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Our Privacy Policy

Welcome to the A Studio of Our Own privacy policy. A Studio of Our Own respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website at the address of www.astudioofourown.com and tell you about your privacy rights.

 

Purpose

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how A Studio of Our Own  collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website https://www.astudioofourown.com  including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our newsletter. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
 

A Studio of Our Own is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “A Studio of Our Own”, "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy). A Studio of Our Own is the controller and responsible for this website.
 

We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy, such details of our data privacy manager are: Full name of legal entity:  A STUDIO OF OUR OWN (Tom Cornfoot), Email address: hello@astudioofourown.com, Postal address:  4 The Glebe, Worcester Park, Surrey.
 

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
 

We keep our privacy policy under regular review.  It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
 

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications such links on our website include ones to Twitter, Instagram, e-mail links, Linkedin Or links to projects on our website and project organisers at www.astudioofourown.com/projects. Links to the Living Wage Foundation, One Percent for the Planet, and Climate Care. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
 

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer the following data.
 

  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
     

  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
     

  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
     

  • Subscribe to Pass It On (our newsletter) (incorporating the Show me More link) includes where we interview those that we admire this being the rule breakers, game changers and contemporary thinkers, this is our personal blog.
     

  • Projects Data such includes projects that we are involved in and as advertised on our website at the web address of astudioofourown.com/projects.
     

  • Drop us an E-mail/Get In Touch Data that includes data e-mailed to us via the link at astudioofourown/aboutus
     

  • Email Addresses are collected for our newsletter which you are free to opt out of receiving at any time.
     

How is your personal data collected

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
 

  • Direct interactions. You may give us your e-mail address only  by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you
     

    • subscribe to our newsletters to include our blog;
       

  • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.

Purpose/Activity

Register you to access our blog via the Pass it on link.
 

Register you to receive our newsletter with your consent at all times to do so by entering your e-mail address into our website.

Type of data

(a) Identity
 

(b) Contact

Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
Performance of a contract with you

To manage our relationship with you which will include:
 

(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy

(a) Identity
 

(b) Contact
 

(c) Profile
 

(d) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you
 

(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
 

(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)

To deliver relevant website content or newsletters to you via Mailchimp

(a) Identity
 

(b) Contact
 

(c) Profile
 

(d) Usage
 

(e) Marketing and Communications
 

(f) Technical

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)

  • Third parties or publicly available sources. We will not send your personal data about you to any various third parties without your express consent to do so, such as Mailchimp who are based in the United States of America.  
     

  • Technical Data from the following parties:

    • advertising networks such as Mailchimp based outside of the EU.
       

How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
 

  • Where we need to perform the contract with you.
     

  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
     

  • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
     

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data although we will get your consent before sending third party direct marketing communications and you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time and for any purpose.
 

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so.
 

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing however we do not conduct any marketing activities.
 

  • Third-party marketing: we will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party and shall inform you of such third party, for marketing purposes and generally we do not share your personal data with any third party.
     

  • Opting out: you can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages or our newsletter at any time by contacting us  or clicking our unsubscribe links sent in any e-mails. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase.
     

  • Cookies: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies however some part of our website might not work if you do this, please see our cookie policy here.
     

Change of purpose

We will only ever use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it.
 

If we need to use your personal data for any unrelated purpose which shall not be for which we collect it, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis of this.  
 

We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, where this is required or permitted by law.

 

Disclosures of your personal data

We may share your personal data with, Internal or External or Specific Third Parities as set out herein this privacy policy and as set out above in Purposes for which we will use your personal data.
 

  • Internal Third Parties other companies such as Mailchimp acting as joint controllers or processors and who are based United Servers and provide IT and system administration services and undertake leadership reporting.
     

  • External Third Parties Service providers acting as processors based the United Kingdom or the United States such a Mailchimp who provide IT and system administration services.
     

  • HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
     

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions and your consent at all times.


 

International transfers
We share your personal data within the Mailchimp. This will involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) to the United States of America.

 

Our external third parties including Mailchimp are based outside the EEA so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA from them.
 

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA via Mailchimp, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented: - We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission. For further details, see European Commission: Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
 

  • Where we use certain service providers such as Mailchimp, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries. 
     

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.
 

Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

 

Data retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

 

Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our retention policy which you can request from us by contacting us. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see your legal rights below for further information.
 

Your legal rights: You have the right to:

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
 

Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
 

Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
 

Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:

 

  • If you want us to establish the data's accuracy.

  • Where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it.

  • Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

  • You have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
     

 

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
 

Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
 

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact our data privacy manager, Tom Cornfoot, email address of tom@astudioofourown.com address of 73a Beak Street, London. W1F 9SR Subject Access Request - you will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Cookie Policy

Our Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

 

We use the following cookies:
 

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
     

  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
     

  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
     

  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
     

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name
Purpose

XSRF-TOKEN

Used for security reasons

hs

Used for security reasons

Duration

Session

Session

Cookie Type

Essential

Essential

SSR-caching

Used to indicate the system from which the site was rendered

1 minute

Essential

bSession

Used for system effectiveness measurement

30 minutes

Essential

svSession

Used in connection with user login

2 years

Essential

We do not share the information collected by the cookies with any third parties.
 

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

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