Your personal information

This privacy policy explains how we collect and process your personal data. Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. This includes information that you tell us, what we learn from you and the choices you make about the marketing you want us to send to you. This policy explains how we do this, what your rights are and how the law protects you.

We do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

1. Who we are and how you can contact us

We are Scan Magazine Limited. Our registered office is at News Building, 3 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9SG, United Kingdom.

You can contact us by email at info@scanmagazine.co.uk or by calling us on +44 (0) 20 3950 4367. If you need to you can write to us at News Building, 3 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9SG, United Kingdom.

When we refer to our website, we mean our website at www.discoverbenelux.com.

2. Where we collect your personal information from

We may collect personal information about you in the following ways:

Data you give to us:

• Data you give to us through our website when you subscribe to our newsletter and/or magazine
• In emails or letters to us

Data we collect when you use our website:

• Profile and usage data, including data we gather from the devices you use to connect to those services such as computers and mobile phones, using cookies and other internet tracking software

3. Data we collect about you

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity data – name, title

• Contact data – billing address, delivery address, email address

• Financial data – bank account and payment card details
• Transaction data – details about payments from you

• Technical data – internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access our website

• Marketing and communications data – your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences

• We also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.

• We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you. This includes details about race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

4. How we use your personal information

Your privacy is protected by law.

We are only allowed to use personal information about you if we have a legal basis to do so, and we are required to tell you what that legal basis is. We have set out in the table below: the personal information which we collect from you, how we use it, and the legal ground on which we rely when we use the personal information.

In some circumstances we can use your personal information if it is in our legitimate interest to do so, provided that we have told you what that legitimate interest is. A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information which, when balanced against your rights, is justifiable. If we are relying on our legitimate interests, we have set that out below.

What we use your personal information for

1. To process and deliver your subscription
Personal information we collect
• Identity data
• Contact data
Our legal grounds for processing
• Performance of a contract with you

2. To deliver our newsletter
Personal information we collect
• Identity data
• Contact data
• Marketing and communications data
Our legal grounds for processing
• Consent

3. To manage payments
Personal information we collect
• Identity data
• Financial data
• Contact data
• Transaction data
Our legal grounds for processing
• Performance of a contract with you
• Legitimate interest
Our legitimate interests (if applicable)
• To recover money owed to us

4. To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy notices
Personal information we collect
• Identity data
• Contact data
• Transaction data
Our legal grounds for processing
• Performance of a contract with you
• Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
• Legitimate interest
Our legitimate interests (if applicable)
• To keep our records up to date

5. To use data analytics to improve our website, products, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
Personal information we collect
• Technical data
• Usage data
• Marketing and communications data
Our legal grounds for processing
• Legitimate interest
Our legitimate interests (if applicable)
• To keep our website updated, to develop our business and marketing strategy

5. Who we share your personal information with

We may share your personal information with any of the following organisations, for the purposes of providing the goods or services which you have requested from us:

• Mailchimp
• PayPal
• Website hosting services including WordPress
• File transfer systems such as Box

You can find details of how these third parties use your personal information by looking at their privacy policies, all of which should be available on the relevant websites, or on request.

We require all organisations who we share your data with to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow any of our service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. Failing to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

7. Third party links

Our website may include links to third party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice or policy of every website you visit.

8. Transferring your personal information outside the EEA

The EEA is the European Economic Area, which consists of the EU Members States, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. If we transfer your personal information outside the EEA we have to tell you.

We may allow third parties involved in the provision of services to you (such as Mailchimp and PayPal) to transfer your personal information outside the EEA. If we do transfer your personal information outside the EEA, we will make sure that it is protected in the same way as if it was being used in the EEA, such as by ensuring that such transfer will only be to a country that has the same protection as the EEA or is within the scope of the Privacy Shield.

9. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator (including the ICO) of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

10. How long do we keep your personal information?

We will keep your personal information for as long as you are our customer.
After you unsubscribe from our magazine or newsletter, we may keep your personal information for up to three months in order to maintain our records and to enable us to resume our service to you should you change your mind.

11. Marketing

We may use your personal information to tell you about relevant goods or services and any upcoming offers.

We can only use your personal information to send you marketing messages if we have either your consent or a legitimate interest to do so.

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time – you just need to contact us, or use the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you.

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside our group of companies for marketing purposes. You can ask a third party company to stop sending you marketing messages at any time, by adjusting your marketing preferences in relation to that company or by using the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you.

Where you opt out of receiving marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of purchasing our goods or any other transaction between you and us.

12. Your rights

You have certain rights which are set out in the law relating to your personal information. The most important rights are set out below.

Getting a copy of the information we hold

You can ask us for a copy of the personal information which we hold about you, by writing to us at info@scanmagazine.co.uk. This is known as a data subject access request.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data, unless we believe that your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. In such circumstances we can charge a reasonable fee or refuse to comply with your request.

We will try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month and in that case we will notify you and keep you updated.

Telling us if information we hold is incorrect

You have the right to question any information we hold about you that you think is wrong or incomplete. Please contact us at info@scanmagazine.co.uk if you want to do this and we will take reasonable steps to check its accuracy and, if necessary, correct it.

Telling us if you want us to stop using your personal information

You have the right to:

• object to our use of your personal information (known as the right to object); or
• ask us to delete the personal information (known as the right to erasure); or
• request the restriction of processing; or
• ask us to stop using it if there is no need for us to use it (known as the right to be forgotten).

There may be legal reasons why we need to keep or use your data, which we will tell you if you exercise one of the above rights.

Where we rely on our legitimate interest

In cases where we are processing your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest, you can ask us to stop for reasons connected to your individual situation. We must then do so unless we believe we have a legitimate overriding reason to continue processing your personal data.

Withdrawing consent

You can withdraw your consent to us using your personal information at any time. Please contact us at info@scanmagazine.co.uk if you want to withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with certain products or services.

Request a transfer of data

You may ask us to transfer your personal information to a third party. This right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

13. Making a complaint

Please let us know if you are unhappy with how we have used your personal information by contacting us at info@scanmagazine.co.uk.

You also have a right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. You can find their contact details at www.ico.org.uk. We would be grateful for the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.