Privacy & Cookie Policy

DistriPress is a non-profit making trade association established in 1955 to support and promote the global circulation and distribution of press products (newspapers and magazines) in print and digital format.

The following privacy policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you when you use this website. This website privacy policy sets out how DistriPress stores and protects any information that you give when you use this website distripress.org.

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. If you provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

DistriPress may change this policy from time to time by updating this page and the date of the last update is shown below. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Information We Collect

We may collect the following information when you visit our website:

Your computer or device IP address, on our logs and our Analytics Software (Google Analytics)
Your name, email and telephone (from a contact form on this site)

If you become a member

As a member of this site a more extensive set of information will be collected which could include your name, telephone, email, photo, company name, company address and communication preferences.

Your Information

Information is in the most part not identifiable to an individual and contains no direct personal data other than your IP (computer identifier address). Analytics Software is used by most websites for statistics purposes.

How We Use This Information

If you make an enquiry by telephone, email or through a website form, we will use the information provided to respond to you to deal with your request. We will not use this information for any other purpose such as marketing or analysis. Information received in this way will be permanently disposed after a reasonable length of time.

Disclosure of your information to third parties

We will not share your information with any third parties apart from the following exceptions:

  • Any legal or crime prevention agencies and/or to satisfy any regulatory request
  • Any contractors, consultants, or subcontractors that provide a service to us or act as our agents
  • When you become a member of DistriPress, we will process your name and contact data for the purpose of listing your name, company information and address, email addresses, phone numbers, name and position of contacts in the password-protected DistriPress membership directory. The legal ground for processing your name and data for this purpose is DistriPress’ legal interest in enabling members to communicate with and receive referrals from other members. However, your member data will not be shared with any non-members. If you do not wish to have your personal data listed in the DistriPress membership directory, please notify our data protection officer at welcome@distripress.org

Data Retention

We will retain your information for a length of time which is reasonable. Contact form submissions received will be stored for 1 year after which, and in the absence of any other business requirements, we will permanently delete the information received. Our website does not store any submissions from contact forms which are emailed directly to us and are not processed or stored online.

Data Breach

In the event of a data breach we will undertake to notify the applicable regulatory authority within 72 hours of us becoming aware of the breach.

Access to your information and correction

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email us at welcome@distripress.org. We may make a small charge for this service. We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer. DistriPress uses cookies to collect information such as visitor statistics and browsing information. For more detailed information on the cookies we use please visit our Cookies page.

Other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website. If you follow a link from our website to a third party website you should read their privacy policies. A link to a third party or external website does not constitute an endorsement of that website.

Storage

Our website is hosted on servers based in the United Kingdom. Website data is backed up on a daily basis on to a secure location and we ensure compliance with all applicable data protection and security laws.

Security

Our business computer systems are protected by firewall and anti-virus programs. Website communication between our website and your internet device is protected by a Domain Validated (DV) certificate with industry standard SHA256withRSA encryption (e.g. strong encryption). Our web hosting is monitored 24/7 and any known vulnerabilities are patched as soon as possible after they are publicised. This website is hosted at a secure data centre in the UK.

Changes to our privacy policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we publish any updates on this web page.

Complaints

If you have a complaint regarding the use of your personal data then please contact us by emailing our data protection officer at welcome@distripress.org and we will do our best to help you. If your complaint is not resolved to your satisfaction, you can make a formal complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information, we hold about you: by email: welcome@distripress.org

Last Modified: March 31st 2022