Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us
We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained when you use and access our website. The Former Editor may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our site. Your continued use of the services following any change will signify and constitute your agreement to and acceptance of such revisions.
Squarespace
Our site is hosted by Squarespace. Personal Information hosted by or through Squarespace is subject to its privacy policy, which may or may not contain terms as protective as this Privacy Policy, By using our site, you are agreeing to be bound by Squarespace’s Privacy Policy, which can be found here https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.
Collection of Personal Information
When you interact with us, we collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide. We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and with the knowledge and consent of the individual concerned. All information obtained is stored on a secure server and all online processes are encrypted and take place through a secure server. Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected. We will collect and use personal information solely for fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other ancillary purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
Protecting your Personal Information
We will protect Personal Information by using reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of Personal Information. We will only retain Personal Information for as long as necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes. We do not sell, trade or rent your personal details to third parties. You can be assured that personal information will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement and with the requirements laid down by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018.
What we collect
We may collect the following information:
Your name and email address.
Demographic information, such as company address.
Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers provided by us.
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers, events or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided and given us consent to use.
We collect this data from you on at least one of the following legal bases:
That you have provided your explicit consent for us to do so.
That we have a legitimate interest in doing so for our own commercial marketing activities where our use of your data is proportionate, has a minimal impact on your privacy and is an activity that you might reasonably expect us to be engaged in.
Non-personal information automatically collected
Information collected digitally can include your IP address, data from your browser, cookies and how our website is used and from what kind of device. This can be used for a number of purposes, such as provide aggregate information as to how users may access our site to providing a more individualised service, such as displaying our pages in the right language for example. When accessing our site, Squarespace may log your IP address, access URL, time of access, geographic location, browser type and referral URL in order to provide us with internal information regarding Site traffic statistics.
We may also collect details of how you use any emails that we may send, including whether you open our emails and what actions you take once you have. Such information may be used to determine the marketing messages that you may see.
Cookies and other technologies we use
Squarespace and our other service providers may use cookies (both session and persistent cookies) to analyse trends, administer our site, track your movements around our site, better understand how you react with our Site, determine interest in certain content and monitor aggregate usage by visitors and online traffic routing. We may receive and use reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies, either on an individual or aggregated basis.
Squarespace and our other service providers may also use pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, or similar means in connection with our Site and HTML-formatted email messages to, among other things, track the actions of users, to determine the success of marketing campaigns and to compile aggregate statistics about Site usage and response rates. This information is collected anonymously, in a manner that does not personally identify you.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties whom we think will be of interest. However, once you have used these links to third-party websites we have no control over their website. They have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies while visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third-party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
Opting out
If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive communications from us, please follow any unsubscribe instructions that may be provided on our Site or in our communications to you. Please also note that we may continue to use your information for statistical or other purposes as we see fit after you unsubscribe from any communications and/or terminate your use of the Services.
Contacting The Former Editor
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email jennifer@theformereditor.com