Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

This website www.theskinny.co.uk ("the Website") is operated by Radge Media C.I.C. ("we" and "us").  We take the privacy of our users seriously and we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our users. This Privacy Policy explains our data processing practices with regard to the Website. Other websites to which this Website links are not covered by this policy.

Information collected

The Website contains certain forms for you to complete to register to participate in and view certain areas of the Website.  We store the information submitted by you via such forms on the Website's web-servers and on secure digital storage at our premises. Please note, any personal information given by you through these forms will be processed in accordance with General Data Protection Regulations and the Data Protection Act 1998. We currently collect personal email adresses and content preferences associated with that email address, and sparately, we collect name, postal adress and email address for postal subscriptions to the printed publication. We use this data for processing your registration or request; processing of information when you enter into a competition or promotion sponsored by us; sending you the e-mail notifications; providing you with information which may be of relevance/interest to you; and for auditing usage of the site. We will always respect your instructions not to send you additional information if this has been clearly indicated, and if this has not been clearly indicated we will periodically provide you with clear preferences updates with opt-in choices, and remove inactive data from our servers and storage in accordance with GDPR reccommendations.

To help us to address your needs, we also keep track of how you use the information which we send to you or which is available on the Website. We keep a record of which links are accessed by users on the Website to enable us to find out which kinds of information are of most and least interest to users. We use this information to provide a service which is tailored to the needs of users of the Website and those who have chosen to receive information from us. This information is held on an anonymous basis and you will not be personally identifiable from this information.

Cookies

Certain pages of the Website use "cookies" to collect information about how the Website is used, and to enhance users' experience of the Website. Cookies are small files that your web browser places on your computer's hard drive. We may use cookies to record details such as the date and time of visits, the Website pages viewed, time spent viewing the Website and the websites visited immediately before and after the Website. All of this type of information is collected on an aggregate basis without any association to any personal details which you have provided so that you remain anonymous.

If you do not want your information to be collected in this way, you have the option of setting your browser to reject cookies. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser to correctly do so.  However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website.

Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

Communications

We may notify you through one of the e-mail newsletters you have opted into already, or by post, that we wish to provide you with new information which may be of interest to you; will will clearly respect your choice to opt-in to this.  If you are recieving communications from us, and wish to stop, please contact:

hello@theskinny.co.uk

Updating information

You have the right to apply for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may make a small charge to cover the cost of administration) and to have any inaccuracies corrected.

Disclosures

We will not disclose any information we collect about your use of our Website and services to other parties, and we will never sell any information you give us about you. Any information you give us will only be used for internal purposes.