Policies
Introduction
This privacy notice is for visitors to our websites, apps and other digital platforms. It sets out how we use personal data that we hold about you and gives information on how to exercise your legal rights. In this notice 'we' and 'our' means Percymarys and its subsidiaries which operates this platform.
What data do we process about our visitants?
If you register for an account on our site in order to comment on an article, enter a competition or get the chosen newsletters, or to use our services, you will need to give us with your full name, email address, year of birth and postcode.
We gather data about our website's visitors using technology such as cookies, device IDs, IP addresses and location data. This can include detail about your location, the type of device you are using and your online browsing history.
We may match your cookie data with this third party data, and use this to gain a better insight into your interests or to build a profile about you.
We also may check our database of registered users against the data they hold on their systems to see if there are any matched individuals. If there is a match, we can collect and store some of this additional information (which may include statements about your lifestyle and interests) in our database and use it to further enhance our understanding of the types of products and services you might be interested in.
We can also obtain information from social media activity such as when you 'like' the website, share content or follow us on Twitter. When you sign in to the website using social media you grant permission to the social network to share some of your details with us. Depending on the network this will include basic account information such as name, email address, date of birth and any other details you choose to share according to your particular social media account settings.
What do we use this data for?
• Confirming your identity (for example when you return to the website and have already logged in)
• Personalising the advertising you see on the website so that it is more useful to you.
• Enhancing the design and style of the website
• Letting you know about the products, services or promotional offers that you might find interesting.
• Sending you service texts about your subscription or account registration, like if you have clicked a password reset link.
• Dealing with, and responding to you about, a comment you have submitted for or on our message boards, blogs and other such user
generated content facilities
• Enabling you to share our content with others using social media or email
• Communicating (and personalising such communication) with you through our newsletters, but only those you have consented to receive.
• Administering competitions and informing you if you have been successful in any competitions or promotions
• Compiling customer write-up
• Organizing market research
• Sending a product to your home address
• Giving you access to a subscription
• Dealing with any query or complaint you submit to our customer services team. Only confer sensitive data (such as information about your health, race or religion) if you are happy to consent to our using it to run your enquiry
• Sending you push notifications from our apps
We also log and use information about any service errors or interruptions that you have been through in order to help us develop fixes and to make technical enhancements to our Website
