Privacy Policy
[Updated 31, May 2019]
Your privacy is important to us. If you have any questions or suggestions about data or privacy, please do not hesitate to contact us at hello@cubiclejournal.com, with a recommended subject line: ‘Data’. CUBICLE is committed to protecting and safeguarding your personal data. This privacy policy is composed to adhere to the high standards of the European data protection law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This policy is written and effective from 31 April, 2019, and has been developed for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose and make use of personal information.
Content & use of material
The data we collect about you may be identifiable or anonymous. Identifiable data uses something personal that can be used to identify you. i.e an email address or name. We may collect from you and process information that you provide to us when you subscribe to jour newsletter, use the Contact Us form, or engage with articles with a comment. This also may include information which you voluntarily disclose to us by email or other means or information requested as part of a survey or contest. These details are occasionally used by us for reporting or for advertising.
Anonymous Data
Anonymous data is statistical data we use that tracks your actions on or off our website but does not specifically attribute this action to you. As an example, we may analyse and collect details about your visits to our website, including traffic data, location data and other communication data, used for analytics to improve your experience within CUBICLE. We use this data for reporting and for monitoring the effectiveness of advertising or marketing campaigns. Current tools include Google Analytics, Google location tracking, Mailchimp and WordPress. We may disclose anonymous data (such as aggregated statistics) about the users of CUBICLE in order to describe our performance, traffic patterns and other site information to prospective partners, employees, advertisers, investors and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes.
Identifiable data
This refers to data processing tools that record your identifiable information, i.e., your name, email address, home address, do so on behalf of CUBICLE to process form entires, competitions, reporting and advertising. We never sell this information or use it any way other than fulfilment of our business functions.
We may disclose your personal information to partners of Cube Collective Limited and CUBICLE, who supply services and goods to you on behalf of CUBICLE, and who need to process personal information in the provision of such services.
Under certain circumstances we may be required by law, court order, or governmental authority to disclose certain types of personal information and we reserve the right to comply with any relevant legally binding request. Here are some tools we utilise to gather identifiable data:
Google Analytics—Google Analytics tracks audience performance the site and user behavioural patterns on CUBICLE. We only use this information internally to monitor performance, and is never shared with third parties.
Mailchimp—Mailchimp is used to send out email newsletters and campaigns to email addresses that have been voluntarily subscribed to receive newsletter campaigns from us. We track how often a particular email address will interact with our campaigns. This allows us to send out campaigns based on an email address’s behaviour, so that we can be more targeted in our messaging.
Competitions—We use data gathered through competitions to choose the winner and keep a record of these emails saved so that CUBICLE can prove that entrants gave us permission to email them. We delete any emails from the competition that did not give us permission to send them promotional communication.
CVs—We retain resumes, portfolios and CVs from successful applicants for CUBICLE job openings for 6 months. CVs are only used for recruitment purposes and are never shared with third parties. Unsuccessful applicants’ CVs are deleted after the position they applied for has been filled.
Data processor policies
Please review the following relevant privacy policies. These are companies that handle your data on behalf of CUBICLE. While these companies are trusted by us to handle your data, it is important that you review them as well so that you are fully aware of how your data is processed.
Facebook—www.facebook.com/ads/about/
Google—policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Mailchimp—mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
How is your information processed, stored and kept secure?
CUBICLE accepts a reasonable duty of care when it comes to keeping your information secure. The website and our server have appropriate technical measures in place to protect against unauthorised, or unlawful use of your personal information, as well as the accidental loss, destruction or damage of your information while under our control. We conduct regular audits of data processing activities and security controls to ensure we have the highest level of security at all times.
It is important to note, that no data supply over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and while we strive to do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.
Deleting data
We will hold your information internally only for as long as necessary, or until you choose to manually opt out. After that timeframe, your information will be securely deleted, or in some cases, anonymised. If you would like any data deleted, please contact us at hello@cubiclejournal.com
Do we share your personal information with anyone else?
Cube Collective Limited is responsible for your data. We are registered in the United Kingdom under registration number 09470929. Our registered address is Pexor House, 6 Staffa Road, Ground Floor (Studio Arva), E10 7PY, London, United Kingdom.
We never share your data with any third parties other than Data Processors, who need your data in order to fulfil a service, such as reporting on behalf of CUBICLE. If we give your data to a third party who is not providing a service, for example, email entrants from a competition, we will only pass this data once we’ve been given express consent by you to do so.
Your rights
Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date. You are entitled to see copies of all personal information held by us, and to amend, correct or delete such data. You can also limit, restrict or object to the processing of your data. If you would like to change your opt-in status, contact us at hello@cubiclejournal.com with a recommended title of ‘Data’. To opt out of cookie tracking, you can do so here.
If you have any complaints regarding CUBICLE’s processing of your personal information, please email us at hello@cubiclejournal.com, or write to us at Cube Collective Limited, Pexor House, 6 Staffa Road, Showroom 7 – Ground Floor, E10 7PY, London, United Kingdom.
All our marketing emails also have unsubscribe links featured in the footer. Clicking this link may be the fastest way to stop receiving these communications.
Advertising
As an online publishing platform, a part of our revenue is generated from CUBICLE through affiliate links, partnerships and advertorials on the site. Advertising methods evolve over time so we urge you to regularly review this privacy policy if you are interested in our methods of advertising. See below the different forms of advertising we currently conduct:
Sponsored content – Occasionally we produce content that has been compensated in form of a fee, gift or service-in-kind by a commercial patron. When this appears as an article we distinctly state the nature of partnership at the bottom of the page. This is to let you know that there is a monetary or commercial benefit from publishing the article. We also frequently feature these articles on our social media feeds or in our newsletters, our users will be able to see the advertisement label at the top of the post in the form of ‘Paid Partnership with…’, or labelled at the bottom of the email.
Competitions—From time to time, we will host competitions that is sponsored by an advertiser. A competition that has a commercial motive will usually involve requests for contestants to following the advertiser on social media or subscribing to their newsletter. We will always ask for permission before sending an advertiser your email address. Not following to social media accounts or signing up for newsletters for an advertiser or for CUBICLE accounts and newsletters will not affect your chances in any competition.
Affiliate links—these are links on CUBICLE, especially in shopping pages, to another website that track a link’s click-through performance and subsequently tracks any purchases something on that website. We receive a small commission on that purchase, or a purchase that happens within the expiration of cookies on the particular e-commerce. We currently utilise RewardStyle as our primary affiliate link generator.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Cookies are common and won’t do anything to harm your system – they simply store or gather information. They help you to get the most out of your visit to our website.
We may collect information about your computer including, where available, your IP address, operating system, and browser type for system administration as part of our audit trail process. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that. You are not obliged to accept cookies and you can adjust your browser’s setting to prevent it from accepting cookies on your computer. Please note you may not be able to take full advantage of our website if you do so.
Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. Although they can be used to store information which may identify a user’s computer, cookies do not personally identify users and passwords, and credit card information are not stored in cookies.
We use Cookies on the site to collect anonymous data about our visitors, and we use this data to improve our services to you. We never track our website users for the purposes of displaying targeted advertising. By using the website, you agree to our use of Cookies.