device to make third-party advertisements more relevant to the user. We also serve targeted advertisements for our own products based on user behavior on our own websites.
We use ‘legitimate interests’ as the lawful basis for data profiling and remarketing. However, if we target email data for these activities, we will only use opted-in data where the user has given consent to marketing.
If you wish to stop your information from being used for data profiling and remarketing, please contact our Data Protection Officer.
Information Security
At our organization, we prioritize the security of your information and handle it with the utmost care. We collect, store, and process your information on servers located primarily in the United States.
We implement a range of safeguards, such as firewalls and data encryption, to ensure the security of your information. Additionally, we enforce physical access controls to our buildings and files, and we only authorize access to personal information to employees who require it to perform their job responsibilities.
In rare cases, these security measures may require us to request proof of identity from you before we are able to disclose any personal information. This is a precautionary step to ensure that your information is not accessed by unauthorized individuals.
Accessing, Deleting Or Updating Your Information
As an individual, you have the right to access, delete, and update your personal information that you have provided to us. To access your personal information, you can make a Subject Access Request to our Data Protection Officer, using the details provided in the Privacy Summary. We may require proof of identification before we can disclose any personal information to you. We will respond to your request within one calendar month.
If you wish to have your personal information removed from our systems, you can make a request to our Data Protection Officer, using the details provided in the Privacy Summary. We will remove your information from our systems, unless we are legally required to retain it or for future suppression purposes, where we will retain only the minimum amount necessary to honor your right.
You can also review your personal information and make any necessary changes or rectifications at any time, either online or by contacting our Data Protection Officer.
Under the GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. You have an absolute right to stop the use of your data for direct marketing. You can make an objection verbally or in writing, and we will respond to your objection within one calendar month.
Information Regarding Children
Our services are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect personal information from minors (persons under the age of 18). We request that minors do not submit any personal information to us. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that your child has provided personal information to us, please contact us immediately using the details provided in the Privacy Summary. We will take all necessary steps to promptly delete the personal information of any minors who have provided it to us without appropriate consent.