ABOUT
THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
This
is the main privacy notice for Gist You Love News and Media Website.
It applies to all our Sites, and brands.
In
summary, depending on your relationship with us, we’ll use your
personal information:
- As needed to provide our products and services, for example to administer subscriptions, take orders and ad placements and handle customer service queries
- To provide the interactive features of our Sites, such as commenting, discussion forums and competitions
- To display advertising on our websites that is more likely to be relevant to you, and to participate in online advertising networks by sharing information about the kinds of people who visit our Sites, in order to help us to fund those Sites and keep the majority of them free to access. Information gathered in this way does not identify you by name.
- To manage our business and to comply with the law.
GistYouLove.com
(“we,” and “us”) respects the privacy of its users and has
developed this Privacy Policy to demonstrate its commitment to
protecting your privacy. We
encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our
Service or transacting business with us. By using our Service, you
are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
If
you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to
the end of this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact us.
1.
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE PROCESS AND WHERE IT COMES FROM
Information
that we collect and process about you includes:
- Personal and contact details you have provided to us, such as your name, email address or postal address, for example when you register on a Site or to receive a newsletter, enter a sales promotion or competition, or at an Event, or where you have agreed to receive marketing materials from us or third parties;
- Information you have provided when you obtain products or services from us or enquire about those products or services;
- Information included in any communications between us or which you provide in any post on any Site or any information collected when you participate in any poll or quiz or obtained via social media or which is publicly available;
- Information about your use of third party products or services or from third parties who we may use to operate certain aspects of our business;
- Information obtained if we carry out a credit search at a credit search referencing agency;
- Information we buy or obtain from third parties, including marketing lists; and
- We also collect information from cookies on your devices and this includes information about your IP address, MAC address and other identifying information, information about your devices, including your location, from third party advertising networks and how you use our products and services.
For
more information about cookies, please see our
We
want to offer you products and services which you want to use. We may
use and permit others to use your personal data as set out below.
We
may use information about you to provide and manage the products and
services you have subscribed to or purchased, to help us customise
our products or services for you, to personalise your visits to our
Sites, to help us to choose products and services we think will
interest you, for market research and to improve the usefulness of
our Sites, products and services.
We
also use your personal data to contact you, including to notify you
about changes and updates to products or services, to evaluate the
performance of our products and services and to develop new products
and services.
We
may use your information for the management of our business and
improving the operation of our business and that of our business
partners, to assess our internal processes and carry out financial
checks.
We
may monitor, record and store records of calls, email, text messages,
social media messages, in person meetings and other communications
where permitted by law and we’ll do this where the law requires it,
or to comply with regulatory rules, to prevent or detect crime, for
evidential purposes, in the interests of protecting the security of
our communications systems and procedures and for quality control and
staff training purposes.
We
may use your data to comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
We
may make use of your personal information for direct marketing
activities, or supply this information to third parties for their
direct marketing activities, with your consent or as permitted by
law. By direct marketing activities, we mean the communication
directly to particular individuals (by e-mail, post or telephone) of
any advertising or marketing material.
Where
we’re relying upon your consent to process personal data, you can
withdraw this at any time by contacting us
at gistyoulove@gmail.com.
Information
about you helps us sell advertising to businesses of products and
services relevant to you so that we can continue to fund these
through advertising and you can continue to use the majority of our
websites for free.
We
may analyse your data, including whether or not you open a newsletter
or click on links, and analyse data, gathered thorough our websites
and advertising partners, including by analysing your data in
aggregated form into categories (known as segments), to help target
offers to you that we think are of interest or relevance to you. You
can find more information on this in our CookieNotice.
We
may disclose details about the use of the Sites to other businesses
e.g. to demonstrate patterns of use to advertisers and others. The
information we pass on will be anonymised. We compile anonymous
records of user trends which we may make use of ourselves or pass to
our associated companies, including advertising networks. You can
read more about this in our CookieNotice.
If
you log-in to our sites using social media, for example, Facebook,
Google+, Twitter or similar social media platforms, you are granting
permission to the social media platform to share your user details
with us. This will include your name and email address which will
then be used to form a user identity.
If
you send us a picture, or video, for publication you confirm that you
have the consent of all of the people in the picture or video. If the
picture, or video, features a child, or children, you confirm that
you are the the parent or guardian of the child, or children, and
have the legal right to grant consent (or the parent or guardian of
the child, or children, has granted such consent).
If
you enter a competition, any personal information that you share with
us will be kept secure and only used in line with the relevant terms
and conditions of the competition unless you have opted-in to future
marketing from GistYouLove or the supplier.
- WHO
WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH
We
share information as needed with our third party service providers
and partners, to other members of the GistYouLove Group, as part of
providing and administering our products and services or operating
our business or as set out below.
We
will disclose your information and co-operate with appropriate bodies
and authorities in good faith where we are required to by law, a
court order, a regulatory authority, or otherwise, including with the
police, trading standards, regulatory authorities or other relevant
authorities.
We
may share information about you with credit reference agencies.
We
may also share information to facilitate the sale of one or more
parts of our business, including if we are approached by a potential
buyer or the restructuring of one or more parts of our business and
with auditing organisations such as the Audit Bureau of Circulation
4.
COOKIES
We
collect information about you automatically when you visit our Sites
by using cookies (small text files) and other tracking technology.
For more information about cookies, and other tracking technology
including how to turn them off, please see our CookieNotice.
Web
Beacons
Web
beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags or web bugs) are tiny
graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies,
and are used to track the online movements of web users or to access
cookies. Unlike cookies which are stored on the user's computer hard
drive, web beacons are embedded invisibly on the web pages (or in
email) and are about the size of the period at the end of this
sentence. Web beacons may be used to deliver or communicate with
cookies, to count users who have visited certain pages and to
understand usage patterns. We also may receive an anonymous
identification number if you come to our Service from an online
advertisement displayed on a third-party website. Third parties may
use anonymous information about your visits to our Service and other
websites in order to improve its products and Service and provide
advertisements about goods and Service of interest to you.
- International Data TransfersGistYouLove is a global business. We may transfer personal information to countries other than the country in which the data was originally collected. These countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your personal information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy.In particular, to offer our Service, we need to transfer your personal information to the United States. The United States is not considered to provide an adequate level of protection under EU data protection law. By agreeing to the Privacy Policy, you consent to the transfer of your personal information for the purposes described in the Privacy Policy.
Third-party
websites
There
are a number of places on our Service where you may click on a link
to access other websites that do not operate under this Privacy
Policy. For example, if you click on an advertisement on our Service,
you may be taken to a website that we do not control. These
third-party websites may independently solicit and collect
information, including personal information, from you and, in some
instances, provide us with information about your activities on those
websites. We recommend that you consult the privacy statements of all
third-party websites you visit by clicking on the "privacy"
link typically located at the bottom of the webpage you are visiting.
Children's
privacy
Although
our Service is a general audience service, we restrict the use of our
Service to individuals below age 18. We do not knowingly collect,
maintain, or use personal information from children under 18 years of
age, and no part of the Service is directed to children under the age
of 18. If you learn that your child has provided us with personal
information without your consent, you may alert us at
gistyoulove@gmail.com. If we learn that we have collected any personal
information from children under 18, we will promptly take steps to
delete such information and terminate the child’s account.
6.
WHAT ARE THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR OUR PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION (INCLUDING WHEN WE SHARE IT WITH OTHERS)?
We
rely on the following legal bases to use your personal data:
A.
Where it is needed to provide you with our products or services, such
as:
- Managing products and services you hold with us, or an enquiry about one
- Updating your records, tracing your whereabouts to contact you about your account and doing this for recovering debt (where appropriate)
- Sharing your personal information with third parties and services providers when you apply for a product or service to help manage your product or service
- All stages and activities relevant to managing any product or service including enquiry, application, administration and management of accounts
B.
Where it is in our legitimate interests to do so, such as:
- Managing your products and services, updating your records
- To perform and/or test the performance of, our products, services and internal processes
- For some direct marketing communications, subject to appropriate controls and safeguards
- To follow guidance and recommended best practice of government and regulatory bodies
- For management and audit of our business operations including accounting
- To carry out monitoring and to keep records of our communications with you and us
- To administer our good governance requirements and those of other members of our Group, such as internal reporting and compliance obligations or administration required for AGM processes
- For market research and analysis and developing statistics
- To provide insight and analysis of our customers to business partners either as part of providing products or services, helping us improve products or services, or to assess or to improve the operating of our businesses
- Where we need to share your personal information with people or organisations in order to run our business or comply with any legal and/or regulatory obligations
- To comply with our legal obligations or where we reasonably believe we are under a legal or regulatory obligation
C.
With your consent or explicit consent
- For some direct marketing communications and digital advertising activities
- For some of our processing of special data categories of personal data such as about your health
7.
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR DATA FOR?
In
general, we keep your personal information for as long as we need it
for the purpose for which it was collected, plus a short additional
period in case of problems. How long we keep it therefore varies
according to the type of information it is and why we have it, and
will range from a few days or weeks to, in some cases, several years.
We have established a full data retention policy, and can provide
further information on request.
How
we protect your personal information
We
take reasonable security measures (including physical, electronic and
procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information from
unauthorized access and disclosure. We want you to feel confident
using our Service to transact business. However, no system can be
completely secure. Therefore, although we take steps to secure your
information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your
personal information, searches, or other communications will always
remain secure. Users should also take care with how they handle and
disclose their personal information and should avoid sending personal
information through insecure email.
California
Privacy Rights
Under
California’s “Shine the Light” law, California residents who
provide personal information in obtaining products or services for
personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain
from us once a calendar year information about the customer
information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own
direct marketing uses.
To
obtain this information from us, please send an email message to
gistyoulove@gmail.com or mail us at the address below with “Request for
California Privacy Information” on the subject line and in the body
of your message.
If
you are a California resident, we will provide the requested
information to you at your e-mail address in response. Please be
aware that not all information sharing is covered by the “Shine the
Light” requirements and only information on covered sharing will be
included in our response.
If
you wish to exercise your rights, you can write to us by
email gistyoulove@gmail.com
No
Rights of Third Parties
This
Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or
require disclosure of any personal information relating to users of
the website.
9.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
It’s
likely that we’ll need to update this Privacy Notice from time to
time. Any changes to this Privacy Notice will be posted here and such
changes will become effective as soon as they are posted. Your
continued use of the relevant Site constitutes notice to you of all
these changes.
10.
CONTACT US
If
you have any questions about this privacy notice, or if you wish to
exercise your rights you can contact us email
at gistyoulove@gmail.com.
This
privacy notice was updated on 28th September, 2019.
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