Data protecthion and privacy policy

Privacy Policy

PRConversations.com is committed to safeguarding your privacy and manages data as required by the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

This website privacy policy explains how we process your personal data (that is, any information that would enable you to be directly or indirectly identified, for instance name or email).

PRConversations is a personal (not-for-profit) blog whose principals and content editors are Judy Gombita and Dr Heather Yaxley. Its purpose is to originate and share content as set out on our About page.

Contact Dr Heather Yaxley by email to request@prconversations.com if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your personal data through this website and she will gladly assist you.

We will never lease, distribute or sell your personal information to third parties, without your explicit (opt-in) consent or unless required to do so by law.

Data Protection Principles

We promise to follow the following data protection principles:

  • Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before processing personal data. We will provide you information regarding processing upon request.
  • Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
  • Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
  • Processing is limited with a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed.
  • We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
  • We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data. This website is cloud-based and data is protected by electronic security safeguards.

Your rights as a data subject

The Data Subject has the following rights:

  1. Right to information – meaning you have to right to know whether your personal data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed.
  2. Right to access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your personal data gathered.
  3. Right to rectification – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your personal data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
  4. Right to erasure – meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your personal data to be erased from our records.
  5. Right to restrict processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal pata.
  6. Right to object to processing – meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to processing of your personal data, for example in the case of direct marketing.
  7. Right to object to automated processing – meaning you have the right to object to automated processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.
  8. Right to data portability – you have the right to obtain your personal data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one processor to another.
  9. Right to lodge a complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.
  10. Right for the help of supervisory authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.
  11. Right to withdraw consent – you have the right withdraw any given consent for processing of your personal fata.

Data we gather

Information you have provided us with
You will be requested to provide information (name and e-mail address) that is necessary to verify the identity of anyone posting a comment on this website. Names (as provided) are published on the website with any comment. E-mail addresses are not published. If a website URL is provided, this will be linked automatically to the commenter’s name.

The information you provide us with is saved in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website. Explicit (opt-in) consent is sought for any notification of follow-up comments or new posts published at PRConversations.com

Information automatically collected about you
This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, when you look at the contents of our website, your activities and IP address may be logged to improve your experience of the site.

Information from our suppliers

This website uses plugins and other applications that may collect personal data, subject to confirmation that they have legal grounds to do so. We use services provided by the following organisations:

Publicly available information
We may gather information about you that is publicly available.

How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data in order to:

  • provide our website to you. This includes, for example, communicating and interacting with you regarding your activities on PRConversations.com; and notifying you of material changes to the website.
  • enhance your experience of PRConversations.com;
  • fulfil an obligation under law.

We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your explicit (opt-in) consent.

On the ground of legitimate interest, we process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • to administer and analyse our readership base (comments and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of content provided;
  • to verify your identity when approving comments for posting on PRConversations.com

With your explicit (opt-in) consent we process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • to verify your identity when approving comments for posting on PRConversations.com
  • for other purposes we have asked your consent for;

We process your personal data in order to fulfil obligation rising from law and/or use your personal data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise personal data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this policy only when it is anonymised. We save information gathered about you for as long as needed for obligations deriving from law.

We might process your personal data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

  • the link between purposes, context and nature of personal data is suitable for further processing;
  • the further processing would not harm your interests and
  • there would be appropriate safeguard for processing.

We will inform you of any further processing and purposes.

Who else can access your Personal Data

We do not share your personal data with strangers. Personal data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted suppliers (as above) in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience.

We only work with suppliers who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your personal data. We would disclose your personal data to third parties or public officials only when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your personal data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

How we secure your data

We do our best to keep your personal data safe.  We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymising and pseudonymising where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. We use anti-spam, anti-virus, firewall and malware scan security measures on PRConversations.com.

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

Children

We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children (aged under 18 years of age). We do not target children with our services.

Cookies and other technologies we use

We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.

A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for anyone who is able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.
  • Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our website more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible. For example, they remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
  • Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services

You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

We use Jetpack and Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Jetpack is provided by Automattic which has its own Privacy Notice. Google has its own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

Contact Information

Supervisory Authority: UK Information Commissioner’s Office: https://ico.org.uk

PRConversations: Email, Dr Heather Yaxley: request@prconversations.com

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make change to this Privacy Policy.
Last modification was made: 23 May 2018.