Privacy and Cookies

Your privacy is important. Below is a summary of how any data you provide is used and also how cookies are employed on this site.

Privacy

For the purposes of this statement, “we” and “us” shall refer to La Plante Global, the owner of this website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How is your data used?

This website will share your data with no-one else. Your details will only be used for replying to queries you might send via the website form or entries into competitions or offers the site may have.

The administration for the newsletter, the Readers’ Club, is overseen by Lynda La PLante’s publishers, Bonnier, who use your information only for that subscription.

How long is your data retained?

If you contact the site using any of the forms on the site (general contact, competitions, offers etc), your details are only retained for as long as they are needed to reply to you or send you items you may have won (in the case of competitions) or requested (exclusive offers on tis site).

Your subscription details for as long as you want the newsletter. If you unsubscribe Bonnier will not keep your details nor will they be passed on.

What rights you have over your data

By law you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Cookies

Nearly all websites use cookies. Some are for commercial purposes and others are simply for functionality and / or gathering information about how a site is being used, which in turn an be used to improve the user’s experience over time.

To reset your cookie preference for this site click here. 

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, phone, or other device when you visit websites and can be used to record information about your activity, including the pages you view, the content you listen to, ads you click on, your settings, and other actions you may take whilst on a website.

How does this website use cookies?

We use Google Analytics which helps us to build a better website and see how it’s being used by visitors. This is anonymous and no personal information is collected.

We do not use cookies for other purposes.

Some pages on this site also include audio samples from Soundcloud and video clips from YouTube. Please be aware that both these companies use cookies when you use their players embedded on this site. This is not something that we can control, therefore if you wish to read more about their cookie policies please click the following links:

YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_uk/howyoutubeworks/user-settings/privacy/

Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/pages/cookies