Rewriting The Wine News Data Protection & Privacy Policy

September 2023

Rewriting The Wine News takes the privacy of your personal information very seriously. Use of your personal information is only stored with your prior awareness and consent. We ask that you read this Privacy Policy with care, it is assumed that upon visiting this website you agree with the Privacy Policy herewith, if this is not the case we ask that you leave the site immediately. 

The type of personal information we collect 

We currently collect and process the following information:

• Personal identifiers and email addresses (for example, name and contact details)
  

How we get the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

• To join the RTWN community 

• To subscribe to our e-newsletter

We use the information that you have given us in order to process your payment and to contact you if we have any questions relating to your payment or community membership application. We also use it to send you our e-newsletter if you have subscribed.

We will not share this information with any third parties.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting: rewritingthewinenews@gmail.com


How we store your personal information 

Your information is securely stored. 

We keep name and email addresses for the duration of time considered reasonable for the reason(s) for which it was first collected.


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. 

You are not normally required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If it is deemed that you have made excessive requests we reserve the right to charge you an administration fee for processing these requests.

Please contact us at rewritingthewinenews@gmail.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 rewritingthewinenews@gmail.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

Our contact details 

Data Protection Officer: Belinda Stone

E-mail: rewritingthewinenews@gmail.com

Web address: www.rewritingthewinenews.com