Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy - 24 Jan 2024
Inside Ninjutsu reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time with or without notice.
Overall privacy statement:
We take your privacy seriously. We aim to keep your information as secure as possible. We gather certain types of information about our users, and want to help you understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. These privacy practices apply to the Inside Ninjutsu website.
The type of personal information we collect:
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content.
We collect and process the following information you provide to us through email and our contact forms: name and contact details. This is usually in relation to publishing an article you have submitted. The information will vary depending on the nature of the article but will often include your name, age, location, email address and phone number.
Most of the personal information we process is provided directly by you when you contact us via email or the online form. We use this information (where appropriate and with your permission) to create articles for the magazine, the website and social media.
We do not share your information with any other company, organisation or third party for marketing purposes.
We may collect certain information about your visits to our website and how you use it. This may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views and similar information. We may use this information for a number of purposes including website administration, optimising the use and performance of the website, disclosing to third party contributors or for security purposes. Individual users will not be identifiable from this information. This information may be collected by a third-party website analytics service provider on our behalf and may be collected using cookies.
We will not retain your information any longer than is necessary.
Use of your information:
When you contribute to Inside Ninjutsu, we may use your contribution on our website, social media platforms and You Tube channel. If published, posted or broadcast it may be used again in the future.
Cookies:
In common with other websites we use cookies to ensure that you get the most out of our website and to improve the service we offer. A cookie is a text file containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you access a website. The text file is then sent back to the server each time your browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser you are using.
Some cookies that we use are necessary for our websites to function properly and to enable you to move around the site and use its features. In addition, we also use so called "functional" cookies that allow our websites to remember choices you have made in relation to the websites to provide a more personalised and enhanced user experience.
As mentioned above, we may also use an analytics service provider, such as Google Analytics, for website traffic analysis and reporting. Analytics service providers generate statistical and other information about websites use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to the websites may be used to create reports about the use of the websites and the analytics service provider will store this information.
If you do not wish us to install cookies on your computer for these purposes, you may change the settings on your internet browser to reject cookies. For more information please consult the "Help" section of your browser. Please note that if you do set your browser to reject cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features of our websites. To indicate your acceptance of our use of cookies in accordance with this privacy policy you can click accept in the appropriate place on the banner that appears on our site. However, please note that if you do not click accept but you continue to browse our websites you will be deemed to have accepted our use of cookies in accordance with this privacy policy.
Security & data retention:
We employ appropriate technological and operational security measures to protect against any unauthorised access to or any unlawful processing of any personal information about you that we hold. We will retain your information for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires or permits.
Data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and although we employ appropriate technological and organisational security measures to protect your data we cannot guarantee the security of any data sent over the internet.
How to contact us:
If you would like to know what information we hold about you or if you have any other queries or complaints in relation to this privacy policy you can email: admin@insideninjutsu.com
Your data protection rights:
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at admin@insideninjutsu.com if you wish to make a request.
How to complain:
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at admin@insideninjutsu.com
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113 ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk