This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information when you sign up for a Malin Group website or mailing list.
Contact details
Telephone: 01412213075
Email: [email protected]
What information we collect and use, and why
We collect or use the following personal information as part of direct marketing activities:
- Contact details (eg name, phone number and personal email address)
- IP address
- Cookies
Lawful bases and data protection rights
Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.
Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:
- Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for.
- Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information.
- Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information.
- Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
- Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you.
- Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.
To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information as part of direct marketing activities are:
Consent – we require your consent to store your personal details in order that we can send you marketing information such as newsletters and allow you to make comments and contribute to our website.
We collect your information from the following places:
- You, from
- Sign in form
- Website profile page
- The browser used to access our website
Your personal data will be deleted 6 years after you signed up to the newsletter or your last activity on the website, whichever is most recent.
Cookie retention is covered below in our cookie statement.
To administrate our websites and mailing lists we share information with the following organisations:
- Gravatar (for managing postings) – see https://automattic.com/privacy/
- Campaign Monitor (for managing mailing lists) – see https://www.campaignmonitor.com/trust/privacy-hub/
Cookies
Malin Group use cookies during the administration of their website
If you leave a comment on our website your name, email address and website is saved in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
Last updated
24 February 2025