TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Egmont UK Ltd Website Privacy Policy
Egmont UK Ltd is a leading UK children’s publisher, comprising two
children’s book divisions and one magazine division: Egmont Press, which
publishes Fiction, and Picture Books; Egmont Publishing, which
publishes Classic and Contemporary Characters, Learning and Colour &
Activity lists - and Egmont Magazines, which publishes a range of top
quality market-leading children’s magazines. Egmont UK Ltd is part of
the Egmont group of international companies. This Privacy Policy sets
out how personal information obtained through your use of this website
will be used by us. We will review and enhance it from time to time. We
take seriously the privacy of all our customers and website users.
Egmont Press is responsible for the processing of any personal
information obtained through your use of this website [and has notified
such processing to the Information Commissioner in the United Kingdom
under the Data Protection Act 1998].
If you have any requests concerning your personal information (such as
updating it or removing it from our database) or any queries about our
Privacy Policy or any other aspect of our website or service, please
contact us by any of the methods shown below:
Email: info@egmont.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7761 3500
Fax: +44 (0)20 7761 3510
Mail: 239 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6SA
Links and other websites
This Privacy Policy only covers Egmont UK Ltd and the web sites at www.egmont.co.uk,
www.2HEADSbooks.com,
www.toxicmag.co.uk
and www.gogirlmag.co.uk.
Additional web sites within the Egmont group of companies are governed
by their respective privacy statements. Egmont UK Ltd is not responsible
for the data policies or procedures or the content of other linked web
sites outside of the Egmont group of companies (including the companies
to whom we may provide a link for the purposes of purchasing one or more
of our products). We recommend that you check the privacy and security
policies of each website you visit.
Information collected
In order to provide you with the services you require, we may
collect and keep a record of personal information about you or your
child from this website, emails and written communications. You may be
required to provide certain information such as your name, address,
email address and telephone number. In order that we can monitor and
improve the site, we may gather certain information about you when you
use it, including details of your domain name and IP address, operating
system, browser, version and the website that you visited prior to our
site. Please let us know using one of the methods above if any of your
personal information changes or you become aware that the information we
hold is inaccurate so that we may keep our records up to date.
Use of Personal Information
- All information we collect about you will be used and protected by us in accordance with current data protection law and this Privacy Policy.
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We may use the information we collect from you for a variety of
purposes, including:-
- creating an individual profile for you or your child so that we can inform you/them of particular goods, services or events that may be of interest to you and to display that information according to your preferences.
- providing you or your child with the services that you/they have subscribed to or registered for
- identifying potential customers or subscribers
- dealing with your requests and enquiries
- maintaining our records and for other administrative purposes
- carrying out customer and market/marketing research
- tracking activity on our website
- protecting our website and systems against unauthorised access
- improving the quality of our service
- administration of promotions or contests
Parental permission is required for anyone under the age of 16 before
they provide personal information to the site. If any personal
information is requested, we will seek active parental permission via
e-mail.
Marketing Information
From time to time we would like to contact you or your child
about any of our goods, services and events in which you/they may be
interested. In all cases we will take care to ensure that your
information is used responsibly. We will not pass your information to
other companies in the Egmont group or to third parties unless we have
informed you first and, where required by law, obtained your consent.
However, we will not send marketing information to you if you do not
want to receive it. Where we ask for your personal information, we will
offer you various choices as to how your data can be used. Please
indicate your preferences by ticking or leaving blank the relevant
boxes.
Sale of Business
In the event that the business is sold or integrated with
another business, or any or all of our assets are sold, your details may
be disclosed to our advisors and any prospective purchasers' advisers
and will be passed onto the new owners of the business or asset(s). We
will inform you at the appropriate time if this occurs.
Cookies
Cookies and similar devices such as web bugs may be used by us
to provide you with customised information from our web site. A cookie
is an element of data that a web site can send to your browser, which
may then store it on your system. Cookies allow us to understand who has
seen which pages and advertisements, to determine how frequently
particular pages are visited and to determine the most popular areas of
our web site. Cookies may also allow us to make our web site more user
friendly by, for example, allowing us to save your password so that you
do not have to re-enter it every time to visit our web site. We use
cookies so that we can give you a better experience when you return to
our web site.
You have the right to prevent cookies being stored on your computer. If
you do not want them to be stored please check the 'Help' pages provided
with your browser. If you choose to disable cookies you may not be able
to access certain features of this website.
Security
We take the security of your personal information seriously. We
endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal
information from loss and misuse, and only allow access to it in
accordance with the terms of this policy. We reserve the right to
disclose your personal information to any law enforcement agency
requesting it in connection with the commission of any offence, once we
are reasonably satisfied as to the circumstances surrounding the
request. We also reserve the right to access and disclose your personal
information in order to comply with applicable laws and lawful
government requests, to operate our systems properly or to protect our
users and ourselves.
Data Transfers
Although the Egmont group of companies operate throughout the
world in providing our goods and services, we will not transfer personal
data obtained through your use of this website outside Egmont UK
Limited, other than for reasons mentioned elsewhere in this Privacy
Policy and having informed you first.
