ALANIA DAWES
A Part of the ALANIAS Digital Publishing Company
PRIVACY NOTICE
Last updated August 1, 2023
Thank you for visiting Alaniadawes.com. We are committed to protecting
your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions
or concerns about our policy, or our practices with regards to your personal
information, please contact us at [email protected]
When you visit our website https://www.alaniadawes.com, and use our
services, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy
very seriously. In this privacy notice, we describe our privacy policy. We seek
to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how
we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some
time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms
in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of
our Sites and our services.
This privacy policy applies to all
information collected through our websites (such as https://www.alaniadawes.com), and/or any
related services, sales, marketing or events (we refer to them collectively in
this privacy policy as the "Sites").
Please read this privacy policy
carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your
personal information with us.
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Information
automatically collected
In Short: Some information – such as IP
address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected
automatically by our website host (Bravenet.com) when you visit our sites.
Bravenet may automatically collect certain
information when you visit, use or navigate the site. This information does
not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but
may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and
device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs,
device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our
Sites and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to
maintain the security and operation of our sites, and for our internal
analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, Bravenet may also collect
information through cookies and similar technologies.
2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process your information for purposes
based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with
you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.
We use personal information collected
via our Sites for a variety of business purposes described below. We process
your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate
business interests ("Business Purposes"), in order to enter into or
perform a contract with you ("Contractual"), with your consent
("Consent"), and/or for compliance with our legal obligations
("Legal Reasons"). We indicate the specific processing grounds we
rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or
receive:
For
other Business Purposes. We may use your information for
other Business Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends,
determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and
improve our Sites, products, services, marketing and your
experience.
3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH
ANYONE?
In Short: We only share information with your
consent, to comply with laws, to protect your rights, or to fulfill
business obligations.
We may process or share data based on the following legal basis:
Consent: We
may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your
personal information in a specific purpose.
Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is
reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract
with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill
the terms of our contract.
Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where
we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law,
governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process,
such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to
public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where
we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding
potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as
evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
More specifically, we may need to
process your data or share your personal information in the following
situations:
Third-Party
Advertisers. We may use third-party advertising
companies to serve ads when you visit the Sites. These companies may use
information about your visits to our Website(s) and other websites that are
contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide
advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING
TECHNOLOGIES?
In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking
technologies to collect and store your information.
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as
necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this
privacy policy unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal
information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this
privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by
law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this
policy will require us keeping your personal information for longer than 1
year.
When we have no ongoing
legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either
delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible
(for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup
archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it
from any further processing until deletion is possible.
6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION
SAFE?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal
information through a system of organisational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate
technical and organisational security measures designed to protect the security
of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we
cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100%
secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information,
transmission of personal information to and from our Sites is at your own risk.
You should only access the services within a secure environment.
7. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or
market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from or
market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Sites, you represent
that you are at least 18. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected,
we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete
such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we have collected
from children under age 18, please contact us at [email protected]
8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: In some regions, such as the European
Economic Area, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control
over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your
account at any time.
In some regions (like the European
Economic Area), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws.
These may include the right (i) to request access and
obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or
erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; and
(iv) if applicable, to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may also
have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. To
make such a request, please use the contact details provided below. We will consider
and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
If we are relying on your consent to
process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent
at any time. Please note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of
the processing before its withdrawal.
If you are resident in the European
Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information,
you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory
authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm
Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you
prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to
reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could
affect certain features or services of our Sites. To opt-out of interest-based
advertising by advertisers on our Sites visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile
operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to
have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No
uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has
been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or
any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be
tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must
follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised
version of this Privacy Policy.
10. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC
PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: Yes, if you are a resident of
California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal
information.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83,
also known as the Shine The Light law, permits our users who are California
residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge,
information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to
third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all
third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately
preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to
make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the
contact information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside
in California, and have a registered account with the Sites, you have the right
to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Sites. To
request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information
provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and
a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not
publicly displayed on the Sites, but please be aware that the data may not be
completely or comprehensively removed from our systems.
11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
In Short: Yes, we will update this policy as
necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy policy from
time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated Revised
date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If
we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by
prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a
notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be
informed of how we are protecting your information.
12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
If you have questions or comments about
this policy, you may email us at [email protected] or by post to:
ALANIAS Digital Publishing (RoA Publishing Ltd)
71-75 Shelton Street
Covent Garden
London, WC2H 9JQ
United Kingdom