TOTAL POLITICS

BITEBACK MEDIA LIMITED

PRIVACY POLICY

This website is brought to you by Biteback Media Limited trading as Total Politics. We take the privacy of our website users very seriously. We ask that you read this Privacy Policy (‘the Policy’) carefully as it contains important information about how we will use your personal data. 

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For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998, Biteback Media Limited (‘we’ or ‘us’) is the ‘data controller’ (ie the company who is responsible for, and controls the processing of, your personal data).
Personal data we may collect about you
We will obtain personal data about you (such as your name, address, e-address, telephone number, age bracket or professional profile ) whenever you complete an online form or submit correspondence or communications to any part of our website.

For example, we will obtain your personal data when youregister to use this website, send us feedback, post material, contact us for any reason, sign up to a service, enter a competition, or purchase goods or services which may from time to time be offered by us or third parties through our website.

We may also obtain sensitive personal data about you if you volunteer it during the completion of an online formor by contributing to our website (including our fora, weblogs and webletters pages) – such sensitive personal data may include and is not limited to your image, your opinions on current affairs, religion and politics and such other matters of a personal or intimate nature. If you volunteer such information, you understand you will be consenting to  our processing it for the purpose of operating the website to enable exchanges of opinions and views, and the generation or promotion of critiques and commentaries between you and other contributors or accessors to the website, its fora, weblogs and webletters facilities.

We may monitor your usage of this website. This may include monitoring how many times you visit, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of a user’s internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users and will be used to improve the operation and responsiveness of the website to its users’ needs.   Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually. Please see further the section on ‘Use of cookies’ below.
Occasionally we may receive information about you from other sources (such as credit reference agencies) which we will add to the information which we already hold about you in order to help us as appropriate process any orders received from you for goods or services provided on or through this website and to improve and personalise our service to you where appropriate.
How we may use your personal data
We will use your personal data for the following purposes:

—              to help us operate effectively the website to enable the free flow of information, free and frank exchanges of opinions and views in a responsible medium, the generation or promotion of critiques and commentaries  between you and other contributors or accessors to the website, its fora, weblogs and webletters facilities
—              to identify you and any accounts you hold with us
—              administration and statistical analysis
—              customer profiling and analysing your purchasing preferences

—              marketing—see ‘Marketing and opting in’ below
—              fraud prevention and detection
—              billing and order fulfilment
—              credit scoring and credit checking—see ‘Credit checking’ below
—              customising this website and its content to your particular preferences
—              to notify you any changes to this website or our services which may affect you
—              security vetting
—              improving our services
Marketing and opting in
Unless you have asked us not to do so, we may contact you by mail, telephone, SMS, text/picture/video message, fax, email about events, entertainments products, services, promotions, special offers, and or charitable causes which may be of interest to you.

We shall NOT share your personal data in any manner which enables you to be identified  with any organisations who are our business partners who do not fall within the categories set out below and whose services are not essential for the operation of this website unless you have asked us to do so in advance .

If you prefer not to receive any further marketing communications from us, you can opt out at any time.
See further ‘Your rights’ below.
Disclosure of your personal data
We may disclose your personal data to ensure the efficient and lawful operation of our website and the services on it to:

—              other companies within our group
—              our agents and service providers (eg providers of web hosting or maintenance services)
—              credit reference agents—see ‘Credit checking’ below
—              law enforcement agencies in connection with any investigation to help prevent unlawful activity
—              our business partners in accordance with the ‘Marketing and opting in’ section above only if you have given your prior consent in writing to us.
Keeping your data secure
We will use technical and organisational measures current from time to time to safeguard your personal data, for example:

—              access to any account which may be operated through the website and which is controlled by password and username which are unique to you
—              storage of  your personal data on secure servers
—              payment details are encrypted using SSL technology

Whilst we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal data, you acknowledge (a) that your participation in public fora, and weblogs may result in your identity becoming known to persons unknown and you acknowledge that it is not possible to ensure that your personal information, and any sensitive personal information which you volunteer in those media, will be respected in those media, and (b) that the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data which are transferred from you or to you via the internet for use on  or though those parts of this website which are not generally accessible to the public.
Monitoring
We may monitor and record communications with you (such as telephone conversations and emails) for the purpose of quality assurance, training, fraud prevention and compliance and for the necessary deterrence of other anti-social or criminal activity.
Credit checking
To enable us and other companies in our group to make credit decisions about you and members of your household and for fraud prevention and money laundering purposes, we may and you consent by accessing to this website to search the files of credit reference and fraud prevention agencies (who will record the search). We may disclose information about how you conduct your account to such agencies and your information may be linked to records relating to other people living at the same address with whom you are financially linked. Other credit grantors may use this information to make credit decisions about you and the people with whom you are financially associated, as well as for fraud prevention, debtor tracing and money laundering purposes. If you provide false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud, we will record this.
Information about other individuals
If you give us information on behalf of someone else, you confirm that the other person has appointed you to act on his/her behalf and has agreed that you can:
—              give consent on his/her behalf to the processing of his or her personal data
—              receive on his/her behalf any data protection notices
—              give consent to the transfer of his/her personal data abroad
—              give consent to the processing of his or her personal information or sensitive personal information as the case may be.

Provided always that we cannot accept responsibility for policing the submission of personal information or sensitive personal information of a person who, unknown to us, is a minor for whom no responsible parent or guardian has provided consent.  It is for parents and guardians of minors to ensure that no minor has unsupervised access to this website, or access in which the minor ‘s personal data is thereby disclosed to us.   
Use of cookies
When you use this website, we may collect information about your computer, such as your IP address and/or browser, which we will use for administration purposes and statistical analysis. This information will not usually identify you personally.
We may also obtain information about your online movements and use of the internet. We do this by placing a ‘cookie’, which is a small file, on your computer’s hard disk. Cookies are used for several reasons:

—              to recognise you whenever you visit this website
—              to speed up access to this website (so you do not have to log on each time)
—              to store your personal preferences
—              to build a profile about you
—              to better target our marketing and advertising campaigns

The vast majority of web browsers accept cookies. However, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted, or you can set your computer to delete cookies following accessing a site. If you do this, you may lose some of the functionality of this website.

For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to: aboutcookies.org

Transfers of data out of the EEA
On your first access through this site you agree/When you signed up for membership of this website you agreed that by the very nature operation function and purpose of the facilities and services offered on this website your personal data may be accessible to accessors and readers outside the European Economic Area and thereby “transferred” to countries outside the European Economic Area. Any coordinated transfer of personal data which we initiate without your intervention will be subject to contractual provisions that will safeguard your personal data to the extent reasonably possible given the use of this website
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Your rights
You have the right, subject to the payment of a small fee (currently £10) to request access to personal data which we may process about you. If you wish to exercise this right you should:
—              put your request in writing
—              include proof of your identity and address (eg a certified copy of your driving licence or passport, and a recent utility or credit card bill)
—              attach a cheque in the amount of £10 made payable to Biteback Media Limited
—              specify the personal data you want access to, including any account or reference numbers where applicable.
You have the right to require us to correct any inaccuracies in your data free of charge. If you wish to exercise this right you should:
—              put your request in writing
—              provide us with enough information to identify you (eg account number, username, registration details)
—              specify the information that is incorrect and what it should be replaced with.
You also have the right to ask us to stop processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If you wish to exercise this right you should:
—              put your request in writing (an email sent to info@totalpolitics.com with a header that says ‘Unsubscribe’ is acceptable)
—              provide us with enough information to identify you (eg account number, username, registration details)
—              if your objection is not to direct marketing in general, but to direct marketing by a particular channel (eg email or telephone) please specify the channel to which you are objecting.

 

Our contact details
We welcome your feedback and questions. If you wish to contact us, please send an email to info@totalpolitics.com or you can write to us at 7 Cowley Street London SW1P 3NB England or call us on +44 (0)207 654 5567.

 

Biteback Media Limited – registered in England No. 06455159 - registered office :
Manfield House, 1 Southampton Street, London, WC2R 0LR, England

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. You should check this policy occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version which will apply each time you access this website.