Privacy Policy
Your privacy is extremely important to us and therefore please read this privacy notice as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us and authorities if you have a complaint.
Who We Are
Author Julie de Vere Hunt through her website http://www.marymagdaleneslegacy.com collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you. This is regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union including the United Kingdom and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control such as social media websites.
What Personal Information We Collect
In our communications we collect the following personal information when you provide it to us: for the general newsletter updates – your full name and email address, the organisation you work for and your job title. Your IP address is also recorded by our mailing list provider, MailChimp.
How We Use Your Information
We use your name and email address in the case of newsletter updates to send regular emails to keep you updated about Julie’s work.
Who We Share Your Information With
We may share your personal information with our third party service provider MailChimp, which hosts our mailing lists and is based in the US, which processes the information that we collect from you. You can find MailChimp’s privacy policy here.
We will not share your personal information with any other third parties.
We will only share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.
How Long Do We Keep Your Data?
We will hold your email address on our mailing lists until you decide to unsubscribe. We will delete your details if you unsubscribe.
Why We Collect Your Data
We rely on Your Consent (that you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose) as the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal data.
Your Rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
- fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information
- access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address
- require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
- require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
- receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
- object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
- object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
- object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
- otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
- email, call or write to us at marymegadaleneslegacy@gmail.com
- let us have enough information to identify you (e.g. your name and email address),
- let us know the information to which your request relates
If you would like to unsubscribe from any email updates you can also click on the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of the email. It will be removed immediately.
Keeping Your Information Secure
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way.
Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
How To Complain
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.
Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
Cookie Policy
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are bits of information (memory files) stored in your browser by sites you visit. As is common practice with almost all websites, this site uses cookie to improve your experience by remembering your preferences and enable other cookie-based features (e.g. analytics).
Our Cookies
When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. In order to provide you with a better experience and remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page.
Third-Party cookies
In special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties like Google Analytics. Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content.
How To Disable Cookies?
Most browsers let you refuse to accept cookies. See your browser Help or Tool for how to do this. Be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.