Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is for this website [therugbymagazine.com] and served by Corvita Ltd and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.
The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.
The Website
This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.
Use of Cookies
While this website uses a cookie, this is simply an ID code that enables the website to identify you as an individual. None of your personal data is stored in a cookie; rather it is stored in our database and fetched when required.
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google's privacy policy here for further information [ http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].
Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.
Contact & Communication
We will not send you any information outside the scope of your interaction with the website; if you have signed up to our fantasy game, you will receive emails associated with the game; if you have subscribed to receive updates to our articles, you will receive these. You can opt out of any or all communication at any time from the 'Manage Account' page. Furthermore, we do not share your details with third parties.
Your Personal Details
In order to play our fantasy game, or subscribe to article updates, we require and store your email address. Further to this, for our fantasy game we require and store your first and last name; you can however remain anonymous on the site (hiding your first and last name), though communications from our fantasy game will remain personalised. We also store your gender, though you can leave this as unspecified (which is the default option), as well as your country of residence.
Where payment is processed on the site, we use a third party service called Stripe [https://stripe.com]. The personal details they hold fall under their privacy policy, but we are required by EU law to retain the following information to identify sales to EU member states: the country of issue of your card used, and the IP address of your location at the time of payment. These are required to prove where and when sales are made to EU countries in the event of an audit.
We don't store your data any longer than is necessary; with that in mind, we periodically remove inactive accounts from the site to avoid you receiving unnecessary or undesired contact. If at any time you would like us to remove your personal details from our site, you can do so at anytime by emailing the following address: delete.me@therugbymagazine.com
External Links
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text/banner/image links to other websites).
The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Adverts and Sponsored Links
This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.
Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
Shortened Links in Social Media
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://ru.gbymag.com/r/gthpr).
Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
