Elite Guitarist

Privacy Policy

The policy: This privacy policy notice is for this website Guitar Domination and Elite Guitarist and served by Daniel Thorpe, Cradley Enterprise Centre, Maypole Fields, Halesowen, B63 2QB and governs the privacy of those who use it.

The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we control, process, handle and protect your personal information while browsing or using this website, including your rights under current laws and regulations. If you do not agree to the following policy you may wish to cease viewing / using this website.

Policy key definitions:

  • “I”, “our”, “us”, or “we” refer to the business, Guitar Domination, Elite Guitarist or Dan Thorpe
  • “you”, “the user” refer to the person(s) using this website.
  • GDPR means General Data Protection Act.
  • PECR means Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation.
  • ICO means Information Commissioner’s Office.
  • Cookies mean small files stored on a users computer or device.

Processing of your personal data

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and / or process any personal information about you electronically using 100% compliant lawful bases.

If, as determined by us, the lawful basis upon which we process your personal information changes, we will notify you about the change and any new lawful basis to be used if required. We shall stop processing your personal information if the lawful basis used is no longer relevant.

If you have ever paid for a product or a free version of a product on this site, we will hold some data of yours, namely your name and email address purely for your account purposes. That is, so you can log in and access the product.

You can change any details any time on the `My Profile` section of this website and you can request that your account be deleted by emailing me at sales@eliteguitarist.net.

Your individual rights

Under the GDPR your rights are as follows. You can read more about your rights in details here;

  • the right to be informed;
  • the right of access;
  • the right to rectification;
  • the right to erasure;
  • the right to restrict processing;
  • the right to data portability;
  • the right to object; and
  • the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.

You also have the right to complain to the ICO [www.ico.org.uk] if you feel there is a problem with the way we are handling your data.

We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.

Data security and protection

We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access and manage that information. Our methods meet the GDPR compliance requirement.

Transparent Privacy Explanations

We have provided some further explanations about user privacy and the way we use this website to help promote a transparent and honest user privacy methodology.

Email marketing messages & subscription

Under the GDPR we use the consent lawful basis for anyone subscribing to our newsletter or marketing mailing list. We only collect certain data about you, as detailed in the “Processing of your personal date” above. Any email marketing messages we send are done so through an EMS, email marketing service provider. An EMS is a third party service provider of software / applications that allows marketers to send out email marketing campaigns to a list of users.

Email marketing messages that we send may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of data such as; times, dates, I.P addresses, opens, clicks, forwards, geographic and demographic data. Such data, within its limitations, will show the activity each subscriber made for that email campaign.

Any email marketing messages we send are in accordance with the GDPR. We provide you with an easy method to withdraw your consent (unsubscribe) or manage your preferences / the information we hold about you at any time. See any marketing messages for instructions on how to unsubscribe or manage your preferences or email hq@guitardomination.net.

Our EMS provider is Mailchimp.

You have certain rights over your personal information. These include the right to access a copy of your personal information or have some elements of it transmitted to you or another company in a common electronic format. We won’t charge you to exercise these rights. You have the following rights:

Access

You have a right to ask us if we have your personal information. If we do, you have a right to know:

  • why we have it
  • what type of information we possess
  • whether we have or will send it to others
  • how long we will keep it

If you want, you can ask for a copy of your information held on either or both the Guitar Domination or Elite Guitarist website by emailing sales@eliteguitarist.net.