PRIVACY POLICY
ABOUT OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Gold Top Media LTD, trading as Full Fat, is committed to your right to privacy and the protection of your personal information. We have created this privacy policy to ensure that you understand why we collect personal information, what type of information we collect and how we use it.
WHO IS FULL FAT
Full Fat (whose registered business name is Gold Top Media LTD, registered address is 71 Fanshaw Street, N1 6LA and registered company number 07866135) is an agency working in the Public Relations industry and provides PR and Social Media services to its clients. Full Fat is a ‘data controller’ in respect of the personal information that it collects and stores from journalists and social media influencers (influencers).
WHO ARE OUR CLIENTS?
Full Fat deliver PR and Social Media services to businesses within the lifestyle, culture, technology, food and drink industries.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We only collect basic personal data about journalists and social media influencers including name, employer (journalists only), email and phone number.
HOW DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We collect this personal information by the following means:
- Identifying bylines in papers, online sites and magazines
- By communicating with journalists when we hear of a move within the industry
- By following journalists and influencers that update their status on various platforms including LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter and other sites
- By using media database services such as Gorkana.
We also collect personal information when we are contacted directly.
WHY WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect, store and handle the personal information of journalists and social media influencers for our legitimate interest as Public Relation professionals to serve journalists with relevant information about our clients that is likely to be of interest to them. This information is used to:
- Call/email a journalist following an enquiry
- Introduce spokespeople to journalists
- To send products to journalists and social media influencers
- To send journalists press releases
- To correct inaccurate stories
- To invite journalists and social media influencers to events.
We also collect, store and use the contact details of our clients because this is needed for us to provide them with our services.
All of our email list building and email marketing strategies are GDPR compliant.
COLLECTING SENSITIVE INFORMATION
Full Fat only holds the information that is relevant to this relationship and no sensitive data is collected. Unless we have consent, we will not collect data that details sensitive information such as ethnic origin, political views, religious beliefs, criminal records, health, disability or sexual orientation.
STORING PERSONAL INFORMATION
We store personal information in paper and electronic form. Data is only handled by staff that are employed by Full Fat and who are aware of our privacy policy.
Paper stored data is for single use only such as an event and is destroyed after use. Electronically stored data can only be accessed through a secure password by employees of Full Fat and on some occasions our IT support service who will have access to this data only when it is needed to provide support to us.
We do not share any personal data with any third parties and we take appropriate steps to protect personal information from misuse, disclosure or unauthorised access.
How long we keep your data for
In line with data protection principles, we only keep your data for as long as we need it for and for as long as we are able to determine that you are still engaged in media and marketing. At the end of a year if you are no longer working within the industry in which we have previoulsy engaged you for then we will remove your data.
YOUR ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You have the right to:
- Access your personal information stored by us if requested
- Request that we update personal information that is incorrect or outdated
- Opt out if any marketing materials that we may send you
You can do this by either contacting us via info@wearefullfat.com or by opting out of marketing materials via the unsubscribe links included within these materials.
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This privacy policy was last updated June, 2024.