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The pages on this website are only directed at UK residents and comply with appropriate UK legislation and regulation. This privacy policy has been provided to let you know how we use and look after your personal information. This includes what you tell us about yourself, and the choices you give us about what communications you want us to send to you. The policy also tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you when (i) we contact you, (ii) you contact us (iii) you visit our website.
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The data controller is The Marketing Society Ltd, 8 Waldegrave Rd, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 8GT Registered in England no. 873769. Where data is provided from our partners in relation to a service you have requested, our partners may also act as data controllers. If you would like more information about how any of our partners process data, you should read the privacy policy for the relevant partner which will be available on the partner’s website.
We are conscious of our responsibilities as a "data controller" under the General Data Protection Regulation ( in force as of 25th May 2018) and we shall endeavour to ensure that the personal information we obtain, and use will always be held, used, transferred and otherwise processed in accordance with that regulation and all other applicable data protection laws and regulations. If you would like more information about our data protection policy please contact us using the details shown on our website.
Data Protection Law allows us to use personal information only if we have a clear reason to do so. This includes how we share data outside of The Marketing Society. In order to meet this requirement, we will only process personal data in the following circumstances:
There are circumstances where an alternative legal basis allows us to process personal data on a legitimate basis. Where we rely on an alternative legal basis for processing personal data, we will tell you what it is.
We may because of both your interaction over the telephone, completing and returning application forms and accessing our website, hold and process personal information obtained about you. We have provided below examples of the ways we may use your personal information and why.
You have consented to us sharing your personal information with partners for the purposes of receiving information about their products and services which may interest you
e.g receiving free copies of Campaign and Marketing Week or follow ups to our partner events
Data you provide:
Data we collect:
We will not share your personal information without your express consent.
We may use your personal information to tell you about relevant events and content or offers if we have your consent. You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages and update your preferences by contacting us at any time. Whatever you choose, you will still receive important information regarding your membership.
We will keep your personal information for as long as you are a member. After you stop being a member, we will keep your data for up to 5 years for the following reasons:
We may keep your data for longer than 5 years if we cannot delete it for legal, regulatory or technical reasons. If we do we will make sure that your privacy is protected.
You can access your information we hold by writing to our Data Protection Compliance Manager. Call +44 (0)20 8973 1350 or email [email protected]
You have the right to question any information we have about you that you think is wrong or incomplete. We will take reasonable steps to check its accuracy and correct it. If you want us to stop using your personal information you have the right to object to our use of your personal information, or to ask us to delete, remove or stop using it if there is no need for us to keep it. This is known as the “right to object”, “right to erasure” or the “right to be forgotten”.
However, there may be occasions when we will not be able to delete personal information if a legal or regulatory requirement prevents us from doing so.
There may be legal or other reasons why we need to keep or use your data, which we will inform you of in the event you do feel we should not be using it. There will be occasions when we will be able to restrict the use of your data. This means that it can only be used for certain things, such as to exercise legal rights. In this situation, we would not use or share your information while it is restricted.
You can ask us to restrict the use of your personal information if:
You can withdraw your consent at any time. Please contact us if you wish to do so. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain services to you. If this is the case, we will let you know.
Please contact our Data Protection Officer if you are unhappy with how we have used your personal information. To contact us about any of your rights set out in this Privacy Policy please write to the Data Protection Officer at The Marketing Society, 8 Waldegrave Rd, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 8GT. Please provide your full name, email address, and contact telephone number. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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Links This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that The Marketing Society is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will amend this document accordingly so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.