XWHY Magazine Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement

This is a privacy policy covering XWHY magazine, property of XWHY Media Ltd, (hereafter called the “website” or collectively “we”, “our” and “us”) and our approach to your information. It is your responsibility to read and understand this privacy policy. If you do not agree to all of this privacy policy and do not wish to be bound by it, consider that you do not then have our authorisation to access and use our website.

Please also read our Terms of Use statement, located at the bottom of our homepage.

We are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. We appreciate that you do not want any personal information provided to us to be distributed indiscriminately, however it is reasonable to assume, and in the interests of better catering to our reader’s needs, that we will store and use some of the information you provide. Continue reading the rest of this Privacy Policy to find out what information youmight make available to us and also how we may use it.

What information do we collect?

1. Some personal information is collected whenever you register or fill in a form on a website, when you participate in any of the interactive areas of our website, or when you send an email to any of our XWHY affiliated email addresses. This personal information will only be used for the purpose for which it is provided, unless you are informed otherwise at the time of giving the information. You may email us at any time to request that we cease to use any of your information.

2. This information usually consists of names and email addresses, but, depending on your computer’s settings, we may also collect demographic information such as your location, age or gender.

3. We collect other non-identifying information automatically, through the use of cookies and other technologies, to better help us to use the analytic tools available for improving our website’s efficiency and to track user patterns.

How is this information used?

1. We use your personal information to contact you, interact with you and to complete transactions.

2. We may share your personal information with third parties who co-sponsor our events, competitions and surveys and with those who we collaborate with on joint projects and initiatives.

3. We will, on occasion, use the non-identifying information for the purpose of creating de-personalised data which we will then pass on to third parties. This data will not contain identifying information such as names, addresses or email addresses.

4. There are links on the website to third party websites over which XWHY has no control. We cannot accept any liability or responsibility for the way these third parties use your information. We advise that you read the privacy statements on any of these third party websites prior to using them.

5. Our third party advertisers may collect non-identifying information through cookies so that they can provide you with more relevant advertising.