Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
Terms of use and privacy policy
This page includes the
Terms of use,
Privacy policy and
Cookies policy for spotlightmedia.io.
Terms of use
This website is operated by, or on behalf of, Spotlight Business Media Ltd (Company No 12532531). By using our Website, you agree to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions (the “Terms of Use”) together with our privacy policy and any other documents referred to therein. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you must not use this site.
We reserve the right to amend these Terms of Use from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this Website. Your continued use of this Website after posting will constitute your acceptance of, and agreement to, any changes. Specific services that we offer, or make available to you, may also be governed by additional or alternative terms and conditions with us, or other third parties.
Your responsibilities
The content on this site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on this site.
Disclaimer and liability
The Website (including all content on it) is provided by us on an “as is” and “as available” basis and we make no representations, guarantees or warranties of any kind, either express or implied.
Nothing in these Terms of Use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.
- To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to this site or any content on it, whether express or implied.
If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:
- loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
- business interruption; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or any indirect or
- consequential loss or damage.
If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked to on this site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us and our affiliated companies, shareholders, officers, directors, employees, agents or suppliers harmless from any and all claims or demands, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of this Website or through your email address or social account or otherwise, the violation of these Terms of Use by you, or the infringement by you of any intellectual property or other right of any other person or entity.
Viruses
We do not guarantee that the Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer program and platform in order to access the Website. You should use your own virus protection software. You must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.
Intellectual Property
We are the owner or licensee of intellectual property rights in the Website, information and content available on the Website, any database operated by us, any proprietary software utilised by us to enable you to use this Website (“Software”) and the underlying source code. Much of this information and content is protected by copyright, trade mark, database rights, design rights designs (including in the “look and feel” and other visual or non-literal elements), and/or other intellectual property rights (whether registered or unregistered). Our logos, together with our trade marks and/or service marks, may not be copied or reproduced without our prior written consent. All rights are reserved.
We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Software solely in executable form and only to the extent necessary for use of the Website, and for no other purpose.
You must not use an automated program (including, without limitation, any web-crawling or screen-scraping software or any equivalent technology or techniques), to access the Website for the purpose of collecting, obtaining and/or accumulating (or other similar activity) data or content in this Website. Any such use of an automated program is prohibited and shall be a breach of these Terms of Use.
You may not reproduce, republish, transmit or distribute any material, information or content on this Website, or that form part of our services, without our prior written consent. However, you are granted a limited right to access and use the Website and our services, and retrieve, display and print content pages, for your own personal, non-commercial use and to the extent necessary for use of the Website and our services only. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion and without notice to you, to terminate your licence and to prevent future access by you to this Website.
Third Parties
This Website may contain links to third party products, services and/or websites that are not affiliated with us. We have no control over the products, services or websites of these third parties and we do not guarantee or take responsibility for them.
You agree to release us from claims or disputes of any kind arising from or in any way connected to such disputes with third parties.
Restrictions on Use
You agree not to:
- Transmit any material designed to interrupt, damage, destroy or limit the functionality of our Website;
- Use any automated software to view our Website without consent and to only access our Website manually;
- Use our Website other than for your own personal use;
- attempt to copy our data our reverse engineer our processes;
- use our Website in any manner that is illegal, immoral or harmful to us;
- use our Website in breach of any policy or other notice on our Website;
- remove or alter any copyright notices that appear on our Website;
- publish any material that may encourage a breach of any relevant laws or regulations;
- interfere with any other user’s enjoyment of our Website;
- transmit materials protected by copyright without the permission of the owner; or conduct yourself in an offensive or abusive manner whilst using our Website.
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Governing Law
These Terms of Use are governed by English law and the contract between you and us is made in England. Any disputes will be settled in English courts, although we may take action to enforce our intellectual property rights in any relevant jurisdiction. If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be unenforceable, it will be replaced with a provision reflecting the intent of the original provision.
General
The headings in these Terms of Use are solely used for convenience only. You may not assign or delegate any or all of your rights or obligations in this Agreement. We may assign this Agreement at any time without notice to you. Our delay or failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute or be construed as a waiver of such right to act. We shall not be responsible for any breach of these Terms of Use caused by circumstances beyond our control. Nothing in these Terms of Use shall be construed to create a joint venture, partnership, or agency relationship between you and us, and neither you or we shall have the right or authority to incur any liability, debt, or cost, or enter into any contracts or other arrangements, in the name of or on behalf of the other.
Privacy Policy
We take your privacy very seriously. This privacy policy explains how we look after your personal data when you use our website
www.spotlightmedia.io (regardless of where you use it from) and when you communicate with us by email, telephone or otherwise.
It also tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This policy is divided into the following sections (you can click on the links to go straight to more information on each area):
Important information and who we are
Purpose of this privacy policy
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Spotlight Business Media Ltd collects and processes your personal data through your use of this Website, including any data you may provide when you make an online enquiry, request business water rates comparison information or communicate with us by email, phone or otherwise.
Our Website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy notice/policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices/policies and is not intended to override them.
Who we are
This Website is provided by Spotlight Business Media Ltd (‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’). We are a company registered in England and Wales with company number 12532531. Our registered office is at Lytchett House 13 Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Poole, Dorset, England, BH16 6FA.
We are a “data controller” for the purposes of your personal data obtained via our Website. This means we determine the purpose and means of the processing of your personal data.
You will find our contact details
here.
Personal data we collect about you
Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.
The personal data we collect, use, store and transfer about you will depend on how you interact with us and our Website. It may include:
- your name, job title, address and contact information, including email address and telephone number;
- your business name and the name of your employer or the organisation you represent;
- any information, feedback or other matters you give us by phone, email, post, via social media or through the Website such
- technical information from when you visit our Website or otherwise interact with us including internet protocol (IP)
- address, 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 our Website and interact with us;
- information about how you use our Website; and
We collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.
For example, we may aggregate data about how you use our Website to calculate the percentage of users accessing a particular feature. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
How your personal data is collected
Depending on the circumstances, we use different methods to collect personal data from and about you including:
- Directly from you. You may give us your personal data by filling in forms on our Website or by communicating with us by email, telephone or otherwise.
- Using automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details
- Other sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:
- from an employee or representative of the organisation for whom you work;
- from analytics providers, advertising networks and search information providers
How and why we use your personal data
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, e.g;
- where you have given consent;
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
- for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, or
- for our legitimate interests or those of a third party.
- A legitimate interest is when we or a third party have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
Where we rely on consent as a lawful basis to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. To do this, please telephone, email or write to us (see below: “How to contact us”).
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
Who we share your personal data with
Depending on the circumstances, we may share your personal data with:
- external service providers we use to help run our business e.g. email service provider, marketing service providers, IT system providers, analytics and search engine providers and postal service providers.
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 external 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.
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 external 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.
We or the third parties mentioned above may also need to share personal data with:
- professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, loss adjusters, insurers, auditors, technical consultants and experts;
- law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; and
- other parties in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our/their insolvency, usually information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible.
Transferring your personal data out of the UK
Some of the organisations we share your personal data with are based outside the UK so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer outside of the UK.
These transfers are subject to special rules under data protection laws.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards or other grounds set out in data protection laws applies:
- your personal data is transferred to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data in accordance with data protection laws;
- the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract between you and us;
- the transfer is necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims;
- there are adequate safeguards in place between us and the organisations receiving it (e.g. by use of approved contractual terms); or
- you have provided explicit consent to the proposed transfer after being informed of the potential risks.
Please contact us below if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the UK.
Cookies and other tracking technologies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our Website. We use cookies and similar technologies on our Website. These help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our Website.
We use Universal Analytics cookies from Google to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to help us improve the website.
The Information collected does not directly identify anyone and gives us data including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come from and the pages they visited.
We do not use any other types of Cookies.
How long your personal data will be kept
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including;
- to respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf;
- to provide you with any service or information you have requested;
- to show that we treated you fairly; and
- to keep records required by law to comply with our legal obligations.
We will not retain your data for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this notice. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal data.
Keeping your personal data secure
We have put in place appropriate security measures to endeavour to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used, accessed, altered or disclosed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your personal data will only do so in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
Throughout our Website we may provide links to third party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control those third party websites/services and are not responsible for their privacy policies. When you leave our Website we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
Your rights
You generally have the following rights, which you can usually exercise free of charge:
Access - The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data.
Rectification - The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data.
To be forgotten - In certain situations, the right to require us to delete your personal data.
Restriction of use - In certain circumstances, the right to require us to restrict use of your personal data, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data.
Data portability - In certain circumstances, the right to ask us to transfer any personal data you provided to us to another organisation.
To object - The right to object at any time to your personal data being used for direct marketing (including profiling) and in certain other situations to our continued use of your personal data, e.g. where we use your personal data for our legitimate interests.
Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement - The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by our Website.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, please contact us below.
You may also find it helpful to refer to the guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on your rights under the UK GDPR available here.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please email, call or write to us below. When contacting us please let us have enough information to identify you e.g. your full name and address and let us know which right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.
How to complain
Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your personal data see below.
We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have. However, if we are not able to resolve your complaint to your satisfaction you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK. Further information about how to make a compliant to the ICO can be found on the ICO website www.ico.org.uk.
You can contact us by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint.
Our contact details are shown below:
Email address: contact@spotlightmedia.io
Postal address: Lytchett House 13 Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Poole, Dorset, England, BH16 6FA
Changes to this privacy policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to time, when we make significant changes we will take steps to inform you, for example by including a prominent link to a description of those changes on our Website for a reasonable period or by other means, such as email.
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