Privacy Policy
Introduction
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Welcome to Coastal Media ("we", "our", "us"). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, www.coastalmedia.biz ("Website").Â
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1. Information We Collect
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We may collect and process the following data about you:
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1.1 Personal Data:
Name
Email address
Phone number
Address
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1.2 Technical Data:
IP address
Browser type and version
Time zone setting
Browser plug-in types and versions
Operating system and platform
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1.3 Usage Data:
Information about how you use our Website, products, and services.
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1.4 Marketing and Communications Data:
Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
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2. How We Collect Your Data
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We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:
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2.1 Direct Interactions:
Filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
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2.2 Automated Technologies:
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As you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
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2.3 Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources:
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We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.
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3. How We Use Your Data
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We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
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3.1 To Provide Our Services:
To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
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3.2 To Improve Our Website:
To administer and protect our business and this Website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).
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3.3 To Use Data Analytics:
To improve our Website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
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3.4 For Marketing Purposes:
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you.
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4. Disclosure of Your Information
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We may share your personal data with:
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4.1 Internal Third Parties:
Other companies in our group acting as joint controllers or processors and who are based in the UK and provide IT and system administration services.
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4.2 External Third Parties:
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Service providers acting as processors based in the UK who provide IT and system administration services.
Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers based in the UK who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
HM Revenue & Customs, regulators, and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based in the UK who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
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5. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed.
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6. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
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7. Your Legal Rights
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Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
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Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of your personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data.
Right to withdraw consent.