Privacy Policy

Effective date: May 3rd 2018

Privacy Policy

Preface Studios Ltd of Limited of Park Court, 3 Pyrford Road, West Byfleet, KT14 6SD, England (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the prefacestudios.com website (the “Service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our General Terms and Conditions, accessible from prefacestudios.com

Definitions

  • Personal Data

Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

  • Usage Data

Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

  • Data Controller

Data Controller means a person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed.

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your data.

  • Data Processor (or Service Providers)

Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any person (other than an employee of the Data Controller) who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.

We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

  • Data Subject

Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.

  • User

The User is the individual using our Service. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of Personal Data.

Legal Basis for Processing

We collect and use Personal Data in order to provide you with access to our Service in a reliable and secure manner. We also collect and use Personal Data:

  • For our legitimate business needs.
  • To fulfil our contractual obligations to you.
  • To comply with our legal obligations.

To the extent we process your Personal Data for any other purposes, we ask for your consent in advance or require that our partners obtain such consent.

Information Collection And Use

  • Types of Data Collected
  • Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number (Landline & Mobile)
  • Company name
  • Department
  • Address, County, Postcode, City, Country
  • Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data:

  • To carry out obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us
  • To provide and maintain our Service
  • To notify you about changes to our Service
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer support
  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
  • To monitor the usage of our Service
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues
  • To provide you with information, products and services that you request from us
  • To ensure that content from our site or Service if present in the most effective manner for you and for your computer,
  • To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information, or to permit selected third parties to contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this by ticking the relevant consent box situated on the form on which we collected your data. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us as set out at the end of this Privacy Policy.

 

  • Usage Data

We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We use usage data:

  • To administer our site and Service and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes
  • To inform you about scheduled Service downtimes and new features, to improve our site and Service
  • To ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and 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 and Service safe and secure
  • To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others and to deliver relevant advertising to you and make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site or Service about our goods or services that may interest you or them.

 

  • Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a User’s device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you use our site and also allows us to improve the site.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

  • Persistent Cookies

A persistent cookie is stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions which allows the preferences or actions of a user across the site (or in some cases across different websites) to be remembered. We use persistent cookies to save your login information for future logins to the site.

  • Session Cookies

A session cookie allows the site to link your actions during a browser session. We use session cookies to enable certain features of the site, to better understand how you interact with the site and to monitor aggregate usage by users and web traffic routing on the site. Unlike persistent cookies, session cookies are deleted from your computer when you log off from the site and then close your browser.

You can block or remove cookies from your browser at any time. Cookie settings are typically under the browser settings or preferences. By not blocking cookies from our site and continuing to browse you are authorising the use of cookies. To learn more about what cookies we use please see the section ‘Tracking & Cookies Data’ below.

Browser instructions for removing cookies:
Google Chrome:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en

Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Internet Explorer and Edge
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11

Opera
https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

Apple Safari

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_GB

  • Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
  • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
  • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
  • Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

  • Analytics & Marketing Data

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

  • Google Analytics
    Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Read the Privacy Policy for Google Analytics here: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html
  • Full Story
    Full Story records anonymous user behavior on our site so we can improve our user experience. Read the Privacy Policy for Full Story here: https://www.fullstory.com/legal/privacy/
  • Whois Visiting
    Whois Visiting is a reverse IP look up for businesses. Read the Privacy Policy for Whois here: https://www.whoisvisiting.com/privacy-policy/
  • SharpSpring
    Preface Studios Ltd uses use SharpSpring to track and store marketing data from our website. It allows us to customise your experience. Read the Privacy Policy for SharpSpring here: https://sharpspring.com/legal/privacy/
  • Behavioral Remarketing
    Preface Studios Ltd uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.
  • Subscribers
    Preface Studios Ltd uses Subscribers.com to to alert visitors of new content on our site. Read the Privacy Policy for Subscribers here: https://subscribers.com/privacy-policy
  • LinkedIn
    Preface Studios Ltd uses use LinkedIn for marketing our services. Our third-party vendor use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based. Read the Privacy Policy for LinkedIn here:
    https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
  • Google AdWords
    Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Use of Data

  • Retention of Data

Preface Studios Ltd will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy for which it was collected. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), meet regulatory requirements, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements with you, or fulfil your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us.

Preface Studios Ltd will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer Of Data

  • As our Services are global and your information (including personal data) may be stored and processed in any country where we have operations or where we engage service providers, and we may transfer your information to countries outside of your country of residence, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country of residence.
  • The personal data that we collect from you may therefore be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers or partners. Such staff or subcontractors may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details or the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing outside of the EEA.
  • We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In particular, this means that your personal data will only be transferred to a country that provides an adequate level of protection (for example, where the European Commission has determined that a country provides an adequate level of protection) or where the recipient is bound by standard contractual clauses according to conditions provided by the European Commission (“Standard Contractual Clauses”).
  • Our site and Services are accessible via the internet and may potentially be accessed by anyone around the world. Other users may access the Site or Services from outside the EEA. This means that where you chose to post your data on our site or within the Services, it could be accessed from anywhere around the world and therefore a transfer of your data outside of the EEA may be deemed to have occurred. You consent to such transfer of your data for and by way of this purpose..

Disclosure Of Data

We may share your information with selected third parties including:

  • Any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006
  • Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you, for example Google
  • Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site and Services

We may disclose your information to third parties:

  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets
  • If we or a member of our group of companies or substantially all of their assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by them about their customers will be one of the transferred assets
  • For Legal Requirements:
  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of Preface Studios Ltd
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Security Of Data

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will endeavour to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site or the Services. Any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any credit card information or payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of the Site or Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share any password with anyone.

Your Rights

Preface Studios Ltd aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

Please contact us to make any required changes.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us on info@prefacestudios.com

In certain circumstances, you have the right:

  • To access and receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you
  • To rectify any Personal Data held about you that is inaccurate
  • To request the deletion of Personal Data held about you
  • To place a restriction on the processing of your Personal Data
  • To object to the processing of your Personal Data
  • To withdraw your consent to us processing your Personal Data

You have the right to data portability for the information you provide to Preface Studios Ltd. You can request to obtain a copy of your Personal Data in a commonly used electronic format so that you can manage and move it.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

If you have opted-in to our regular email marketing, you have the right to unsubscribe from our emails. This can be done by clicking the ‘Unsubscribe’ link in the header and footer of our emailer.

Links To Other Sites

Our site and Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 16 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Complaints

If you have any complaints about our use of your Personal Data please contact us as set out below under “contact us” or contact the following data protection supervisory authority:

For individuals located in the EU: your local data protection supervisory authority in the country in which you are located or our lead supervisory authority – insert name, address located in insert country.

For all other individuals: The Information Commissioner’s Office at, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, England.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

Last updated: 7th Oct 2022