Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website users. Life is short and we are not actively trying to collect any information on you, except such as comes our way through Google Stats or any correspondence you may initiate.
But we recognise our legal duty under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) to protect and prevent unauthorized access to any of your personal data should it come our way. We understand that we must also ensure that any information we hold about you is accurate, adequate, relevant and not excessive. This statement explains how we look after your – and anybody else’s – personal information and what we do with it.
Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring is acting as a data controller with respect to the personal information of our customers and website users. This means that we have a responsibility to determine the purposes and means of the processing of that information as outlined below. Third party suppliers who store and process your information on our behalf are “data processors” and should only use data for agreed purposes.
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
Personal information we collect and store
We may collect and store personal information from you through our website enquiry form, when you email or phone us. This information may include: your name; your address and postcode; telephone / mobile number; email address. This information is or may be stored securely using any of the following: Trusted third party service providers, for example email marketing (currently we do not use one); a secure server; paper records
What we use your personal information for
We use the personal information you provide for the following: to contact you regarding an enquiry you have made through our website, email or phone; if, at some point, we set up an email newsletter and you consent to receive them. In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out above, we may also process any of 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.
Retaining and deleting personal information
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. If you send us an email, the address and any information included in it will be retained unless and until you ask us to remove them from our records.
Keeping your personal information safe and secure
We will take all reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from misuse or unauthorized access. But we will never sell your personal information to a third party or for marketing or any other purposes.
We may occasionally share your personal information for the following reasons: with third party suppliers who process your information on our behalf; where we are required to do so by law, or to satisfy a legal requirement or legal claim; when you have given us your consent.
International transfers of your personal data
Where we may use some trusted third party suppliers to send email marketing or store website data, should this involve storing your details in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will ensure that your personal information will be protected by appropriate safeguards and to the same level as required by UK and EU data protection laws.
Cookies
We use cookies on out website in order to understand visitor behaviour. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you and will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the ‘lifetime’ of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
We use only per session cookies that remain in the cookies file of your browser until you leave the site.
If you do not wish to receive cookies you can easily modify your web browser to refuse cookies, or to notify you when you receive a new cookie. Check your browser options for cookie management. Please note if cookies are disabled some features on the website may not work.
For more information about cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org.
Your choices and rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) you have the right to request: a copy of the personal information we hold about you and what we use it for (providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected); that personal information we hold about you is updated or corrected; that, under some circumstances, we stop using your personal information or remove it from our systems.
To request any of the above please contact:
- Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring
- rigby@herripedia.com
We will comply with all reasonable requests within one month.