Privacy Policy

 

Stylus Media Group Limited ("we", "us" or "our") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

We want to protect your privacy. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

This policy applies when you go online or use your mobile device and any contract for our services, attendance or participation in our events and virtual events. Our services include but are not limited to membership, advisory, newsletters, premium content, webcasts, video, research, conferences, and events. This policy applies in addition to our Terms and Conditions which apply to any contract you enter into with us. Please take time to read this policy as it includes important information that applies to you. If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact data@stylus.com.

 

Who Are We?

For the purpose of the relevant data protection legislation, the data controller is:

Stylus Media Group Limited

of 16-19 Eastcastle St,

London,

W1W 8DY.

 

Collection And Use Of Personal Information

We may collect and process the following data about you:

 

Information You Give Us

• You may give us personal information about you by filling in forms on our site, at our events, or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use our site, participate in or attend one of our events, subscribe to our service, place an order on our site, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions, enter a competition, promotion or survey, sign up for our mailing list or to receive email offers, log a query or when you report a problem with our site. The personal information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address, job title and phone number, financial and credit card information, and other content which you choose to upload such as comments and forum posts.
• To enhance and/or update the information you have provided, we may combine it with professional and company information from third party sources, both of which we typically combine as one user record. Even if you do not register with us, our sites collect and store certain information automatically using cookies and similar technologies, including IP addresses, the region or general location of a computer or device accessing the internet, browser type, operating system, page view history, and other usage information. You can read more about this in the Cookies section below.
• In the event that you choose to apply to us for employment through the Careers section of our site, you will also be required to provide a copy of your CV and other relevant employment related information.

 

How We Will Use This Information You Give Us

We have a legitimate business interest to keep our customers, audience and contacts informed of our latest products, content, and services. We process customer and client personal information and use direct marketing as part of this legitimate interest.

We may use the information you give us to:

• carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products, and services that you request from us;
• occasionally contact you for research purposes as we are constantly looking for ways to improve our services and events;
• notify you about changes to our service or events;
• ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your devices;
• process your application for employment in circumstances where you have provided your details through the careers section of our website.
• contact you directly, or indirectly using a trusted third party acting on our behalf, for the purposes of marketing described in more detail below. We will only do so in accordance with applicable law.

We keep your information safely and securely for as long as necessary or according to your instructions, and we review the data we hold at least every three years.

 

Marketing And How We May Contact You

We may use the information we have about you in our marketing. Any use of your information for marketing will be both in our legitimate interests and yours. You have a right to object at any time to this use of your information by contacting us at data@stylus.com.

Where you have given us your consent or if you have previously attended one of our events or received services from us, we may use your information to contact you about future events and/or services which we consider may interest you, sponsorship and speaker opportunities, offers and discounts available from time to time, or to send you our newsletters, bulletins, publications. Our marketing communications may be provided to you by email, SMS, post, or such other means as we choose.

In addition to the right to object mentioned above, you will also be provided with the opportunity to opt out of receiving these marketing communications both at the time that you provide your contact information to us and at any time afterwards by clicking on the relevant link provided in an email or SMS or by contacting us at any time by contacting us at data@stylus.com.

If you tell us that you do not want to receive any further marketing information from us, we will not contact you further for the purpose of marketing. However, we will not necessarily remove your information from our database(s) if it is necessary to retain the information for other non-marketing purposes such as where we need your information for compliance with our legal obligations. Please note that after you opt out of receiving marketing communications from us, it may take a few days to update our records during which time you may continue to receive marketing communications.

 

Information We Collect About You

With regard to each of your visits to our site we may collect the following information:

• technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform;
• information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); information you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.

 

How we will use the information we collect about you:

• to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
• to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so; 
• as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
• to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
• to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

 

Information We Receive From Other Sources

We may receive information about you if you use any of the other services we provide. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.

 

How will we use the information we receive from other sources:

We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

 

How Long Will We Retain Your Data?

We will retain your data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy; however different retention periods apply to different types of data. We will only retain your information in accordance with law and regulation.