Privacy Policy

Welcome to Favorite Magazine ([https://favoritemagazine.co.uk/](https://favoritemagazine.co.uk/)). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website, subscribe to our content, or interact with us, and tell you about your privacy rights under UK law.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Favorite Magazine collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide when you sign up for our newsletter, purchase a subscription, or enter a competition.

Controller

[Insert Full Company/Owner Name] is the controller and responsible for this website (referred to as “Favorite Magazine”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy).

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below:

Full name of legal entity: [Insert Company Name or Personal Name if Sole Trader]
Email address: [Insert Contact Email Address, e.g., privacy@favoritemagazine.co.uk]
Postal address: [Insert UK Business Address]

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
Contact Data: Includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
Technical Data: Includes 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 this website.
Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., delivering a magazine subscription).
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third-party direct marketing communications to you via email. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

4. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with internal and external third parties, such as:

Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.
Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
HM Revenue & Customs, regulators, and other authorities based in the United Kingdom.
[Optional: Third-party delivery companies if you ship physical magazines].

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

6. International Transfers

We do not transfer your personal data outside the UK or the European Economic Area (EEA) unless necessary for third-party plug-ins or software. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring appropriate safeguards are implemented.

7. 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.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

By law, we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial, and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.