PRIVACY POLICY

Minutiae Media Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 16018364, owns and operates this website, MinutiaeMedia.com (“Minutiae, Us, We, Our”).

This Privacy Policy specifies how we process and maintain your Personal Data, Consent, and Disclosure to third parties.

PERSONAL DATA, CONSENT AND DISCLOSURE

In sharing your Personal Data with Us, you consent to Us obtaining and securely logging such Data, including Your contact information and, for Us to maintain Your Personal Data. Your Personal Data is always held securely and is not shared with any third party without your consent.

It is a condition of your use of Our website that you give your explicit consent to allow Us to process your Personal Data per this Privacy Policy.

Personal Data that you provide Us in contact forms on our website will be stored and used to respond to your enquiries.

Personal Data that you provide Us in newsletter signup forms will be stored and used to provide you with articles We write.

We will not disclose your Personal Data unless compelled to meet legal obligations, regulations or valid government requests. We may also enforce our rights of investigation should We suspect violations of Our Terms of Use, Privacy, and Cookie Policies, to detect, prevent or mitigate fraud or security or technical issues, or to protect the rights, property and safety of Us, Our staff and agents from imminent harm.

We will not sell or broker your Personal Data with third parties. Where We deem it relevant and necessary, We may share your Personal Data with third-party contractors to provide Our services to you, however, We will always seek your consent beforehand.

The legal basis for processing any Personal Data is to promote Our legitimate business interests.

RETENTION POLICY

We will retain Your Personal Data for a period of two years unless you request that We delete it. After two years, all Personal Data will be deleted, unless We need to retain basic information to meet future obligations to you.

DATA STORAGE

To store Personal Data, We use an electronic record system, which complies with all GDPR requirements.

We control any Personal Data provided to Us by you as a guest of Our website, or as submitted by you as comments on Our website.

If you have any queries about how We gather and use your Personal Data, please contact Our Data Protection Officer by post:

Data Protection Officer
Minutiae Media Ltd
71-75 Shelton Street
London WC2H 9JQ
United Kingdom

Or contact us by clicking here.

YOUR RIGHTS OVER YOUR PERSONAL DATA

You have several rights over how We gather and use your Personal Data. You have the right to:

  • be informed about the collection and use of your Personal Data;
  • object to the processing of your data where We rely on Our legitimate interests as the legal basis for processing;
  • withdraw your consent for Us to use your data at any time, where you have opted in to Our data processing in the past;
  • ask Us to change incorrect or incomplete data We hold about you;
  • ask Us to delete your Personal Data where it is no longer necessary for Us to use it, when you have withdrawn consent, or where We have no lawful basis for keeping it;
  • ask Us to restrict the Personal Data We use about you where you have asked for it to be deleted or where you have objected to Our use of it;
  • ask Us to provide you or a third party with some of the Personal Data We hold about you in a structured, commonly used, electronic form, so it can be easily transferred;
  • request access to a copy of your Personal Data, along with information on what Personal Data We use, why We use it, who We share it with, how long We keep it and whether it has been used for any automated decision-making. You can make a request free of charge by contacting Our Data Protection Officer in writing at the address above or contact us here;
  • not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling;
  • make a complaint to Us about how We have used your personal data.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact Our Data Protection Officer by post or contact us here. We will need to ask you to confirm your identity before We can deliver on a number of these rights.

If you believe that We have not complied with your data protection rights, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The Information Commissioner’s Office can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Tel: 0303 123 111.

COOKIE POLICY

This website uses cookies so that We can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to Our website and helping Our staff understand which sections of Our website you find the most interesting and useful.

ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics to gather anonymised information about visitors to Our website and how they interact with it so We can improve website performance.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may include embedded content (eg videos, images, articles, etc). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the 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 a user account and are logged in to that website. If you do not accept cookies, this functionality might not work as intended.

WHO WE SHARE TRACKING DATA WITH

We will not share your Personal Data with third parties for marketing purposes. Personal Data will only be shared with a third party when We are legally obliged to do so. Anonymous data derived from cookies may be shared with third parties, but only for technical purposes and not for marketing purposes.

MARKETING

You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with Our obligations under the Data Protection Legislation and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out. We will always obtain your express opt-in consent before sharing your Personal Data with third parties for marketing purposes and you will be able to opt-out at any time.

We will only use your Personal Data for the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected unless we reasonably believe that another purpose is compatible with that or those original purpose(s) and need to use your Personal Data for that purpose. If We do use your Personal Data in this way and you wish Us to explain how the new purpose is compatible with the original, please contact us.

If We need to use your Personal Data for a purpose that is unrelated to, or incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, We will inform you and explain the legal basis which allows Us to do so.

In some circumstances, Where permitted or required by law, We may process your Personal Data with your knowledge or consent. This will only be done within the bounds of the Data Protection Legislation and your legal rights.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA

We will store all Personal Data you provide securely/ All traffic between your browser and this website is encrypted and protected via SSL (Secure Socket Layers).

The security if your Personal Data is essential to Us, and to protect your Personal Data we take several important measures, including the following:

  • Sensitive Personal Data will never be stored or transferred with the company.
  • Limiting access to your Personal Data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties with a legitimate need to know and ensuring that they are subject to the duties of confidentiality.
  • Procedures for dealing with data breaches (the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to your Personal Data) including notifying you where We are legally required to do so.

DATA BREACHES

We will endeavour to report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the databases of any of our third party data processors to all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that Personal Data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

These Policies are subject to change from time to time without notice. Please check back for any future changes.