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Privacy Policy

Firefly Magazines Privacy Notice

Effective Date: 1 August 2024

Overview

This Privacy Notice details the commitments and obligations of the Firefly Magazines collection, including Consett Magazine, Durham Magazine, Newcastle Magazine, Sunderland Magazine, Edinburgh Magazine, Manchester Magazine, Birmingham Magazine, Cardiff Magazine and Leeds Magazine. Managed by Firefly New Media LTD, our policies adhere strictly to the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

Contact Details

How We Use Your Information

Firefly Magazines uses your personal information for various purposes:

  1. Journalistic Functions: Gathering and reporting news relevant to our audience.
  2. Content Delivery: Distributing and tailoring editorial content.
  3. Subscription and Marketing Services: Managing subscriptions and marketing communications that users opt into.
  4. Interactive Features: Administering competitions, surveys, and other interactive platforms.
  5. Advertising and Marketing Analysis: Understanding reader preferences to target and optimize marketing efforts.
  6. Sales of Products and Services: Processing transactions and delivering products.
  7. Business Administration: Overseeing back-office functions, managing supplier and partner relations, and processing job applications.

Legal Basis for Processing

  • Consent: When you subscribe to our services or newsletters.
  • Contract Performance: Fulfilling our service agreements, such as delivering subscribed magazines.
  • Legal Obligations: Complying with legal requirements.
  • Legitimate Interests: For purposes that include but are not limited to enhancing user experience and fraud prevention.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Firefly Magazines uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to improve user experience, analyze site usage, and manage content delivery across our websites. Below is a detailed list of the cookies we use, along with their purpose and duration:

  1. Performance Cookies:
    • poptin_old_user: Identifies returning users to enhance the performance of the website. Duration: 2 days.
    • poptin_user_id: Provides a unique visitor ID to track user interactions. Duration: 1 year.
    • poptin_session: Saves the Poptin session to maintain display settings. Duration: 1 hour.
  2. Analytics Cookies:
    • ga*, _ga: Installed by Google Analytics to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data, and track site usage. These cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. Duration: 1 year, 1 month, and 4 days.
    • _gid: Used by Google Analytics to store and aggregate information on how visitors use the website, including the number of visitors, their source, and pages visited. Duration: 1 day.
    • _gat_UA-*, gat_gtag_UA: These cookies are used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate and track user behavior. Duration: 1 minute.
    • _gcl_au: Set by Google Tag Manager to assess the efficiency of advertising. Duration: 3 months.
    • hjSessionUser, hjSession: Set by Hotjar to ensure that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID. Duration: 1 year and 1 hour, respectively.
  3. Advertisement Cookies:
    • poptin_c_visitor: Determines which ads should be shown to the visitor, ensuring ads are not overly repetitive. Duration: 1 month.
  4. Necessary Cookies:
    • rc::a, rc::c: Set by Google reCAPTCHA to identify bots and protect the website from malicious spam attacks. Duration: Persistent for rc::a and session for rc::c.
    • XSRF-TOKEN, laravel_session: Enhance browsing security by preventing cross-site request forgery and identifying a session instance for a user. Duration: 10 minutes.
  5. Other Cookies:
    • poptin_previous_url, poptin_client_id, poptin_origin_landing_page, poptin_every_visit_session, poptin_new_user: These cookies are set by Poptin for various functionalities related to session management and user identification. Duration: Session for most; 2 minutes for poptin_previous_url.

Sharing Your Information

We may share your information with trusted third parties who assist in conducting our business activities, such as payment processors and delivery services, under strict confidentiality agreements. We also adhere to legal requirements for data sharing where applicable.

Your Rights

Under the UK GDPR, you possess rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict the use of your personal data. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details above.

Data Security

We are committed to ensuring the security of your data with appropriate physical, technical, and administrative safeguards.

Changes to This Notice

We may update this notice to reflect changes in our practices. Any changes will be posted on our website and, where appropriate, notified to you directly.

Further Information

For any questions about this notice or our privacy practices, please contact our Data Protection Manager at the address or email listed above.