Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Promise


Information about our Organisation
Origin Publishing Limited is a UK company registered in England, 3406699, at Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol, BS1 3BN. Origin Publishing Limited is the Data Controller under the Data Protection Act 1998.

At Origin Publishing Limited, we respect your privacy and are committed to maintaining it. Full details of our privacy policy are given below. In the event that we make any changes to the policy, the information below will be updated immediately.

Where personal data is held
We hold your data on secure servers and process your data under strict procedures in full compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and with reference to other applicable legislation and best practice.

How do we use the information you give us?

We use the information you provide us to:

  • Administer your account if you are ordering a subscription or product.
  • Inform you by post, telephone, email or mobile messaging of products, services, promotions and special offers from Origin Publishing Limited, if you have indicated that you are happy to receive such messages.
  • Send you our free e-newsletters if you have registered your wish to receive them. You may unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions given when we send you an email or mobile message.
  • If at any time you wish to change your mind, you can write to our Data Compliance Officer, Origin Publishing Limited, FREEPOST SWB 833, Bristol BS1 3ZZ

 

Disclosure of Data

  • If you have given us your permission, we may occasionally share your contact details with third parties or research companies under the strictest of contractual terms to enable only approved companies to communicate with you for marketing or research purposes.
  • We will process your information in the UK under the strict guidelines that our company has in place to protect and secure your data. In the event that information is processed outside the UK, we will put additional contractual measures in place to ensure the absolute security of that information.

 

Our security policy

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

 

  • Unauthorised access
  • Improper use or disclosure
  • Unauthorised modification
  • Unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data.

Links to other websites
This Policy only applies to the Origin Publishing Limited websites and not to the websites of other companies, individuals or organisations to which we provide links. When you leave any websites operated by Origin Publishing Limited, you will be governed by the Privacy Policy of any other sites thereafter. Please take care to ensure that you understand the terms under which other websites operate as Origin Publishing Limited has no control over their content and practices.

Cookies and other information gathering technology
'Cookies' are text files which are sent via your browser to your computer and stored on your hard disk, so that specific details about your visit to a website can be recorded, retrieved and analysed by the site during subsequent visits. These cookies in themselves do not identify individual users of sites, just the computer used and enable you to visit our pages again without having to re-register.

Our websites use cookies to collect anonymous data so that we can improve the quality and performance of the website. Personal information is not stored in these cookies. Information you have entered voluntarily on the product order form pages will be processed as outlined in this privacy promise.

If you would like to find out more about controlling cookies on your computer, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Access to the personal data we may hold about you
You can ask us at any time about the personal data we may hold about you by writing to the Data Compliance Officer, Origin Publishing Limited, 9th Floor, Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol, BS1 3BN. We will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, within 40 days - although we will ask you for proof of your identity to enable us to comply with our policies on identity fraud. We may make a charge for this information of the statutory amount of £10. Thereafter you may have the data erased, rectified or amended.

Children's Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. We take specific steps to protect the privacy of children by:

  • Making reasonable efforts to ensure that a parent has authorised the collection of the child's personal data and use of the child's personal data for the disclosure to third parties.
  • Giving parents the option to consent to the collection and use of the child's personal data for our internal use and use of the child's personal data for the disclosure to third parties.

 

Privacy Support
If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy or the content of our websites, please contact:

The Data Compliance Officer, Origin Publishing Limited, 9th Floor, Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol, BS1 3BN.

Or call our Customer Service Team on (Dovetail – 0844 844 0388).