Privacy policy
Privacy Policy & Protocol
Any information that can uniquely identify an individual is considered “Personal Information”. This Privacy Policy describes how tobysnews.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects and handles your Personal Information any time you (as a “Private Individual”) visit the website or leave your Personal Information for a subscription or webshop purchase on the Site.
What Personal Information is collected?
To improve your experience of the Site and process a subscription or purchase you make, we collect the following information
- Name
- Email Address
- Billing Address (if applicable)
- Shipping Address (if applicable)
- Payment information (if applicable)
- Device information (collected automatically when you visit the Site, to technically enable your visit), consisting of:
- IP address
- Web browser
- Time zone
- Cookie settings
- How you interact with the Site
Minors
The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 14. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address below to request deletion.
Device information & Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.
You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as www.allaboutcookies.org.
Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.
Do Not Track
Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
Purpose of collecting this information
Your Personal Information as listed above is collected and handled to improve your experience of the Site, and to process and complete your request or purchase where applicable.
The information is used to provide products or services to you, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with customer support information or advertising relating to our products or services.
Storage of data
Your Personal Information is handled and, where applicable, recorded and/or stored by specialised Third Parties, named and specified below. We do not retain additional copies of the corresponding databases.
We share your Personal Information with following Third party service providers:
- Shopify – Provides website hosting, email database, and powers the webshop. You can find Shopify’s privacy protocol here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy
- Paypal – Provides payment collection services related to processing your purchase.
The Privacy policies of these Third Parties will be provided upon request. This list is updated as quickly as possible in case of additions or other changes.
Your Rights
Concerning the Personal Information collected from you by us and/or our Third Parties, you have the right to:
- Review your Personal Information;
- Correct, complete or otherwise amend this Personal Information;
- Delete your Personal Information or parts thereof (e.g. by deleting details from their online learning account or unsubscribing from the email list);
- File a complaint about how we or our Third Parties handle your Personal Information;
- Request your Personal Information be permanently removed from all relevant databases;
- Request your Personal Information be transmitted to an unrelated third party specified by you;
- Expect a real person to communicate with you to handle any complaint or request.
We do not share any Personal Information any other party other than those listed in this policy, except when legally obliged, either by law or by court order, to share information with authorities.
Your Consent
We strongly recommend that you read and make yourself familiar with our Privacy Policy and your rights therein before submitting any Personal Information.
By continuing to make use of the Site and/or submitting data e.g. to leave a comment, subscribe to an email list or make a purchase from the webshop, you confirm to have read and accept this Privacy Policy.
Requests, Complaints & Contact
If you have questions about our privacy policy, requests about your Personal Information, or want to make a complaint, please contact us by sending an email to:
or by sending a letter to:
Toby Stephens News
58 Riverchapel View,
Courtown, Wexford
Y25 K653
Ireland
The person within our team responsible for handling your privacy-policy related issues and requests is Christel Vogels-Jansen LLM MSc. If your question or complaint concerns this policy or your Personal Information, please send your email or letter to her attention.
When we receive your request or complaint, we will send you a confirmation of receipt. We endeavour to respond to your request or complaint as soon as possible, but always within 1 month of receiving the complaint or request.
If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority, or our supervisory authority here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/]
Last updated: September 19, 2020