Introduction

 

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors, service users, individual customers and customer personnel.

 

This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of such persons; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.

 

We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.

 

In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to Moat House Publishing Ltd.

 

The personal data we collect

 

We may process data enabling us to get in touch with you ("contact data"). The contact data may include your name, email address, telephone number, postal address and/or social media account identifiers.

 

We may process your website user account data ("account data"). The account data may include your account identifier, name, email address, business name, account creation and modification dates, website settings and marketing preferences. The primary source of the account data is you and/or your employer, although some elements of the account data may be generated by our website.

 

We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and/or services, that you enter into with us and/or through our website ("transaction data"). The transaction data may include your name, your contact details, your payment card details (or other payment details) and the transaction details. The source of the transaction data is you and/or our payment services provider.

 

We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or that we send to you ("communication data"). The communication data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication.

 

We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage data"). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system.

 

Purposes of processing and legal bases

 

Operations - We may process your personal data for the purposes of operating our website, the processing and fulfilment of orders, providing our services, supplying our goods, generating invoices, bills and other payment-related documentation, and credit control. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website, services and business.

 

Publications - We may process account data for the purposes of publishing such data on our website and elsewhere through our services in accordance with your express instructions. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the publication of content in the ordinary course of our operations.

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Relationships and communications - We may process contact data, account data, transaction data and/or communication data for the purposes of managing our relationships, communicating with you (excluding communicating for the purposes of direct marketing) by email, SMS, post and/or telephone, providing support services and complaint handling. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely communications with our website visitors, service users, individual customers and customer personnel, the maintenance of relationships, and the proper administration of our website, services and business.

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Direct marketing - We may process contact data, account data and/or transaction data for the purposes of creating, targeting and sending direct marketing communications by email, SMS and/or post and making contact by telephone for marketing-related purposes. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely promoting our business and communicating marketing messages and offers to our website visitors and service users.

 

Research and analysis - We may process usage data and/or transaction data for the purposes of researching and analysing the use of our website and services, as well as researching and analysing other interactions with our business. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring, supporting, improving and securing our website, services and business generally.

 

Record keeping - We may process your personal data for the purposes of creating and maintaining our databases, back-up copies of our databases and our business records generally. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely ensuring that we have access to all the information we need to properly and efficiently run our business in accordance with this policy.

 

Security - We may process your personal data for the purposes of security and the prevention of fraud and other criminal activity. The legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection of our website, services and business, and the protection of others.

 

Insurance and risk management - We may process your personal data where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks and/or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.

 

Legal claims - We may process your personal data where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.

 

Legal compliance and vital interests - We may also process your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

 

Providing your personal data to others

 

We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice.

 

Your personal data held in our website database will be stored on the servers of our hosting services providers.

 

Financial transactions relating to our website and services may be handled by our payment services providers (Stripe and PayPal). We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers' privacy policies and practices at their respective websites.

 

We may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

 

International transfers of your personal data

 

We may transfer your personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the UK and process that personal data in the UK for the purposes set out in this policy, during any period with respect to which the UK is not treated as a third country under EU data protection law or benefits from an adequacy decision under EU data protection law; and we may transfer your personal data from the UK to the EEA and process that personal data in the EEA for the purposes set out in this policy, during any period with respect to which EEA states are not treated as third countries under UK data protection law or benefit from adequacy regulations under UK data protection law.

 

You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.

 

Retaining and deleting personal data

 

Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

 

We will retain your personal data as follows:

 

To protect the safety and security of our service users on and off our website, we implement a safety retention window of three months following account deletion. During this period, account information will be retained although the account will not be visible on the services anymore.

 

We delete your information upon closure of your account (following the safety retention window) or after two years of continuous inactivity, unless:

 

we must keep it to comply with applicable law;

 

we must keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law;

 

there is an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved; or

 

the information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing service users' safety and security.

 

Your rights

 

You have principal rights under data protection law. These are as follows:

 

the right to access

you can ask for copies of your personal data;

 

the right to rectification

you can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data and to complete incomplete personal data;

 

the right to erasure

you can ask us to erase your personal data;

 

the right to restrict processing

you can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data;

 

the right to object to processing

you can object to the processing of your personal data;

 

the right to data portability

you can ask that we transfer your personal data to another organisation or to you;

 

the right to complain to a supervisory authority

you can complain about our processing of your personal data; and

 

the right to withdraw consent

to the extent that the legal basis of our processing of your personal data is consent, you can withdraw that consent.

 

These rights are subject to certain limitations and exceptions. You can learn more about the rights of data subjects by visiting [https://edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/general-guidance/gdpr-guidelines-recommendations-best-practices_en and https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/].

 

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us, using the contact details set out further on in this policy.

 

Amendments

 

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

 

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

 

We may notify you of changes to this policy by email.

 

Our details

 

Our website is owned and operated by Moat House Publishing Ltd.

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We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 11962005 and under VAT registration number 363 2192 10.

 

Our registered office is at Suite 244, Unit 3A, 34-35 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8DX, United Kingdom.

 

Data protection contact

 

Our data protection officer's contact details are: privacy@moathousepublishing.com.

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