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• us improve the relevancy and appropriateness of the advertisements we display
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• Experian to link identifiers with the same IP address together for the
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We may also collect information about third party products and services which
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We also log and use information about any service errors or interruptions that
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If we have your permission we may also send you newsletters or emails about our
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Occasionally we may ask you if you would like to participate in market research,
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We will only use your personal data for advertising and marketing,
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understanding who our readers are and how they browse our websites) and to track
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the use of data provided by you and our partners for profiling purposes in order
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If you have given us consent to send you specific newsletters, you can
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The legitimate interest pursued by us to analyse our website traffic in order to
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When you purchase a subscription or buy another product or service from us, we
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example, to deliver a product to your home, we would need to use your name and
address).

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If you are a registered user or subscriber, you can update your personal
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If you wish to contact us by telephone, our number is 0203 615 2990.

How long do we keep your personal information for?

We will keep your information only for as long as it is relevant and useful for
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Please note that if your account appears to have not been used for 12 months, we
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be deleted.

If you do not read the newsletters that you have subscribed to, we will suppress
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If you do not complete a social registration the data you entered as part of
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If you purchased a subscription, we will retain your data for at least 12 months
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A record of a customer service query is retained for at least three years from
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We retain cookie data and corresponding third party data for 13 months from when
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We may need to retain your data for a longer period if there is a legal claim or
if we are required to so by any regulation.

Who will we share your personal information with?

We may disclose your personal information to our sister companies: Evening
Standard Limited and ESTV Limited as we operate a single group known as ESI
Media.

We offer our readers voucher codes in collaboration with Savings United GmbH. We
and Savings United are joint controllers of any personal data you provide or
that is otherwise collected while you visit www.independent.co.uk/vouchercodes.
We must both comply with data protection laws. If you have any questions or
concerns about how your data is being used in relation to Voucher Codes, in the
first instance please email: contact@savings-united.com.

Advertisers and advertising networks sometimes require data to select and serve
relevant advertisements to you and others. We may provide them with aggregate
cookie information about our users with certain attributes (for example, we may
inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on
any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers
reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in the UK who
are interested in travel).

We share cookie data with other publishers via a secure data management platform
when advertising campaigns are served across multiple news websites.  These
publisher partners are not able to access this data themselves, only serve the
advertisements across their own websites to readers whose cookie data form part
of the selected advertising segments.

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to comply with
applicable laws and government or regulatory bodies' lawful requests for
information.

Your personal details may be shared with third party organisations we have
contracted to provide services to us which include processing data.  For
example, to send you the emails you have signed up for. Only companies who can
provide adequate safeguards will be used to ensure your data is stored and
handled securely. 

We may also have to release information because of a legal requirement on us or
pursuant to a court order.

We may transfer, sell or assign any of the information described in this Privacy
Notice to third parties as a result of a sale, merger, consolidation, change of
control, transfer of assets or reorganisation of our business.

Using children’s personal data

We do not aim our services to children under the age of 13.  We do not allow
children under 18 to register an account with us.

Will your data be sent overseas?

As you will know, the internet does not recognise national boundaries. Services
on the web are accessible globally so collection and transmission of personal
data is not always confined to one country.

You should be aware that by using the website and those of our partners or any
website we link through to, your personal data may be processed in or
transferred to other countries, the USA for example, and you agree to your
personal data being transferred or processed in this way.

Your personal data will only be stored or transferred within the UK, EU or US
using Standard Contractual Clauses, or other safeguards that have been approved
by the relevant regulatory body.

Your rights:

Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the data that we hold
about you.

Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you
that is inaccurate or incomplete.

Right to be forgotten – you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased
from our records.

Right to restriction of processing – you can ask for us to restrict the way we
process your data.

Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you
transferred to another organisation. 

Right to object – you have the right to object to our processing your data where
we are relying on a legitimate interest in order to process it.

Right to withdraw your consent – you have the right to withdraw your consent at
any time.

Please note that these rights are not absolute and certain exemptions apply. 

Exercising your rights, asking questions and raising concerns:

In the first instance, please submit your request using our online form
available here: Customer Services

You may also lodge a complaint directly with the supervisory authority or our
Data Protection Officer using the contact information in the table below.

Supervisory authority contact detailsData Protection Officer (DPO)

EU Representative

Contact name: Information Commissioner's OfficeNicola Mckilligan-Regan

Kazient EU Representative

 Address:

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

United Kingdom

SK9 5AF



Privacy Crowd Limited 

3 Linhope Street 

London 

United Kingdom

NW1 6ES

IDNML EU Rep c/o Kazient Privacy Experts

77 Lower Camden Street,

Dublin

Ireland

D02 XE80

 Contact info:

Tel: 0303 123 1113

https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

dpo@independent.co.uk

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