A Slower Conversation with Kent
This privacy notice will tell you how we look after your personal data and about your privacy rights. We will not share your personal data with any other company without your consent except where mentioned in this policy. We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time if we deem it necessary to protect your personal data, comply with applicable law, or fulfil a legitimate business interest of ours.
– to enable us to deliver products and handle refunds,
– to send you newsletters and other relevant and/or targeted promotional communications,
– to handle enquiries, complaints and feedback,
– to analyse and improve the services we offer online.
– if you make a purchase or subscribe to our newsletter, you will need to provide some or all of the following details – name, address, email address and telephone number,
– if you purchase a product, you will need to input your credit/debit card details (we will not receive this information),
– when you contact us by email or via a contact form on our website, we may ask you to provide your personal details in order to respond to your enquiry,
– in relation to Google Analytics, we collect and store information about your computer/mobile device and how you use the website. This anonymised information includes your IP address, geographical location, browser/platform type/version, Internet Service Provider, operating system, referral source/exit pages, length of visit, page views, website navigation and the search terms that you have used in relation to this site visit,
– cookies may be set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on the website such as the sharing buttons. Cookies set by Facebook and X connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites. These sites are likely to be collecting information about how you use the internet, including this website. You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.
– we will not disclose your personal information to any third party without your consent unless we are required to do so by law or to a service provider in order for them to fulfil their services to us,
– to fulfil purchases made on our website and to respond to enquiries,
– when collaborating with other brands, we will provide these third parties with your relevant personal information. We endeavour to ensure that brands we collaborate with are compliant with the Data Protection Act 1998. We are not responsible for any breach of any such legislation by any third party.
If you place an order or subscribe to our newsletter, you are consenting to receive our newsletters or receive other targeted and relevant promotional communications from us or other carefully chosen partners. Our newsletters enable you to unsubscribe at any time or you may contact us at contact@545magazine.co.uk to request us to do this on your behalf.
– we have put in place appropriate security measures to ensure that personal data we hold is secure including technical and physical safeguards,
– information relating to online purchases is collected via our website which is hosted by WordPress/Woo Commerce. This information is stored and controlled by our staff for order processing. All of our storage sites are password protected. Third parties do not have access to your personal data unless we are required to do so by law,
– we do our utmost to ensure that our server hosts are secure and fully accredited. We cannot be responsible for any illegal breaches that may occur. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and so we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted through the Website – any transmission is at your own risk.
This website includes links to third party websites – we are not responsible for the content of those sites.
Cookies are small text files, typically made up of words and numbers, that are placed on the device you are using by websites that you visit. Cookies do a variety of useful jobs and are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently and provide information to the owners of the site.
This website contains analytical cookies which enables Google Analytical software to work. We use Google Analytics to collect information that helps us to accurately calculate the number of visitors to our website and to see how these visitors move around the site when they are using it.
These cookies may collect the IP address of your device but do not collect or store personal information that can identify you as a visitor. This information can only be seen by the relevant teams at Vertex and Google and never shows any confidential information.
The data collected by these cookies is anonymous and is used to improve how our website works and the services we offer to our customers.
Cookies we use
We use the following four Google Analytical performance cookies:
-utma This enables us to ascertain the number of unique visitors to our site and is updated with each page view. The cookie remains in existence for a period of 2 years either from initial creation or a subsequent update.
-utmb This cookie is used to establish and continue a user session on our site. Each time a user visits a different page this cookie updates for a further 30 minute period. The cookie then remains in existence for a further 30 minutes, either from initial creation or a subsequent update.
-utmc This cookie operates in conjunction with the -utmb cookie to determine whether or not to establish a new session for the user. The cookie remains in existence until you have closed your browser.
-utmz This cookie stores the type of referral used by the visitor to reach your site, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link. It is used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page navigation within your own site. The cookie is updated with each page view and expires 6 months from initial creation or a subsequent update.
For more information about the cookies used by Google Analytics: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies
Most web browsers will allow some management of cookies via your browser settings. For further information about managing cookies, please visit www.aboutcookies.org
For further information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
We only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. You can ask us about the retention periods for different aspects of your personal data by contacting us.
You can object or withdraw your consent to the use of your personal data at anytime.
You have the right to:
– Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
– Ask for your personal data to be updated when incorrect, out of date or incomplete.
– Request that we stop using any personal data after consent for its use has been withdrawn.
– To have your personal data erased.
To learn more about these rights please see the ICO website.
You have the right to request a copy of any information that Roth Creative holds about you.
Please address any such requests to the Data Controller by email to contact@545magazine.co.uk or by post to:
Data Controller
5/45 Magazine
16 Churchfields
West Malling
Kent ME19 6RJ
Checking your identity
To protect your confidentiality, we will ask you to verify your identity before disclosing this data. This requirement will also apply to any third party you have authorised to submit a request on your behalf.
Last Update: January 2025
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