Data Protection and Privacy Policy
This website is owned and operated by The Leader Newspaper, S.L. (registered in Spain with the CIF B54137773). This document will refer to The Leader Newspaper, S.L. as “the Company”, “we”, “The Leader”, or “us”.
At The Leader Newspaper, S.L. and our associated companies, we take your privacy seriously. Please be assured that we will protect any information which you provide and will never release your personal details to other companies without your express permission.
This privacy policy explains how we may collect information from you via our website and how we may use that information. If you have any questions concerning our privacy policy, please contact office@theleader.info.
By browsing and using our website you agree to the policies governing it’s use. If you do not accept this policy you must not use the website.
This privacy policy applies only to the use of this website and not to the use of other websites to which we provide links. We also enter into collaboration agreements with commercial partners whose websites may be co-branded or framed by ours and which you may visit directly through our website. These website are not subject to our privacy policy and you are advised to read their privacy policies before using their website or submitting any information to them.
This privacy policy is subject to change from time to time without notification. Please review this privacy policy regularly.
Collection of Personal Information
When you register with our website we capture your personal information. We would like to use the information which we capture in order to contact you with relevant offers and services in which we feel you may have an interest. This information includes your name, address, telephone number, and email address which you provide voluntarily to us. Please do not submit personal data to us if you do not wish us to collect or use it.
When you register, we will ask you for the following details:
- Salutation (Mr, Ms, Mrs, Miss, Dr, etc.)
- Forename
- Surname
- Document Type (i.e. NIE, Passport, etc.)
- Preferred Language (English, Spanish, German, etc.)
- Email Address (which will be used as their login)
- Password
- Date Of Birth
- Gender (Male / Female)
- Your Address including City / Town, Postcode, Country
- Home Phone / Fax
- Work Phone / Fax
- Mobile Phone
- Personal / Company Website URL
This information is kept and stored in our secure database.
Other information which may be collected , but will not be stored without your permission, include:
- Your delivery address (if different from your billing address)
- Your credit card number
- Your credit card expiry date
In order to ensure against the use of stolen cards, we will not store your 3-digit credit card security code.
Collection of Other Information
In order to provide you with the products, services and information you want, and to personalize your experience each time you visit us, we would like to know about your interests. We find this out by asking you, by reading the comments you make on blogs and forums provided by our website, and by monitoring the areas which you use most often. We also collect information using cookies and beacons. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser when you visit our site. A cookie allows us to identify your computer and find out details about your last visit. Most internet browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can usually alter the settings on your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer. If you choose not to accept cookies, we cannot guarantee that you will enjoy the best possible experience from our website. A beacon is a small graphi image located on a web page that is designed to allow us to monitor visitors to our site.
The information collected by cookies and beacons is not personally identifiable. Cookies and beacons contain general information about your computer settings and your connection to the internet, e.g. operating system, platform, IP address, browsing patterns and timings, and your geographical location.
Use of your information
By using our website, you agree that we may collect, hold, correlate, merge and use your information (including your personal information) for the purpose of providing you with our service and information. You agree that we may:
- Personalize your visit to the site by customizing the design to improve our service to you
- Inform you about changes to our website and about new products and services or promotional offers which we think may be of interest to you
- Communicate your details to companies within our group and with whom we do business
- Inform you if you have been successful in any of our competitions or promotions
- Compile customer reviews
- Use the information you provide for market research purposes
- Prevent you from posting illegal, offensive, or objectionable content on our websites
- Enable third-parties to carry out statistical analysis and determine behaviour patterns and preferences in order to manage online advertising
- Use the information you supply for strategic development
- Use the information you supply for accounting purposes
- Use the information you supply for any puropose required by law or regulation
Sharing your information
By using our websites you agree that we may disclose your information to any company within our group of companies by means of a central database to which all companies have access by means of direct transfer of information from one location to another.
We may provide third parties with certain statistical data about your use of our websites. This data may also include demographic data such as the age range and/or geographical location of our users. It will not include information which could personally identify you.
We may supply data which you supply to us to third parties.
We reserve the right to access and disclose the data you supply in order to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests or requests by applicable regulatory bodies in order to operate our systems lawfully and correctly and / or to protect ourselves or our other users.
We may transfer, sell, or assign any of the information you provide to third parties in the event of a sale, merger, consolidation, change of control, transfer of assets, or reorganization of the Company. This includes your consent to the transfer of your information outside of the European Economic Area.
Monitoring communication
We may monitor and keep records of all communication between ourselves and you. This includes email and other communication with you in accordance with this privacy policy and our other business interests.
Security and Safeguards
No transmission of data over the internet can be entirely secure, but we endeavour to ensure that the information you provide to us remains confidential. We make every effort to keep our websites updated with the latest security features.
You should not divulge your password to any third-party.
Changing or accessing your information
You can view and modify the personal information we have for you via the website. Should you no longer wish to received newsletters or information about our products and services, you may request that you are unsubscribed.
Should you have any queries about our privacy policy, please email office@theleader.info including full details.