Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 15, 2024

Welcome to AnimeChronicles. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

1.1 Purpose of This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how AnimeChronicles collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for our newsletter, purchase a product, or engage with our content.

1.2 Controller

AnimeChronicles (referred to as "we", "us", or "our" in this privacy policy) is the controller and responsible for your personal data. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below.

1.3 Contact Details

Full name of legal entity: AnimeChronicles Ltd
Registration Number: 94622416
Postal address: 26 Daniel Shoals, New Tonyfort, CV34 4DF, United Kingdom
Email address: [email protected]

2. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

2.1 Aggregated Data

We also 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.

2.2 Special Categories of Personal Data

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). We also do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.

3. How We Collect Your Personal Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

3.1 Direct Interactions

You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

3.2 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, server logs, and other similar technologies.

3.3 Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

4.1 Lawful Basis for Processing

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

4.2 Purposes for Which We Will Use Your Personal Data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so.

Purpose/Activity Type of Data Lawful Basis for Processing
To register you as a newsletter subscriber Identity, Contact Your consent
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you Identity, Contact, Profile, Usage, Marketing and Communications, Technical Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences Technical, Usage Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To respond to your inquiries or feedback Identity, Contact Necessary for our legitimate interests (to maintain communication with our users and provide customer service)

4.3 Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. You can opt-out of marketing communications at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any of our emails or by contacting us directly.

4.4 Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table above:

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 third-party 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.

6. International Transfers

Some of our external third parties are based outside the UK and European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the UK/EEA. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK/EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing safeguards:

7. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You have the right to:

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

9.1 No Fee Usually Required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

9.2 What We May Need From You

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

9.3 Time Limit to Respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

10. Third-Party Links

This website may include 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 these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

11. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and will place any updates on this web page. This version was last updated on the date shown at the top of this document. Historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.

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