Privacy Policy
1. Introduction and General Terms
2. What information will Flavour Magazine collect about me?
3. How will Flavour Magazine use the information they collect about me?
4. When will Flavour Magazine contact me?
5. Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?
6. Will Flavour Magazine share my personal information with anyone else?
7. Offensive or inappropriate content on Flavour Magazine website
8. What if I am aged 16 or under?
9. How long will Flavour Magazine keep my personal information?
10. Can I find out what personal information Flavour Magazine holds about me?
11. What if I am accessing FLAVOUR MAGAZINE websites from outside the UK?
12. Changes to Flavour Magazine’s Privacy Policy
13. Cookies Policy
14. Contacting Flavour Magazine about this Privacy Policy
1. Introduction and General Terms
Flavour Magazine is committed to protecting you and your family’s personal information when you are using FLAVOUR MAGAZINE services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our audience. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through flavourmag.co.uk website.
In order to provide you with the full range of FLAVOUR MAGAZINE services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.
This privacy policy explains the following:
- what information Flavour Magazine may collect about you;
- how Flavour Magazine will use information we collect about you;
- when Flavour Magazine may use your details to contact you;
- whether Flavour Magazine will disclose your details to anyone else;
- your choices regarding the personal information you have provided to us;
- the use of cookies on Flavour Magazine website and how you can reject these cookies.
As set out above, Flavour Magazine is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the “data protection laws”).
The websites contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
2. What information will Flavour Magazine collect about me?
When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from flavourmag.co.uk, such as newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards or register with the single universal online registration system used across different parts of flavourmag.co.uk called “Single Sign-On”, we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, e mail address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different webpages may ask for different personal information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Flavour Magazine and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.
Please note that sometimes on particular webpages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information. When we do this we will specify further on these webpages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.
Flavour Magazine also uses cookies (see paragraph 12 below for details) and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.
We also use your IP address to determine whether you are accessing the services from the UK or not.
3. How will Flavour Magazine use the information they collect about me?
Flavour Magazine will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
- for “service administration purposes”, which means that Flavour Magazine may contact you for reasons related to the service you have signed up for, as set out in paragraph 4 below (e.g. to provide you with password reminders or to notify you that a particular service has been suspended for maintenance);
- to contact you about a submission you have made to the websites, including any content you provide, see especially the UGC FAQS.
- to personalise the way FLAVOUR MAGAZINE content is presented to you
- IP addresses are used to identify the location of users, the number of visits from different countries and also to block disruptive use; and
- to analyse and improve the services offered on flavourmag.co.uk. e.g. to provide you with the most user-friendly navigation experience.
Where Flavour Magazine proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.
4. When will Flavour Magazine contact me?
Flavour Magazine may contact you:
- in relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that Flavour Magazine can deliver the services to you;
- where you have opted to receive further correspondence;
- in relation to any contribution you have made to flavourmag.co.uk, e.g. on Flavour Magazine message boards;
- to invite you to participate in surveys about Flavour Magazine services (participation is always voluntary); and
- for marketing purposes where you have specifically agreed to this (see paragraph 5 below)
Local pages will give you detailed information about how Flavour Magazine will contact you in relation to specific services.
5. Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?
Flavour Magazine won’t contact you for marketing purposes, or promote new services to you unless you specifically agree to be contacted for these purposes.
6. Will Flavour Magazine share my personal information with anyone else?
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in paragraph 7 below. Generally, we will only use your information within Flavour Magazine. However, sometimes Flavour Magazine uses third parties to process your information. Flavour Magazine will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and Flavour Magazine will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.
7. Offensive or inappropriate content on Flavour Magazine website
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to flavourmag.co.uk, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on flavourmag.co.uk, Flavour Magazine may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.
Where Flavour Magazine reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of England or Wales (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), Flavour Magazine may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
8. What if I am a user aged 16 or under?
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to Flavour Magazine’s website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
9. How long will Flavour Magazine keep my personal information?
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with Flavour Magazine or Flavour Magazine’s corporate retention schedule (this is a database that defines which documents should be kept and for how long). In the case that you wish to cancel your registration as a flavourmag.co.uk member, once an account is deleted a red flag goes on the database and, while people cannot use the personal information, it stays on the system for a period of one year for administration purposes before being deleted automatically.
Where you contribute to flavourmag.co.uk Flavour Magazine will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted. For example, Flavour Magazine will only keep copies of entries to a photographic competition for the duration of the competition. However other projects (e.g. the People’s War website) are likely to have a longer, or even permanent, duration.
As Flavour Magazine, showcases creative talent we feel that Flavour Magazine has an obligation to record snapshots of history which may include some User Generated Content i.e. content provided by users. Therefore, some content submitted to or shared with Flavour Magazine may be retained for prolonged periods of time or potentially indefinitely in Flavour Magazine’s Archive. There may also be rare instances where we will share your contribution with third parties in the interests of maintaining historical archives. Where possible, we will endeavour to inform you upfront or let you know at a later date where we are likely to keep content indefinitely or pass it onto an approved historical archive.
10. Can I find out what personal information Flavour Magazine holds about me?
Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information Flavour Magazine holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification.) We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.
Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy Policy to the Data Protection Officer, PO BOX 55748, London E16 3XY (Email: [email protected]).
11. What if I am accessing Flavour Magazine’s websites outside the UK?
www.flavourmag.co.uk is published in the UK by Flavour Magazine. For international users accessing the site from outside the UK, the site is made available to you by www.flavourmag.co.uk. On a commercial basis (ie some of the pages you access will have advertising on them) under licence from Flavour Magazine. However all personal information submitted by you to the site goes directly to Flavour Magazine and will be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy (and any local terms that apply on websites) unless terms on sites specify otherwise.
You should note that FLAVOUR MAGAZINE does place a number of cookies on www.flavourmag.co.uk and may collect information about international users from these – please see paragraph 13 for more information about cookies.
12. Changes to FLAVOUR MAGAZINE’s Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any flavourmag.co.uk website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.
13. Cookies Policy -Information Flavour Magazine collects from you
a. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a “device”) browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your device’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of flavourmag.co.uk features. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
During the course of any visit to flavourmag.co.uk, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
b. How does Flavour Magazine use cookies?
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits.
Flavour Magazine also use a number of independent measurement and research companies. They gather information regarding the visitors to FLAVOUR MAGAZINE sites on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. Flavour Magazine use this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. Flavour Magazine strictly require that this information is not to use any information for their own business or other purposes (see paragraph 6 above). Certain other areas of flavourmag.co.uk may use cookies for a specific reason – for example, to help the online multimedia version of the magazine work effectively on your device. If this is the case, the local terms for that area of the website will make this clear and you should refer to those local terms for additional information.
14. Contacting Flavour Magazine about this Privacy Policy
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please contact;
Flavour Magazine, PO Box 55748, London E16 3XY
Email: [email protected]
