Privacy Policy

Who we are

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy outlines the basis on which any personal data we collect will be processed by us. Please read this privacy policy carefully to understand our views and practices and your rights in relation to your personal data. By visiting any of our websites (our sites) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy. For the purposes of data protection legislation, the data controller is Boost Publications Ltd whos registered office is: Boost Publications, Admiral's Yard, Rotherside Road, Sheffield S21 4HL.

What information do we collect from you?

We will collect and process the following data about you:

• Information you give us. This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms on our site or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. The information you give us may include, but is not limited to your name, email address, address and phone number.
•  Information we collect from your use of our sites. With regard to each of your visits to our sites we will automatically collect technical information, such as the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the Internet, and the whereabouts you connected to our service.

How is this information used?

We use this information in the following ways:

Information you give to us.  We use this information: 

• in order to assess whether we can engage in business with you and in order to engage in business with you. This includes carrying out our obligations to you and providing you with our, or a third party’s products and services;
• for the purpose of improving our service to you, to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device;
• to deal with any legal queries relating to your use of our service;
• to provide you with service communications so that we can perform our obligations to you. These may be sent by email. These will include notifications about changes to our service, event details and information about products that you have signed up to;
• to provide you with marketing communications including, with your permission, information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about; or
• in our or a third party’s legitimate interests of keeping customers up to date with goods and services, increase awareness of us and third parties within the market, making promotional offers and generating new business, building and maintaining loyalty or market share

Information we collect from your use of the sites. We use this information: 

• to administer our sites and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
• to improve our sites to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device; 
• as part of our efforts to keep our sites safe and secure;
• to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you

How long is the information retained?

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

How is your information stored and kept safe?

Your information is kept on secured servers.

Who might we share your information with?

You agree that for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, we have the right to share your personal information with:

Selected associated third parties, some of whom we appoint to provide services, including service providers with whom we have a commercial relationship, for example: 

• business partners, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with you;
• analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our sites;
• Customer survey providers in order to receive feedback and improve our services.

Additionally, we will disclose your personal information to the relevant third party:

• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
• If we are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our customers, our regulator, or others.

What are your rights?

Where processing of your personal data is based on consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time.

You have the following rights: 

• to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes;
• To ask us not to process your personal data where it is processed on the basis of legitimate interests provided that there are no compelling reasons for that processing;
• To ask us not to process your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes, where relevant, unless the processing is necessary in the public interest.
• to request from us access to personal information held about you;
• to ask for the information we hold about you to be rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
• to ask for data to be erased provided that the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, you withdraw consent (if the legal basis for processing is consent), you exercise your right to object, set out below, and there are no overriding legitimate ground for processing, the data is unlawfully processed, the data needs to be erased to comply with a legal obligation or the data is children’s data and was collected in relation to an offer of information society services;
• to ask for the processing of that information to be restricted if the accuracy of that data is contested, the processing is unlawful, the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or you exercise your right to object (pending verification of whether there are legitimate grounds for processing);

Should you have any issues, concerns or problems in relation to your data, or wish to notify us of data which is inaccurate, please let us know by contacting us.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This policy may be updated from time to time. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

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Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

This agreement and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation (including non- contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales. Each party irrevocably agrees that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with this agreement or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims).