It is Highbury Literary's policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our website, www.highburyliterary.com.

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We only collect and use your personal information to allow us to fulfil our contract with you. When you purchase goods or services from us, a contract between you and Highbury Literary will have been entered into. In order for us to fulfil our obligations under such contract, we only collect personal information (including payment information) that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you. 

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Information We Collect 

Through purchasing our products and services, or participating in any of our services and promotions, we will ask you for the following personal information: your name, email address, contact telephone number, billing address and payment information for the purpose of processing and fulfilling your sales order. We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information to contact and communicate with you. Personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with this purpose. 

 

We may also collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website: 

• Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels, or when you mention us on social media 

• Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content 

• Contact us via email, social media, or on any other similar technologies 

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Log Data 

When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser and sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and services. Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons. This data may include the following details: the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, other details about your visit, and technical details that occur in conjunction with any errors you may encounter. 

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Security of Your Personal Information 

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information to fulfil our contract with you, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. 

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Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised access. We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach. 

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You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services. 

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How Long We Keep Your Personal Information 

We keep your personal information for as long as is reasonably necessary for us to perform and fulfil the services/activities we are undertaking and to comply with our legal obligations. If your personal information is no longer required, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you. 

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If necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes. 

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International Transfers of Personal Information 

The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities. Please be aware that the locations to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: we will endeavour to perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. 

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Age Restrictions

You can only register or apply to use our services if you are over the age of majority in the country in which you reside. That means that we do not knowingly collect any information about or market to children, minors or anyone under the age of majority unless their parent or legal guardian has consented. Any personal information provided by persons under the age of majority will be deleted.

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Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Information 

You retain the right to withhold personal information from us, with the understanding that your experience of our services and website may be affected. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. If you do provide us with personal information you understand that we will collect, hold, use and disclose it in accordance with this privacy policy.

 

You retain the right to request details of any personal information we hold about you and if you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date. 

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If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us. 

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If you have complaints relating to our processing of your Personal Data, you should contact us in the first instance using the details listed below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You may also raise complaints with the Information Commissioner who is the statutory regulator. 

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Limits of our Policy 

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by Highbury Literary. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices. 

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Changes to this Policy 

We reserve the right to change our privacy policy at any time and without notice to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we do change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy. 

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This Privacy Policy was last updated on 12th June 2022. 

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For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, please contact us using the following details: 

Emma Cheshire at emma@highburyliterary.com 

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