Who we are
We are Luxury Living Magazine (referred to as “Luxury Living Magazine ”, “we”, “us”, “our”), and we understand that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your information is used and shared online. When you visit our website, you trust us with your information. We respect and value the privacy of everyone that visits our website and only collect and use information in ways that are useful to you and in a manner consistent with your rights and our obligations under the law, including the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). This privacy and cookie policy is important; we hope you will take time to read it carefully. It will help you understand how we process any and all data collected by us in relation to your use of our website, and what choices you have. We pride ourselves on our honesty and openness and will always be clear how, when and why we collect and process your information; we promise we will never do anything with your details that you wouldn’t reasonably expect.
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Our contact details
Name: The Data Protection Officer, Luxury Living Magazine
Address: PO BOX 2626, Henfield, West Sussex, BN5 9DA
E-mail: privacy@luxurylivingmagazine.co.uk
Our website address is: http://luxurylivingmagazine.co.uk/.
What personal data we collect
We currently collect and process the following information:
• Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics, for example, name and contact details when you subscribe to our newsletter
• IP Address, operating system and browser type, when you visit our site.
How we get the personal data
We collect information about you when you register with us, subscribe to our newsletter or complete any form on our website. Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you when you register with us for one of the following reasons:
• Enabling us to email you directly when you subscribe to our newsletter or offers
• Enabling us to contact you regarding an offer, query or complaint
We may also collect information when you voluntarily provide feedback, participate in special offers or promotions, and when you contact us by email. Additionally, communicating with us via Social Media might give us permission to access information from those accounts or services, depending on your privacy settings, or the privacy notices for messaging services like Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn or Twitter, etc. This & other website usage information is often collected using cookies – see below.
Why we have personal data
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing your personal information are:
• Legitimate Interest. We have a legitimate interest in contacting you via email to inform you of our latest news, offers and changes to our terms & conditions.
• Your consent. You consented to us keeping your personal information in order to contact you when you subscribed to our newsletter or offers but can remove your consent at any time. You can do this by unsubscribing from our newsletter via the unsubscribe link or contacting us via email at privacy@luxurylivingmagazine.co.uk
How we use your personal data
We will use this information to provide & improve the products or services requested, to respond to communications from you, to help improve the way we deal with you, and, if you agree, to email you about our other services and promotions that we think may be of interest to you. We use your information collected from our website to personalise your repeat visits to our website. We will never share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside of our organisation.
How we store your personal data
We only keep your data if we have a valid legal reason to do so and will only keep it for as long as we need to in order to fulfil our contractual or legal obligations or for as long as we have your permission to keep it. We will conduct an annual review to determine if we need to keep your data. Your data will be deleted if we no longer need it to maintain our obligations or if you have requested that we delete it.
The security of your data is of great importance to us. We take steps to protect your data by using encryption on our website and applications. Our websites are hosted in the UK and are monitored 24/7/365. The servers where they are stored includes firewall protection and secure monitoring software which generates alerts in the event of a hacking attempt or the detection of malware. We ensure that there are appropriate physical and technical controls in place to protect your data and we work within good practice, for example, confidential records collected on paper are securely stored, and securely disposed of, as appropriate.
Some or all of your data may be transferred to and stored on servers outside of the European Economic Area (“the EEA”). If we do store or transfer data outside of the EEA, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated as safely and securely as it would within the EEA and under the GDPR.
How we share your personal data
In the course of our legitimate business activities, there may be a need for us to share, or give access to, your personal data to third parties that provide us with services or host our applications/software that you may access, for instance our newsletter or mailshot service providers. We will never commercially sell your personal data to anyone else. However, we may need to disclose your details if required to by the police, HMRC, other regulatory bodies or security agencies.
Cookies
Put simply, accepting cookies mean that a website will remember you. Cookies are text files that are transferred to your computer (or phone or tablet) to collect standard internet information and visitor behaviour traits. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity. Like most company websites, we may use “cookies” to help us improve our site, but we do not store any personal data in the cookies that we use. They make interacting with a website faster and easier for you, for example by automatically filling your name and address in text fields. It may also be used for the purpose of running re-marketing adverts to you about our products and services. You can set your browser not to accept cookies and can also remove cookies from your browser. However, if you do, some features on our website, and others, may not function as a result. You can find out more information about cookies and how to remove cookies by visiting allaboutcookies.org
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Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. This privacy policy only applies to this website. So, if you follow a link to other websites you should read their privacy policy.
Accessibilty
Every effort has been made to ensure that our website is W3C compatible & are therefore cross-platform compatible – https://www.w3.org/standards/. This means that, in addition to working on any browser, they can also be accessed via mobile phones, screen readers and text browsers, interactive televisions, and other devices.
Sensitive information
We do not collect any personal information that is classified as ‘sensitive’ under GDPR. For example, information about an individual’s: race; ethnic origin; politics; religion; trade union membership; genetics; biometrics (where used for ID purposes); health; or sexual orientation.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
• Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
• Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
• Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
• You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
• You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
• Please contact us at privacy@luxurylivingmagazine.co.uk if you wish to make a request.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us by emailing us at privacy@luxurylivingmagazine.co.uk.
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We will keep our privacy policy under regular review and will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on the 9th June 2021.