Hachette Partworks Limited ("Hachette", "we", "us" or "our") is committed to protecting your
privacy. This privacy notice explains how we use the information we collect about you (either via
our website:
https://hachettepartworks.com/ or related microsites (collectively, "Websites"), when
you subscribe to our collections ("Partworks"), when you use our social media pages, or when you
otherwise interact with us), your rights in relation to that information, and the procedures that we
have in place to safeguard your privacy.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, then please
contact us using the contact details provided at the bottom of this privacy notice.
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What personal information does Hachette collect and why?
Who does Hachette share your personal information with?
Legal basis for processing personal information
Cookies
How does Hachette keep my personal data secure?
International data transfers
Data retention
Automated decision-making
Your data protection rights
Updates to this Privacy Notice
How to contact us
Cookie policy
What personal information does Hachette collect and why?
The personal information that we may collect about you broadly falls into the following categories:
• Information that you provide voluntarily
Certain parts of our Website, subscriptions forms or other forms may ask you to provide personal
information voluntarily: for example, we may ask you to provide your contact details (name, address,
telephone number, email address), confirmation that you are over 18 and payment details when you
subscribe to or purchase any of our Partworks, or when you register with us, subscribe to marketing
communications from us, and/or to submit enquiries to us. We may also collect information about you
when you answer surveys, participate in competitions, provide feedback and through any other
features available on our Website. The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the
reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to
provide your personal information; however we will generally use this information to fulfil your
subscription and order, to send you marketing communications (where permitted by law), to manage
your account and/or to improve our Website, products and services.
• Information that we collect automatically
When you visit our Websites, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. In
some countries, including countries in the European Economic Area, this information may be
considered personal information under applicable data protection laws. Specifically, the information
we collect automatically may include information like your IP address, device type, unique device
identification numbers, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level
location) and other technical information. We may also collect information about how your device has
interacted with our Website, including the pages accessed and links clicked. Collecting this
information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our Website, where they come
from, and what content on our Website is of interest to them. We use this information for our
internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our Website to our visitors.
Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology, as
explained further under the heading “Cookies” [link] below.
Hachette does not solicit or knowingly collect personal information of individuals under 18 years of
age. Individuals under the age of 18 are not permitted to use our Websites and Partworks. If we
become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from an individual under the
age of 18 or in relation to an individual under the age of 18 we will delete this information from
our records. If you are aged 18 years or under, please get your parent's or guardian's permission
before you provide any personal information to Hachette.
Who does Hachette share your personal information with?
We may disclosure your personal information to the following categories of recipients:
• to our group companies, third party services providers and partners who provide data
processing services to us (for example, to support the delivery of our Partworks, to provide
functionality on, or help to enhance the security of our Website, to assist us with research or
surveys, or to otherwise process payments relating to sales of the Partworks), or who otherwise
process personal information for purposes that are described in this Privacy Notice or notified to
you when we collect your personal information. For example, where you have indicated that you are
happy for us to do so, we may provide your information to our selected marketing partners so they
can inform you about their products and services.
• to any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third
party where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or
regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital
interests or those of any other person;
• to an actual or potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any actual
or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the
buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice;
• to any other person with your consent to the disclosure.
When you pay on our Website, or if you connect to a third party webpage, use of your personal
information will not be governed by this privacy notice and will instead be governed by that third
party's privacy notice. For example, you will notice that when you pay on our Website, payment will
be collected by Sagepay.com, who will also hold your personal information and who has its own
privacy notice. When you leave our Website, we recommend that you familiarise yourself with any such
third party privacy notices.
Legal basis for processing personal information
Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the
personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will
normally collect personal information from you only where we need the personal information to
perform a contract with you, where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden
by your rights, or where we have your consent to do so. Our legitimate interests include improving
our products, assisting in our administrative or accounting needs, and marketing our products. In
some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you. If we ask
you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contact with
you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your
personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not
provide your personal information).
Cookies
We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a small text file which is placed on your computer's
hard drive, allowing your computer to be recognized by our website when you next access it. This may
allow us to collect information about you, but that information will be used in accordance with this
privacy policy. If you do not wish to allow our cookies, most browsers have settings to allow you to
refuse or to accept cookies and you can alter these settings. If you do so, some features of the
site may be unavailable or less easy to use. Further information about how we use cookies is
available on our cookie policy.
How does Hachette keep my personal data secure?
We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the personal information that we
collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security
appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information. To process orders and payments, we
utilize industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to allow for the encryption of
potentially sensitive information during transmission.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your account and to your computer
and so please ensure that you have signed off when using a shared computer.
International data transfers
Our company is located in the UK; however your personal information may be transferred to, and
processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have
data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country (and, in some cases, may not be
as protective). Our Website servers are located in the UK.
Your personal data may be stored in EEA. This means that when we collect your personal information
we may process it in any of these countries.
However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain
protected in accordance with this Privacy Notice. These include implementing the European
Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information between our group
companies, which require all group companies to protect personal information they process from the
EEA in accordance with European Union data protection law. We have implemented similar appropriate
safeguards with our third party service providers and partners.
Please contact us if you would like additional information on the specific means used by us when
transferring your personal data outside of the EEA.
Data retention
We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need
to do so (for example, to manage your subscription and to comply with applicable legal, tax or
accounting requirements or organisational needs). For example, personal information collected for
contractual purposes will be retained for the duration of the contract and, depending on local law
requirements, for a maximum of 10 years after its termination for legal, tax and/or accounting
requirements.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will
either delete or anonymise it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal
information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal
information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Automated decision-making
In some instances, our use of your personal information may result in automated decisions being
taken (including profiling). However, these decisions will not (unless we specify otherwise) legally
affect you or similarly significantly affect you. For example, we may use automated decisions to
offer our frequent subscribers a discount or special offer to purchase new Partworks, or to exclude
potential customers who have previously been sent to a debt recovery agency due to a non-payment of
invoice (however if this happens we will let you know our reasons for refusing you and what your
rights are in relation to the same.
Your data protection rights
You have the right to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information, to
object to processing, to ask us to restrict processing or request portability of your personal
information.
If we have collected and process your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw
your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing
we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information
conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
You also have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time, which you
can exercise by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing e-mails we send
you. You can also manage your preferences in your online account. To opt-out of other forms of
marketing (such as postal marketing or telemarketing), then please contact us. You can use the
details below (under " Contact Us") to exercise any of these rights.
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your
personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
Updates to this Privacy Notice
We may update this privacy notice from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or
business developments. When we update our privacy notice, we will take appropriate measures to
inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make. We will obtain your consent to
any material privacy notice changes if and where this is required by applicable data protection
laws. You can see when this privacy notice was last updated by checking the “last updated” date
displayed at the top of this Privacy Notice.
How to contact us
In order to respect the application of the GDPR regulation, Hachette Partworks has designated a Data
Protection Officer (DPO). If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal
information, or to exercise your rights, please contact us using the following details:
Email: dpo@hachettepartworks.co.uk
Post: DPO Hachette Partworks, Jordan House, 47 Brunswick Place, N1 6EB
The data controller of your personal information is Hachette Partworks Limited.
COOKIE POLICY
Use of cookies
When you visit our website, we may temporarily store small amounts of data on your device, through
the use of cookies or similar technologies (Local Storage, Advertising Identifier, etc.). Your
browser will send us back the data we already stored on your device at your next visit. These
features help us recognise you when you return to our website and can for instance tell us whether
you've visited the site before. Throughout this document, we simply use the word “cookie” to
describe these technologies.
The cookies we use are:
Essential cookies: these are required for us to operate the website. They include cookies
that permit you to store items in an online shopping cart; allow you to log into secure parts of our
site or make use of e-payment services.
Functionality cookies: these allow us to recognise you when you return to the website after
your first visit. It helps us to personalise content, to greet you by name and remember your
preferences (such as language or country). They are used for statistical purposes.
Analytical/performance cookies: They allow us to recognise you and to count the number of
visitors to our website and to see how visitors move around our website; It improves the performance
of our website by ensuring that visitors can find what they are searching for easily and to speed up
your searches.
Our website uses third party technologies to help us gather aggregate information about the user
experience. The Site uses analytics tools (like Google Analytics). Because of this, the web browsers
used by our visitors automatically send certain information to Google. This includes, for example,
the web address of the page that you’re visiting and your IP address. Google may also set cookies on
your browser or read cookies that are already there. We do not share any of this information with
any other third parties.
The information we collect allows us to better tailor our web experience to the interests of our
visitors. This information may be used in aggregate form by Hachette Parworks Ltd to assess general
user interest in our Site and the content on it. No personally identifying information is included
in this type of reporting.
Targeted advertisements cookies: These cookies record your visit to the website, links you
have followed and pages you have visited. We will use this information to target information on our
website and advertisements displayed on the website more relevant to your interests. We may share
this information with third parties and other social media such as Facebook, Instagram for this
purpose. Cookie profiling, also called web profiling, is the use of persistent or permanent cookies
to track a user’s overall activity online.
When used in conjunction with our advertising services, such as those using the DoubleClick cookie,
Google Analytics information is linked, by the Google Analytics customer or by Google, using Google
technology, with information about visits to multiple sites.
The following table explains the categories of cookies we may use and why:
